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Coddington Billings

Coddington Billings

Coddington Billings is a slave-owning person, who was in Stonington, Connecticut in 1809.

Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650–1900

  • Indenture
  • February 10, 1809

  • [367] At the request of GILBERT Shantup and John Slack, Coddington Billings of Stonington drew up an indenture for an Indian child, said child being in a suffering condition 10 Feb. 1809. (Coddington Billings Coll.). Town of Stonington paid Phyllis Brown for nursing Gilbert 1817. (Stonington, Tow…

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Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650–1900 (pp. 253–254, 317, 320, 354, 410, 452–453, 458, 506, 512, 515, 531). (1980). Gale Research Company. https://archive.org/details/black-roots-southeastern-ct-1650-1900/page/n7/mode/2up [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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