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Title
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An enslaved girl and boy in Keene, 1781-1782, in A history of the town of Keene by Simon Goodell Griffin
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Type
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Text
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Date
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1781-1782
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Description
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Two enslaved individuals, a girl and a boy, were mentioned in the New Hampshire Gazette in Keene in 1781 and 1782
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Format
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PDF
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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University of New Hampshire Library
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Contributor
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Carroll, J.
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Bibliographic Citation
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Simon Goodell Griffin, "A history of the town of Keene from 1732, when the township was granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, when it became a city," 1904, page 291, https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofk00grif/page/290/mode/2up
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Location
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Keene, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, US
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A
:
TOWN
29l
AFFAIRS.
June 17, the governor and council appointed "Daniel
Newcomb Esq. of Keene first Justice of the Inferior Court
of
Common Pleas for the County of Cheshire."
A census of the state was taken this j-ear,
Keene being
Males above 16
Males under 16
316
318
671
Fem ales
Other
free
that of
5
2
persons
Slaves
Amount
1,314
[1312]
At this time Charlestown had 1,093 inhabitants;
Claremont, 1,435 Jafire^-, 1,235; Swanzey, 1,157; WinchesChesterfield,
ter, 1,209; Walpole, 1,245; Richmond, 1,380
Westmoreland,
and
2,018.
1,905
Keene had two negro slaves, and in the state there
were 158. In 1781 and 1782, the following advertisements
were published in the New Hampshire Gazette:
"A likeh% capable Negro Girl, 14 j^ears of age, to be
Enquire of the
sold, or exchanged for a Negro Boy.
;
;
;
Printer."
"To
likely,
be sold very cheap for
want
of employment
—
Negro Girl about 15 3'ears of age, underkinds of housework
will suit town or country.
health}-
—
stands all
Enquire of the Printer."
Early in 1791 the printing office of the New Hampshire Recorder was removed from the building opposite
Col. W3'man's tavern to one just below the Chandler
House; and the publisher announced that "the great
declension of Advertisements, and the difficulty of obtaining pay " for the paper would compel him to discontinue its
publication at the close of that quarter, but that printing
would be carried on as usual. But he afterwards published a few numbers of the Cheshire Advertiser.
The first bookbinder in town, so far as appears, was
the celebrated Freemason, who had
a shop in Federal Row in 1790-96.
In January, 1791, Capt. Jeremiah Stiles w^as appointed
a justice of the peace for Cheshire county.
The annual town meeting: "Voted that their be Liberty
Thomas Smith Webb,
