The Reverend Roger Newton lived in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He enslaved a woman named Old Tenor and her daughters Phillis and Tinner. Newton kept a combination record and diary where he noted births, baptisms, weddings and deaths and several people of color are listed there. In addition, he occasionally wrote in the diary section about various people he knew. In August of 1790, he wrote: "Thursday 2d call to see Tinner [in Colrain, Massachusetts] who was probably more glad to see me than any Person I had met with in the journey may Heaven take Care of that poor african Superior in her Moral Disposition, to many of other Notions-".
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