There is one Black woman, in the mid-eighteenth century Huntington-family orbit, who had children and contributed greatly to Huntington...

This post offers just a glimpse into some of the people close to Jabez during his lifetime. There are so many it will be impossible to...

By the early eighteenth-century, Norwich was a bustling trading center with some high-end merchants. Although not Boston or New York...

Hagar Mingo's worn Bible. Purchased with her money on becoming free in 1823. Courtesy of the New London County Historical Society (NLCHS), New London, CT. Hagar Mingo was a Black educated and pious woman who was a domestic worker for the extended General Jedediah Huntington family probably for her whole short life. Hagar was born sometime in September 1799 to Nelly, an enslaved woman owned by Major General Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) and his wife Ann Moore Huntington (175