Jack & Betty
The lives of Jack and Betty, the earliest recorded enslaved individuals
residing on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, are revealed in part by documents from the HHS Archives shown below. Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran elaborates on their stories in an article here.
Receipt, Pierre Deyo, by Abraham DuBois for an unnamed enslaved man believed to have been Jack. HHS Archives, Deyo Family Papers.
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Receipt for the sale of Betty, an enslaved woman, 1694. HHS Archives, Deyo Family Papers.
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