(This story was made possible by research conducted by Christopher Challender Child and Marblehead historian Bob Booth.) In 1764, Marblehead's Second Congregational Church's minister, Simon Bradstreet, moved into a new mansion house with his wife Mary (née Strahan) Bradstreet, whom he had married in 1738. They were accompanied by an African American enslaved woman called… Continue reading Chance Bradstreet, a “Negro boy” enslaved in Ipswich.
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