"Item Id"~"Item URI"~"Dublin Core:Title"~"Dublin Core:Subject"~"Dublin Core:Description"~"Dublin Core:Creator"~"Dublin Core:Source"~"Dublin Core:Publisher"~"Dublin Core:Date"~"Dublin Core:Contributor"~"Dublin Core:Rights"~"Dublin Core:Relation"~"Dublin Core:Format"~"Dublin Core:Language"~"Dublin Core:Type"~"Dublin Core:Identifier"~"Dublin Core:Coverage"~"Item Type Metadata:Text"~"Item Type Metadata:Interviewer"~"Item Type Metadata:Interviewee"~"Item Type Metadata:Location"~"Item Type Metadata:Transcription"~"Item Type Metadata:Local URL"~"Item Type Metadata:Original Format"~"Item Type Metadata:Physical Dimensions"~"Item Type Metadata:Duration"~"Item Type Metadata:Compression"~"Item Type Metadata:Producer"~"Item Type Metadata:Director"~"Item Type Metadata:Bit Rate/Frequency"~"Item Type Metadata:Time Summary"~"Item Type Metadata:Email Body"~"Item Type Metadata:Subject Line"~"Item Type Metadata:From"~"Item Type Metadata:To"~"Item Type Metadata:CC"~"Item Type Metadata:BCC"~"Item Type Metadata:Number of Attachments"~"Item Type Metadata:Standards"~"Item Type Metadata:Objectives"~"Item Type Metadata:Materials"~"Item Type Metadata:URL"~"Item Type Metadata:Event Type"~"Item Type Metadata:Participants"~"Item Type Metadata:Birth Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Birthplace"~"Item Type Metadata:Death Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Occupation"~"Item Type Metadata:Biographical Text"~"Item Type Metadata:Bibliography"~"Item Type Metadata:Baptism Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Owner or Household"~"Item Type Metadata:Name"~"Item Type Metadata:Misc. Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Year Built"~"Item Type Metadata:Address or location"~"Item Type Metadata:Type of location"~"Item Type Metadata:Associated individuals"~"Item Type Metadata:Type"~"Item Type Metadata:Details"~"Item Type Metadata:Source/s"~"Item Type Metadata:Links"~"Item Type Metadata:Male/Female"~"Item Type Metadata:Status"~"Item Type Metadata:Sex"~"Item Type Metadata:Publisher"~"Item Type Metadata:Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Author"~"Item Type Metadata:Title"~"Item Type Metadata:Repository"~"Item Type Metadata:Enslaver or Household"~"Item Type Metadata:Location or Address"~"Item Type Metadata:Biographical Notes"~"Item Type Metadata:Marriage Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Male or Female"~"Item Type Metadata:Advertisement Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Appraisal Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Burial Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Disappearance Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Disembarkation Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Education Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Emancipation Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Manumission Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Embarkation Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Employment Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Apprenticeship Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Indenture Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Enslavement Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Legal Proceeding Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Membership Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Mention Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Military Service Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Mortgage Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Narrative Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Resistance and Rebellion Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Registration Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Relocation Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Residence Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Sale Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Transfer Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Trade Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Voyage Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Unique Person Identifier"~"Item Type Metadata:Ancestry"~"Item Type Metadata:Ancestry Description"~"Item Type Metadata:Relationships"~"Item Type Metadata:Source Type"~"Item Type Metadata:Unique Record Identifier"~"Item Type Metadata:Age"~"Item Type Metadata:Age Description"~"Item Type Metadata:Event Date"~"Item Type Metadata:Notes"~"Item Type Metadata:Researcher"~"Item Type Metadata:Life Events"~"Item Type Metadata:Event Type II"~"Item Type Metadata:Event Date II"~"Item Type Metadata:Status II"~"Item Type Metadata:Source Type II"~"Item Type Metadata:Location or Address II"~"Item Type Metadata:Status III"~"Item Type Metadata:Event Type III"~"Item Type Metadata:Event Date III"~"Item Type Metadata:Location or Address III"~"Item Type Metadata:Source Type III"~tags~file~itemType~collection~public~featured 1873~http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1873~"Peter - PETE13"~~"Enslaved youth "~"David Rattray"~"Bridgehampton Museum Archive"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"June 8, 1801"~~~~~~~~~"August 22, 1810"~~~~~~~"Bridgehampton Museum Archive"~~~Enslaved~Male~~~~~~"Mary Buell"~"East Hampton, New York"~"Know all me by these present that Mary Buell of the town of East Hampton county of suffolk and State of New York for and in consideration of the sum of seventy-five dollars to me in hand Jacob by Caleb Corwith of the town of Southampton county and State aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and by these present doth grant bargain and sell unto him the said Caleb Corwith his executors and afoigns a certain negro Boy named Peter aged nine years old the eighth day of last June until he shall attain the age of twenty-five which will be in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five and at the exhaustion of said term of time the said Caleb Corwith executors, administrators and afoigns shall at his own expense and legally emancipate said negro Boy Peter so that he may be free— To have and to hold the aforesaid Negro Boy to him the said Caleb Corwith his executors administrators and afoigns and the said Mary Buell for myself and my heirs executors and administrators do and will warrant and forever defend the above bargained and said Boy unto him the said Caleb Corwith his heirs and afoigns against the lawful Claims of the persons whatsoever in which whomof slave I have hereunto my hand and said this twenty second day of August in the year of one thousand eight hundred and ten. Mary Buell Signed, Sealed and delivered in the presence of — Jeremiah Miller "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1800-1810,Bridgehampton~http://plainsightproject.org/files/original/c45e8cbd42818a13452eb947aada9738.png~Person~~1~0 1849~http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1849~"Drusilla Crook - DRUS1"~Person~"Black girl bound to Lyman Beecher's household, c. 1805"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"East Hampton, NY"~~~~~~"Lyman and Roxana Beecher"~~~~~~~~~"Autobiography, Correspondence, Etc., of Lyman Beecher, D.D. Cambridge, Harvard Univeristym 1864. "~~~Indentured~~~~~~~"Lyman Beecher"~"East Hampton, NY"~"Shortly after Lyman Beecher's wife, Roxana, bore their first child, Drusilla Crook was brought to the household to take care of the baby — she was 5 years old, ""a colored girl,"" Beecher wrote in his autobiography. Zillah, as the Beechers called her, was ""bound to us till she was eighteen."" When Mary, their second child, was born, the Beechers took Zillah's sister, Rachel, as well. ""Zillah was the smartest black woman I ever knew. She learned every thing that Catharine did, and as well as she did,"" Beecher wrote. Rachel did not have her sister's gifts.

