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

Unknown Woman


Enslaver: Col John Storer

Status (enslaved, free or both): enslaved

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1768

An unknown "Negro woman" was enslaved by Col. John Storer and included in his estate.

"Inventory of the estate of John Storer, Esq., late of Wells, appraised, dated Wells, 12 Nov 1768, by John Wheelwright, Nathaniel Kimball & Samuel Jeffords, at £4358/15/1 ... includes [near the end of a lengthy list] a Negro woman, £6."Frost, pp. 632-3

Bibliography:

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


John Storer 1768 probate abstract

a Negro woman, L6

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