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”