Samuel Hinsdale (Hindell, Hinsdell) lived in Greenfield Meadow, near Deerfied, Massachusetts. He was a selectman and was active in town government. Seven of his children by his first wife lived to adulthood. After she died he married again and had two more children, one of whom probably died as a child. Samuel lost this wife too, and married one last time.
Ishmael was enslaved by Hinsdale. Account book entries reference "yr Servt negros" and "yr Negro". Ishamel is most likely one of these people and Hinsdale might have enslaved someone else as well. On at least one occasion Samuel benefitted from work done by Prince, who was enslaved by Joseph Barnard.
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