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Violet Cudjo (1735-)

Ipswich

Biography: Mother of Edward Lewis. Daughter of Lydia Dyer Robbins, "free Negro" and Cudjo. Granddaughter of Anthony and Amaritta, "free Negroes".

Comments:

Violet vs. Mark Howe (1766) Plaintiff
Lewis vs. Dodge (1769) Witness on Signed Document for Plaintiff

" No case appears on ECCP docket for July 1765. Documentation of her freedom collected but submitted in Lewis vs Dodge (1769). Violet received 20 shillings from Mark Howe in September 1765."

Sources

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• Dated June 9, 1766. Unsigned request to Joseph Parker to attend court in Salem in July and bring evidence that she is a slave. From Howe family papers.
  Citation: Howe family. Howe family additional papers, 1662-1839 (inclusive), 1694-1797 (bulk). Massachusetts (Colony) General Court. [Court summons for Joseph Parker concerning the sale of a slave]. MS.D.; [n.p.], 9 Jun 1766. MS Am 1920(21). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:22404145 Accessed:10 June 2017

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• Dated July 7, 1766, Rev. Lowell, father of Ned Lewis's attorney John Lowell, certifies that Violet was daughter of Cudjo and Lydia Dyer baptized August 27, 1735.
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Dated July 8, 1766. Certificate from Newbury Town Clerk that Violet was born of Cudjo, a servant, and Lydia, a free Negro.
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Dated September 10, 1766. Violet's receipt for twenty shillings from Mark Howe.
  Citation: Ipswich Museum, Ipswich, MA.

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• ECCP Writ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Dodge's response to Writ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• ECCP Court Judgment for Dodge, page 1
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• ECCP Court Judgment for Dodge, page 2
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Dated November 5, 1766. Writ for Lydia Dyre (Violet's mother) and Violet to appear in court. Signed with their marks on back.
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Back of Writ to Linebrook residents for SCJ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• Front of Writ to Linebrook residents for SCJ
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209

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• SCJ ruling in favor of Edward Lewis.
  Citation: Lewis vs. Dodge, Superior Court of Judicature, November 1769, 209