African American monument at Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground
Headstone details:
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Sacred to the Memory of / the Three Hundred or more / AFRICAN AMERICANS / Free People, Slaves, and / five Black Governors / Who rest in Unmarked / Graves in Hartford’s / Ancient Burying Ground / 1604-1810
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Detail of the “tympanum” (decorative top section) of the monument’s headstone (for more on the tympanum element of a headstone, see this 1983 Archaeology article on “Early American Gravestones” https://archive.archaeology.org/8309/etc/gravestones.html)
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School children in Hartford / conducted the research and / raised the funds to create / this Monument in 1998
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AFRICAN AMERICANS INTERRED IN / HARTFORD’S ANCIENT BURYING GROUND:
MAID. Mar. 1691
CHILD. Aug. 1767
CHILD. Apr. 1693
CHILD. Dec. 1769
NEGRO. Dec. 1693
PETER. Jun. 1770
CHILD. Jul. 1696
PETER. Sep. 1770
CHILD. Jan. 1696
GAD. Mar. 1770
NEGRO. Jun. 1697
SOLDIER. Nov. 1778
CHILD. Jul. 1697
BETSEY CURTISS. Jul. 1791
TAMAR. Nov. 1705
SABINA. Dec. 1791
JO. Jun. 1750
PRISCILLA. Aug. 1792
SAM. Sep. 1750
CHILD. Jun. 1793
PETER. May. 1751
POMP. May. 1794
PRISCILLA. Dec. 1751
PRIME. Jun. 1794
SARAH. May. 1752
CHILD of SARAH. Sep. 1794
INFANT. Jan. 1753
YORK. Jan. 1755
CHILD of EDWARD DOLPHIN. Oct. 1794
DEGO. Jun. 1756
PRISCILLA
LYSANDER. Sep. 1759
WIFE of ELI. Apr. 1795
QUINTUS. Feb. 1760
ZIPPORAH. Oct. 1795
HAGAR. May. 1760
SAMUEL GIBSON. Oct. 1795
DINAH. Sep. 1760
CHILD of SARAH. Jul. 1796
TONY. Jan. 1761
NEPTUNE. Nov. 1796
DAN. May. 1761
SALLY. Jan. 1797
CHILD. Oct. 1761
SARAH. Jul. 1797
CHILD. Mar. 1762
PEGGY. Mar. 1798
PHYLLYS. Apr. 1762
INFANT of JEMIMAH. Mar. 1798
CHILD. Apr. 1764
WILL. May. 1764
CHILD of JUDA & BOSTON. Nov. 1798
CHILD. Jul. 1764
PRIME. Jan. 1765
CHILD. Mar. 1799
PHILLYS. Jun. 1766
SIMEON EDWARDS. Sep. 1799
DIC. Jun. 1766
DIGE. Oct. 1799
BOY. Oct. 1766
HANNAH PETER. Jun. 1800
POMP. May. 1767
MIME. Jul. 1767
BOSTON NICHOLS, GOVERNOR OF SLAVES. 1810
Although this list of interred is recorded, their graves are unmarked and unknown. Documents also indicate that Abda Jennings and approximately 300 more African Americans, as well as Governors of the Slaves, London, Quaw, Cuff, and Peleg Nott, are buried in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground.
