Enslavers of People
Both men and women, as husband and wife, are listed here as enslavers. A note on spouses: Women were not usually listed with their husbands as people who owned enslaved persons. However, they would have been very involved running the household, and in the day-to-day reality of enslaving another human. They would have had similar authority to their husband over the people they enslaved. As such, we have included the names of wives where we know them. However, many people had multiple spouses over the course of their lifetimes, and we do not always know the precise dates of either marriage or enslavement. The spouses included here are those who we think most likely to have been in the household at the same time as the enslaved people listed.
Enslavers in Northampton
- Ethan Allen
- Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - Joseph Bartlett (1683-1755) and Mercy Dudley Bartlett (1682-1759)
- Enslaved Dinah and Peter.
- Preserved Bartlett (1689-1762) and Elizabeth Alvord Bartlett (1693-1768)
- Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know.
- Timothy Baker and Sarah Hollister Atherton Baker
- Timothy Baker served as a Lieutenant during King Philip’s War – participated in the Turner’s Falls massacre.
Enslaved Hannah. - Robert Breck (1737-1799) and Rachel Hunt Breck (1744-1824)
- Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know.
- Abram / Abraham Bronson
- Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - Israel Bronson
- Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - Jonathan Clapp
- Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know.
- Joseph Clapp
- Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know.
- Gideon Clark
- Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know.
- Nathaniel Clark (1642-1699) and Mary Meakins Clark Allis Belding (1645-1705)
- Enslaved Robin.
- Samuel Clark
- Worked as a saddler.
Enslaved Pompy. - Captain Timothy Dwight I
- Enslaved Simon.
- Timothy Dwight II (1726-1777) and Mary Edwards Dwight (1734-1807)
- Enslaved Sylvia Church.
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) and Sarah Pierpont Edwards (1710-1758)
- Jonathan Edwards was Northampton’s minister.
Enslaved Leah, Rose, and Venus in Northampton, and others in Stockbridge.
Read more about Jonathan Edwards. - Nathaniel Edwards (1694-1745) and (possibly) Mary Strong Edwards (1701-1729)
- Enslaved Ishmael.
- Joseph Hawley III (1723-1788) and Mercy Lyman Hawley (1729-1806)
- Joseph Hawley worked as a lawyer, selectman, and town clerk of Northampton. Hired Peter, an enslaved boy.
- Joshua Henshaw
- Enslaved Caleb.
- Jonathan Hunt III (1697-1768) and Thankful Strong Hunt (1702-1785)
- Enslaved Joab Binney and Amos Hull Sr.
- Joseph Hunt
- Enslaved a man and a woman whose name we do not currently know.
- John Lancton
- Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know.
- Benjamin Lyman (1674-1723) and Thankful Pomeroy Lyman (1679-1773)
- Enslaved Nanne.
- Samuel Marshall
- Enslaved Coffee.
- Samuel Mather (1706-1779) and Martha Holcomb Mather (1707-1785)
- Samuel Mather was a doctor.
Enslaved a person whose name we do not currently know. - Joseph Parsons , Jr.
- Enslaved Boston.
- Samuel Parsons (1653-1734) and Rhoda Taylor Parsons (1669-1759)
- Enslaved Mingo.
- Ebenezer Pomeroy (1669-1754) and Sarah King Pomeroy (1671-1747)
- Enslaved Bathsheba Hull, Jason, Jesse, Josie,and Jonah.
- Thomas Row
- Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - Charles Scott
- Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - Benjamin Stebbins
- Worked as a retailer.
Enslaved Dorothy. - John Frederick
- Stendall Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - Benjamin Stiles
- Part owner of lead mines in Northampton.
Enslaved Cato, Cesar, and Tom. - John Stoddard (1681-1748) and Prudence Chester Stoddard (1699-1780)
- John Stoddard served as a colonel in the army.
Enslaved Bess and Elizabeth. - Caleb Strong I (1710-1806) and Phebe Lyman Strong (1717-1802)
- Enslaved Moidore.
- Ebenezer Strong (1671-1729) and Elizabeth Parsons Strong (1678-1763)
- Enslaved Boston and a male child whose name we do not currently know.
Enslavers Not in Northampton
This category covers enslavers who were not residents of Northampton, but who enslaved someone who was a resident of Northampton or had a significant interaction with Northampton.
- Ezra Clapp
- Enslaved Tony.
- Reverend Benjamin Doolittle
- Enslaved Abijah Prince.
- Phelps Family
- Enslaved Phillis.
- Samuel Wolcott
- Enslaved Jack.