*This is a work in progress. I am still uncovering new source material and working on disambiguating familial relations and similar names.

A new source on Slavery in Abington: The Martha Campbell Letter

This 1967 letter from journalist and Abington historian Martha Campbell was uncovered by the staff at the Dyer Memorial Library & Archives in May of 2022. Discussed in the body of this letter is several enslaved Abingtonians that I was previously unaware of. I am in the process of tracking and cataloging the primary sources, but there are excellent leads in this letter that aren’t found anywhere online.

A Table of Enslaved Abingtonians

Name	Birth	Death	Ethnicity/Status	Slaveholder
Rose (Possibly Dwight)			Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown
Tony/Anthony Dwight		1801	Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown
Bathsheba Dwight (Tony’s first wife)			Indian/Unknown	Rev. Samuel Brown
Shobal (possibly Dwight)	1736		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
Isaac (possibly Dwight)	1738		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
Bethsheba Dwight	1740		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
Isaac Dwight	1741		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
David Dwight	1742		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
Amos Dwight	1745		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
Ezra Dwight	1748		Biracial/Uncertain	Rev. Samuel Brown
Violet Powell Traveller Dwight		1810	Black/Unknown	Rev. Samuel Brown
Caesar			Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown
Flora			Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown
Besse Coback Gould	1734	1798	Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown & Josiah Torrey
Brister Gould	1759	1823	Black/Enslaved	Josiah Torrey
Phebe Wamsley Rosier Gould		1839	Indian/Free	–
Cuff Rosaria, Sr.	1727		Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown & Josiah Torrey
Dinah (Lamb) Nummuck Rosaria			Indian/Uncertain	–
Cuff Rosaria, Jr.	1753		Biracial/Uncertain	Josiah Torrey
Silas Rosaria/Rosier	1756		Biracial/Uncertain	Josiah Torrey
Jack Packanet Bailey		1798	Perhaps Biracial/Enslaved in Hanover	Col. John Bailey of Hanover
Jack			Black/Enslaved	Aaron Hobart
Billah			Black/Enslaved	Aaron Hobart
Moses		1791	Black/Enslaved	Mr. Nash
Cate/Kate	circa 1734	1818	Black/Enslaved	Rev. Samuel Brown & Josiah Torrey
Amie	1762	1780	Black/Enslaved	Josiah Torrey
Unnamed person of color from Braintree who died in the house of Rev. Samuel Niles			“person of color”/Unknown	Possibly Rev. Samuel Niles
Primus Cobus/Coburn	1764	1820	Black/Free
Frank			Black/Enslaved	Dr. Gridley Thaxter
Dick		1793	“person of color”/Unknown

Key words: slavery in Abington, slavery in Plymouth County, Slavery in Massachusetts, Slavery in New England, Slavery in Abington Massachusetts, Wampanoag, Indian, Colonial Massachusetts,