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# Stopping Stones

Memorials for Racial Healing

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- [News](https://stoppingstones.org/blog/) - The Witness Stone Project seeks to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities.
- [State’s First Witness Stones to Be Installed June 5](https://stoppingstones.org/states-first-witness-stones-to-be-installed-june-5/) - By Gino DeAngelis on ABC6.com on May 17, 2023 SOUTH KINGSTON, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island’s first “Witness Stones” will be installed in a public ceremony on the grounds of the Kingston Congregational Church on June 5. “The Witness Stones Project, Inc. is a non-profit, public history project, that works with local communities to restore
- [Remembering a Wilton Man’s Life that History Has Obscured —Emancipated Slave John C. Wally](https://stoppingstones.org/remembering-a-wilton-mans-life-that-history-has-obscured-emancipated-slave-john-c-wally/) - By Steve Hudspeth in Good Morning Wilton on June 6, 2023 On Saturday, June 10 at 4 p.m. at the Wilton Historical Society, an important event will take place: a Witness Stone will be dedicated for the first time in Wilton. Here is its significance. How do you remember a life that history has obscured? In the case of those enslaved in Connecticut, slavery and
- [Witness Stones Installation Ceremony Held On Wooster School Campus](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-installation-ceremony-held-on-wooster-school-campus/) - By Lori Kriegel In Ridgefield's Hamlet Hub on June 6, 2023 The Witness Stones Installation Ceremony took place on the Wooster School campus, organized by the 8th-grade team, on May 30, 2023. As part of their participation in the Witness Stones Project, the students had been delving into the intricate history of enslavement in Connecticut
- [A Tangled Story: Witness Stones Project Celebrates Placement of New Plaques Honoring Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/a-tangled-story-witness-stones-project-celebrates-placement-of-new-plaques-honoring-enslaved/) - In LymeLine.com on June 7, 2023 OLD LYME — On June 2, a large audience, along with musicians, singers, genealogists, poets, and descendants, gathered on the lawn of the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library to honor the lives of enslaved persons who lived in Old Lyme. The Old Lyme Witness Stones Project, with the support of its many
- [West Hartford to Hold Annual Juneteenth Celebration and Witness Stones Dedication](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-to-hold-annual-juneteenth-celebration-and-witness-stones-dedication/) - By Ronnie Newton on We-Ha.com on June 12, 2023 It was the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, but West Hartford held a small-scale Juneteenth celebration in June 202o. This Saturday, June 17, 2023, the town will officially hold its third annual celebration and the event will be bigger and better than ever, said
- [‘Witness Stones Old Lyme’ Hosts ‘Juneteenth’ Celebration of Jazz, Poetry at ‘The Side Door’, Saturday](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-old-lyme-hosts-juneteenth-celebration-of-jazz-poetry-at-the-side-door-saturday/) - In LymeLine.com on June 14, 2023 OLD LYME – On Saturday, June 17, in honor of Juneteenth—a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans—Witness Stones Old Lyme will present a celebration of Jazz and Poetry on the lawn of The Side Door at the Old Lyme Inn. The celebration takes place from 2 to 4 p.m. Admission
- [West Hartford Pays Homage to Those Enslaved in Witness Stones Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-pays-homage-to-those-enslaved-in-witness-stones-installation-ceremony/) - By Bridget Bronsdon in We-Ha.com on June 18, 2023 Through a deeply local perspective, West Hartford local leaders and students had the chance to come together in the days before Juneteenth to hold a Witness Stones Installation Ceremony – commemorating and paying tribute to local slave history. The Witness Stones Project aims to “restore the history and
- [Congregants at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Reflect on the Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/congregants-at-st-matthews-episcopal-church-reflect-on-the-witness-stones-project/) - “The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of American itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.” --Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Beginning in October 2021, St. Matthew’s (through our Social Justice & Racial Healing group) began to explore how we might engage with The Witness Stones Project
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Abda and Hannah](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-abda-and-hannah/) - Monday, June 6, 202210:00 a.m.Connecticut's Old State HouseHosted by the CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts atThe Old State House800 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts will bring the community together to remember and honor Abda and Hannah and to place Witness Stones in their memory.
- [What is a Stopping Stone?](https://stoppingstones.org/what-is-a-stopping-stone/) - As you go about your day, whether on familiar streets or traveling through new spaces, you might notice something unfamiliar set into the ground: a square of granite topped with brass, bearing a name and a date. This is a Stopping Stone. Stopping Stones is a memorial project that honors enslaved people by marking the places where
- [Fifth-Grade Teacher at Somerville's Van Derveer School Recognized for Project on Local Black History](https://stoppingstones.org/fifth-grade-teacher-at-somervilles-van-derveer-school-recognized-for-project-on-local-black-history/) - By Rod Hirsch in Tap Into Somerset on June 12, 2024 SOMERVILLE, NJ – Somerset County has announced the winners of the Somerset County Historic Preservation and History Awards for their excellence in preserving local history, including Davie-Lyn Jones-Evans, a fifth-grade teacher at the Van Derveer School in Somerville. The awards recognize individuals and organizations that support the preservation
- [Somerville, South Bound Brook Projects Recognized with Somerset County History Awards](https://stoppingstones.org/somerville-south-bound-brook-projects-recognized-with-somerset-county-history-awards/) - By Ethan Mannello in MyCentralJersey.com on June 13, 2024 The Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the county commissioners announced the winners of the Historic Preservation and History Awards. Davie-Lyn Jones-Evans, a fifth grade teacher at Somerville’s Van Derveer Elementary School and a local historian, won the history publication award. The award is given to
- [Somerset County Presents 2024 Historic Preservation And History Awards](https://stoppingstones.org/somerset-county-presents-2024-historic-preservation-and-history-awards/) - By Alexis Tarrazi on Patch on June 13, 2024 SOMERVILLE, NJ — Somerset County honored the winners of the Somerset County Historic Preservation and History Awards for their excellence in preserving local history. The awards recognize individuals and organizations that support the preservation of Somerset County’s history and historic resources through preservation or restoration projects, publications, leadership efforts, or
- [HHS to Unveil Memorial Markers During New Paltz Juneteenth Jubilee](https://stoppingstones.org/hhs-to-unveil-memorial-markers-during-new-paltz-juneteenth-jubilee/) - On ILoveNY.com on June 18, 2024 New Paltz, NY – As part of the organization’s commitment to telling the stories of the marginalized inhabitants of Historic Huguenot Street (HHS), the museum has partnered with the Witness Stones Project, Inc. (WSP), based in Connecticut. Similar to the German Stolpersteine Project that commemorates victims of the Nazis,
- [Witness Stones Affiliate Teacher Honored](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-affiliate-teacher-honored/) - In Zip06.com on August 28, 2024 With ties to Branford in her family history and a love of history and her community, Kaitlyn Goodwin is helping the Branford Historical Society (BHS) develop exciting new educational programs and create social media connections in the 21st century. Kaitlyn is a member of the Goss family, one of
- [Standing Witness](https://stoppingstones.org/standing-witness/) - In Zip06.com on November 07, 2024 Westbrook Historical Society President Marcy Fuller, left, stands next to Pastor Jeanette Hicks, Patricia Wilson Pheanious, and Mike Cyr during a witness stone plaque dedication on Nov. 3. The plaque was presented to Pheanious, a fourth-generation descendant of Toby—an enslaved person who attended the Westbrook Congregational Church in its
- [Guilford Explores Its Hidden History with Slavery by Sharing 100 Names of the Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-explores-its-hidden-history-with-slavery-by-sharing-100-names-of-the-enslaved/) - By Sue Braden in CT Insider on November 14, 2024 GUILFORD — In 1773, Theophilus Morgan Jr. “gifted” 1-year-old slave “baby Rose” to his 9-year-old granddaughter Rebecca Parmelee, an act that was rare in Connecticut though fairly common in the South. Baby Rose is among the 100 people who were enslaved in Guilford and are now being
- [Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Hosts Black History Month Events](https://stoppingstones.org/stoutsburg-sourland-african-american-museum-hosts-black-history-month-events/) - By Tokz Gabriel, Jr. in Tap Into Hillsborough on January 20, 2025 SKILLMAN, NJ – The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, central New Jersey’s first dedicated Black history museum, will host a series of special events in honor of Black History Month in February. Programs will include live theatrical performances, a birthday celebration for Frederick Douglass, and a
- [Historic Huguenot Street to Honor First People Believed to Be Enslaved in New Paltz](https://stoppingstones.org/historic-huguenot-street-to-honor-first-people-believed-to-be-enslaved-in-new-paltz/) - By Brian Hubert in the FreemanOnline.com on February 9, 2025 NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Anthony and Susanna, who historians and researchers believe were the first African people to be enslaved by the Huguenot families who founded New Paltz in the 1600s, will be honored a special ceremony at Historic Huguenot Street on Feb. 22, at 11
- [Witness Stones Project in Lancaster City Will Teach about Local Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-in-lancaster-city-will-teach-about-local-enslaved-people/) - By Ted Lassa for Lancaster Online on January 20, 2025 When: Lancaster City Council meeting, Jan. 28. Mayor Danene Sorace and council members Faith Craig and Lochard Calixte were absent. What happened: The Lancaster City Witness Stones Project will place approximately 25 stones per year for the next three years in the central historical district to teach
- [A Conversation with Guilford Community Television](https://stoppingstones.org/a-conversation-with-guilford-community-television/) - We're were delighted to share news about the Project with Guiford Community Television's Matthew LeBow.
- [Uncovering Lancaster’s Hidden History: McCaskey Students Lead Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/uncovering-lancasters-hidden-history-mccaskey-students-lead-witness-stones-project/) - By Asia Tabb on WTIF.org on April 1, 2025 A groundbreaking project is unfolding at McCaskey High School in Lancaster, where a group of students, under the guidance of social studies teacher Dr. Todd Mealy, is working to bring history to life through the Witness Stones Project. This initiative aims to honor and remember individuals who
- [The Story of Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/the-story-of-frank/) - Students at JP McCaskey High School created this video about "Frank," a man enslaved by Edward Hand during the Revolutionary Era in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This film is created in conjunction with the Witness Stones Project and Historic Rock Ford. Director: Hana Rebek. Advisor: Todd M. Mealy, Ph.D., Narrator: Lenwood Sloan. Assistant Producers: Hasset Tesfaye Desagn,
- [Witness Stones Old Lyme Installs 12 More Plaques Honoring Enslaved People as Five-Year Project Sunsets, Brings Total to 60](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-old-lyme-installs-12-more-plaques-honoring-enslaved-people-as-five-year-project-sunsets-brings-total-to-60/) - By Elizabeth Regan on LymeLine.com on May 30, 2025 OLD LYME–Ten small brass plaques installed Friday morning on the Sill Lane Green are there to fill holes left by untold stories. Cesar was about 15-years-old when he was purchased for 80 pounds by Reynold Marvin Jr. in 1730. Zacheus Still, born enslaved to Richard Lord
- [‘Cuffee Voorhees!’: Timberlane Students, Descendants, and Community Unite to Honor a Life Once Lost to History](https://stoppingstones.org/cuffee-voorhees-timberlane-students-descendants-and-community-unite-to-honor-a-life-once-lost-to-history/) - By Seth Siditsky on MercerMe.com on June 6, 2025 For more than a century, the life of Cuffee Voorhees—an enslaved man turned Union soldier—remained largely hidden from the historical record. But on Friday, Timberlane Middle School students, together with his descendants and community leaders, gave his story a place of honor in the Hopewell Valley.
- [Longmeadow Honors 18th-Century Enslaved Individuals with Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/longmeadow-honors-18th-century-enslaved-individuals-with-ceremony/) - By Julia O'Keefe on WWLP.com on May 27, 2025 LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – A ceremony to honor two enslaved individuals from the 18th century was held at the First Church of Longmeadow Thursday morning. These stones come as part of the Witness Stones project, and they not only show that slavery existed in Longmeadow,
- [Renbrook School Students Share Their Work](https://stoppingstones.org/1458-2/) - Fifth graders in the Renbrook School's Social Studies, Language Arts, and Arts Class share their work with the Witness Stones Project.
- [First Witness Stones Commemoration](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-installation-ceremony-guilford-november-2-2017/)
- [Witness Stones Project Begins in Guilford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-project-begins-in-guilford/)
- [Guilford Aims to Come to Grips with Town’s Past Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/new-haven-register-guilford-aims-to-come-to-grips-with-towns-past-slavery/) - About 100 people met Wednesday to face the reality of being part of a culture that is still stained by the truth that white people owned black Africans in their own town. The meeting, held at the Guilford Free Library, was organized by the Witness Stones Project, which plans to embed granite and brass memorials in the sidewalks outside where enslaved people lived in Guilford.
- [Witness Stones Project Founder Honored by the Guilford Preservation Alliance](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-honored-by-the-guilford-preservation-alliance/) - On September 26, 2016, the Witness Stones Project's Dennis Culliton received the Charles Hubbard Award for the his research and education work on slavery and African Americans in Guilford. Continue reading.
- [Slavery in New England](https://stoppingstones.org/slavery-in-new-england/) - Minutes of the 1464th Meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Gregory Tignor and Monica Aspiantoon on February 13, 2018 The President introduced Douglas Nygren who introduced the guest speaker with the following statement. “When I approached Gregory last April about our doing a presentation on the Witness Stone Project and
- [Through Local History, A Stronger Sense Of Place](https://stoppingstones.org/through-local-history-a-stronger-sense-of-place/) - Witness Stones Project Founder an Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Leah Glaser, Professor of History and Coordinator of the Public History Program at Central Connecticut State University, Chuck Arning, National Park Service Interpretive Ranger and A/V Specialist, John Tuohy, author and historian for the city of Ansonia, Connecticut, and Regan Miner, consultant for the city
- [Witness Stones Project Book Group Launch](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-book-group-launch/)
- [Witness Stones Holds First Summer Workshop](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-holds-first-summer-workshop/) - Withness Stones Project hold first summer workshop with educators from Middletown, West Hartford, and Guilford Public Schools.
- [Guilford Project Researching Slavery Finds Descendant Living in Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-project-researching-slavery-finds-descendant-living-in-connecticut/) - By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on November 4, 2018 GUILFORD — Patricia Wilson Pheanious was sitting on the porch of her Ashford home when her husband came out and told her that someone was on the phone and wanted to talk about her ancestry. Dennis Culliton, co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, in which
- [National Recognition for Witness Stones in Teaching Tolerance](https://stoppingstones.org/teaching-tolerance-the-legacy-of-slavery-is-not-limited-to-the-south/) - Please read the recently published feature article by Jenifer Frank and published by Teaching Tolerance: Bearing Witness to the Hard History of Guilford.Teaching Tolerance is on a mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
- [West Hartford Slave, Revolutionary War Soldier Honored on Local War Memorial](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-slave-revolutionary-war-soldier-honored-on-local-war-memorial/) - By Peter Marteka in the Hartford Courant on May 23, 2019 As Marc Boucher carved the simple four-letter name into the Revolutionary War memorial in the West Hartford Town Center Thursday morning, pieces of granite flew into the air. In a manner of seconds, a man simply known as “Prut” was added to a list of
- [Witness Stones Project Honors Prut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-honors-prut/) - From the Kingswood Oxford School on June 3, 2019 History teacher Katie McCarthy’s Form 5 class addressed our nation’s complicated and painful history of slavery by participating in the Witness Stones Project which “seeks to restore the history and to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities” according
- [A Witness to History: Brown Chairs Witness Stone’s Juneteenth at Hyland House](https://stoppingstones.org/a-witness-to-history-brown-chairs-witness-stones-juneteenth-at-hyland-house/) - By Pam Johnson on Zip06.com on June 12, 2019 GUILFORD — “When we did the first Juneteenth last year, the first question we asked the audience was, ‘How many people know what Juneteenth is?’” recalls Stephanie Little Brown. “Now this was in a crowd of about 80 adults. Probably eight hands went up. That’s through
- [Dennis Culliton Receives Social Studies Special Projects Award](https://stoppingstones.org/dennis-culliton-receives-social-studies-special-projects-award/) - Guilford Public Schools News and Announcements on June 12, 2019 Dennis Culliton, social studies teacher at Adams Middle School, has received the Special Projects Award from the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies (CCSS) for his work in leading the development of the Witness Stones Project and its application in the classroom. The award recognizes
- [A Memorial Project Is Rediscovering Stories of Slavery in Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/a-memorial-project-is-rediscovering-stories-of-slavery-in-connecticut/) - By Erik Ofgang in Connecticut Magazine on July 24, 2019. Shortly before the Revolutionary War, an enslaved Connecticut man named Jeffrey Brace was beaten unconscious by his new owner, John Burwell of Milford. Burwell struck Brace with his fists, legs and a chair. In a written account years later, Brace recalled that one blow to his head during the
- [Students Find and Share an Untold History of the Enslaved People of West Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-students-find-and-share-an-untold-history-of-the-enslaved-people-of-west-hartford/) - By Ronni Newton in We-Ha.Com on October 24, 2019 History involves the study of what happened in the past, but we all know there is more than one side to most stories. There are also stories that have yet to be told. When Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine started the Witness Stones Project in
- [Witness Stones Installation Ceremony in West Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-installation-ceremony-in-hartford/) - In October 2019, Witness Stones West Hartford remembered and honored the lives of six enslaved men and women. We invite you to watch highlights from the ceremony here:
- [Country School Students Seek to Research, Honor Lives of Local Enslaved Persons](https://stoppingstones.org/country-school-students-seek-to-research-honor-lives-of-local-enslaved-persons/) - By Jesse Williams on Zip06.com on November 20, 2019 MADISON — While slavery has remained a consistent, underlying thread causing harm and affecting communities throughout the country, the realities of what slavery looked like in any given place often remains unexplored, according to Dennis Culliton, a former Guilford teacher who has made it his mission
- [The Brief Appearance and Constant Disappearance of Dinah Gardner](https://stoppingstones.org/the-brief-appearance-and-constant-disappearance-of-dinah-gardner/) - By Dennis Culliton Until six months ago, we didn’t have much to go on if we wanted to tell the story of Dinah. We had a Bill of Sale written in 1792 where Guilford’s selectmen purchased Dinah from Elias Cadwell for 12 pounds lawful money for a term of four years when she would be
- [Country School Students Take in Poetry as They Begin to Research Slavery in Madison](https://stoppingstones.org/country-school-students-take-in-poetry-as-they-begin-to-research-slavery-in-madison/) - By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on December 18, 2019 MADISON — As 7th- and 8th-grade students at The Country School (TCS) prepare to delve into the history of local slavery and the lives of enslaved people as part of The Witness Stones Project, the school hosted a speaker whose words and insights helped prepare
- [Country School Students Tell the Stories of Slavery in Their Community](https://stoppingstones.org/country-school-students-tell-the-stories-of-slavery-in-their-community/) - From The Country School, published April 2020. Eighth Graders at the School began participating in the Witness Stones Project in the fall of 2019, setting out to tell an untold story about a woman named Lettuce Bailey, who was enslaved in Madison, Connecticut, until she was freed in the late 18th century, first in 1791
- [Understanding the Twin Pandemics: Covid-19 and Racism in America](https://stoppingstones.org/understanding-the-twin-pandemics-covid-19-and-racism-in-america/) - At the Witness Stones Project, we are updating and preparing our curriculum and teacher training to make implicit the relationship between slavery, deaths by Covid, and the death of unarmed Blacks.
