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Thomas Loring Wills Mulatto Slave To Wife, 1739

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Thomas Loring Wills A Mulatto Slave to His Wife in 1739

1738 and 1740 dated, Manuscript Documents, Boston, (MA), Last Will and Probate, Transmitting a Woman Slave, Very Good.
Two, Original, Secretarially Copied, Manuscript Documents, dated 1738 and 1740, Boston, (MA), 12" x 7.5" (folded), totaling 3 pages, Very Good. The first document is the last will of Thomas Loring, which was probably given verbally to the three persons mentioned as witnesses, as the will is actually dated "Seventeen hundred & thirty seven or eight." In this will he leaves his "Molatto Woman Named Billah" to his wife, along with orchards, cows, and thirty pounds cash. He also gives each of his two daughters some cash, and his son, Benjamin, receives the rest of the estate. It is "signed" by Thomas Loring and Andrew Belcher, the Register, who probably wrote the entire document. The second document shows that the will was probated in 1740, and is signed by Josiah Willard and Andrew Belcher. Very minor paper loss along folds. A very rare, early Colonial Massachusetts Slave Document. (2 items).

Thomas Loring was born February 4, 1700, and was married at Duxbury [MA] February 3, 1723, to Mary Southworth, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Alden) Southworth, who was a granddaughter of the Pilgrim, John Alden.

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