Lot 2446
(Slavery) Jonathan Trumbull Sr., Governor of Connecticut Colony, 1769–1776; Governor of Connecticut 1776–1784. September 22, 1747 ADS signed "Jon. Trumble", Dutchess County, Connecticut, one sheet 7½x12" both sides, the document is a court complaint against Phillis a mulatto woman who she claims was "free born, and no Mans Slave…", complaint states she refuses to return to service reading in part, "…Says that one Phillis, a Molatto Woman was in the year of our Lord 1742 by Jeremia Calkin of sd Dutchess County in Said Province Sold & Delivered To Said Moses Northrup Deceased as afowd as a slave during natural life & was by J. Calkin warrantee from all demands what forever to said Northrup deceased with her husband named Dick & a negro girl named Freelove for & in consideration of three hundred pounds New England money Old Tenour paid by said Northrup deceased…Departed & absented herself from her service & from the said Moses Northrup…Refuses to Return to Said Service tho demanded & requested…", Fine.Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (1710-1785) was one of the few Americans who served as governor in both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state. He was the only colonial governor at the start of the Revolution to take up the rebel cause. He was a friend and advisor of George Washington throughout the revolutionary period.
Realized: $1,100