Enslaved Workers for the Foote Family
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List of enslaved workers from Foote family papers
"a negro woman"
Letter to Ebenezer Foote from Catherine Livingston, Oak Hill, Linlithgo, New York, 15 April, 1800
Sir... I am sorry we had not the pleasure of seeing you when last at Catskill. Mr Bill has promised to forward these lines to you on the subject of accommodating you with a negro woman which he informs me you are in want of. The one I have to dispose of is twenty one years of age and the reason of parting with her, is her having a young child, and the father of it, not being married to her, and not acting agreeable to me, my wish is to remove her from him. She is perfectly honest and sober, and until now, was very useful to me, but now that there is three in my kitchen under a twelvemonth (three babies? K. F.) I am under the necessity of parting with her. If you are in want of a woman she will answer, being acquainted with all kinds of Country, and house work, and perfectly well disposed. Should be glad of an answer. I gave seventy pounds for her, but to have a good place for her shall not differ about the price.
With esteem and respect, Yours Catherine Livingston.
Bet
In a letter to Ebenezer Foote from his brother Justin, New York, 24 January, 1806, Justin mentions that his wife, "Marie still having trouble getting such service as she likes." and also, "Have just bought a black girl much like your Bet, but she is not Hagaar.
Joel
"Joel has absconded in consequence of our discovering some more money which he took" is some of the news in a letter from Frederick Parsons Foote, Delhi, Delaware county, New York, to his father, Ebenezer, 11 June, 1815. He further states that Joel took the money from a trunk belonging to his sister Margaret, "There were seven half Dollar pieces that he took. we have got all the money back from those persons who he let have it— I wish you would try if you please to get him on board of a vessel if he should be brought back.
- Princeton University Library, Rare Books and Mss.
Pompey
Trim
(Potentially enslaved.) In a letter from Rensselaer Foote to his sister, Catherine, Delhi, Delaware county, New York, 15 June, 1842: "When you write, instead of a long moral discourse, I want You to tell me all about our old friends,— not forgetting old Trim—"
