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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783

Violet Cudjo (1735-)

Ipswich

Biography: Mother of Edward Lewis. Daughter of Lydia Dyer Robbins, "free Negro" and Cudjo. Granddaughter of Anthony and Amaritta, "free Negroes".

Comments:

Violet vs. Mark Howe (1766) Plaintiff
Lewis vs. Dodge (1769) Witness on Signed Document for Plaintiff

" No case appears on ECCP docket for July 1765. Documentation of her freedom collected but submitted in Lewis vs Dodge (1769). Violet received 20 shillings from Mark Howe in September 1765."

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