- [In the Wake of George Floyd’s Death, a Connecticut Town Marks Juneteenth and Recalls Its Own Legacy of Enslaving Men, Women and Children](https://stoppingstones.org/in-the-wake-of-george-floyds-death-a-connecticut-town-marks-juneteenth-and-recalls-its-own-legacy-of-enslaving-men-women-and-children/) - By Susan Dunne in the Hartford Courant on June 19, 2020 WEST HARTFORD — On Aug. 20, 1740, John Hosmer of West Hartford settled a debt with his neighbor. He didn’t settle the debt with money, but by handing over Ned, a 9-year-old Black child valued at 115 pounds. Continue Reading.
- [Witness Stones West Hartford Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-west-hartford-installation-ceremony/)
- [Witness Stones & Hard History](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-hard-history/)
- [Country School Students Record, Honor Life of Enslaved Madison Resident](https://stoppingstones.org/country-school-students-record-honor-life-of-enslaved-madison-resident/) - By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on July 8, 2020 MADISON — After months of research, writing, and conversations, students from The Country School (TCS) have finished up their research on one of Madison’s enslaved residents as part of the Witness Stones Project, with plans to come together and install a marker in front of the
- ["Look at the Whole Story": CT Educators Rethink Lessons on Racism, Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/look-at-the-whole-story-ct-educators-rethink-lessons-on-racism-slavery/) - By Meghan Friedmann in the New Haven Register on July 31, 2020 A team of educators hopes to empower teachers to educate their students about racism and slavery in southern New England - and to do so correctly. A nationally-renowned scholar, two Connecticut teachers and a state representative, all of whom advocate for a reconfiguration
- [Searching for Slavery in the Northwest Corner of Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/searching-for-slavery-in-the-northwest-corner-of-connecticut/) - By Rhonan Mokriski on The Atlantic Black Box Project on August 1, 2020 I teach at an independent school in the sleepy Connecticut town of Salisbury (pop 3,598 in 2018). I have been living here for 24 years. My lens has been largely focused on world history – particularly China – so beyond the normal
- [Lettuce Bailey Memorial Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/lettuce-bailey-memorial-ceremony/) - We invite you to watch the installation of the Witness Stone to remember and honor Lettuce Bailey. The ceremony was hosted by The Country School of Madison.
- [Witness Stones & Hard History](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-hard-history-a-cais-online-workshop-on-slavery-in-connecticut-and-the-north/) - On August 3, 2020 Witness Stones Project Co-Chair and Connecticut Representative Patricia Wilson Pheanious and Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton took part in a Connecticut Association of Independent Schools Workshop on Teaching Hard History. We invite you to watch their address here: The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools is a voluntary
- [Witness Stones and Teaching Teachers Hard History](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-and-teaching-teachers-hard-history/) - By Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton. Published by The Atlantic Black Box Project on August 6, 2020. For all of the educators reading this post: Have you ever questioned the fact that you can teach in front of dozens of students every day and never be nervous, but when get
- [New England's Abolitionist History At Odds With Racist Realities](https://stoppingstones.org/new-englands-abolitionist-history-at-odds-with-racist-realities/) - Witness Stones Project Co-Chair Pat Wilson Pheanious was a guest on a Vermont Public Radio radio series produced by the New England News Collaborative and America Amplified. The focus of the episode was New England’s direct involvement and complicity in slavery and white supremacy. We invite you to listen to the program here: Racism in New England.
- [WSP's Executive Director Receives a Beacon Award](https://stoppingstones.org/wsps-executive-director-receives-a-beacon-award/) - Shore Publishing’s Beacon Awards recognize a few of the outstanding individuals who selflessly step up to help fulfill the Shoreline community’s promise as a place of opportunity, well-being, and safety for all. The Witness Stones Project Executive Director's commendation noted: A retired teacher, [Dennis Culliton] continues to work on the Witness Stones Project, listening humbly
- [Witness Stones Project Memorial for Tamer](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-memorial-for-tamar/) - By Bill Sullivan, Suffield Historical Society, published in the Suffield Observer on October 30, 2020. The Suffield Historical Society hosted Dennis Culliton, chair and co-founder of the Witness Stones Project, during three online classes during October. Using a document-based approach to understanding slavery in colonial New England, Culliton helped the class build a narrative about
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum  to Recover the History of the Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-stoutsburg-sourland-african-american-museum-to-recover-the-history-of-the-enslaved/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum in Skillman, New Jersey. The Museum will be supporting the introduction of the Project’s curriculum and
- [Henry James Memorial School Joins Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/henry-james-memorial-school-joins-witness-stones-project/) - The Henry James Memorial School in Simsbury, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut. Henry James Memorial School‘s mission statement, “Connections, Challenge, Character,” is a reflection of the middle school’s philosophy that is essential to the experience that they provide
- [Peleg Nott's Story](https://stoppingstones.org/peleg-notts-story/) - We invite you to listen to this podcast from Kingswood Oxford students Garrett Gallup and Isaias Wooden: giddyup · Peleg Nott's Story- History Podcast
- [Salisbury School Students Chronicle the Lives of African Americans](https://stoppingstones.org/salisbury-school-students-chronicle-the-lives-of-african-americans/) - A blog on the Atlantic Black Box Project, started on December 24, 2020. History teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students at the Salisbury School have been pursuing a project-based learning course in public history focused on uncovering the lives of free and enslaved African American families in northwestern Connecticut. Continue reading.
- [Archaeological and Historical Research at the Cesar and Sim Peters House Site, Hebron, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/3805-2/)
- [Witness Stones Will Expand to New Schools and Add New Collaborations](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-will-expand-to-new-schools-adds-new-collaborations/) - By Jesse Williams published on ZIP06.COM on January 5, 2021. GUILFORD — The Witness Stones Project, Inc, which had already seen significant expansion since retired Guilford social studies teacher Dennis Culliton and therapist Doug Nygren launched it in 2019, is set to grow even more in 2021 as conversations around Black Lives Matter protests
- [Historic Deerfield Joins Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/historic-deerfield-joins-witness-stones-project/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Historic Deerfield. The museum will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of
- [Understanding Slavery in the North](https://stoppingstones.org/glclunch-dennis-culliton-and-joy-burns-witness-stones-project/) - Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition invited Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Dennis Culliton and community historian Adrienne Joy Burns to speak at one of their Brown Bag Lunch Talks. We invite you to listen to their conversation with GLC Director David Blight: The Gilder Lehrman Center
- [Racial Trauma: Unchaining Ancestors’ Stories to Heal Cities](https://stoppingstones.org/racial-trauma-unchaining-ancestors-stories-to-heal-cities/) - By Susana F. Molina in The Urban Activist on February 22, 2021 February is Afro-American History Month. It pays tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity. This year’s commemoration, eight months after the events in Minneapolis, has turned out in a different tone. The racial trauma of an unpayable moral debt lingers over
- [How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism](https://stoppingstones.org/how-the-aftermath-of-the-civil-war-helps-us-understand-trumpism/) - David W. Blight, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and Yale Professor, spoke about How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism on February 11, 2021. No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off
- [Honoring The Silent: Documenting African American & Native American History In Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/honoring-the-silent-documenting-african-american-native-american-history-in-connecticut/) - The Norwalk Historical Society hosted Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton and Central Connecticut State University Professor Dr. Katherine A. Hermes, J.D., Ph.D., for a presentation on documenting hidden history. We invite you to watch: The Norwalk Historical Society was incorporated in 1899 with the focus on “the research, preservation, and promotion
- [Frank Ward Strong Middle Schools Joins Witness Stones Affiliates](https://stoppingstones.org/frank-ward-strong-middle-schools-joins-witness-stones-affiliates/) - The Frank Strong Middle School is a Regional District 13 school. The District’s goal is to sure an authentic learning environment that supports growth, innovation and critical thinking so that all students are successful in life, learning and work beyond school. The School will be bringing the Witness Stones Project to the school beginning in the 2021-22
- [Witness Stones West Hartford Offering Opportunity for Participation in Community History Project](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-west-hartford-offering-opportunity-for-participation-in-community-history-project/) - By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.Com on February 22, 2021. Witness Stones West Hartford project directors Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine have worked with students and others in the community to share the previously untold history of some individuals who were once enslaved by residents of the West Division (now West Hartford), and a series of
- [Talking About Preservation: Finding Slavery in Northwest Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/1365-2/) - Preservation Connecticut hosted Salisbury School history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and WSP's Dennis Culliton to discuss a project-based learning course in public history focused on uncovering the lives of free and enslaved African American families in Northwest Connecticut. We invite you to watch here.
- [Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/searching-for-slavery-in-northwest-connecticut/) - Students in Rhonan Mokriski's “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut” class at the Salisbury School are becoming public historians.
- [Equity and Social Justice in Guilford](https://stoppingstones.org/1256-2/) - Guilford Superintendent of Schools Paul Freeman gave a talk on Equity and Social Justice in Guilford Public Schools at the Guilford Free Library on March 11, 2021. Freeman discussed recent efforts focused on the Board of Education’s adopted initiative to ”further develop a culture, and instructional practices, that foster equity and social justice in our
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with RHAM High School in Hebron, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-rham-high-school-in-hebron-connecticut/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with RHAM High School. The school in Hebron, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of
- [Remarkable Discoveries](https://stoppingstones.org/remarkable-discoveries/) - By Bill Sullivan in the Suffield Observer on March 30, 2021 The Suffield Historical Society’s April 13 meeting will be devoted to updating our community on intriguing developments regarding the research and installation of two Witness Stones Memorials. The meeting is open to the public, and newcomers are most welcomed. Please attend the 7 p.m. program by
- [The Power of Local History: Commemorating Frank's Life](https://stoppingstones.org/the-power-of-local-history/) - By Tracey Wilson on We-Ha.com on April 3, 2021 On Monday, March 29, five members of the Community Witness Stones Class filled a jar with dirt from where Frank (c. 1730-1810) was forced to work by his enslavers. On Albany Avenue, in the woods west of Renbrook School, bordering on the reservoir, the group walked
- [An Evening Conversation at Connecticut's Old State House](https://stoppingstones.org/an-evening-conversations-at-connecticuts-old-state-house/) - Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director joined Capitol Region Education Council teacher and Central Connecticut State University Public History graduate student Kaitlyn Oberndorfer for an Evening Conversation at Connecticut's Old State House. We invite you to watch their conversation: This event was made possible by support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council. The Council
- [Somerset County Awards Grants to Support Local History Projects](https://stoppingstones.org/somerset-county-awards-grants-to-support-local-history-projects/) - By Mike Deak on MyCentralJersey.com on April 18, 2021 The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum – General operating funds will aid in the maintenance, enrichment and expansion of programs and outreach, including planning for a new Education and Exhibit Center on the top of Sourland Mountain in Hillsborough, virtual programming for signature events and enhancing
- [The Three Faces of Slavery in Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/the-three-faces-of-slavery-in-connecticut/) - Professor Robert Pierce Forbes discussed The Three Faces of Slavery in Connecticut on April 21, 2021, at the Guilford Free Library. Robert Pierce Forbes, author of The Missouri Compromise and its Aftermath and editor of the forthcoming Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition talked about Connecticut’s deep connection to slavery:
- [Salisbury School Students Celebrate James Mars Day](https://stoppingstones.org/salisbury-school-students-reflect-on-the-life-of-james-mars/) - Students at the Salisbury School brought the community together on May 1, 2021, to share their research and reflections on James Mars. Their work was part of a project-based learning course entitled, “Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut,” taught by History Faculty Rhonan Mokriski. The students documented the day with a new website and film.
- [Commemorating History: James Mars Witness Stone Ceremony in Norfolk](https://stoppingstones.org/james-mars-day-in-norfolk-ct/) - On Saturday, May 1, 2021, students from the Salisbury School gathered the community to honor James Mars.
- [James Mars Day](https://stoppingstones.org/james-mars-day/) - Salisbury School students honor James Mars’s legacy.
- [Paying Tribute to the Life of James Mars at a Witness Stone Ceremony in Norfolk](https://stoppingstones.org/paying-tribute-to-the-life-of-james-mars-at-a-witness-stone-ceremony-in-norfolk/) - By Patrick L. Sullivan in the TriCornerNews on May 5, 2021 NORFOLK — The life of James Mars was celebrated at the Norfolk Congregational Church on Sunday, May 2, with a ceremony marking the unveiling of a witness stone honoring Mars, the last slave bought or sold in Norfolk. Continue reading.
- [The Abduction, Rescue, and Emancipation of Cesar and Lowis Peters](https://stoppingstones.org/the-abduction-rescue-and-emancipation-of-cesar-and-lowis-peters/) - Abduction and Rescue of Cesar Peters
- [Witness Stones Placement Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-placement-ceremony/) - From the Greenwich Historical Society on May 10, 2021 This spring marks the culmination of our first collaboration with the Witness Stones Project, in conjunction with local schools and the local community. Through research, education, and civic engagement, the Witness Stones Project, Inc., seeks to restore the history and to honor the humanity and
- [Oral History and the African American Experience](https://stoppingstones.org/oral-history-and-the-african-american-experience/) - Hear Tamara Lanier explain how buying a salad at an ice cream store and a promise to her dying mother led to discovering that Harvard University possessed images of her enslaved great, great, great grandfather, Renty Taylor, and his daughter, Delia. Learn how oral history, research and luck led to that discovery and how
- [Witness Stones Will Recall Lives of Enslaved Individuals in New Haven](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-will-recall-lives-of-enslaved-individuals-in-new-haven/) - From the New Haven Museum New Haven, Conn. (May 18, 2021)— Students from The Foote School will install commemorative Witness Stones Memorials recalling the lives of Pink and Stepna, two enslaved individuals who once lived in the Morris House, now known as the Pardee-Morris House, during a ceremony at the site on June 2, 2021,
- [Noble Horizons to Premiere Film by Salisbury School Students](https://stoppingstones.org/noble-horizons-to-premiere-film-by-salisbury-school-students/) - From the Litchfield County Times on May 19, 2021 SALISBURY — Noble Horizons, a senior retirement community at 17 Cobble Road, will premiere Coloring Our Past, a film made by Salisbury School students in Rhonan Mokriski’s 2020-21 Searching for Slavery class, on May 26 at 7 p.m. The film chronicles their discovery of the lost stories of
- [Oral History and and the African American Experience](https://stoppingstones.org/oral-history-and-and-the-african-american-experience/) - Hear Tamara Lanier explain how buying a salad at an ice cream store and a promise to her dying mother led to the discovery that Harvard University possessed images of her enslaved great, great, great grandfather Renty Taylor and his daughter, Delia. Hear how oral history, research and luck led to the discovery and how
- [Commemorating the Lives of Enslaved People in Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/commemorating-the-lives-of-enslaved-people-in-connecticut/) - By Tess Terribile and Nancy Nalpathanchil of Where We Live How should we remember painful events in our history? There are more than 70 Witness Stones installed throughout our state. The markers commemorate the lives of the enslaved people that lived in Connecticut. Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton joins Bill Sullivan of the Suffield
- [Student Film Screening: Looking for Color](https://stoppingstones.org/student-film-screening-looking-for-color/) - From the Atlantic Black Box Project on May 22, 2021 Salisbury, Connecticut: Students from Salisbury School’s Searching for Slavery class, in conjunction with the Upper Housatonic Heritage Area, are excited to screen the premiere of their film, Looking for Color on May 26, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. for Noble Horizons. Among several class projects, this
- [Coloring Our Past Film](https://stoppingstones.org/looking-for-color-film/) - Among several class projects, this film is one of three documentaries students from Salisbury School’s Searching for Slavery class have created over the course of the year to carry out their mission of educating the public about this important history, rewriting the stories that have been recorded incorrectly, and uncovering lives that have been ignored
- [Greenwich Honors Legacy of Those Who Were Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-honors-legacy-of-those-who-were-enslaved/) - By Richard Kaufman on Patch.com on May 27, 2021 GREENWICH, CT — It was an emotional day on Thursday at the Greenwich Historical Society, as the community came together to honor the legacy of those who were enslaved in Greenwich in the 18th and 19th centuries. According to research from the Historical Society, approximately 300
- [Greenwich Historical Society Hosts Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-historical-society-hosts-witness-stones-project/) - On May 27, 2021, the Greenwich Historical Society welcomed students from Greenwich Academy and Sacred Heart Greenwich. The students shared their work uncovering the lives of Cull Bush, Patience, Candice , and Hester Mead and laid Witness Stones in their memory. [rl_gallery id="1463"]
- [Director's Discussion: Coloring Our Past](https://stoppingstones.org/directors-discussion-coloring-our-past/) - Salisbury School student Caleb May leads a discussion about the film Coloring Our Past with Cesar family descendants and friends.
