Resistance During Slavery

Holding on to African culture, building community: Negro Election Day/Salem Black Picnic

For context: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner’s secondary sources about Negro Election Day

1768 Petition to Stop Negro Election Day

1768 SSU Enslavers Petition - Election Day.jpg

Petition to stop Negro Election Day Salem, 1768, Salem State University Archives, and transcription

1808 Negro Election Day reference

1808 Reference to Negro Election in Salem.pdf

May 14, 1808 | Essex Register (Salem, MA) | Issue/ 85 | Page [3]

Found https://www.genealogybank.com/

Negro election day reference “king today but back again tomorrow”


1819 Diary of William Bentley

The Diary of William Bentley DD Pastor p457.pdf

Diary of William Bentley, 1819, published by Essex Institute, 1914

1830 Black Celebration King Pompey of Lynn

Sat, Mar 06, 1830 | Columbian Centinel (Boston, MA) | Page 4.pdf

Sat, Mar 06, 1830 | Columbian Centinel (Boston, MA) | Page 4

Found at https://www.genealogybank.com/

Great history of gathering around Pompey of Lynn who was a king in Africa

1830 Black Celebration King Pompey of Lynn

Boston Traveler Tuesday, Mar 09, 1830 Boston, MA Vol: V Issue: 72 Page: 2 .pdf

Boston Traveler Tuesday, Mar 09, 1830 Boston, MA Vol/ V Issue/ 72 Page/ 2

Found https://www.genealogybank.com/

“History of Lynn. The story of Pompey”

Service in War

For context:

Video about Salem Poor (6 minutes) created by North Andover High School student, Eamon O’Cearuil

Video- discussion about the process of creating this Salem Poor project (5 minutes) North Andover High School student Eamon O’Cearuil and teacher Brian Sheehy

Three Soldiers and a Privateer. Found Historic Beverly. Location- https://spark.adobe.com/page/1qhkyK6tP9cns/

Private Esop Hale, Private Jethro Thistle, Private Caesar Russell, Privateer Caesar Larcom Davis

Salem Poor Manumission 1769

Salem Poor Manumission Paper.jpg

Salem Poor Manumission Paper 1769

Found at Peabody Essex Museum Phillips Library

Salem Poor of Andover Enlistment Records 1777

3 - List of Massachusetts Troops. 1776-1780 - Page 294.pdf

List of Massachusetts Troops, 1776 - 1783

Found https://www.fold3.com/image/286762869

18 - Page 44.pdf
18 - Page 47.pdf
Recommendation of Salem Poor 2.jpg.pdf

Recommendation of Salem Poor

Found https://www.fold3.com/image/16800841

4 Sampson Transcription.docx

Transcription of recommendation from Bailey, Sarah Loring. Historical Sketches of Andover (comprising the Present Towns of North Andover And Andover), Massachusetts. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1880.

Private Jethro Thistle of Beverly Enlistment Record 1777

Thistle, Jethro.pdf

Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War, compiled 1894 - ca. 1912, documenting the period 1775 - 1784

Found- https://www.fold3.com/image/17711932?terms=jethro,thistle

20 - Page 84 Jethro.pdf

1832 Joseph Brown Marblehead Revolutionary War Pension Papers - Pension Application

J Brown pension app pg1 MIUSA1775D_134938-01084-2.jpg
J Brown pension app pg 2 MIUSA1775D_134938-01085-1.jpg

Salem Poor 1975

Doc - Feb 3 2021 - 5-02 PM - p1.jpg

Three Salem Poor Envelopes and 1 set of Stamps “Contributors to the cause during the Revolution”

Salem Poor - Jan 28 2021 - 2-28 PM - p2.jpg
Doc - Feb 3 2021 - 5-02 PM - p2.jpg
Salem Poor Postal Stamp Back.jpg
Salem Poor Postal - Aug 26 2020 - 5-32 PM.pdf

Various figures 1976

Lawrence Eagle Tribune July 3 1976 #13.pdf

Lawrence Eagle Tribune July 3 1976

Violence and Destruction

1744 Enslaved Person Resistance

Boston News-Letter Sunday, May 24, 1744 Boston, MA Issue: 2095 Page: 2.pdf

Boston News-Letter Sunday, May 24, 1744 Boston, MA Issue: 2095 Page: 2

Found https://www.genealogybank.com/

Mentions an enslaved person starting a fire in a barn

Pomp Murder 1795

Guardian of Freedom Thursday, Feb 19, 1795 Haverhill, MA Page: 4.pdf

Guardian of Freedom Thursday, Feb 19, 1795 Haverhill, MA Page: 4

Found https://www.genealogybank.com/

Salem Gazette Tuesday, Aug 11, 1795 Salem, MA .pdf

Salem Gazette Tuesday, Aug 11, 1795 Salem, MA

Found https://www.genealogybank.com/

Pomp Broadside.jpg

Dying Confession of Pomp, A Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Ipswich, on the 6th August, 1795, for Murdering Capt. Charles Furbush, of Andover, Taken from the Mouth of the Prisoner, and Penned by Jonathan Plummer, Jun.:

Found: https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/pomp/pomp.html

Pomp Murder 1853

Andover Advertiser Oct 22 1853.pdf

Andover Advertiser Oct 22 1853 pg 2


Found MHL.ORG


“Sketches of Octogenarians” Story of the murder

Freedom Suits, Manumissions, and Petitions

Jenny Slew, Ipswich 1766

Context from Historic Ipswich with links to sources


Links to attributed primary sources about Jenny Slew’s case compiled by Jeanne Pickering

Nancy Poor, Andover 1771

BELL_Obtaining_Her_Liberty_Salem_State_2_April_2016.pdf

Links to attributed Primary sources associated with Nancy’s suits, compiled by Jeanne Pickering


John Bassett Manumission of Sampson, Lynn 1776

3 1776 Manumission_Sampson_Lynn.JPG
4 Sampson Transcription.docx

John Bassett manumission 1776 of Sampson, Shared by Lynn Museum’s Untold Stories Exhibit, found Peabody Essex Museum Phillips Library

Demonstrates revolution-era language for granting manumission

Belinda Sutton, 1783

Belinda Sutton and Royall Family Petitions-

Context- 8 min. Video describing Beinda’s petitions and ties to modern reparations discussions (from Royall House and Slave Quarters website)