Ned - NED1
Title
Ned - NED1
Description
1780
Ned Negro
Sex
Male
Location or Address
East Hampton
Enslaver or Household
Capt. Jeremiah Osborn
Source/s
Sleight, H.D., ed. Journal of the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonality of East Hampton Town, 1772 -1807. East Hampton, 1927.
Page 101
Biographical Text
Ned was hired to ring the bell, for 30/, hired through 1816. Also appears in Rev. Lyman Beecher's record of persons in the church in 1802, Records of the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y. With Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value Volume 5. Hedges, Henry Parsons, ed. Sag Harbor. J.H. Hunt, printer. 1905, p.449. Ned died in 1817: headstone off Morris Park Lane. It read:
“Ned
Faithful Negro Manservant to Capt. Jeremiah Osborn
Died August 8, 1817”
“Ned
Faithful Negro Manservant to Capt. Jeremiah Osborn
Died August 8, 1817”
Death Date
1817
Misc. Date
1780
Files
Collection
Citation
“Ned - NED1,” Plain Sight Project, accessed April 20, 2024, http://plainsightproject.org/items/show/717.