A 26-year-old identified only as “Negro Woman” was described as “healthy,” a “spinner,” and “capable at housework,” when she was sold in 1802 by Enoch Lord Jr. Several earlier generations of the prominent Lord family also held enslaved persons in Lyme, starting in 1725, when Lt. Richard Lord purchased “Temperance, Molata” from Joseph Peck, Jr.

Research provided by Witness Stones – Old Lyme