The Database for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel

Christina Gatsin


Status (enslaved, free or both): free

Town: Kennebunk

Known dates: 1900

The 1900 Census for Kennebunk lists 7 Black "servants" residing with the family of Edwin and Mary Parsons and their two very young children. Christina was one of those 7, and is listed as Black, age 39, married (for 14 yrs), POB: SC, occ: Housewife

Having been born in South Carolina in 1860, Christina may well have been enslaved at birth.

Bibliography:

1900 US census for Kennebunk (District 237)


Christina Gatsin in the household of Edwin Parsons

1900 US census for Kennebunk

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