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

Peter


Status (enslaved, free or both): unknown

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1773

Peter, a "Negro boy," received a payment from Joseph Storer who was serving as the administrator of the estate of John Storer. Peter may have been enslaved by John and/or Joseph Storer, but no record of this has been located.

"Joseph Storer's account of costs and disbursements of £533/14/6 as admor of the estate of John Storer includes payments ... to Peter, Negro boy, 64/ ... Att & all, York, 1st Monday in January 1773." - Frost's Probate Abstracts, p. 690

Bibliography:

Maine Probate Abstracts Vol I 1687-1775 - John Eldridge Frost (1991)


John Storer 1772 probate abstract

'to Peter, Negro boy, 64/'

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