Tamer - TAME4

Title

Tamer - TAME4

Name

Tamer

Unique Person Identifier

TAME4

Ancestry

Mixed

Ancestry Description

"Mulatto"

Status

Enslaved

Sex

Female

Event Type

Legal Proceeding

Event Date

October 7, 1797

Age

18 months

Location or Address

Southampton, NY

Enslaver or Household

Johnathan Jagger

Relationships

PEGG7 | Parent

Notes

Johnathan Jagger of Southampton reports that he purchased Pegg (PEGG7), "a mulatto servant woman," from Captain James Reeve, and that he will manumit her in five years time from the 1797 contract date.

Jagger further writes that Pegg's daughter Tamer, however, who was one year and six months old at the time the contract was signed, will stayed indentured to him until she is 30 years old. The contract signature was witnessed by John Youngs.

Source Type

Contract

Source/s

Grathwohl Collection 214.79.17. Suffolk County Historical Society.

Researcher

Meghan McGinley

Collection

Citation

“Tamer - TAME4,” Plain Sight Project, accessed December 21, 2024, https://plainsightproject.org/items/show/2051.