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10. In my ancestry research, I found slaveowners in NY,NJ,CT, RI, and Massachusetts

up until late 1700's. One of them owed money and in NY court when person he owed was awarded possession of his 2 slaves, my ancestor argued that one of the slaves was actually his daughter and should not be taken from him.

Another ancestor was a Rhode Island Quaker pacifist who sat out the Rev. War but was paid to allow use of 2 of his slaves in Revolutionary army.

My Boston ancestors, Mayflower passenger Mary Chilton and her husband John Winslow owned both Native and African slaves, however one of their descendants in my direct lineage married a Native descendant and that lineage had several abolitionist and suffragette Quakers by early 1800's.

Family search website has been a great help to me as they have had some records available that were not on Ancestry. Some of their family tree info is wrong however, but I was pleasantly surprised to be able to confirm my Italian family tree going back 300 years that had been posted there without proof, after I figured out how to access original Italian records online.