12/28/2023 0 Comments Erby vs stone on jydge joe brownWe also do not yet know if Levinea was ever enslaved by the Trevit family.Ĭol. And what is her connection to the Trevit/Trevett family? The Trevett's were a prominent Marblehead family of the time, but their connection to the Lynn Trevit's is unclear. A mistake? Was Lucretia a nickname? Did she change her name after marriage? In later years, she appears in death records as Lucretia. In this document, Lucretia, Senior's name is listed as Levinea. In the published vital records of Lynn, Massachusetts, listed under "Negro" marriages, is this entry: However, a newly discovered marriage record for Lucretia's parents tells a different story. According to Samuel Roads, her parents had been enslaved to Samuel Tucker in Marblehead but manumitted (freed) before or around the time of the Revolutionary War. Lucretia was born to Peter & Lucretia Thomas, probably in Salem, on September 15, 1773. Lucretia's early years are even more opaque than Joseph's. Thanks to Curtis White for first discovering this. ĭetail from Joseph Brown's pension application. In an amendment to the pension application, Joseph adds that "the time he was in service, he can never forget" because Beriah, his "master," "promised his liberty, if he would faithfully serve out his master's son's time." Joseph goes on to declare that "he did so & received his liberty". Though Joseph does not specify his company in the pension document, it is likely that he served in the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, based on his own identification of his commanding officers, Capt. According to his own testimony in his Revolutionary War Pension application, filed in 1832 when he was 83 years old, Joseph enlisted around the "middle" of the War as a substitute for Beriah's son Christopher, "who left the company to go a privateering." He served ten months and twenty days to complete Christopher's enlistment, during which time Joseph served alongside about 60 other men guarding Boston Neck and then Greenwich along the Narragansett Bay. Little is yet known of Joseph's childhood or young adulthood. As an enslaved person in the Brown household, Joseph likely lived, worked, or at least spent time in Beriah's home, now owned by the Newport Restoration Foundation, which originally stood near the intersection of modern-day Route 2 and Route 102 in North Kingstown. According to 19th-century historian Samuel Roads, Jr., Joseph was the son of a Gay Head (Aquinnah Wampanoag on Martha's Vineyard) Native man and a woman of African descent. Joseph Brown was born Novemin North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the enslaved person of Beriah Brown II (1714-1792), Sheriff of Washington County, RI. Beriah Brown House, Newport Restoration Foundation.
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