Abigail English, testimony, 19 December 1749
Date19 December, 1749
abstractTestimony of Abigail English regarding Samuel and Captain Smalley and a pregnant enslaved girl named Phillis. 19 December 1749. Norwich.
RepositoryRauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
Call NumberMS 1310: Eleazar Wheelock collection, Box 3, Folder 749669
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times heard Capn Daniel Smalley diſcourse about ye Case of Samuel
Smalley & his Negro girl, but what I have heard him Sayd can’t remem-
-ber so as to give my diſtinct & perticular account of it, but only
this in the general his Diſcourſe imported yt he thot Samuel Smalley
to be guilty according to the report of him. I heard him say after
he came up from Norwich at a certain time, that Phillis had had y.e women
with her, or had made a false alaram, or to that Effect, and that she was Ex
amined in the time of her diſtreſs and I think he said that she Charg'd it
upon Sam Smalley, he told of a string yt was found about her. — he
gave my Huſband a Letter, which he Read from Mr Dean & his wife, what
was in the Letter I cant give a perticular account of but according to the best
of my Remembrance it was about Fillis’s having the women with her
and the grame’s Examining her, & that she Laid it to Sam Smalley.
John Engliſh Testifieth and sayeth that some
the ctt meeting Reſpecting the Dificulty Betwen Capt Smaly
and Samel Smaley Capt Smaley was at my Houſe and there he
shewedme a paper signd signdand i soposewritten by Jobez Dean
of norwich Reſpecting his Negro Girl, being with child and
as i Remember it was to this affect that he had had the weoman weoman
with his negro Girl and that ſhe Declared ſhe was withe
child and yt ſhe Laid it to Samll Smaly and yt they sendth [illegible] ſhall
Soposedſhe was with child and that his wife was so wel
Satisfyedabout it that ſhe had prepared things to wrap
the child in and had Likewiſe Given the child away when
it should be born i i asked Cap't Smaley upon my Reading
that paper or ſoon after or he told me of his oath acceptd which i ant Certain whether or nohe Beleavedſhe was with
child he told me that he Did not think ſhe was with
Child altho Mr Dean and his wife thought ſhe was yet
he himſelf could not think ſo and as iRemember the Reaſon
why CaptSmaley ſhowed me yt paper was in oppoſition to
a Report yt there was about that the negro Girl Laied
the child to her former master (viz) Capt.Smaley [bottom]The Letter yt Capt Smalley bro from Dean and [gap: page_torn]