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Thought you would find this interesting: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/newell.html "James Newell:
an African slave of Mary White, 1690. Mary White had a farm in the Conihassett, one mile west of Merritt's brook , and she had the singular fancy to marry her slave. Tradition speaks of him as a respectable man. Their children, Joshua , James, Hezekiah, and four daughters, born from 1691 to 1706. James Jr. married Abigail Nichols 1739, and left sons James, Levi, Joshua and Daniel, born from 1740 to 1752. They have descendants in Scituate." Two of their grandsons married my many times great aunts (Jane & Ruth Burbank) and had family in NH. I find this interesting as it appears that the white settlers were okay with this marriage. I did find one local genealogy from the mid-late 1800s that may have purposely scrubbed my great aunts from their parents list of children because of whom they married or then again perhaps it was an oversight as they had moved to NH and Maine many years before the genealogy was written. ~VG
May 29, 2011, 6:24:22 PM
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