Margaret/Pegg
Title
Margaret/Pegg
Description
Mixed ancestry; African and Northwest European
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Sex
Female
Location or Address
Southold
Status
Free
Marriage Date
December 4, 1769.
Death Date
After September 28, 1800 (date her two sons were baptized; see #1498 and #1499).
Biographical Notes
She married Prince (#1496). They had four known children: Prince (#1498), Jeffrey (#1499), Hiram (#1500), and Fillis (#1501). One of her children (either Fillis or an unidentified child) died July 13, 1785 (Salmon Records: 58).
A Connecticut court case sheds light on Pegg's origins. Jeffries v Truman (March 1774) at New London County, Superior Court. Court depositions show that Lettice Jeffries and her sister, Peg, had been born free on Long Island. Their mother was a free woman of Irish descent who worked for a branch of the Truman family on Long Island. Depositions from Long Islanders included Jonathan Terry, Amon Taber, Eleazar Truman, Robert Sheffield, and Elizabeth King. [Abstract taken from James Brewer Stewart, Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom (2010): 107–108.]
The 1790 Federal census at Southold enumerated Peggy Truman as a head of household that included two white females.
A Connecticut court case sheds light on Pegg's origins. Jeffries v Truman (March 1774) at New London County, Superior Court. Court depositions show that Lettice Jeffries and her sister, Peg, had been born free on Long Island. Their mother was a free woman of Irish descent who worked for a branch of the Truman family on Long Island. Depositions from Long Islanders included Jonathan Terry, Amon Taber, Eleazar Truman, Robert Sheffield, and Elizabeth King. [Abstract taken from James Brewer Stewart, Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom (2010): 107–108.]
The 1790 Federal census at Southold enumerated Peggy Truman as a head of household that included two white females.
Source/s
URL southoldtownny.gov=>Weblink/Laserfiche=>Town Clerk>Town Record Books>Liber E 1818-1887>image 147/175; page 43 top right.
Biographical Text
Per Salmon Records: "...[died] Pag Trumon child."
Files
Collection
Citation
“Margaret/Pegg,” Plain Sight Project, accessed March 28, 2023, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1497.