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Edward Smith

Edward Smith

Edward Smith is a slave-owning person, who was in Newport, Rhode Island . He enslaved Dinah and was the spouse of Elizabeth Smith.

Gleanings from Newport Court Files

  • Will

... Item. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife my Indian Woman called Joan and my two girls named Jenny and Dinah and two feather beds and furniture all which bequests with all those others give by me to her in this will, I give her in full satisfaction of her dower. ...

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Gleanings from Newport Court Files. (1998). Newport Court Files, Providence, RI. https://archive.org/details/gleaningsfromnew00fisk/page/n460 [Stolen Relations project at Brown University.]

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