Margaret/Pegg - PEGG3
Title
Margaret/Pegg - PEGG3
Description
Mixed ancestry; African and Northwest European
Contributor
Jackie Dinan
Status
Free
Sex
Female
Location or Address
Southold
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."
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.
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Collection
Citation
“Margaret/Pegg - PEGG3,” Plain Sight Project, accessed May 20, 2025, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/1497.