by Ned Benton
January 2011
We’ve known there were slaves in Mamaroneck Township in the late 1700s. We’ve known that two local slaves, John Cox and Andrew Cole, escaped to side with the British during the Revolutionary War and…
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The historical record of slavery in the Town of Mamaroneck, New York
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Mamaroneck Slaves Found in Canada
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Joseph Stewart – “The Governor” Who Was a Slave
By Ned Benton
In the 1800s, in the DeLancey home on Heathcote Hill in Mamaroneck there was a prominent painting in the front hall of a black man. The family called him “The Governor.” With…
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