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Participant Info
- Slaveholder
- Mary Thurber
- Locations
- Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
- Researcher
- Dara Tolbert Brooks
- Researcher's E-mail
- dtolbrk AT gmail.com
- Researcher Location
- Comments
- Mary Turber, widow of John Thurber of Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts made her will on 21 Mar 1717/1718, and it was proved 7 Apr 1718. She left her grandson John Thurber all of her land in Newport and an enslaved indigenous boy Hector. - Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686-1880. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2724/i/48307/25730-co1/1414757085
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