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 Captain Daniel Smalley discourse about the Case of Samuel
Smalley and his Negro girl, but what I have heard him said can’t remem-
-ber so as to give my distinct and particular account of it, but only
this in the general his Discourse imported that he thought 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 the women
with her, or had made a false alarm , or to that Effect, and that she was Ex
amined in the time of her distress and I think he said that she Charged it
upon Sam Smalley, he told of a string that was found about her. — he
gave my Husband a Letter, which he Read from Mr. Dean and his wife, what
was in the Letter I can't give a particular 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, and that she Laid it to Sam Smalley.
John English Testifieth and sayeth that some time afte[gap: page_torn]
the ctt meeting Respecting the Dificulty Between Captain Smaly
and Samuel Smaley Captain Smaley was at my House and there he
showedme a paper signd signedand I supposewritten 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 woman
with his negro Girl and that she Declared she was with
child and that she Laid it to Samuel Smaly and that they sendth [illegible] shall
Supposedshe was with child and that his wife was so well
Satisfiedabout 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 Captain Smaley upon my Reading
that paper or soon after or he told me of his oath acceptd which i ant Certain whether or nothe Believedshe was with
child he told me that he Did not think she was with
Child although Mr. Dean and his wife thought she was yet
he himself could not think so and as IRemember the Reason
why CaptainSmaley showed me that paper was in opposition to
a Report that there was about that the negro Girl Laid
the child to her former master (viz) CaptainSmaley The Letter that Capt. Smalley bro from Dean and [gap: page_torn]