WENTWORTH, Daniel
1715 - 1747 (32 years)
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Name WENTWORTH, Daniel [1] Birth 5 Jan 1715 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA 
[1] Gender Male Residence USA [1] Death 19 Jun 1747 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA [1] Person ID I3707 My Genealogy Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father WENTWORTH, Lieutenant Governor John, b. 16 Jan 1671, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 12 Dec 1730, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 59 years) Relationship natural Mother HUNKING, Sarah, b. 1673, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 1 Apr 1741, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 68 years) Relationship natural Marriage 12 Oct 1693 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Family ID F1044 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family FROST, Elizabeth, b. 11 Aug 1714, New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 13 Jul 1794, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 79 years) Marriage 21 Sep 1736 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Family ID F12576 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 5 Jan 1715 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA 
Residence - - USA Marriage - 21 Sep 1736 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Death - 19 Jun 1747 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Elisha Webb, daughter of a free white woman and a Negro slave of Northampton, Virginia, was legally free from birth, due to her mother’s status. According to Virginia law, children born to white women were free, even if their father was a slave. A Virginia court bound out Elisha, like many other mulatto children, as an apprentice for eight years. Seven years into her apprenticeship, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sea captain, William Loud Jr., bought the remainder of her time, but treated her instead as a servant for life, or slave. Loud later sold her “forever” to Daniel Wentworth, one of Governor Benning Wentworth’s younger brothers. Wentworth retained a bill of sale to that effect. With the help of Judge Thomas Cable in Virginia, who had originally set up Elisha’s apprenticeship, and of an able Portsmouth attorney, Matthew Livermore, she was able to prove in 1741 to the satisfaction of the court in Portsmouth that she had been born free.
from https://www.nhhistory.org/Timeline
- Elisha Webb, daughter of a free white woman and a Negro slave of Northampton, Virginia, was legally free from birth, due to her mother’s status. According to Virginia law, children born to white women were free, even if their father was a slave. A Virginia court bound out Elisha, like many other mulatto children, as an apprentice for eight years. Seven years into her apprenticeship, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sea captain, William Loud Jr., bought the remainder of her time, but treated her instead as a servant for life, or slave. Loud later sold her “forever” to Daniel Wentworth, one of Governor Benning Wentworth’s younger brothers. Wentworth retained a bill of sale to that effect. With the help of Judge Thomas Cable in Virginia, who had originally set up Elisha’s apprenticeship, and of an able Portsmouth attorney, Matthew Livermore, she was able to prove in 1741 to the satisfaction of the court in Portsmouth that she had been born free.
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Sources - [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
Record for Gov John Wentworth
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- [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.