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

Samuel Jeffery

Status (enslaved, free or both): free

Town: Kennebunkport

Known dates: 1900

The 1900 Census for Kennebunkport listed Samuel Jeffery as 54, a farmer, POB: ME, residing with his son, Albert W, age 23, and a boarder, Alexander Friska, Black male age 17, hostler.

A hostler was traditionally a groom or stableman who was employed in a stable to take care of horses.

Bibliography:

1900 US Census for Kennebunkport

Friska + Jeffery 1900 Kennebunkport census

Alexander Friska was a Black boarder and hostler in the home of Samuel Jeffries

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