Bibliography

Primary Sources

  • First Church of Christ Records, 1661-1845, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • Judd, Sylvester, “Northampton” in Sylvester Judd Manuscript, Massachusetts Series. Forbes Library, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • Hampshire County Probate Records, 1660-1889, Hampshire County Courthouse, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • Hampshire County Superior Court Records, Hampshire County Courthouse, Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • Register of the Deaths in Northampton: from the First Settlement of the Town in 1653 to August 1824. Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • Population Schedule, U.S. Census, 1840.

Secondary Sources

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  • Miller, Marla R., Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
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  • Nash, Gary, Graham Russell and Gao Hodges., Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull. NY: Basic Books, 2008.
  • Romer, Robert H., Slavery in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts. Florence, MA: Levellers Press, 2009.
  • Trumbull, James Russell. 1898. History of Northampton. Volume I. Northampton, MA: Gazette Printing Company. 
  • Warren, Wendy., New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. NY: Liveright Publishing Co., 2017.

Online Sources for Slavery in New England