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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Daniel Rolf (-)
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Biography: Married to Martha Rolf. Eight children between 1741 and 1757. Private in 1758 Canadian expedition in the Middleton Company under Capt. Andrew Fuller, Col. Jonathan Bagley's Regiment. Land records show that he and Martha sold 1 acre of property to Samuel Taylor in 1768.
Comments: Summonsed Oct 15, no record of reimbursement. Sworn testimony dated Nov. 17, 1771.
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Sworn signed testimony for PlaintiffSources
- Dated Oct 15, 1771. Summons to SCJ Nov. 1771. E. Hircom, A. Shelden, M. Rolf, S. Buxton, E. Damon, D. Rolf, J. Felt.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated Nov. 13, 1771. Daniel Rolf testified that in 1769 he was at the shop in Danvers where Casar worked and Casar said his master had "let him have money to buy skins with" but that the skins had been ruined and could not be used to make leather. The following year Rolf was again at the shop and Casar said he had given Taylor some money, wool, an ax and a pig which Rolf though was worth probably worth 5 pounds total. Casar said that "his Master was too hard upon him to ask for his pay so fast." Frye JP Salem
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.