- [Witness Stones Arrive in Old Lyme, Project Will Mark Local Slave Narratives](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-arrive-in-old-lyme-project-will-mark-local-slave-narratives/) - By Cate Hewitt in the Connecticut Examiner on June 1, 2021 OLD LYME — Up and down Lyme Street, cement and bronze markers arrived today showing where enslaved people once lived in the town of Old Lyme. The markers are part of the Witness Stones Project, which “seeks to restore the history and honor the humanity of
- [Foote School Students Recover the Life of Pink Primus](https://stoppingstones.org/foote-school-students-recover-the-life-of-pink-primus/) - Students from the Foote School gathered at the Pardee-Morris House on June 2, 2021, to remember the life of Pink Primus. Students read original poetry and displayed the infographics they created to share the life of Pink with their community. [rl_gallery id="1421"]
- [The Witness Stones Project in Killingly](https://stoppingstones.org/1507-2/) - From the Killingly Villager by Margaret Weaver on June 4, 2021 Yesterday, June 3, I had the privilege of attending the dedication, in front of Westfield Congregational Church in Danielson, of a “Witness Stone” for Cuffee, a slave whom Mary Danielson purchased in February 1728/9. “What is a Witness Stone?” you ask. The following is
- [Students from Killingly High School Remember Cuffee](https://stoppingstones.org/students-from-killingly-high-school-remember-cuffee/) - On June 3, 2021, students from Killingly High School gathered the community at the Westfield Congregational Church to remember the life of Cuffee and to share some of what they have discovered about the history of slavery and the enslaved in their town.
- [The Story of Elizabeth Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/the-story-of-elizabeth-freeman/) - Students at Witness Stone affiliate the Salisbury School have been uncovering the history of slavery in Northwest Connecticut. Here they present the life of Elizabeth Freeman.
- [Witness Stones Old Lyme to Hold Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-old-lyme-to-hold-installation-ceremony-will-feature-music-poetry/) - OLD LYME – The Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership will hold an installation ceremony Friday, June 4, from 10 to 11:15 a.m. celebrating the town’s newly installed Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of 14 individuals, who were once enslaved on Lyme Street. Continue reading.
- [New Generation of Historians Reveals Untold Stories in Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/new-generation-of-historians-reveals-untold-stories-in-old-lyme/) - By Elizabeth Regan in The Day on June 4, 2021 Old Lyme — Though they are the town's youngest historians, they are among the first to reveal centuries-old stories of the people enslaved on Lyme Street. Seventh graders at Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School this year pieced together the stories of Jenny Freeman and Lewis Lewia, two of the
- [Witness Stones Unearth New Haven's History Of Enslavement](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-unearth-new-havens-history-of-enslavement/) - By Lucy Gellman on Arts Council Greater New Haven on June 4, 2021 Sixth grader Kymani Chapman held a heavy cube steady in both hands, the letters on its face glinting. A name caught in the light: Stepna Primus, once enslaved by Amos Morris, Isaac Forbes and Enos Hemmingway in New Haven. Chapman steadied himself, feet spread
- [Old Lyme Installs Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/old-lyme-installs-witness-stones/) - From NBC News Connecticut on June 4, 2021 Stones honoring the lives of formerly enslaved people now line Lyme Street in Old Lyme. The fourteen plaques are called "witness stones" and are designed to help people learn about and honor the enslaved people who lived in town. “To help people understand the true history of
- [Honoring the Forgotten](https://stoppingstones.org/honoring-the-forgotten/) - By Jim Altman on Fox61 News OLD LYME, Conn. — The Witness Stones Project, a non-profit initiative that honors enslaved people that worked and lived in Connecticut centuries ago has now made its mark in Old Lyme. Outside the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, a ceremony took place to recognize 14 Witness Stones that are
- [Old Lyme Installs Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/old-lyme-installs-witness-stones-2/)
- [Witness Stones Celebration Highlighted Installation of Plaques Marking Sites of Enslavement in Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-celebration-highlighted-installation-of-plaques-marking-sites-of-enslavement-in-old-lyme/) - OLD LYME –The Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership held an installation ceremony last Friday, June 4, celebrating the town’s newly installed Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of 14 individuals, who were once enslaved on Lyme Street. The project expands the understanding of local history and honors the humanity and contributions of those formerly held
- [West Hartford Town Council Approves Procedure for Honorary and Historic Renaming of Public Streets](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-town-council-approves-procedure-for-honorary-and-historic-renaming-of-public-streets/) - By Sophie Christensen on We-Ha.com on June 9, 2021 In a January Letter to the Editor, Aliza Sadiq and Regina Miller (two Kingswood Oxford students) asked the West Hartford Town Council to rename New Street in Blue Back Square. They wish to honor Peleg Nott, who had been enslaved in West Hartford but according to research was
- [West Hartford Students & Teachers Discuss the Project](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-students-teachers-discuss-the-project/)
- [West Hartford Prepares for Juneteenth](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-prepares-for-juneteenth/) - Dr. Tracey Wilson describes the Witness Stone work in Hartford on EyeWitness News 3. We invite you to watch here:
- [Bringing to Life the Hidden Lives of Four Greenwich Slaves with Honor and Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/bringing-to-life-the-hidden-lives-of-four-greenwich-slaves-with-honor-and-witness-stones/) - By Anne W. Semmes in the Greenwich Sentinel on June 12, 2021 Forces have joined in the town of Greenwich to tell its hidden history, “To return the colors to the historical fabrics of our community,” so said Dennis Culliton, co-founder of the Connecticut-based Witness Stones Project that “seeks to restore the history and to
- [Witness Stones Highlight Lyme-Old Lyme’s History of Slavery ahead of Juneteenth](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-highlights-lyme-old-lymes-history-of-slavery-ahead-of-juneteenth/)
- [Witness Stone Would Mark Location Where Slave Lived in Suffield](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-would-mark-location-where-slave-lived-in-suffield/) - By Matthew P. Knox in the Journal Inquirer on June 15, 2021 SUFFIELD — Residents who walk by the corner of North Main Street and Bridge Street may soon stumble upon a new addition. A witness stone, a plaque 4 inches in length and width, is going to be embedded in the stone wall along the
- [West Hartford 2021 Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-2021-installation-ceremony/)
- [Juneteenth Celebrations Begin with Witness Stones Installation in Old Center Cemetery](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-celebrations-begin-with-witness-stones-installation-in-old-center-cemetery/) - By Sophie Christensen and Lily Guberman on We-Ha.com on June 19, 2021 Even before entering the cemetery, the powerful sound of Afro Caribbean drumming could be heard from a block away. The sounds of the drums traveled far, but they could not overpower the enthusiastic voices of the crowd, about50 people of many ages and backgrounds. Sixteen
- [West Hartford’s Town Green Rededicated as ‘Unity Green’](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartfords-town-green-rededicated-as-unity-green/) - By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on June 20, 2021 West Hartford’s second annual Juneteenth celebration, held over the weekend of June 19-20, 2021, was full of joy juxtaposed by serious messages and actions, with the observation culminating late Sunday morning as a crowd gathered for the rededication of the town’s green as Unity Green. West Hartford’s
- [Let's Not Fight the Civil War Again](https://stoppingstones.org/lets-not-fight-the-civil-war-again/) - By Jackie Hemond in the Suffield Observer on June 30, 2021 In June, I witnessed an amazing dialogue. For two days, the Phelps-Hatheway House hosted two programs, both featuring Joe McGill, a national figure and founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. The hook for the Project is ingenious. McGill sleeps in slave quarters for a night.
- [Witness Stones Project Joins Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-joins-northeast-slavery-records-index/) - The Witness Stones Project is proud to join the Atlantic Black Box Project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Monmouth University as an organizational member of the Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative. The Northeast Slavery Records Collaborative (NSRC) develops and maintains an online searchable compilation of records, called the Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI).
- [Searching for Tamar, Finding Ourselves](https://stoppingstones.org/searching-for-tamar-finding-ourselves/) - This book was written by students from the Country School of Madison in remembrance of Tamar.
- [Religion, Race, and Slavery in Colonial New England](https://stoppingstones.org/religion-race-and-slavery-in-colonial-new-england/) - REGISTER HERE
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-crec-greater-hartford-academy-of-the-arts-in-hartford-connecticut/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. A generous grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund will allow the school to
- [Conservation Project Planned for West Hartford’s Historic Old North Cemetery](https://stoppingstones.org/conservation-project-planned-for-west-hartfords-historic-old-north-cemetery/) - By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on September 23, 2021 A stroll through the Old North Cemetery on North Main Street in West Hartford reveals gravestones bearing many familiar names – names used for town roads, schools, and key landmarks – but it’s also quickly apparent that many of the stones are in a state of
- [WSP Looks Forward to Working with New Historic Deerfield President](https://stoppingstones.org/new-president-ceo-of-historic-deer0field-takes-reins/) - The Greenfield Recorder on September 27, 2021 DEERFIELD — Historic Deerfield welcomed John Davis, the museum’s new president and CEO, earlier this month as he begins his job after being hired in May. Davis, the former provost and undersecretary for museums, education and research at the Smithsonian Institution, said in a press release that
- [Religion, Race and Slavery in Colonial New England with Dr. Ken Minkema](https://stoppingstones.org/religion-race-and-slavery-in-colonial-new-england-with-dr-ken-minkema/) - Local Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History presented this lecture at the Guilford Free Library.
- [Guilford Superintendent Discusses Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-superintendent-discusses-witness-stones-project/) - From Connecticut Public Radio on October 19, 2021 Guilford High School English Chair George Cooksey and Superintendent Paul Freeman explain that while critical race theory is not itself taught in the K-12 environment in Guilford, “dimension” and diversity of source material is still a priority. Listen to the broadcast here.
- [Witness Stones Project Executive Director Makes the Case for Teaching History](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-executive-director-makes-the-case-for-teaching-history/) - By Mark Pazniokas in the Connecticut Mirror on October 24, 2021 Guilford’s children are capable of absorbing hard lessons about an overlooked past," [Culliton] said. “You read a book like ‘Disowning Slavery’ by Joanne Pope Mellish, and you read that book, and it’s not critical race theory,” Culliton said. “It is history of New England
- [Yale University and the Politics of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/yale-university-and-the-politics-of-slavery/) - “Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” is the next talk in the webinar series co-sponsored by Guilford's Witness Stones Project Affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford. The talk will be given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and
- [Race, Slavery, and Yale's Construction of Its Memory](https://stoppingstones.org/1868-2/) - In October 2021, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University hosted its 23rd annual conference, Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective. During the concluding roundtable, Adrienne Joy Burns, Physician Assistant at Smilow Cancer Center and member of the Amistad Committee, discussed how the Witness Stones Project and
- [Poets Marilyn Nelson, Rhonda M. Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell, and Kate Rushin and Their Witness Stones Project Collaboration](https://stoppingstones.org/poets-marilyn-nelson-rhonda-m-ward-antoinette-brim-bell-and-kate-rushin-and-their-witness-stones-project-collaboration/) - The poets' collaborative project appears in the the November 2021 issue of Poetry magazine. The poems were commissioned by the Witness Stones Old Lyme Affiliate and were debuted at the June 4, 2021, Witness Stones Installation in Old Lyme. We invite you to read the interview about the collaboration and the full portfolio of poems: What
- [Yale University & the Politics of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/yale-university-the-politics-of-slavery/) - Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented the webinar “Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” on November 4, 2021 The talk was given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and charged with studying the University’s history.
- [Enslaved Wallingford: The Missing Chapter of our American Narrative](https://stoppingstones.org/enslaved-wallingford-the-missing-chapter-of-our-american-narrative/)
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with Regional School District 4](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-connecticuts-regional-district-4/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Regional School District 4. The district will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with Wooster School](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-wooster-school/) - The Witness Stones Project today announced a new affiliation with the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut. The college-preparatory school will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history of slavery in Connecticut. Students will examine primary source documents, including property records, probate documents, and census data, in order
- [Witness Stones Project Presented by the Branford Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-presented-by-the-branford-historical-society/) - The Branford Historical Society welcomed the Witness Stones Project on November 10, 2021. We invite you to watch the lecture here:
- [Witness Stones to Partner with Stonington Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-to-partner-with-stonington-middle-school/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Stonington Middle School. The school in Stonington, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of
- [The Witness Stones Project Receives Connecticut Humanities “American Rescue Plan” COVID Relief Funding](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-project-receives-connecticut-humanities-american-rescue-plan-covid-relief-funding/) - Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has awarded the Witness Stones Project a $10,000 CTH SHARP Capacity Grant to support staff development that would allow the Project to broaden and diversity the student audience it serves. The Project provide research assistance, specialized curriculum, and professional teacher development
- [The Witness Stones Project Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-project-receives-ct-cultural-fund-operating-support-grant-from-ct-humanities/) - Connecticut Humanities, the statewide, nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has awarded The Witness Stones Project a $7,800 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant (CTCFOSG). The grant will be used to diversify and enlarge the Project's student audience. The Witness Stones Project was one of 624 organizations in Connecticut that was awarded
- [Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty](https://stoppingstones.org/black-lives-native-lands-white-worlds-a-history-of-slavery-in-new-england-with-dr-jared-hardesty/) - The local initiative, Slavery in Guilford: Witness to History, will present a webinar with Dr. Jared Hardesty. Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of
- [James Mars Day: A Student Chronicle of Real History](https://stoppingstones.org/james-mars-day-a-student-chronicle-of-real-history/) - By Clarence Nurse in Intrepid Ed News on January 11, 2022 I wasn’t happy with my school experience in New York City. I wanted more. This class at the Salisbury School (CT) has not only given me more but has also exceeded my wildest expectations about how enjoyable meaningful learning can be. It is now
- [Witness Stones Project Among Guilford Recipients of Humanities Grants](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-among-guilford-recipients-of-humanities-grants/) - By Ellyn Santiago in the Guilford Patch on January 12, 2022 GUILFORD, CT — Guilford's arts community will soon be enriched with the announcement Wednesday by state Sen. Christine Cohen about a quarter million in state arts grants. The funds were awarded to nearly two-dozen shoreline arts and humanities organizations to "help them financially survive during
- [Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty](https://stoppingstones.org/black-lives-native-lands-white-worlds-a-history-of-slavery-in-new-england-with-dr-jared-hardesty-2/) - Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented this webinar on January 13, 2022 through the Guilford Free Library.
- [Reconciling the Dream: Truth, America’s History, and the Legacy of Dr. Martin  Luther King](https://stoppingstones.org/reconciling-the-dream-truth-americas-history-and-the-legacy-of-dr-martin-luther-king/) - Witness Stones Project Chair Patricia Wilson Pheanious addressed the congregation at North Madison Congregational Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2022.
- [The Last Sale in New Haven](https://stoppingstones.org/the-last-sale-in-new-haven/) - By Adrienne Joy Burns in the Yale Alumni Magazine, January/February 2022 My great-great-grandmother was born in South Carolina and was an enslaved person. When I did research about her, in Charleston, South Carolina, I was able to go and see a slave market—unlike in New Haven, where you cannot see the place where Lois and Lucy
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with Woodstock Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-woodstock-middle-school/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Woodstock Middle School. The school in Woodstock, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with St. Thomas's Day School](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-st-thomass-day-school/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with St. Thomas's Day School. The school in New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their
- [Black History Online Education Class](https://stoppingstones.org/black-history-online-education-class/)
- [A Black History Trail for Wallingford](https://stoppingstones.org/a-black-history-trail-for-wallingford/) - By Lorraine Connelly in My Record Journal on February 11, 2022 Wallingford has many trails — a wine trail, a Trail of Terror, numerous walking trails, and the historic George Washington Trail to name a few. According to our town’s website, Gen. George Washington made two trips through town, one in 1775 to gather provisions
- [Salisbury School Students Uncover Berkshire History](https://stoppingstones.org/salisbury-school-students-uncover-berkshire-history/) - Witness Stones Project affiliate Salisbury School is is proud to launch its website, Coloring Our Past. We invite you to view the website here.
- [Greenwich’s "Forgotten" Enslaved Population:  Witness Stones Project Seeks to Tell Their Stories](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwichs-forgotten-enslaved-population-witness-stones-project-seeks-to-tell-their-stories/) - by Robert Marchant on February 12, 2022 in the Greenwich Time GREENWICH — Few markers of slavery exist in southern Connecticut, reminders of a time when men and women were bought and sold like property or livestock. Two of them stand at Union Cemetery in Greenwich — the headstones of Hester Mead and her mother Candice
- [The MLK Mural Part I: Bristow and Freedom](https://stoppingstones.org/the-mlk-mural-part-i-bristow-and-freedom/) - By Witness Stones West Hartford Co-Chair Dr. Tracey Wilson in We-Ha.com on February 14, 2022 Journalist Yamiche Alcindor, speaking at the University of Hartford on Feb. 8, 2022, said that “Freedom is never won, it is always earned. … Each generation must fight for it to build the beloved community.” The 2,200 square foot Martin
- [Witness Stones West Hartford Offering Virtual Community History Project](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-west-hartford-offering-virtual-community-history-project/) - Published in We-Ha.com on February 16, 2022 In collaboration with the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, Witness Stones West Hartford is offering a free virtual learning series with the project directors. The public is invited to attend a series of free online classes this March and April offered by Witness Stones
- [A Special Service at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/a-special-service-at-the-first-congregational-church-of-old-lyme/) - On February 20, 2022, Antoinette Brim-Bell, Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin & Rhonda Ward, the poets that gave voice to some of the enslaved people who lived in Lyme, read their poetry at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme. They were joined by musicians Cara Cheung, Joshua Davey, Cedric Mayfield & Lisa Williamson.
- [News 12 Reports on the Witness Stones Project & the Bush-Holley House](https://stoppingstones.org/news-12-reports-on-the-witness-stones-project-the-bush-holley-house/)
- [History Detectives: Lifelong Friends Bring Black History to Life in the Sourlands](https://stoppingstones.org/history-detectives-lifelong-friends-bring-black-history-to-life-in-the-sourlands/) - News12 reported on the work of Elaine Buck & Beverly Mills at Witness Stones Project Affiliate the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum. We invite you to watch the coverage here.
