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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Mark Howe (-)
Ipswich
Biography:
Comments:
Violet vs. Mark Howe (1766) Defendant" 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."
Sources
- Dated June 9, 1766. Unsigned request to Joseph Parker to attend court in Salem in July and bring evidence that she is a slave. From Howe family papers.
Citation: Howe family. Howe family additional papers, 1662-1839 (inclusive), 1694-1797 (bulk). Massachusetts (Colony) General Court. [Court summons for Joseph Parker concerning the sale of a slave]. MS.D.; [n.p.], 9 Jun 1766. MS Am 1920(21). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:22404145 Accessed:10 June 2017
- Dated September 10, 1766. Violet's receipt for twenty shillings from Mark Howe.
Citation: Ipswich Museum, Ipswich, MA.