Documents: Black History Here
Documents: Black History Here During Black History month, [...]
Documents: Selling Prince
Documents: Selling Prince A deed of sale preserved [...]
Exhibition Note: Recalling Lyme’s Runaways
Exhibition Note: Recalling Lyme’s Runaways By Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Documents: Harry Freeman’s Burial
Documents: Harry Freeman’s Burial by Carolyn Wakeman Witness [...]
Letters: Freedom on the Ballot in the 1856 Election
Letters: Freedom on the Ballot in the 1856 Election [...]
Documents: “At this time”: Remembering Samuel’s Emancipation
Documents: At this time”: Remembering Samuel’s Emancipation On [...]
Glimpse: The Case of Henry Freeman
Glimpse: The Case of Henry Freeman by Carolyn [...]
Documents: Lyme Family Slaves, Part 2—Jenny’s Legacy
Amid the recipes, medicinal cures, and obituary clippings pasted into a simple string-bound scrapbook appears a hand-written list of Judge William Noyes’ (1728–1807) slaves. Kept initially by his great-granddaughter Mary Ann Noyes Learned (1818–1875) and later maintained by her cousin Martha Noyes (1833–1874), the scrapbook documents the family’s Negro servants over four generations.