- [Timberlane Students Will Be First in New Jersey to Undertake a Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/timberlane-students-will-be-first-in-nj-to-undertake-a-witness-stones-project/) - By MercerMe Community Contributor on March 10, 2022 Timberlane Middle School will hold the first annual Witness Stones ceremony on Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 9:30am to 10:45am at the Hopewell Old School Baptist Meeting House at 46-48 W Broad St, Hopewell, NJ 08525. Due to the small size of the venue, the event
- [Greenwich Historical Society's Shining a Light Lecture Series to Elevate and Amplify Underrepresented Voices](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-historical-societys-shining-a-light-lecture-series-to-elevate-and-amplify-underrepresented-voices/) - By Laura in Cos Cob's HamletHub.com on March 14, 2022 In its second year, the Greenwich Historical Society’s annual “Shining a Light” Lecture Series offers riveting stories from distinguished individuals on topics that have shaped the history of Greenwich and New England. Dedicated to elevating and amplifying underrepresented voices in history, the three-part virtual series
- [Why Venture Smith's Life Mattered](https://stoppingstones.org/2144-2/)
- [Witness Stones Project Students Petitioning to Rename Street in Blue Back Square](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-students-petitioning-to-rename-street-in-blue-back-square/) - By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on March 16, 2022 The only significance of the name of “New Street” in West Hartford is that it was a street newly-created about 15 years ago when Blue Back Square was built. Three members of the Mayor’s Youth Council – all students at West Hartford high schools –
- [Witness Stones West Hartford Tells the True History](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-west-hartford-tells-the-true-history/)
- [Greenwich Historical Society to Host Lecture Series on Slavery, Race Issues in New England](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-historical-society-to-host-lecture-series-on-slavery-race-issues-in-new-england/) - By Robert Marchant in The Middletown Press on March 19, 2022 GREENWICH — “Shining a Light,” a three-part virtual lecture series, will return this month at the Greenwich Historical Society as it focuses on elevating and amplifying underrepresented voices of history. The first presentation on March 24 will put a spotlight on slavery in Greenwich
- [Shining a Light](https://stoppingstones.org/shining-a-light/) - The Greenwich Historical Society's “Shining a Light” Lecture Series is dedicated to elevating and amplifying underrepresented voices in local history in order to highlight the stories, research and people who are dedicated to interpreting, restoring and preserving these histories. We invite you to watch Witness Stones Project Executive Director Dennis Culliton's lecture here:
- [Witness Stones Project Receives Two Grants from CT Humanities](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-receives-two-grants-from-ct-humanities/) - In the Guilford Courier on March 24, 2022 Connecticut Humanities, the statewide nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has awarded the Witness Stones Project, Inc., a $7,800 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant and a $10,000 SHARP Capacity Grant. The mission of the Witness Stones Project (WSP) is to restore the history and honor
- [Mansfield Middle School Students Participate in Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/mansfield-middle-school-students-participate-in-witness-stones-project/) - By Melanie Savage in the Hartford Courant on March 25, 2022 MANSFIELD — Mansfield Middle School grade 8 students have completed their research on a man named Titus, an enslaved man born in Mansfield on February 17, 1743. Students’ research was inspired by the Witness Stones Project, an educational initiative that includes collaborative learning and
- [Why Venture Smith's Life Mattered](https://stoppingstones.org/why-venture-smiths-life-mattered/) - Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented this webinar on March 28, 2022, through the Guilford Free Library.
- [The Witness Stones Project at First Church Simsbury](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-project-at-first-church-simsbury/)
- [Witness Stones Project Comes to Ridgefield](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-scotts-ridge-middle-school/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with the East Ridge Middle School, the Ridgefield Historical Society, and Scotts Ridge Middle School. The Ridgefield community will be using the Project’s
- [The Witness Stones Project Comes to Wilton, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/2192-2/)
- [Poetry Reading: Long-Silenced Voices](https://stoppingstones.org/poetry-reading-long-silenced-voices/) - Poetry Reading: Long-Silenced Voices Co-sponsored with Ridgefield Community Partners April 23, 2022 · 2 - 4 p.m.The Meetinghouse, Ridgefield, Connecticut Inspired by the Witness Stones Old Lyme Project, which honors those once enslaved in the community by researching their histories and placing memorial plaques at the site of their servitude, four esteemed poets give voice
- [WPKN Spotlight on Arts & Culture](https://stoppingstones.org/wpkn-spotlight-on/)
- [Suffield Academy's American Studies Class Community Presentation](https://stoppingstones.org/suffield-academys-american-studies-class-community-presentation/)
- [Students from Timberlane Middle School Honor Friday Truehart](https://stoppingstones.org/students-from-timberlane-middle-school-honor-friday-truehart/) - April 28, 2022 Students from Timberlane Middle School gathered today to honor Friday Truehart. This is the capstone of work they have been doing this spring with the Witness Stones Project. The have shared their work on their website. We invite you to visit to learn more.
- [Witness Stones Installation Ceremony: Honoring Friday Truehart](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-installation-ceremony-honoring-friday-truehart/) - We invite you to watch the program below and to read the program here.
- [Witness Stones Project Comes to New Jersey to Honor, Remember Enslaved Teen](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-comes-to-new-jersey-to-honor-remember-enslaved-teen/) - By Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com on April 28, 2022 More than 240 years ago, in Charleston, South Carolina, a 13-year-old African American boy named Friday Trueheart was separated from his mother Dinah, when their enslaver, the Rev. Oliver Hart, came north to New Jersey and took the young teen with him.
- [Friday Truehart, Once Enslaved in Hopewell, Commemorated in Witness Stone Project Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/friday-truehart-once-enslaved-in-hopewell-commemorated-in-witness-stone-project-ceremony/) - By Ambreen Ali in MercerMe.com on April 30, 2022 Timberlane Middle School became the first in the state to partake in a project that culminated on Thursday with the placement of a permanent brass stone in Hopewell Boro to honor the life of an enslaved individual. Through the Witness Stones Project, eighth grade students have
- [Wallingford Slavery Project Reveals ‘History That Affects Us Today’](https://stoppingstones.org/wallingford-slavery-project-reveals-history-that-affects-us-today/) - By Devin Leith-Yessian in the Record-Journal on May 12, 2022 WALLINGFORD — The descendants of a man who was enslaved on a Virginia plantation before coming to Wallingford with Union soldiers are reconnecting with their family’s history with the help of local researchers working on the Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust’s “Enslaved Wallingford” project. Meriden resident
- [Caesar Stevenson](https://stoppingstones.org/caesar-stevenson/) - With the generous support of the Connecticut Valley Education Foundation, the students of Frank Ward Strong Middle School created a presentation on their work with the Witness Stones Project.
- [Dinah Road: New Name for New Street Approved by West Hartford Town Council](https://stoppingstones.org/dinah-road-new-name-for-new-street-approved-by-west-hartford-town-council/) - By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.com on May 16, 2022 A campaign by the Mayor’s Youth Council to rename a West Hartford roadway in honor of two women who were once enslaved in town was approved unanimously by the Town Council on May 10. Mayor’s Youth Council members Tzionya Goldfischer, a student at the New England Jewish
- [Suffield Academy Students Honor Titus Kent](https://stoppingstones.org/suffield-academy-students-honor-titus-kent/) - “Titus Kent was a Black Patriot who served every year in the American Revolution. His name is commemorated on our Town’s Veterans Memorial with many other Patriots from Suffield who fought in the Revolutionary War.” --Suffield Academy English Department Chair Bill Sullivan On May 21, 2022, students from Suffield Academy and their teacher, Bill
- [Country School Students Honor Theophilus Niger](https://stoppingstones.org/country-school-honor-theophilus-niger/) - On Monday, May 23, 2022, students from The Country School in Madison gathered their community to share the history and honor the life of Theophilus Niger.
- [Witness Stones Project Students Take History to the Street](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-students-take-history-to-the-street/) - Through a project a year in the making, West Hartford will renamed a road in Blue Back Square to honor a mother and daughter who were held as slaves in town in the 18th century.
- [Greenwich Students Honor Cull Bush, Jr., and Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-students-honor-cull-bush-jr-and-jack/) - On May 25, 2022, students from Greenwich Academy and Sacred Heart Greenwich gathered at the Greenwich Historical Society to share the history and honor the lives of Cull Bush, Jr., and Jack.
- [Witness Stone Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-installation-ceremony/) - On May 27, 2022, students from the Norwich Free Academy gathered at Leffingwell House Museum for a Witness Stone installation and presentations in honor of Romeo, an enslaved individual from Norwich who aided in the Long Island evacuation in 1778.
- [Witness Stones Project at the Wallingford Public Library](https://stoppingstones.org/2300-2/) - Register Here.
- [Witness Stones Project Adds Another Chapter to Madison History](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-adds-another-chapter-to-madison-history/) - By Ben Raynor in The Source on June 1, 2022 MADISON — The Country School of Madison last week conducted its third installation for the Witness Stones Project, which is a national movement that allows students and municipalities to explore the history of enslavement in their towns. This current stone has an even more special meaning
- [Witness Stones Old Lyme Installs 16 Additional Plaques Marking Enslavement Sites](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-old-lyme-installs-16-additional-plaques-marking-enslavement-sites/) - On LymeLine.com on June 3, 2022 OLD LYME – The Old Lyme Witness Stones Project is installing 16 new Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of enslaved and indentured African Americans and Native Americans, who labored in the historic town of Lyme. The plaques will be placed on Lyme St. and McCurdy Rd. in Old Lyme. Continue
- [First-Ever Witness Stones Installation Ceremony in the City of Danbury](https://stoppingstones.org/first-ever-witness-stones-installation-ceremony-in-the-city-of-danbury/) - By Lori Kriegel on HamletHub.com on June 3, 2022 Wooster School’s Middle School held the first Witness Stones Installation Ceremony in the City of Danbury on Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at the Long Ridge United Methodist Church at 201 Long Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06810. Wooster School’s 7th and 8th grade Middle School team have
- [Guilford 2022 Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-2022-installation-ceremony/) - On June 3, 2022, students from the Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School gathered to honor the lives of Cuff, Dinah, and Flora. We invite you to watch the ceremony here.
- [Old Lyme Marks Witness Stones Memorializing Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/old-lyme-marks-witness-stones-memorializing-enslaved-people/) - By Daniel Passapera, Special to The Day, on June 3, 2022 Old Lyme — The town held an installation ceremony Friday for the Witness Stones Old Lymes plaques that have been installed throughout Lyme Street, memorials to enslaved residents who one lived here. During the event at Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, community members, Lyme-Old
- [Town of Old Lyme Honors 16 More Lives Once Enslaved in Community](https://stoppingstones.org/town-of-old-lyme-honors-16-more-lives-once-enslaved-in-community/) - By Jolie Sherman NBC Connecticut on June 3, 2022 Historians are remembering the lives of those who were enslaved in Old Lyme. Now, 30 brass plaques known as Witness Stones can be found along Lyme Street and McCurdy Road as a way to recognize both enslaved African and Native Americans and sites of enslavement in
- [Witness Stones Shed Light On New Haven's History Of Enslavement Downtown](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-shed-light-on-new-havens-history-of-enslavement-downtown/) - By Al Larriva-Latt in Arts Council New Haven on June 6th, 2022 At the steps of the Trinity Episcopal Church on the New Haven Green, a dozen New Haven private middle schoolers in dress clothes crouched around two metal-plated stones. To the right, colorful posters displayed family trees, timelines, and key word definitions. The students
- [Hartford 2022 Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/hartford-2022-installation-ceremony/) - On June 6, 2022, students from CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts honored the lives of Abda and Hannah in Hartford, Connecticut. We invite you to watch the ceremony here.
- [Witnessing the Past: Woodstock Middle School Students Pay Tribute to an Enslaved Man Born in 1784](https://stoppingstones.org/witnessing-the-past-woodstock-middle-school-students-pay-tribute-to-an-enslaved-man-born-in-1784/) - By Donna Dufresne On June 7, 2022, seventh graders from Woodstock Middle School shared evidence and insights about slavery in the dedication ceremony of a Witness Stone for a young man named Caesar, who was born enslaved in 1784 and raised with three other young men, Cit, Simon, and Prince in the Samuel McClellan home.
- [Juneteenth Jazz & Poetry Celebration](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-jazz-poetry-celebration/)
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Nimrod Benedict](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-nimrod-benedict-2/) - On May 31, 2022, students from the Wooster School gathered at the Long Ridge United Methodist Church to remember and honor the life of Nimrod Benedict.
- [Juneteenth at the Pardee Morris House](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-at-the-pardee-morris-house/)
- [Lives Of Enslaved Couple Honored on Juneteenth At Pardee-Morris House](https://stoppingstones.org/lives-of-enslaved-couple-honored-on-juneteenth-at-pardee-morris-house/) - Ellyn Santiago for Patch.com on June 6, 2022 NEW HAVEN, CT —Stepna Primus, a "husband and farmer," was enslaved by Amos Morris, Issac Forbes, and Enos Heminway, at the Morris house in New Haven. In 1796, Primus was emancipated. Also enslaved at the Morris House was his wife, Pink, "mother, wife and landowner," who
- [Wooster School Students Honor Enslaved Danbury Man Freed after Fighting in Revolutionary War](https://stoppingstones.org/wooster-school-students-honor-enslaved-danbury-man-freed-after-fighting-in-revolutionary-war/) - By Kendra Baker in the News-Times on June 13, 2022 DANBURY — Outside the Long Ridge United Methodist Church lays a stone recognizing a former resident and veteran named Nimrod Benedict, whose life and story has become the focus of an extensive local history project at Wooster School. The stone honoring the late Danbury resident was placed
- [West Hartford 2022 Juneteenth](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-2022-juneteenth/) - By Ronni Newtown in We-Ha.com on June 13, 2022 West Hartford observed Juneteenth for the first time in 2020, and on Sunday – which is actually June 19th – the town will host its third annual celebration of the day marking the effective end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, the
- [Juneteenth Celebration of Jazz & Poetry in Old Lyme, June 18](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-celebration-of-jazz-poetry-part-of-witness-stones-project-in-old-lyme-june-18/) - In the Middletown Press on June 14, 2022 OLD LYME - The Witness Stones Poets will join the Nat Reeves Quartet in a Juneteenth celebration of jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum 2 p.m., June 18, 96 Lyme St. The poems commemorate 14 African-descended persons once enslaved in Old Lyme, according to
- [Juneteenth Witness Stones Celebration at the Florence Griswold Museum Features Jazz Quartet & Poets](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-witness-stones-celebration-at-flogris-features-jazz-quartet-poets/) - OLD LYME – The Witness Stones Poets will join the Nat Reeves Quartet in a Juneteenth celebration of jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St. in Old Lyme, Connecticut, on Saturday afternoon, June 18, at 2 p.m. The acclaimed Connecticut poets – Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward and Antoinette
- [Witness Stones Project at the Wallingford Public Library](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-at-the-wallingford-public-library/) - Executive Director Dennis Culliton spoke at the Wallingford Public Library. We invite you to watch the presentation here.