Lyman Beecher had bought the house built in 1800 not long after he came here to be the town minister. He had been a 1797 Yale graduate before he accepted the East Hampton post and went on to be a leader in American Protestantism.

The Crook family name appears in Gardiner's Island record books a few years before the American Revolution. David Gardiner's inventory of possessions made after his death lists a man, Plato Crook, age 35, and a boy, Abel Crook, 8. In 1786, Dr. Nathaniel Gardiner's ""Negro Zil"" received a pair of shoes from the Hedges cobblers shop. Drusilla and Rachel, who slept above the kitchen, may have been born enslaved, too. However, the 1800 Census for East Hampton lists two white adults, one white child, and one under the category ""all other free people. . . .""

In New York's gradual abolition law of 1799, any child of an enslaved mother born before July 4 that year was to remain in servitude until she was 25; men were enslaved all but in name until they were 28 and close to the end of their most productive years. A Black woman named Rachel died in East Hampton in 1842 and might have been the same Rachel as the girl bound in the Beecher house, now East Hampton Village Hall."~~Female~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"1800-1810,East Hampton"~~Person~"East Hampton"~1~0 517~http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/517~"Pomp - POMP4"~~"African descent"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"August 7, 1806"~~"""[Died] Pomp Negro"""~~~~~~~~~~~~"Charles Craven's History of Mattituck: 355 [transcription]. Original record at Ancestry.com>U.S. Presbyterian Church Records 1701-1970>New York>Mattituck>Mattituck Presbyterian Church>Session, Register, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1764-1809>image 136/157."~~~~Male~~~~~~~Mattituck~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1800-1810,Mattituck~http://plainsightproject.org/files/original/43518af842c58088453b0a89e4d95907.JPG~Person~Southold~1~0 505~http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/505~"Gin - GIN1"~~"African descent (probably)"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"December 10, 1806"~~~~~"Micah Howell died August 2, 1801."~~~~~~~~~"A History of Mattituck, Long Island, N.Y. Charles E. Craven (1906: privately printed), page 355. Original record at Ancestry.com>U.S. Presbyterian Church Records 1701-1970>New York>Mattituck>Mattituck Presbyterian Church>Session, Register, Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths>1764-1809>image 136/157."~~~Enslaved~~~~~~~"Micah Howell [Senior], deceased"~Mattituck~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1800-1810,Mattituck~http://plainsightproject.org/files/original/33ef7da303c6de42529e31a411215091.JPG~Person~Southold~1~0