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

Peggy Darling


Status (enslaved, free or both): unknown

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1807

Peggy Darling married Shepard Bourn on Jan 19, 1807.

Shepard went to sea and was impressed onto a British ship in 1812.

Bibliography:

Vital Records of the Town of Wells

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

"Haiti and the Atlantic World" website (https://haitidoi.com/) - https://haitidoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/shepherd-bourn-miscellaneous-correspondence-regarding-impressed-seamen-nara-rg-59.pdf


Marriage of Sheppard Bourn and Peggy Darling

Town of Wells Vital Records - 1807

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Certification of the Marriage of Sheppard Bourn and Peggy Darling

Town of Wells Vital Records - 1807

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Shepard Bourn - 1812 letter to his mother

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Shepard Bourn - 1812 letter to his mother

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Shepard Bourn - 1812 letter to his mother

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Sheppard Bourn 1812 documents

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