- [Connecticut Project Lays Stones to Commemorate Former Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/connecticut-project-lays-stones-to-commemorate-former-enslaved-people/) - By Andrew DaRosa in the Connecticut Post on June 15, 2022 Gathered at the Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven one early June morning, students and community leaders came together as part of a ceremony to honor the lives of emancipated slaves Lucy and Lois Tritton. The Trittons were purchased at an auction
- [WSP Affiliate Historic Deerfield to Celebrate Juneteenth Through Song](https://stoppingstones.org/wsp-affiliate-historic-deerfield-to-celebrate-juneteenth-through-song/) - By Chris Larabee in the Greenfield Recorder on June 16, 2022 DEERFIELD — Historic Deerfield is inviting residents to celebrate Juneteenth and learn about local ties to abolition through song on Sunday. The museum is hosting “Songs of Abolition: A Juneteenth Concert Celebration at Historic Deerfield” to commemorate Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when the
- [Juneteenth Commemoration to Feature Jazz Quartet, Poets at Florence Griswold in Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-commemoration-to-feature-jazz-quartet-poets-at-florence-griswold-in-old-lyme/) - By Emilia Otte in the Connecticut Examiner on June 17, 2022 OLD LYME — The town will be ushering in Juneteenth with a mixture of jazz and poetry led by a well-known jazz quartet and four Connecticut poets who will be reading verses in commemoration of slaves who lived in Old Lyme. The event is
- [Why Wallingford Needs a Witness Stone](https://stoppingstones.org/why-wallingford-needs-a-witness-stone/) - In the Record Journal on June 19, 2022
- [West Hartford to Celebrate Juneteenth on Sunday](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-to-celebrate-juneteenth-on-sunday/) - By Fox61 on June 19, 2022 WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — West Hartford will be hosting its third annual Juneteenth CommUNITY Celebration on Sunday, June 19 at Blue Back Square. At 12:30 p.m., at Blue Back Square, the Witness Stones Project will dedicate 14 new Witness Stones. This project seeks to restore the history and honor the
- [St. Matthew’s Aims to Tell the Story of Wilton’s Forgotten Enslaved people](https://stoppingstones.org/st-matthews-aims-to-tell-the-story-of-wiltons-forgotten-enslaved-people/) - By J.D. Freda in The Hour on June 19, 2022 WILTON — St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church is committing itself to educating the community and paying tribute to the enslaved peoples of Wilton. The goal is to spend the remainder of the calendar year digging through historical land and personal records, with the help of the Wilton Historical
- [Witness Stones Ceremony Kicks Off Juneteenth 2022 in West Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-ceremony-kicks-off-juneteenth-2022-in-west-hartford/) - By Lili Guberman on WeHa.com on June 19, 2022 The weather celebrated along with the attendees as West Hartford’s Juneteenth celebration got underway midday Sunday in West Hartford with the installation of 14 more Witness Stones. The arch in Blue Back square was decked out in black, red, green and yellow colored balloons and a
- [West Hartford Holds Third Annual Juneteenth Celebration](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-holds-third-annual-juneteenth-celebration/)
- [Wallingford Celebrates Juneteenth with Dedication of Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/wallingford-celebrates-juneteenth-with-dedication-of-witness-stones/) - By Nicole Zappone in the Record-Journal on June 20, 2022 WALLINGFORD — It was a sunny and breezy day Sunday, and especially busy at the Historical Society’s Nehemiah Royce House, where locals recognized Juneteenth and honored the lives of enslaved men and women. The Historical Society opened the doors at the Royce House, 538 N. Main St., to host the historical exhibit “Enslaved
- [Ridgefield Students to Research Stories of People Enslaved by One of Town’s Founding Families](https://stoppingstones.org/ridgefield-students-to-research-stories-of-people-enslaved-by-one-of-towns-founding-families/) - By Kendra Baker in the Ridgefield Press on June 23, 2022 RIDGEFIELD — Eighth graders in town will embark on a project-based learning experience next fall that not only teaches historical inquiry skills, but allows them to honor former enslaved residents whose stories have not been fully untold. The students will work with the Witness Stones
- [Witness Stones Project Collaboration with Historic Deerfield](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-collaboration-with-historic-deerfield/)
- [Poets Celebrate Juneteenth in Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/poets-celebrate-juneteenth-in-old-lyme/) - From the Connecticut College News on June 29, 2022 At the Florence Griswold Museum’s Juneteenth celebration, Conn Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence Kate Rushin read “Fishing for Shad,” a poem she wrote about the story of Jack Howard, who was born enslaved in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1795 and was willed to another person at the
- [Wallingford's 350+2 Jubilee a Success](https://stoppingstones.org/wallingfords-3502-jubilee-a-success/) - The Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust took part in many events during the week-long 350+2 Jubilee Celebration. On June 18,, a replica of the Nehemiah Royce House, celebrating its 350th anniversary (1672-2022), was part of the 350+2 parade. On Juneteenth, WHPT Board President Jerry Farrell and WHPT Director of Operations, Lorraine Connelly, both Directors of the Wallingford 350th Jubilee Committee,
- [Witness Stones Old Lyme 2022 Map](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-old-lyme-2022-map/)
- [Our 2022 Annual Report](https://stoppingstones.org/our-2022-annual-report/)
- [Greenwich Historical Society Holds Witness Stones Placement Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-historical-society-holds-witness-stones-placement-ceremony/) - In the Greenwich Sentinel on August 10, 2022 Since 2019 the Greenwich Historical Society has collaborated with The Witness Stones Project on this initiative that seeks to teach school-aged children about the enslaved persons who lived in their hometowns. Students and teachers from Sacred Heart Greenwich and Greenwich Academy work in conjunction with the Historical Society in
- [Witness Stones Project Honored As a Game Changer](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-honored-as-a-game-changer/) - By Susan Dunne in the Hartford Courant on August 17, 2022 Connecticut Explored, the nonprofit history magazine, wants to tell stories mainstream history left out, the stories from communities that have been unheard, suppressed or oppressed. The nonprofit has named 20 “Game Changers,” modern-day historians whose methods and subjects go where traditional historians have not gone
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with Hamden Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-hamden-middle-school/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Hamden Middle School. The public school in Hamden, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching
- [Witness Stones Project Honored As a Gamechanger](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-honored-as-a-gamechanger/) - Connecticut Explored has recently named the Witness Stones Project as one of its20 Game Changer Honorees that advance the way we study, interpret, and disseminate history. Over the past five years, we have worked with more than 6,600 students in 45 communities to help restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who
- [New Jersey Witness Stone Affiliate Set to Expand](https://stoppingstones.org/new-jersey-witness-stone-affiliate-set-to-expand/) - By Michael Mancuso in NJ.com on September, 22, 2022 If it takes a village to raise a child, sometimes that’s also what it takes to bring hidden history to light. That is certainly the case for the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM), founded in 2014 with a mission “to tell the story of the unique culture, experiences, and
- [Come Visit the Witness Stones Project at the Hartford Harvest Festival](https://stoppingstones.org/come-visit-the-witness-stones-project-at-the-hartford-festival/)
- [Witness Stones Project Students Recognized by Hopewell Valley Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-students-recognized-by-hopewell-valley-historical-society/) - By Amie Rukenstein on MercerMe.com on October 3, 2022 At its annual meeting on Sunday, September 18 at the Watershed Institute, the Hopewell Valley Historical Society announced award winners and attendees were treated to a talk about the historic Drake house and its most famous inhabitant, Muriel Gardiner Buttinger, who went to Europe to meet
- [The Project Is Honored As a Game Changer](https://stoppingstones.org/the-project-is-honored-as-a-game-changer/) - On October 6, 2022, the Witness Stones Project was honored by Connecticut Explored as a Game Changer initiative that advances the way we study, interpret, and disseminate Connecticut history.
- [Historic Deerfield Unveils Witness Stones Map](https://stoppingstones.org/historic-deerfield-unveils-witness-stones-map/) - For more information about the Witness Stones Project at Historic Deerfield can be found here.
- [Historic Deerfield Unveils Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-first-ceremony-in-massachusetts/) - By Emma McCorkindale and Heath Kalb on WWLP on October 12, 2022 DEERFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Historic Deerfield unveiled 19 memorial plaques at 12 different locations on Wednesday. Historic Deerfield, in partnership with Witness Stones Project, unveiled 19 memorial plaques along the museum’s mile-long street. Inspired by the Stolpersteine Project in Germany which commemorates
- [Historic Deerfield Looks to Shine Light on Untold History with Memorial Plaques](https://stoppingstones.org/historic-deerfield-looks-to-shine-light-on-untold-history-with-memorial-plaques/) - By Chris Larabee in the Greenfield Recorder on October 12, 2022 DEERFIELD — Up and down Old Main Street, houses from the Colonial era still stand, now turned into educational opportunities by Historic Deerfield in an effort to share the town’s rich history. That history, however, didn’t always consist of the full representation, until Wednesday morning.
- [Witness Stone to Share Story of Enslaved Woman Baptized at Connecticut Church](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-to-share-story-of-enslaved-woman-baptized-at-connecticut-church/) - By David Paulsen in the Episcopal News Service on October 13, 2022 An Episcopal church in Connecticut on Oct. 29 will dedicate its first “witness stone,” a small memorial to an enslaved woman who was baptized at the church, as part of a regional nonprofit’s efforts to share the stories of enslaved people in the places they once
- [The Witness Stones Dedication in Essex, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-dedication-in-essex-connecticut/) - On Saturday, October 29, 2022, a community coalition that included St. John’s Episcopal Church, the Essex Historical Society, and Valley Regional High School installed a Witness Stone in honor of Violet, an enslaved woman who successfully ran away from her captor, a wealthy local sea captain, in 1802. They also honored Sawney Freeman, a Black
- [What America Can Learn About Atonement](https://stoppingstones.org/what-america-can-learn-about-atonement/) - We are honored to have our work recognized by Clint Smith. Some in the U.S. have undertaken efforts reminiscent of those in Germany. In Connecticut, a group of educators started the Witness Stones Project, modeled after the Stolpersteine in Germany. The group works with schoolchildren in five Northeast states to help them more intimately understand the
- [Installation Ceremony in Ridgefield, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/installation-ceremony-in-ridgefield-connecticut/)
- [Praise from Clint Smith](https://stoppingstones.org/praise-from-clint-smith/) - We are honored to have our work recognized by Clint Smith in The Atlantic. In an interview with Atlantic editor Isabel Fattal, the best-selling author of How the Word Is Passed said: There are examples of communities in the U.S. that are not waiting for the government to tell them that they should build a memorial or they
- [Clint Smith Discusses the Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/2697-2/) - Atlantic writer and best-selling author Clint Smith joined Michel Martin to discuss his cover story on what America can learn from German efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. A group of teachers and students in Connecticut began the Witness Stones Project.... Ultimately it is those small, neighborhood-, community-, and city-based initiatives that make the most impact
- [Essex Receives First Witness Stone, Honoring Those That Were Enslaved in the Area](https://stoppingstones.org/essex-receives-first-witness-stone-honoring-those-that-were-enslaved-in-the-area/)
- [Survey of Connecticut Slave Laws, 1643 - 1848](https://stoppingstones.org/2742-2/)
- [Ridgefield 8th Graders Uncover the Stories of Two People Enslaved by One of Town's Founding Families](https://stoppingstones.org/ridgefield-8th-graders-uncover-the-stories-of-two-people-enslaved-by-one-of-towns-founding-families/) - In the Ridgefield Press by Kaitlyn Lyle on November 21, 2022 RIDGEFIELD — Local eighth graders worked to unearth and honor the stories of two former residents who were enslaved by one of Ridgefield's founding families. This project was incorporated into the Colonial Era unit of the eighth grade social studies curriculum at East Ridge and Scotts
- [Witness Stones Project, Telling the Stories of the Enslaved Across Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-telling-the-stories-of-the-enslaved-across-connecticut/)
- [Game Changer: Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/game-changer-witness-stones-project/) - By Dennis Culliton in Connecticut Explored, Winter 2022-23 Issue When I was a child growing up in southern Massachusetts I was fascinated by New England history and curious about the colonial and early American houses that surrounded me. I would close my eyes and try to imagine the lives of the people who lived in
- [Witness Stones Project's Joy Burns and Dennis Culliton on New Haven TV](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-projects-joy-burns-and-dennis-culliton-on-new-haven-tv/) - We joined Richard Weingarten for a conversation on NHTV.
- [Witness to History: The Big Business of Slavery in Little Rhode Island](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-to-history-the-big-business-of-slavery-in-rhode-island/)
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnerships/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit educational initiative whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new partnership with the Junior League of Central Westchester. The nonprofit educational women's volunteer organization based in Scarsdale, New York, will be using the
- [St. Matthews Church Brings Witness Stones Project to Wilton, Sharing Stories of CT’s Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/st-matthews-church-brings-witness-stones-project-to-wilton-sharing-stories-of-cts-enslaved-people/) - It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. – Akan proverb Through a collaboration of local faith communities, area youth in grades 6-9 will have the opportunity to explore and chronicle the history of slavery in Connecticut. In a series of workshops, participants will research historical documents and create a
- [Thank You for Support of Church Program](https://stoppingstones.org/thank-you-for-support-of-church-program/) - Letter from the Reverend Jan Gregory-Charpentier and Tony Jones to the Westerly Sun on March 13, 2023 On behalf of the entire Kingston Congregational Church and our Kingston Witness Stones Project task force, we want to offer a tremendous “thank you” for all of the efforts in helping to promote our Witness to History event
- [Social Studies ConneCTion](https://stoppingstones.org/social-studies-connection/) - Social studies leaders Steve Armstrong and Tony Roy connect with educators and advocates from across the state on their Social Studies ConneCTion podcast. Witness Stones Project founder and Executive Director joined them for a fascinating discussion on how school districts across Connecticut embark on a journey into our state's dark past. Dennis's work in the
- [Join Us in Woodstock](https://stoppingstones.org/join-us-in-woodstock/)
- [If Stones Could Talk](https://stoppingstones.org/if-stones-could-talk/) - Witness Stones Chair delivered the Palm Sunday Sermon at the First Congregational Church of Woodstock. We invite you to watch here.
- [Bearing Witness at Wayside Cottage](https://stoppingstones.org/bearing-witness-at-wayside-cottage/) - By Todd Sliss in the Scarsdale Inquirer on April 6, 2023 History doesn’t change. What we learn about history does and how we view it over time certainly evolves. And while some people and groups are trying to bury history, others are trying to unearth it. The Junior League of Central Westchester (JLCW), a nonprofit educational women’s
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony/) - Students from School of the Holy Child gathered the community to honor the lives to Rose and Jack. We invite you to watch the ceremony here.
- [Honoring Rose and Jack in Rye, New York](https://stoppingstones.org/honoring-rose-and-jack-in-rye-new-york/) - On April 27, 2023, students from the School of the Holy Child and the Rye Historical Society gathered the community to share the stories of Rose and Jack to place Witness Stones in their memory. [rl_gallery id="3118"]
- [Stonington School Project Tells the History of Enslaved Local Man](https://stoppingstones.org/stonington-school-project-tells-the-history-of-enslaved-local-man/) - By Carrie Czerwinski, Special to The Day, on April 28, 2023 Stonington ― Stonington Middle School students presented the findings of their research on Cato Cuff, an enslaved man who was freed after his military service in the Revolutionary War, to members of the public at the Road Church on Friday. Cuff was a member
- [Ceremony in Rye Honors Memory of Enslaved People Once Forced to Work in Hudson Valley](https://stoppingstones.org/ceremony-in-rye-honors-memory-of-enslaved-people-once-forced-to-work-in-hudson-valley/) - By Lee Danuff on News12 New Jersey on April 28, 2023 A historic ceremony was held to honor the memory of enslaved people who were once forced to work in the Hudson Valley. Local and state leaders showed up for a special stone installation at the Knapp House in Rye Thursday. Continue reading.
- [Stonington Installation Ceremony Program](https://stoppingstones.org/stonington-installation-ceremony-program/)
- [Stonington Middle School Students Honor Life of Enslaved Man](https://stoppingstones.org/stonington-middle-school-students-honor-life-of-enslaved-man/)
- [Suffield Academy Students Recover the Lives of Barbara and Lewis Butler](https://stoppingstones.org/suffield-academy-students-recover-the-lives-of-barbara-and-lewis-butler/) - Students from Suffield Academy shared their research on Barbara and Lewis Butler at the April 2023 meeting of the Suffield Historical Society. They share their presentation slides here.
- [Installation Ceremony Honoring Frost Blackwell](https://stoppingstones.org/installation-ceremony-honoring-frost-blackwell/)
- [Witness Stone to Be Placed in Woodstock](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-to-be-placed-in-woodstock/)
- [Old Lyme Celebrates Third Installation of Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/old-lyme-celebrates-third-installation-of-witness-stones/)
- [Old Lyme Unveils New Plaques In Honor of Eight Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/old-lyme-unveils-new-plaques-in-honor-of-eight-enslaved/) - By Emilia Otte in the CT Examiner on June 2, 2023 OLD LYME — A slave named Cornelia was bought in New London for 80 pounds; Hagar Jeffrey ran away at the age of 38; and Prince Griswold Crosley, a soldier and mariner who played the fiddle, served in the American Revolution in exchange for
- [Kingston Congregational Church Witness Stones Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/kingston-congregational-church-witness-stones-installation-ceremony/)
- [The Witness Stones at the Foote School](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-at-the-foote-school/) - Students from the Foote School began working with the Witness Stones Project in 2019. In 2023, they created a website to document their research. Please click here to visit their site.
- [The History Is with Us: Remembering New England’s Forgotten Role in Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/the-history-is-with-us-remembering-new-englands-forgotten-role-in-slavery/) - By Diane Orson on Connecticut Public Radio on June 7, 2023 When we think of slavery in the U.S, we don’t often think of the North. But residents of one Connecticut town recently honored the legacy of a woman who — centuries ago — was enslaved in their community. Her story and those of
- [Installation Ceremony Honoring John C. Wally](https://stoppingstones.org/installation-ceremony-honoring-john-c-walley/) - The community in Wilton gathered on June 10, 2023, to remember and honor John C. Wally. We invite you to click on the image before to read the full program.
- [Gen. Wooster Was Killed When the British Burned Danbury in 1777; Now Students Learn about an Enslaved Man Who Died As Well](https://stoppingstones.org/gen-wooster-was-killed-when-the-british-burned-danbury-in-1777-now-students-learn-about-an-enslaved-man-who-died-as-well/) - By Kendra Baker in News-Times on June 18, 2023 DANBURY — The life Ned, an enslaved man killed in 1777 when British soldiers burned down Danbury, has been memorialized as part of a student-led research project. A stone commemorating Ned was placed at the Wooster School campus on May 30, following weeks of research by the
- [The Last Woman Enslaved in Woodstock, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/the-last-woman-enslaved-in-woodstock-connecticut/) - By Christopher C. Child on Vitabrevis.americanancestors.org on June 19, 2023 I read two stories of interest in a recent issue of The Woodstock Villager, a local newspaper from my grandfather’s Connecticut hometown. The first story (on page A3) concerned a Witness Stone for Cuff Fellows (1762-1848), who spent half of his life enslaved in Woodstock. The marker was
- [Connecticut Church Creates Interfaith Collaboration to Learn the State’s Slave History](https://stoppingstones.org/connecticut-church-creates-interfaith-collaboration-to-learn-the-states-slave-history/) - By St. Matthew's Episcopal Church on Episcopal News Service on June 22, 2023 During the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Wilton, Connecticut, began to explore the church’s complicity with racism since its founding in 1802. At its 2020 annual convention, The Episcopal Church in Connecticut adopted a resolution “to direct each Parish, Worshipping Community, and Intentional Episcopal
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Collaboration in Longmeadow, Massachusetts](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-collaboration-in-longmeadow-massachusetts/) - The Witness Stones Project is excited to announce its collaborative efforts with Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Public School. This partnership represents a step toward restoring the history and honoring the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities. The Project provides local archival research, professional teacher development, a classroom curriculum, and public programming to
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Collaboration in Southington, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-collaboration-in-southington-connecticut/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit educational initiative whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new partnership with the First Congregational Church of Southington The church will be using the Project’s research, curriculum, and landscape markers to help uncover,
- [Ridgefield Middle School Students Honor Former Enslaved Residents](https://stoppingstones.org/ridgefield-middle-school-students-honor-former-enslaved-residents/) - By Kendra Baker in the Ridgefield NewsTimes on December 10, 2023 RIDGEFIELD — The lives of two individuals enslaved in town in the 18th century have been memorialized and remembered as "undeniably human" as part of an ongoing student-led research project. “Their names were Peter and Dinah,” a local eighth grader said during a Nov. 15 ceremony outside
- [Project Receives American Rescue Plan Funding](https://stoppingstones.org/3400-2/) - As we embrace the holiday spirit and reflect on the remarkable journey of the Witness Stones Project, we are thrilled to share some good news with you. The Guilford Foundation has recognized the importance of the Witness Stones Project's mission by awarding us $7500 in federal funding through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). This
- [Stonington Middle School Students Uncover Story of Enslaved Couple](https://stoppingstones.org/stonington-middle-school-students-uncover-story-of-enslaved-couple/) - By Carrie Czerwinski in The Day on January 3, 2024 Westerly ― Stonington Middle School students gathered at the United Theatre in Westerly on Tuesday morning to screen short films they made on two enslaved Stonington residents. The eighth-grade social studies students spent several weeks late last year researching Mintus and Rose Palmer, who married after
- [Student Artwork Exhibit in Somerville, New Jersey](https://stoppingstones.org/student-artwork-exhibit-in-somerville-new-jersey/) - By the Hopewell Valley Regional School District on January 20,2024 We are very pleased to share the news that student artwork from the 2022 and 2023 Witness Stones Project is now on display at the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Gallery on the first floor of the county administration building (20 Grove Street in Somerville).
