![]() They have been here with Keyes family under strict surveillance since that time. “When he finally brought them with him North, arriving in Lowell in the later part of May last. ![]() “Instead of performing faithfully, this last dying request it is alleged Keyes, immediately on the death of Cornwell, took the mother and daughter and hired them out at $100 a year each for a period of six years. $4,000 of which was to be equally divided between the mother and the daughter and $1,000 to be retained for his own his services. For the special services Keyes was directed to take $5,000 cash. Levi Keese) to take charge of his effects, including a considerable sum of money and especially charged him, as soon as he could arrange to do so, to take Betsey and their child Caroline, to a Free State, and then see them comfortably located. “Cornwell, on his deathbed, requested his friend, Dr. The result of the cohabitation was a daughter, who is now 24 years old, smart, capable, intelligent and good looking. “Jesse Cornwell, a rich planter in Mississippi, had a smart favorite slave names Betsey, who was employed in the confidential relation of housekeeper, and with whom he cohabited. In the mid-1820s, Jesse Cornwell purchased several slaves in North Carolina and resettled on a new plantation in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. When still a young boy, the Cornwell Family moved to Rockingham, North Carolina. Jesse Cornwell (1796-1852), white, born in Prince William County, Virginia. Lowell Judicial Court House, 1856, UMass Lowell Libraries, Center for Lowell History.įreedom Seekers: Betsey Cornwell and her daughter CarolineĪssistant: Isaac Stevens Morse, Lowell District Attorney ![]() Black History and Culture from the UMass Lowell Archives.An Underground Railroad Research Facility.Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad District (sites and map).Freedom Seekers: Betsey and Caroline Cornwell.
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