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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Charles Furbush Yeoman (1736-1795)
Andover
Biography: Accused of currency forgery in 1771 along with his "Negro servant" Cesar (see Suffolk Files #132111 and #132112). Captain in Colonel Bridge's Regiment at Bunker Hill, 1775. Three sons died of illness in 1788. Acquired Pomp at 16 years old. Mistreated him and in 1795, Pomp murdered him. Pomp was publicly executed in Ipswich, the last public execution in Massachusetts.
Comments: SCJ Nov 1771 Reimbursed for Travel 30 miles; Attendance: 5 days. 0-14-3 SCJ June 1772 Reimbursed for Travel 50 miles Attendance 3 days 0-12-0
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Summonsed and ReimbursedSources
- Dated October 30, 1771. Summons to SCJ November 1771 held in Salem. Sixteen names, five towns.
Signatures on reverse
Timothy Fuller Gentleman
Primus a negro man living with John Flint all of Middleton in the County of Essex.
T. Russell & M. Russell, E. Hirchcom all of Reading;
Tamar,
J. Beverly
S. Poor &
C.Furbush all of Andover;
R. Thomas,
A. Smith ,
B.Guilford &
A.Putnam all of Danvers;
M. Hart of Lynn;
P. Chandler & J. Bryant.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated June 15, 1772 Summons to SCJ June 1772 for John Beverly, Andover &
Nathan Brown,Salem
Ephraim Shelden, Lynn
Moses Hart, Lynn &
Charles Furbush, Andover
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Clerk's tally of oourt costs for SCJ November 1771 and June 1772
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated 1795. Broadside containing confession of Pomp, owned by Charles Furbush and whom Pomp murdeed.
Citation: Dying Confession of Pomp, A Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Ipswich, on the 6th August, 1795, for Murdering Capt. Charles Furbush, of Andover, Taken from the Mouth of the Prisoner, and Penned by Jonathan Plummer, Jun. [Newburyport, MA: Jonathan Plummer; Blunt and March, 1795]. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/pomp/menu.html. Accessed: July 21, 2017.