- [First Public Lecture in Longmeadow](https://stoppingstones.org/first-public-lecture-in-longmeadow/) - First Church of Christ of Longmeadow Longmeadow Historical Society Longmeadow Public Schools The Witness Stones Project is excited to announce an expanded collaboration in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The nonprofit, educational initiative, whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, will be working with the
- [A Dark Time in America: Former History Teacher Doesn't Want to White Wash Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/a-dark-time-in-america-former-history-teacher-doesnt-want-to-white-wash-slavery/) - By Steve Bigham in the Republican-American on February 15, 2024 WOODBURY – The founder of a statewide effort to restore the history and humanity of enslaved individuals in Connecticut was in town Thursday as part of the local public library’s three-part series in recognition of Black History Month. Dennis Culliton, a former eighth-grade history teacher,
- [Witness Stone Ceremony for Henry Staats](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-ceremony-for-henry-staats/) - We invite you to watch these highlights of the Witness Stones Project at Robert Morris School in South Bound Brook and the Abraham Staats House on February 29th, 2024, including the laying of the Witness Stone for Henry "Harry" Staats.
- [Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/unforgotten-connecticuts-hidden-history-of-slavery/) - We're proud to be a part of the upcoming series from Connecticut Public, Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery. The series--featuring radio storytelling, in-depth videos, pictures, digital stories, podcast episodes and a television special--will premiere on March 18, 2024.
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership in Dover, Massachusetts](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership-in-dover-massachusetts/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit educational initiative whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new partnership the Charles River School. The independent Pre-K through eighth grade school will be using the Project’s research, curriculum, and landscape markers to
- [Introducing the Witness Stones Project in Longmeadow, Massachusetts](https://stoppingstones.org/introducing-the-witness-stones-project-in-longmeadow-massachusetts/) - We have a great first lecture hosted by the First Church of Christ in Longmeadow. We welcome you to watch the lecture here.
- [Longmeadow Launches Witness Stones Project to Highlight Local Slavery History](https://stoppingstones.org/longmeadow-launches-witness-stones-project-to-highlight-local-slavery-history/) - By Wojciech Zylm on Bnnbreaking.com on February 27, 2024 In a remarkable community effort to embrace and educate about its complex past, Longmeadow, Massachusetts, has partnered with the Witness Stones Project, a non-profit organization, to shed light on the local history of slavery. This collaborative initiative, which recently kicked off with a public lecture at
- [Longmeadow Partners with Non-Profit, Sharing Local History of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/longmeadow-partners-with-non-profit-sharing-local-history-of-slavery/) - By Kristina D'Amours on WWLP-TV on February 27, 2024
- [Longmeadow to Bear Witness to the Lives of Two Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/longmeadow-to-bear-witness-to-the-lives-of-two-enslaved-people/) - By Sarah Heinone in the The Reminder on March 6, 2024 LONGMEADOW — This May, two of the 16 people who were known to be enslaved in Longmeadow will have their lives and stories memorialized in stone. First Church of Christ of Longmeadow hosted a presentation by Dennis Culliton, founder of the Witness Stones Project,
- [Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/unforgotten-connecticuts-hidden-history-of-slavery-2/) - Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Get to know some of these men, women and children and the lives they lived. Hear from descendants and learn from historians and students going on a journey of discovery to uncover history. We're very proud to have the Witness Stones Project's work featured in
- [Unforgetting – Restoring and Reclaiming Connecticut’s Hidden Histories](https://stoppingstones.org/3501-2/) - A panel of experts talks about efforts to uncover long-ignored stories and recalibrate our understanding of Connecticut’s historical involvement with slavery. Former State Representative Pat Wilson Pheanious shares her family’s story in Connecticut Public’s new series Unforgotten: Connecticut’s Hidden History of Slavery; Akeia de Barros Gomes, Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories at the Mystic
- [Painting a More Complete Picture: "Unnamed Figures" Highlights Black Presence and Absence in Early American History](https://stoppingstones.org/painting-a-more-complete-picture-unnamed-figures-highlights-black-presence-and-absence-in-early-american-history/) - By Chris Larabee in the Daily Hampshire Gazette on April 18, 2024 In partnership with the American Folk Art Museum, Historic Deerfield is presenting an exhibition on the unexplored histories of Black people in early America. “Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North” explores Black representation in paintings, needlework, ceramics and other media
- [Greenwich Students Unearth History of 4 More of Town's Enslaved People for Historical Markers](https://stoppingstones.org/greenwich-students-unearth-history-of-4-more-of-towns-enslaved-people-for-historical-markers/) - By Robert Marchant on April 27, 2024 in the Greenwich Time GREENWICH — The lives of enslaved laborers who toiled on the fields, stables and kitchens of Greenwich in the 1700s and 1800s has been obscured for centuries, but remnants of their lives are slowly being recovered and marked thanks to the work of local educators,
- [Branford Students Honor Formerly Enslaved Man with Witness Stone Installation](https://stoppingstones.org/branford-students-honor-formerly-enslaved-man-with-witness-stone-installation/) - By Sydney Boyo on NBC Connecticut on May 3, 2024
- [Collaborative Effort Installs Witness Stone to Honor Cambridge Gould in Branford](https://stoppingstones.org/collaborative-effort-installs-witness-stone-to-honor-cambridge-gould-in-branford/) - By Pam Johnson in The Sound on May 4, 2024 A Witness Stone to honor Cambridge Gould, an enslaved man who lived in Branford circa 1757, was installed May 3 outside First Congregational Church through a collaborative effort. The event included a presentation at the church with students and teachers of Branford High School (BHS) Social Studies
- [Witness Stones Project Receives Historic Preservation Award](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-receives-historic-preservation-award/) - The Somerset County (NJ) Cultural & Heritage Commission recognized the Witness Stones Project alongside the Friends of the Abraham Staats House, the South Bound Brook School District, and the Robert Morris School for We Were Here ~ The Enslaved People of Colonial America: An Inclusive History Partnership Project. Through this project, eighth-grade students brought local history
- [Historical Society Celebrates the Humanity of Greenwich’s Enslaved at Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/historical-society-celebrates-the-humanity-of-greenwichs-enslaved-at-ceremony/) - From the Greenwich Sentinel on May 16, 2024 Four enslaved individuals who resided at Bush-Holley House in the 18th and 19th centuries were honored at a ceremony on April 26th at Greenwich Historical Society in collaboration with the Witness Stones Project, an organization dedicated to restoring the history and humanity of enslaved persons of color who
- [Timberlane Middle School Remembers the Enslaved of Hopewell Valley](https://stoppingstones.org/timberlane-middle-school-remembers-the-enslaved-of-hopewell-valley/) - Students from Timberlane Middle School gathered the community to share their recovered history of Nance and her family. We invite you to watch the ceremony and discover the children's artwork and essays by clicking the image below.
- [School of the Holy Child 2024 Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/school-of-the-holy-child-2024-ceremony/) - Students from School of the Holy Child gathered to honor the life of Peg Lyon. We invite you to watch highlights from the ceremony here.
- [Remembering Peg Lyon and Anthony Green](https://stoppingstones.org/remembering-peg-lyon-and-anthony-green/) - By Teresa Vega on May 17, 2024, at the Knapp House in Rye, New York Vega delivered the following remarks at the Witness Stone installation ceremony honoring her fourth great-grandparents Peg Lyon and Anthony Green. Today, as we gather in the spirit of kinship and remembrance, it is fitting to reflect on our rich
- [Witness Stone Honors Enslaved New Havener](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-honors-enslaved-new-havener/) - By Kate Goodwin and Jonathan Q. Berryman in the New Haven Independent on May 23, 2024 On May 21, James Hillhouse High School students, faculty, and community members gathered in front of City Hall’s Amistad Memorial to unveil a Witness Stone to Jack Woolsey, who was enslaved in New Haven in the 1790s. Jack Woolsey was
- [Longmeadow Church Honors Two Enslaved Congregation Members from 1700s](https://stoppingstones.org/longmeadow-church-honors-two-enslaved-congregation-members-from-1700s/)
- [Agency and Ownership: The Story of Anthony and Susanna, Two Enslaved Africans in 17th Century New York](https://stoppingstones.org/agency-and-ownership-the-story-of-anthony-and-susanna-two-enslaved-africans-in-17th-century-new-york/) - Click here for access to the May 30, 2024 presentation by Historic Huguenot Street Tour & Interpretation Manager, Eddie Moran, who guides attendees through an array of 17th century documents to reveal the powerful story of Anthony and Susanna, two enslaved Africans purchased by Louis Dubois in late 1673, and their tale of agency and
- [‘Witness Stones’ Installation Ceremony Held in Old Lyme for 10 Plaques Honoring Enslaved Persons in Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-installation-ceremony-held-in-old-lyme-for-10-plaques-honoring-enslaved-persons-in-lyme/) - In LymeLine.com on May 30, 2024 OLD LYME – ‘Witness Stones Old Lyme’ will expand its project in 2024 to honor 10 enslaved persons, who labored in the Town of Lyme—historically known as North Lyme. Ten new Witness Stones—historical plaques commemorating the lives of enslaved African Americans—will be placed in late May at the Lyme Public
- [Witness Stones Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-installation-ceremony/) - By Dana Jensen in The Day on May 31, 2024 Old Lyme ― A ceremony was held at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Friday to recognize 10 more Witness Stones being placed at the Lyme Library. The Witness Stones program started in Old Lyme in 2020. The group now has a total of 48 stones in Lyme
- [Cesar Peters Honored in Hebron, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/3980-2/) - Students from RHAM Middle School gathered with descendants and the Hebron, Connecticut, community to share the story of Cesar Peters.
- [Our Work in Guilford Continues](https://stoppingstones.org/our-work-in-guilford-continues/) - [rl_gallery id="3999"] We gathered in Guilford on June 6, 2024, to remember Bristol. He is an ancestor of Witness Stones Project Chair Pat Pheanious. The installation was preceded by a talk at Guilford Free Library.
- [Choate Commemorates Life of Mother Enslaved at Wallingford's Historic Houses](https://stoppingstones.org/choate-commemorates-life-of-mother-enslaved-at-wallingfords-historic-houses/) - By Christian Metzger in CT Insider on June 3, 2024 WALLINGFORD — Choate Rosemary Hall held a ceremony to commemorate two witness stones memorializing the lives of two slaves once held at Squire Stanley house, one of the oldest buildings in Wallingford that is now incorporated into the school’s campus grounds. Kate and Mina,
- [Scarsdales Restores Its History](https://stoppingstones.org/scarsdales-restores-its-history/)
- [Wooster Students Honor Enslaved Danbury Woman Who Gained Her Freedom](https://stoppingstones.org/wooster-students-honor-enslaved-danbury-woman-who-gained-her-freedom/) - By Kendra Baker in the NewsTimes on June 8, 2024 DANBURY — Patience, an enslaved woman in Danbury who gained her freedom in 1793, became the third individual memorialized as part of a research project led by Wooster School students. A stone commemorating Patience was placed at St. James Episcopal Church last week, following weeks of research by
- [Juneteenth Jubilee in New Paltz](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-jubilee-in-new-paltz/) - By Terence P. Ward in HudsonValley1 on June 10, 2024 The fourth annual Juneteenth jubilee celebration of triumph and history and learning about Juneteenth with the New Paltz community will take place on Wednesday, June 19. It will begin at 10 a.m. with a one-hour commemoration ceremony at the New Paltz Rural Cemetery. It will be followed by a community
- [Juneteenth Joyfully Celebrated at FloGris Museum with Jazz & Poetry](https://stoppingstones.org/juneteenth-joyfully-celebrated-at-flogris-museum-with-jazz-poetry/) - In LymeLine.com on June 16, 2024 OLD LYME—On Saturday, June 22, Witness Stones Old Lyme presented a celebratory event filled with jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum. This event honored Juneteenth, a federal holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, and offered a vibrant fusion of music and spoken word.
- [Leadership Transition](https://stoppingstones.org/leadership-transition/) - After many years of dedicated service, our Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dennis Culliton, has decided to step down from his current role. Dennis founded the Project as a teacher at Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School in Guilford, Connecticut. Over seven years, he has worked with more than 100 schools, churches, museums, and civic organizations across
- [Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams](https://stoppingstones.org/their-kindred-earth-photographs-by-william-earle-williams/) - OLD LYME, CONN.- The FloGris Museum in Old Lyme, CT, presents its first solo exhibition by a contemporary Black artist, Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams, February 22 through June 22, 2025. The exhibition of newly commissioned photographs makes visible little-known sites across Old Lyme (as well as the state and nation) significant to
- [The Golden Shield Award](https://stoppingstones.org/the-golden-shield-award/) - Witness Stones Project Executive, Pat Wilson Pheanious, has been named the 2025 recipient of the Golden Shield Award given by the National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (NSDFPA). The award was announced at the organization’s national meeting held in Alexandria, Virginia, on April 10, 2017. The Golden Shield Award is presented annually
- [Former Enslaved Resident To Be Honored At Guilford's Henry Whitfield House](https://stoppingstones.org/former-enslaved-resident-to-be-honored-at-guilfords-henry-whitfield-house/) - By Richard Kaufman on Patch on April 25, 2025 GUILFORD, CT — An installation ceremony for a "Witness Stone" honoring Cuff, a former enslaved resident at the Henry Whitfield House, will be held at the Henry Whitfield State Museum on Saturday, May 17, at 11 a.m., according to an announcement from the town. Cuff was enslaved
- [New London Church Gives Witness to Enslaved Mother and Daughter](https://stoppingstones.org/new-london-church-gives-witness-to-enslaved-mother-and-daughter/)
- [Bearing Witness: Honoring the Lives of Robert, Bet, Susan, and Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/bearing-witness-honoring-the-lives-of-robert-bet-susan-and-frank/) - By the Lancaster City Witness Stones Project on May 27, 2025 On a quiet city street lined with brick and memory, students, educators, community members, and historians gathered for a moment years in the making. At first glance, it may have looked like a simple ceremony, several brass plates embedded into the ground. But for
- [Lancaster City Witness Stones to Teach about Local Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/lancaster-city-witness-stones-to-teach-about-local-enslaved-people/) - By Sarah Nicell on LancasterOnline.com on June 1, 2025 Historians don’t know much about Susan, Robert, Bet and Frank, who lived in Lancaster in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their ages, heights, births and deaths are inconsistently recorded. There are no last names to track because they likely had none. That’s because Edward Hand, an
- [Two Enslaved Longmeadow Residents Remembered](https://stoppingstones.org/two-enslaved-longmeadow-residents-remembered/) - by Sarah Heinonen in The Reminder on June 4, 2025 LONGMEADOW — In 2024, the Longmeadow community remembered two enslaved people who lived and died in the town. Two stone markers, inscribed with the names of Phillis and Peter and information about their lives, were embedded in the ground in front of the First Church
- [Our New Home](https://stoppingstones.org/our-new-home/) - We're thrilled to announce that the Witness Stones Project has officially joined Historic New England as the educational arm of its Stopping Stones program. We will be continuing the important work that we have done since 2017 and we welcome more opportunities to educate students throughout the country. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in our
- [Conversation Club at the Stanley-Whitman House](https://stoppingstones.org/conversation-club-at-the-stanley-whitman-house/) - Join the Stanley-Whitman House as they welcome guest Witness Stones Project Director of Operations Liz Lightfoot for a workshop that will take participants through an intro to the history of slavery in Connecticut and then a discussion of the five themes developed by Dennis Culliton, Founder of Witness Stones Project. Then, explore/interpret documents related to
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden & the Woodhall School](https://stoppingstones.org/2699-2/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. The Connecticut Landmarks house in Bethlehem, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand
- [Student Essays, Poems, and Reflections on Peg Lyon](https://stoppingstones.org/student-essays-poems-and-reflections-on-peg-lyon/) - Welcoming Remarks My name is Amelia Ortiz and I would like to welcome you to our ceremony honoring Peg. The Witness Stones Project is a project where we dive deeper into an enslaved person’s life. This is the second annual project that has been at Holy Child and in New York as well. We take
- [Henry Staats Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/henry-staats-installation-ceremony/) - Somerset County provided support for the Witness Stones research and memorialization of Henry Staats. We invite you to visit their website to see more photos from the installation ceremony.
