Is it really still only Tuesday??
The town of Roxbury had only 16 census pages. 22 individuals in 9 households, 3 of them nonwhite:
Eljah Roberts 6
Jacob Danford 2
Job Sharp 6
Salisbury comes next. 78 individuals in 32 households, 13 of them non-white. Also one additional enslaved person, a man aged between 55-99.
Sylva Suydam 4
Peter Porter 3
George Vancleck 6
Russel Swan 2
Cato Hector 5
Samuel Rice 4
John White 3
Ja’s Williams 4
Freend Cason 4
John G. Older 5
Titus Ceaser 9
Benjamin Munroe 2
Reason Carle 6
After this we have Sharon, with its 36 census pages. 136 individuals in 47 households, 20 of them nonwhite.
Abel Starr 3
John Dro 5
Call Freeman 2
George Pine 8
Belden Whitney 7
Jacob Newport 7
Onando Cambredge 7
Harry Minsley 5
Eli Rowley 4
Ira Trobridge 6
George Simons 7
Titus Frankinson 5
Samuel Ocro 5
Harry Jacklin 2
Peter Hull 4
Parde Clark 6
Daniel Salisbury 3
Harry Foot 4
George Freeman 4
Francis Morris 6
Next up is Torrington and its 24 pages of census returns. 68 people in 23 households, 13 of them nonwhite (a majority!?).
James Moon 3
Henry Freeman 6
James Jones 3
Levi Johnson 5
Simeon Freeman 2
Epaphroditus Harrison 5
?inus Waterman 2
Jude Freeman 3
John Freeman 6
Luke Freeman 6
Lorenzo Bellamy 2
Dyer D. Freeman 7
Jeremiah Prince 6
Epaphroditus is a fellow who visited the Apostle Paul in prison, according to my Google research.
Jeremiah Prince of Torrington was the son of Jacob and Ginnie Prince, freed from slavery by Abijah Holbrook of Goshen in 1798.
for more on Jeremiah, see “photo” at:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97006901/jeremiah-prince
Hi! Look at me, finally checking the comments on my moribund blog. 🙂
Torrington’s Black community is one that I hope to find time to look at in more detail at some point. That larger project may be on hold till next year, though, because of all the coronavirus closures. So frustrating!