Yarrobu or Yarraubey - YARR1

Title

Yarrobu or Yarraubey - YARR1

Description

African descent

Contributor

Jackie Dinan

Status

Enslaved

Location or Address

Southold

Enslaver or Household

Barnabas Terrill

Source/s

For his death, see the Salmon Records: 51.
For the baptism of his daughter, see 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 16/157. [Transcription in Craven's History of Mattituck (1906): 259.]

Original "full communion" 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 28/157.

Male or Female

Male

Biographical Text

[From Salmon Records], "Terrels negro Yarrobu"
[From Mattituck register] "Yarribo Negro servant of Barnabas Terryl Esqr..."

Death Date

September 21, 1778

Misc. Date

October 20, 1758; baptism of his daughter, Eddy.
March 3, 1776; entered into full communion.

Biographical Notes

He was the husband of Lacy/Lucy (#1700) and the father of Eddy (#1851).

Owner or Household

The 1776 census for Southold Township enumerated three enslaved people over 16 years in Barnabas Terrill's household.

Files

1758.BAP Eddy dau of Lucy and Yarrib_Obadiah Hudson.JPG
1776.full Yarribo_.JPG

Collection

Citation

“Yarrobu or Yarraubey - YARR1,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 9, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1491.