- [Witness Stones Project Honors History of Enslaved People in Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-honors-history-of-enslaved-people-in-connecticut/) - By Eva Li in the Choate News on December 19, 2022 In recent months, towns across Connecticut have erected several permanent markers to memorialize the lives of enslaved men and women. The Witness Stones Project, founded in 2017 by Mr. Dennis Culliton, is a nonprofit dedicated to restoring history and honoring the humanity of the
- [The Witness Stones Project Comes to Camp](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-project-comes-to-camp/) - By Mike Sherman on Camp Woodstock YMCA In 1740 the enslaved persons of Ebenezer Lyon, including one named Crumbo, built a stone dam for a grist mill on the outlet stream of Black Pond along what is now called Camp Road. In 1760 the dam harnessed the water to operate the bellows for one of
- [Killingly at 300](https://stoppingstones.org/killingly-at-300/) - By Margaret Weaver in the Putnam Villager on June 9th, 2023 I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a Witness Stone dedication by several Killingly High School classes at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse in Brooklyn on May 31st. The enslaved individual whom they researched was Dick Putnam. Student Julia Jarvis gave an excellent summary
- [The Witness Stones Project Unearths and Shares Stories of Northern Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/the-witness-stones-project-unearths-and-shares-stories-of-northern-slavery/) - By Diane Orson on May 1, 2024 on NPR's All Things Considered For centuries, stories of northern slavery were not easy to find. Understanding slavery in this project involves learning the stories of those enslaved — and bearing witness. We invite you to listen to this NPR story about how the Witness Stones Project is
- [The Narrative of the Life of Peter Gardner](https://stoppingstones.org/the-narrative-of-the-life-of-peter-gardner/) - By Cassandra Ward, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School, '21 Many years ago, enslaved people lived in Guilford. Still today, people are remembering their lives and legacies. For some enslaved people, their stories are never told. But Peter Gardner has a story. A story of hardship and triumph. A story worth telling. A large amount of
- [Old Ti and the Old Center Cemetery](https://stoppingstones.org/old-ti-and-the-old-center-cemetery/) - By Bill Sullivan in the Suffield Observer on April 1, 2024 The Suffield Historical Society will meet on Tuesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Second Baptist Church’s Common Room. My American Studies students from Suffield Academy will present a brief history of the Old Center Cemetery and illuminate the three centuries of gravestone
- [Curriculum Design and Memorials with Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/curriculum-design-and-memorials-with-witness-stones/) - From the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective on March 22, 2021 The Witness Stones Project began in 2017 in Guilford, Connecticut with the placement of three small plaques commemorating the lives of Moses, Candace, and Phillis. The project was inspired by the Stolpersteine project, which works to place small stones inscribed with the names and
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Cesar Peter and Pomp Mundo](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-cesar-and-mundo/) - Friday, June 3, 2022 5:30 p.m. Hosted by RHAM Middle School at Burnt Hill Park 148 East Street, Hebron, Connecticut RHAM Middle School will bring the community together to remember and honor Cesar Peter and Pomp Mundo and to place Witness Stones in their memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Collaboration in New Paltz, New York](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-collaboration-in-new-paltz-new-york/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit educational initiative whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new partnership with the Historic Huguenot Street. The Historic Landmark District in New Paltz, New York, will be using the Project’s research, curriculum, and
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with the Farmington’s First Church of Christ, Congregational, and the Stanley-Whitman House to Recover the History of the Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-the-farmingtons-first-church-of-christ-congregational-and-the-stanley-whitman-house-to-recover-the-history-of-the-enslaved/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit educational initiative whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new partnership with the First Church of Christ, Congregational, and the Stanley-Whitman House, both in Farmington, Connecticut. The church and the museum will be
- [Witness Stones Project Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-receives-ct-cultural-fund-operating-support-grant-from-ct-humanities/) - The Witness Stones Project was recently awarded a $6900 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH). CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants assist organizations as they recover from the pandemic and maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public. Witness Stones Project Co-Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton
- [Wilton Witness Stones Collaboration](https://stoppingstones.org/wilton-witness-stones-collaboration/) - Wilton Witness Stones is a collaboration of churches from Wilton, Norwalk, and Westport, Connecticut seeking to explore the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities. Working with the Witness Stones Project, Inc., youth will gather with community leaders to learn and then compose
- [William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Supports New Witness Stones Project Partnership](https://stoppingstones.org/william-caspar-graustein-memorial-fund-supports-new-witness-stones-project-partnership/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with James Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut. This new collaboration is funding by a generous gift from the William Caspar Graustein
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with South Bound Brook, New Jersey, Public Schools and the Abraham Staats House. The school and museum will be using the Project’s curriculum
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership in Manchester](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership-in-manchester/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Manchester High School. The school will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the local history
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership in Plainfield](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership-in-plainfield/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Plainfield Central Middle School. The school will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the local
- [Statement on History and Social Studies Education in Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/statement-on-history-and-social-studies-education-in-ct/) - The Witness Stones Project is proud to join Connecticut historians, social studies professionals, and teachers in supporting the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies' Statement on History and Social Studies Education in Connecticut. The Connecticut Council's mission is to advocate and build capacity for high-quality social studies by providing leadership, services, and support to educators.
- [Old Lyme Partnership Launches ‘Witness Stones’ Project to Honor Lives of Local Enslaved Persons, Introduce Related Curriculum in Schools](https://stoppingstones.org/old-lyme-partnership-launches-witness-stones-project-to-honor-lives-of-local-enslaved-persons-introduce-related-curriculum-in-schools/) - Published in LymeLine.com on February 2, 2021. OLD LYME — The Old Lyme Witness Stones Partnership has launched a public education and engagement effort that will introduce an educational curriculum for seventh-grade students of Lyme-Old Lyme Schools that will raise awareness of the town’s history. The project will also involve the installation of small historical
- [Witness Stones Dedicated to 14 Enslaved in Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-dedicated-to-14-enslaved-in-old-lyme/) - By Cate Hewitt in CTExaminer on June 4, 2021 OLD LYME — Cato, Lewis Lewia, Humphrey, Caeser, Jack Howard, Jenny Freeman, Luce, Crusa, Nancy Freeman, Temperance Still, Jane, Pompey Freeman, Samuel Freeman, and Arabella — 14 African Americans who were once enslaved along what is now Lyme St. Until recently, their history had been almost entirely unknown
- [Witness Stones Project Takes Root In West Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-takes-root-in-west-hartford/) - The Witness Stones Project was present for another milestone today when the Witness Stones West Hartford Project a committee of the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society along with West Hartford Public Schools held their first installation ceremony honoring George and Jude.
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership in Westport](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership-in-westport/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with the United Church in Westport. The church will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership in Wilton](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership-in-wilton/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with the Wilton Congregational Church. The church will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their teaching of the history
- [Witness Stones Project Announce New Partnership in Branford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announce-new-partnership-in-branford/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Branford Public Schools and the Branford Historical Society. The schools and society will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with the Hempsted Houses](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-the-hempsted-houses/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Hempsted Houses. The Connecticut Landmarks house in New London, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their
- [Historic Deerfield Unveils Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/historic-deerfield-unveils-witness-stones/) - By Richard Damas on Spectrum News 1 on October 12, 2022 DEERFIELD, Mass. - Historic Deerfield paid tribute to American history Wednesday by unveiling memorials around the museum to the enslaved individuals who once lived in the area. Historic Deerfield partnered with The Witness Stones Project and revealed 19 memorial plaques at 12 locations around the
- [Historic Deerfield Partners with Witness Stone Project to Unveil Memorials Honoring Enslaved Persons](https://stoppingstones.org/historic-deerfield-partners-with-witness-stone-project-to-unveil-memorials-honoring-enslaved-persons/) - (Deerfield, M.A.) – Historic Deerfield, in partnership with The Witness Stones Project™, will be unveiling 19 memorial plaques at 12 locations along the museum’s mile-long street. The plaques honor enslaved persons who once lived in the historic homes that make up the Historic Deerfield Museum. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, October 12, 2022
- [Witness Stone Project Remembers Forgotten Connecticut Slaves](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-project-remembers-forgotten-conn-slaves/) - By Amber Diaz on NBC Connecticut on June 15, 2022 The Witness Stones Project is a K-12 educational initiative started in Connecticut. Its mission is to “restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved people who helped build our communities.” As a former eighth grade history teacher with a passion for the past, Dennis Culliton understands each story
- [Tombo's Story](https://stoppingstones.org/tombos-story/) - By Huiying Muhs, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School, '21 Many people know about slaves and some know their names, but most people don’t think about their life stories because there is not a lot of information to tell. One of the slaves that we should know about is an African-American man named Tombo. Tombo went
- [Shem's Story](https://stoppingstones.org/shems-story/) - By Sofia Welch, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School '21 Shem was an African-American enslaved being who lived in Guilford, Connecticut. He was born in 1726 and was first enslaved under a man named John Scranton the 3rd. John Scranton had 10 children, including his daughter Submit Scranton. John owned two slaves, a Black man, 1Shem,
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Cuff, Dinah, and Flora](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-cuff-dinah-and-flora/) - Because rain is expected, we have moved the ceremony to Adams Middle School. Friday, June 3, 2022 9:00 a.m. Hosted by Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School at Adams Middle School 233 Church Street, Guilford, Connecticut Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School will bring the community together to remember and honor Cuff, Dinah, and Flora and
- [Witness Stones Project Reflection](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-reflection/) - By Gus Witt, Class of 2022, The Foote School This Witness Stones project was the most challenging and intriguing academic work I have ever done. I knew a bit about slavery in the United States prior to the Witness Stones research, but the new information from this research gave me a distinct perspective and distinct
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-honoring-caesar/) - Friday, May 13, 2022 3:00 p.m. Hosted by United Churches of Durham 228 Main Street, Durham, Connecticut Frank Ward Strong Middle School students will bring the Durham community together to remember and honor Caesar and to place a Witness Stone in his memory.
- [Witness Stones Ceremony on the Green](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-ceremony-on-the-green/) - In the Guilford Courier on June 2, 2022 GUILFORD — Adams Middle School and the Witness Stones Project are holding their fourth installation ceremony in Guilford on Friday, June 3 at 9 a.m. on the Guilford Green. The Witness Stones Project started in Guilford in 2017 and since that time the organization has memorialized 10
- [Witness Stones Project Reflection](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-reflection/) - By Daven Kaphar, Class of 2022, The Foote School I enjoyed the Witness Stones Project. I learned so much more about slavery in early America, but I found the story of Lois Tritton especially shocking. For a long time Lois and her mother thought they were free, just to be sold back in to slavery.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Titus Kent](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-honoring-titus-kent/) - Saturday, May 21, 2022, 10:00 a.m. Hosted by The Suffield Academy S. Kent Legare Library, The Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution & The Suffield Historical Society 99 High Street, Suffield, Connecticut The Suffield Historical Society and the Suffield Academy will bring the Suffield community together to remember and
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Romeo](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-romeo/) - Friday, May 27, 2022 9:00 a.m. Hosted by the Norwich Free Academy at The Leffingwell House Museum 348 Washington Street, Norwich, Connecticut The Norwich Free Academy will bring the community together to remember and honor Romeo and to place a Witness Stone in his memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Lois and Lucy Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-honoring-lois-and-lucy-tritton/) - Thursday, June 2, 2022 10:00 a.m. Hosted by the Foote School & St. Thomas's Day School at Trinity Church on the Green 230 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut The Foote School and St. Thomas's Day School will bring the community together to remember and honor Lois and Lucy Tritton and to place Witness Stones in
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Nimrod Benedict](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-nimrod-benedict/) - Tuesday, May 31, 2022 9:00 a.m. Hosted by the Wooster School at The Long Ridge United Methodist Church 201 Long Ridge Road, Danbury, Connecticut The Wooster School will bring the community together to remember and honor Nimrod Benedict and to place a Witness Stone in his memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Dimmas Proctor](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-demas-cape/) - Thursday, May 26, 2022 9:15 a.m. Hosted by Killingly High School at The Westfield Congregational Church 1369 Hartford Pike, Dayville, Connecticut Killingly High School will bring the community together to remember and honor Dimmas Proctor and to place a Witness Stone in his memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring the Forgotten in Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-honoring-harry-and-margaret/) - Friday, June 3, 2022 10:00 a.m. Hosted by Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School at The Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library 2 Library Lane, Old Lyme, Connecticut The community is invited to gather on the Lawn of the Old Lyme Library to celebrate the second installation of Witness Stones on Lyme Street, extending this year to
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Jack and Cull Bush, Jr.](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-honoring-jack-and-cull-bush-jr/) - Wednesday, May 25, 2022 1 p.m. Hosted by the Greenwich Historical Society at The Bush-Holley House 47 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, Connecticut The Greenwich Historical Society will bring the Greenwich community together to remember and honor Jack and Cull Bush, Jr., and to place a Witness Stone in their memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony Honoring Theophilus Niger](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-honoring-theophilus-niger/) - Monday, May 23, 2022 8:15 a.m. Hosted by the Country School at Horse Pond Park Madison, Connecticut The Country School will bring the Madison community together to remember and honor Theophilus Niger and to place a Witness Stone in his memory.
- [Public History in Suffield](https://stoppingstones.org/public-history-in-suffield/) - By Bill Sullivan in the Suffield Observer on May 1, 2022 The Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter (Suffield and Windsor Locks) of The Daughters of The American Revolution (DAR) and the Suffield Historical Society will partner to install a Witness Stone Memorial for Titus Kent. An installation ceremony will be held in front of the Sidney Kent Legare Library
- [Timberlane Middle School to Hold Ceremony Honoring Enslaved People](https://stoppingstones.org/timberlane-middle-school-to-hold-ceremony-honoring-enslaved-people/) - From CentralJersey.com on March 15, 2022 Timberlane Middle School (TMS) will hold the first-ever Witness Stones ceremony in the state on April 28. TMS, located in the Hopewell Valley Regional School District in Pennington, will host the ceremony from 9:30-10:45 a.m. at the Hopewell Old School Baptist Meeting House, 46-48 W. Broad St., Hopewell. Continue
- [Remembering Flora](https://stoppingstones.org/remembering-flora/) - By Ella Montalvo, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School It is scary to imagine that these people suffered on the very grass we walk on in our town but it isn’t any better for it to be the grass that others in the South walk on. Flora was an enslaved person in Guilford,
- [Remembering Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/remembering-cuff/) - By Teagan Connellan, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School No birth records. No death records. No marriage records. No working records. Someone who wasn’t even seen as a person. Someone who would be traded or worth a unit of dollars. Someone who was with five different people in his lifetime. Not as family.
- [Infographics from Foote School Students](https://stoppingstones.org/infographics-from-foote-school-students/)
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-titus/) - Monday, June 13, 2022 4:45 p.m. Hosted by the Mansfield Middle School at The Mansfield Public Library 54 Warrenville Road, Mansfield Center, Connecticut Mansfield Middle School will bring the community together to remember and honor Titus and to place a Witness Stones in his memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Peter Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-peter-cesar/) - Sunday, June 5, 2022 11:30 a.m. Hosted by the the Henry James Memorial School at the First Church of Christ Simsbury 689 Hopmeadow Street, Simsbury, Connecticut Please join students from Henry James Memorial School as they restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Essau and Grace](https://stoppingstones.org/2261-2/) - Sunday, June 19, 2022 3:00 p.m. Hosted by the Wallingford Historic Preservation Society at The Nehemiah Royce House 538 North Main Street, Wallingford, Connecticut The Wallingford Historic Preservation Society will bring the community together to remember and honor Essau and Grace and to place Witness Stones in their memory.
- [Witness Stones Project Installation Ceremony to Honor Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-installation-ceremony-to-honor-caesar/) - Tuesday, June 7, 2022 12:30 p.m. Hosted by Woodstock Middle School at Roseland Park 205 Roseland Park Road, Woodstock, Connecticut Woodstock Middle School will bring the community together to remember and honor Caesar and to place a Witness Stones in his memory.
- [West Hartford to Rename Street in Honor of Two Enslaved Women](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-to-rename-street-in-honor-of-two-enslaved-women/) - By Deidre Montague in the Hartford Courant on May 19, 2022 WEST HARTFORD — The West Hartford Town Council unanimously agreed to change the name of a city street this week, a small move that points to a larger goal — changing the town’s physical landscape to bear witness to its history and culture. New
- [Our 2021 Annual Report](https://stoppingstones.org/our-2021-annual-report/) - 2021 Annual Report
- [West Hartford Will Name Street After 2 Enslaved Women](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-will-name-street-after-2-enslaved-women/) - By Gabby DeBenedictis on Patch.com on May 19, 2022 WEST HARTFORD, CT — The West Hartford town council voted unanimously to rename New Street in Blue Back Square "Dinah Road," and according to the Hartford Courant the name is designed to honor two women who were enslaved in town. The women, a mother and daughter both named
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Partnership with St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wilton](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-partnership-with-st-matthews-episcopal-church-in-wilton/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. The congregation in Wilton, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their understanding
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with School of the Holy Child to Recover the History of the Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-school-of-the-holy-child-to-recover-the-history-of-the-enslaved/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with School of the Holy Child. The college-preparatory school in Rye, New York, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to
- [Trinity on the Green to Partner with the Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/trinity-on-the-green-to-partner-with-the-witness-stones-project/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Trinity on the Green. The Episcopal church sin New Haven, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s research and landscape markers to expand
- [Suffield Fund Awards Grant to Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/suffield-fund-awards-grant-to-witness-stones-project/) - By Journal Inquirer Staff on September 24, 2021 SUFFIELD — Ten local organizations have received grants totaling $80,753 from the Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The fund, which benefits local organizations, was established in 2002 by Michael Zak to honor his late father, Amiel, a teacher at Suffield
- [Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust Becomes WSP Affiliate](https://stoppingstones.org/wallinford-historic-preservation-trust-becomes-wsp-affiliate/) - The Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust is the owner and caretaker of the Royce House and the American Silver Museum at the Franklin Johnson Mansion. Its mission is threefold: 1. To acquire, preserve, interpret and educate the public about historic structures and culture in early Wallingford. 2. To feature the 1840-1980 period of silver manufacturing in Wallingford and
- [Witness Stones Project Announces New Collaboration in Norwich, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-announces-new-collaboration-in-norwich-connecticut/) - The Witness Stones Project today announced a new affiliation with the Leffingwell House Museum and the Norwich Free Academy. Students at the coeducational independent school will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their understanding of the history of slavery in colonial Connecticut. Students will examine primary source documents, such property, church,
- [Witness Stones Project Receives Funding in Hebron](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-receives-funding-in-hebron/) - In the Journal Enquirer on August 23, 2021 HEBRON — Eleven projects have received funding from the Hebron Greater Together Community fund through the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The Friends of the Office of State Archaeology received $4,400 for a multidisciplinary project at the Cesar Peters home site with RHAM Middle and High School
- [Grant to Fund Important Lesson at RHAM](https://stoppingstones.org/grant-to-fund-important-lesson-at-rham/) - By Traci Hastings, in The Chronicle Dec. 8—HEBRON — A grant from the Hebron Greater Together Community Fund is being used to build awareness of history and diversity at RHAM Middle School. In December, middle school students will begin a " multidisciplinary exploration" through Witness Stones Inc., a nonprofit educational resource, funded through the grant.
