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

Peg


Enslaver: Edward Emerson

Status (enslaved, free or both): both

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1784

On April 24th, 1784, "Salem a Negro formerly a Servant to Capt. John Bourne & Peg a Negro formerly a servant to Mr Edward Emerson, both of Wells, intend marriage"

Bibliography:

The History of Wells and Kennebunk from the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1820 - by Edward Bourne (1875)

Wells, ME: Vital Records, 1737-1841 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Handwritten transcription of original records by Joshua Hubbard, "Copy of births, marriages & deaths taken from Wells town books of record", 1860, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, NEHGS, Boston, MA) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1689/i/39960/44/1044296696


1784 marriage of Salem to Peg

'Peg, a Negro, formerly a servant to Mr Edward Emerson'

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