- [Remembering the Enslaved in Guilford](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-installation-june-1-2021/) - Adams Middle School 8th grade students researched and wrote essays to restore history and to honor the humanity and contributions of three enslaved individuals, Shem, Tombo, and Peter Gardner, who helped build our community. Witness Stones in their names were installed on Ledge Hill Road in North Guilford. The students, members of the Witness Stones
- [Witness Stones West Hartford Receives West Hartford Greater Together Community Fund Award](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-west-hartford-receives-west-hartford-greater-together-community-fund-award/) - By Ronni Newton on We-Ha.comi on July 28, 2021 The West Hartford Greater Together Community Fund, which announced in January plans to award the first $25,000 of grant money to local nonprofits, announced Wednesday that seven organizations have will receive awards in the inaugural cycle. The program, formed by The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and administered
- [New Memorials First to Acknowledge Difficult Truth of Slaves in Greenwich](https://stoppingstones.org/new-memorials-first-to-acknowledge-difficult-truth-of-slaves-in-greenwich/) - By Don Snyder in Greenwich Time on July 14, 2021 Memorials to victims of the Holocaust, known as “stolpersteine” or “stumbling blocks,” are found throughout Europe from Trondheim, Norway to Thessaloniki, Greece. More than 75,000 of these brass plaques, created by German artist Gunter Demnig, have been placed outside the former homes of the victims, whose
- [West Hartford Witness Stones Students Argue for Change](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-witness-stones-students-argue-for-change/) - By Katrina Koerting in the Register Citizen on June 28, 2021 WEST HARTFORD — Some streets around town could get new names under an ordinance to honor people or historic events. Local officials said there are still logistical issues to finalize, but the ordinance was largely supported by public speakers and adopted by the Town Council.
- [Historical Society to Honor the Humanity of Greenwich’s Enslaved Individuals through Collaboration with Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/historical-society-to-honor-the-humanity-of-greenwichs-enslaved-individuals-through-collaboration-with-witness-stones-project/) - By Greenwich Free Press on March 9, 2021. To shine a light on the history, humanity and contributions of enslaved individuals who resided in Greenwich as early as the 1600s, Greenwich Historical Society is partnering with the Witness Stones Project. Continue reading.
- [Students from the Country School Remember Tamar](https://stoppingstones.org/students-from-the-country-school-remember-tamar/) - In the fall of 2020, eighth graders at the Country School began researching the life of Tamar. Tamar began her life in west Africa around the year 1744 and was captured and transported to New England, where she was enslaved by the Reverend Jonathan Todd, the second pastor of the First Congregational Church of East
- [Student Poetry from Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School Students](https://stoppingstones.org/student-poetry-from-lyme-old-lyme-middle-school-students/) - Seventh-grade students from the Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School wrote poems to tell the life stories of Jenny Freeman and Lewis Lewia. Jenny Freeman By Ilona Binch Sun shining through the windows. Children running through the halls. There were joyful voices in the air Even though nothing was right at all. I was knitting socks and
- [Town Dedicates Second Witness Stone in Honor of Madison Woman](https://stoppingstones.org/town-dedicates-second-witness-stone-in-honor-of-madison-woman/) - By Jesse Williams on Zip06.com on June 15, 2021 MADISON — More than 200 years ago, here on the same beaches where Madison residents are currently laid out on the sand catching some sun, a shipwreck washed ashore. From that ship, a handful of people emerged, people who mostly would be spending the rest of their
- [Suffield to Celebrate Juneteenth on Saturday](https://stoppingstones.org/suffield-to-celebrate-juneteenth-on-saturday/) - Journal Inquirer Staff on June 18, 2021 SUFFIELD — A local group is planning to hold the town’s first Juneteenth celebration Saturday on the town green. Juneteenth is a celebration of the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned that they were freed by the emancipation proclamation. The local celebration is organized by
- [West Hartford Students Ask for Renaming of New Street to Honor Peleg Nott](https://stoppingstones.org/1531-2/) - Kingswood Oxford students, Regina Miller ‘22 and Aliza Sadiq ‘22 wrote a proposal to the West Hartford Town Council, in which they outlined their reasons to rename New Street in Blue Black Square after Peleg Nott. We invite you to read it here.
- [Kingswood Oxford Students Make Important Progress in Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/kingswood-oxford-students-make-important-progress-in-witness-stones-project/) - In the Kingswood Oxford News published on January 21, 2021. The Witness Stones Project is an ongoing one in the Kingswood Oxford School history department each year that engages the students in authentic, real-world learning. The project seeks to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved people who helped build the community we live
- [West Hartford Juneteenth Activities Begin with Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-juneteenth-activities-begin-with-witness-stones/) - By Katrina Koerting in the West Hartford News on June 14, 2021 The weekend of events kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday with an installment ceremony of the Witness Stones Project at Old Center Cemetery. This is the project’s fourth installation, which brings attention to the enslaved people and honors their contributions to West Hartford
- [Guilford Witness Stones Project Officially Launches July 20](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-witness-stones-project-officially-launches-july-20/) - By Zoe Roos in the Guilford Courier on July 18, 2017. Guilford — A nation’s history is never perfect and there are often parts people would rather forget or not discuss, but no part of history should go unrecognized. It may have been centuries ago and a practice more commonly associated with the south, but
- [Remembrance Deferred](https://stoppingstones.org/remembrance-deferred/) - By Yonatan Greenberg in the New Journal at Yale on February 16, 2018. Guilford, a town of twenty-thousand half an hour north of New Haven, is a place that loves its past. There are three historical societies, and in the town center, by the chocolatier and tea shop, historical markers nearly outnumber street signs. A
- [Students Lay Stones To Address Town's History Of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/students-lay-stones-to-address-towns-history-of-slavery/) - By Michael Walsh in the Hartford Courant on October 4, 2018 Retired West Hartford high school history teachers Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine worked with Conard High School students and the Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society to lay the first in a series of witness stones that address the town's connection to slavery. Continue
- [The Connecticut Role in Slavery Was Worse Than You Think](https://stoppingstones.org/the-connecticut-role-in-slavery-was-worse-than-you-think/) - By Meghan Friedmann in New Haven Register on February 26, 2019. GUILFORD — For many, Harriet Beecher Stowe — the Connecticut-bred woman behind the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin —represents one of the country’s most famous abolitionists. But Dennis Culliton, the Guilford history teacher behind the Witness Stones project, wants to illuminate another, largely untold piece of Stowe’s history:
- [Witness Stones Project Completion Allows Town to Honor Local Enslaved Woman](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-completion-allows-town-to-honor-local-enslaved-woman/) - By Jesse Williams on ZIP06.COM on August 19, 2020. GUILFORD MADISON —Though the pandemic prevented a large community ceremony, Madison saw the installation of its first Witness Stone in front of the First Congregational Church earlier this month, with students from The Country School (TCS) completing the year-long research project into the life of Lettuce
- [Seventh Graders Are Engaged in Several Projects around Black History and Heroes](https://stoppingstones.org/seventh-graders-are-engaged-in-several-projects-around-black-history-and-heroes/) - From the Foote School News published September 17, 2020 Humanities teachers Sheila Lavey and Skye Lee made an exciting connection with the Witness Stones Project. Modeled after the Stolperstein in Europe—stone cubes with the names and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination—the Witness Stones Project places similar cubes at norther locations where individuals were enslaved. Seventh graders
- [The Library and Searching for Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/the-library-and-searching-for-slavery/) - By James King, Library Director at Salisbury School, published by the Atlantic Black Box Project on March 5, 2021 James Mars didn’t complain of “many things,” but one thing troubled him his entire life: the lack of “opportunity to go to school as much as I should, for all the books I ever had in
- [Witness Stones Project to Partner with Mansfield Middle School to Recover the History of the Enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-to-partner-with-mansfield-middle-school-to-recover-the-history-of-the-enslaved/) - The Witness Stones Project, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to restore the history and honor the humanity of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities, today announced a new affiliation with Mansfield Middle School. The middle school in Storrs Mansifield, Connecticut, will be using the Project’s curriculum and landscape markers to expand their
- [North Guilford to Receive First Witness Stone, First Installation Since Pandemic](https://stoppingstones.org/north-guilford-to-receive-first-witness-stone-first-installation-since-pandemic-2/) - By Jesse Williams in the Guilford Courier on May 25, 2021 It has been about two years since Guilford saw the installation of a Witness Stone. That’s about to change. The project, founded by retired teacher Dennis Culliton and psychologist Doug Nygren has split, evolved, and greatly expanded since it was originally conceived as a
- [Witness Stone to Be Installed during Juneteenth](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stone-to-be-installed-during-juneteenth/) - By Bill Sullivan in the Suffield Observer on June 1, 2021 The Suffield Historical Society’s (SHS) online class will ceremoniously install a Witness Stone memorial for Tamer (1770-1829) on June 19 at 10:00 a.m. In collaboration with its community partner, ABAR Suffield, the SHS class will gather speakers and musicians on the town’s gazebo on
- [Marshall Miles Interviews Caleb May and Rhonan Mokriski about “Coloring Our Past”](https://stoppingstones.org/marshall-miles-interviews-caleb-may-and-rhonan-mokriski-about-coloring-our-past/) - “This movie has forced us to confront history that challenges our perception of who we are and how we became a country. Looking at the contributions local families of color like the Mars and the Cesars have had on our communities has really opened our eyes. In turn, our aim is to use our work
- [Black American Slave James Mars’s Story in Virtual Program](https://stoppingstones.org/salisbury-black-american-slave-james-marss-story-in-virtual-program/) - The Litchfield County Times on March 25, 2021 SALISBURY — Noble Horizons will host “The Life and Times of James Mars: The Story of a Connecticut Slave,” a virtual presentation, on April 1 at 7:15 p,m. Registration for this free Zoom program is at noblehorizons.org. Salisbury history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students will discuss their
- [Witness Stones Project Updating Curriculum to Link History with News](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-updating-curriculum-to-link-history-with-new/) - By Jesse Williams in Zip06.com on June 23, 2020 Responding to the recent civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd as well as the specific racial inequalities revealed by the coronavirus pandemic, The Witness Stones Project, Inc. (WSP) is updating its program to better tie current events to American’s history of racial oppression. WSP
- [How to Bring the Witness Stones Project to Life](https://stoppingstones.org/how-to-bring-the-witness-stones-project-to-life/) - By Katie McCarthy on the Atlantic Black Box Project on January 17, 2021 This 2020-2021 academic year marks the third year that my students at Kingswood Oxford in West Hartford have participated in the Witness Stones Project and it’s been the most inspiring and meaningful work of my teaching career. It’s also been the most
- [Remapping New England: Monuments, Markers,  and Collective Memory](https://stoppingstones.org/1176-2/) - Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Representative Rachel Talbot Ross of the Portland Freedom Trail, Charles Roberts of Rhode Island Slave History Medallions, JerriAnne Boggis of Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and moderator Dr. Kate McMahon of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum
- [Grace and Hope Teachers' Talk](https://stoppingstones.org/grace-and-hope-teachers-talk/) - What messages does our society send to students at different ends of the socio-economic spectrum? What joys and challenges do teachers face as they try to meet the complex needs of today’s students? This panel discussion, hosted by Christ Church Greenwich, includes Kelly Bridges, a middle school history teacher at Sacred Heart Greenwich who shares
- [Historical Society to Celebrate the Humanity of Greenwich’s Enslaved Individuals at Ceremony on May 27](https://stoppingstones.org/historical-society-to-celebrate-the-humanity-of-greenwichs-enslaved-individuals-at-ceremony-on-may-27/) - By Laura McCormick on HamletHub.com on May 11, 2021 Greenwich Historical Society will host a ceremony on May 27th at 1 pm to honor the legacy of enslaved persons who resided in Greenwich. Open to the public, the event will take place on the Historical Society campus in Cos Cob to include town officials, civic leaders,
- [West Hartford Ready for Its 2nd Juneteenth Observances](https://stoppingstones.org/west-hartford-ready-for-its-2nd-juneteenth-observances/) - By Chris Dehnel on Patch on May 26, 2021 West Hartford's celebration begins at 10:00AM on Saturday, June 19th at the Old Center Cemetery for the Installment Ceremony of the Witness Stones Project. Through research, education, and civic engagement, the Witness Stones Project seeks to restore the history and to honor the humanity and contributions of
- [Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut: Project-Based Learning on the Hilltop](https://stoppingstones.org/searching-for-slavery-in-northwest-connecticut-project-based-learning-on-the-hilltop/) - By Kristina Miller in Salisbury School News on January 15, 2021 History Faculty Rhonan Mokriski '90 and his students embarked on a project-based learning course this year entitled, "Searching for Slavery in Northwest Connecticut." The goal was to engage students as public historians in authentic tasks to discover and share the local contributions people of color have made to the building of
- [Guilford Group Starts Slavery Plaque Project](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-group-starts-slavery-plaque-project/) - By Zoe Roos in the Guilford Courier on April 12, 2017 Guilford — Wandering by historic homes in Guilford, a passerby will often notice a plaque adorning the front of a building indicating the year the house was built, who built it, and who of importance might have lived there—perhaps a famous figure such as
- [Guilford Group to Remember Town's Slaves with Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/guilford-group-to-remember-towns-slaves-with-witness-stones/) - By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on September 9, 2017 Guilford>> The memories of those African Americans who were enslaved in Guilford will be preserved in granite and brass markers around town as the result of the Witness Stones Project. Continue reading.

## Pages

- [The Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/) - Support Us With your support, we’re poised to expand our reach and impact. Donate Educational Increase awareness of the significant contributions made by enslaved Americans and the lasting impact of slavery on contemporary society. Healing Facilitate racial healing through communal remembrance and acknowledgment of past and continued injustices. Action Oriented Inspire and mobilize community involvement
- [Shariya Molegoda](https://stoppingstones.org/shariya-molegoda/) - The Rev. Shariya Molegoda joined St. Andrew Episcopal Church, Madison, as rector in November, 2016, after serving as rector of Grace Church Church in Jefferson, Missouri, for nine years. Prior to that she served in a variety of positions in Massachusetts: interim rector at St. James’s church in Cambridge, priest-in-charge at the Church of St.
- [Ted Ruddock](https://stoppingstones.org/ted-ruddock/) - Ted Ruddock is a Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Private Wealth, Fixed Income Capital Markets (FICM) with Raymond James. He is a municipal bond expert with experience spanning five decades. He was a member of the firm’s Investment Strategy Committee. Ted is a frequent speaker at financial advisory conferences with a focus on
- [Praise for the Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/praise-for-the-witness-stones-project/) - Connecticut Explored Game Changer Award for advancing the way we study, interpret, and disseminate Connecticut history Connecticut Council for Social Studies Special Project Award for developing the innovative curriculum that prepares students to tell the story of the enslaved in their own communities Guilford Preservation Alliance’s Charles Hubbard Award for research and public education on
- [Nicole Thomas](https://stoppingstones.org/nicole-thomas/) - Nicole Thomas took on an interest in local history almost 20 years ago, after her mother purchased a historic home with an 1895 plaque. In her spare time, she can be found digging through historic archives aiming to find out more about New London's most fascinating stories. A native of New London, Nicole also works for
- [Those We Remember](https://stoppingstones.org/those-we-remember/) - Those We Remember The names below represent the people who are memorialized by Stopping Stones and Witness Stones. By clicking on each name you are able see their stone, learn about their life, and explore the documents related to their story. This Stopping Stones program database represents a living archive. This is not a finished
- [Contact Us](https://stoppingstones.org/contact-us/) - Contact Us Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Person to Contact Pat Wilson Pheanious, Program DirectorMikayla Harden, Assistant Director and ResearcherLiz Lightfoot, School and Youth Program Manager Name(Required) First Last Email(Required) Enter Email Confirm Email Phone Number Tell Us About Your Interest in Stopping Stones(Required) Our Team Pat Wilson
- [Witness Stones Project for Schools](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-for-schools/) - History and Impact Founded in 2017 by an eighth-grade social studies teacher in Connecticut, Witness Stones is now in seven states, has engaged more than 13,000 students, and honors more than 300 individuals. A hands-on educational program, Witness Stones works with schools to identify a local enslaved person and then helps students decode documents, including
- [Witness Stones Project Receives CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-receives-ct-cultural-fund-operating-support-grant-from-ct-humanities/) - The Witness Stones Project was recently awarded a $6900 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH). CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants assist organizations as they recover from the pandemic and maintain and grow their ability to serve their community and the public. Witness Stones Project Co-Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton
- [Our Communities](https://stoppingstones.org/participating-communities/) - Our Communities All StatesCaliforniaConnecticutMarylandMassachusettsMissouriNew JerseyNew YorkPennsylvaniaRhode IslandTexasVermont California 2521 Warren Drive suite a, Rocklin, CA, USA 2521 Warren Drive suite a, Rocklin, CA, USA View Details Sutter County Museum 1333 Butte House Road, Yuba City, CA, USA View Details Connecticut 903 Pequot Trail, Stonington, CT, USA 903 Pequot Trail, Stonington, CT, USA View Details 903
- [What Is the Witness Stones Project?](https://stoppingstones.org/what-is-the-witness-stones-project/) - Through research, education, and civic engagement, the WITNESS STONES PROJECT seeks to restore the history and to honor the humanity and contributions of the enslaved individuals who helped build our communities.
- [History of the Project](https://stoppingstones.org/history/)
- [Patricia Wilson Pheanious](https://stoppingstones.org/patricia-wilson-pheanious/) - Patricia Wilson Pheanious, J.D., M.S.W., was born in Willimantic, Connecticut. She earned a master’s degree in social work and a law degree from the University of Connecticut. She served in the Connecticut House of Representatives, representing the state’s 53rd District, and as the Commissioner of the State Department of Social Services. Representative Pheanious was also
- [Grace Farrell Zimmer](https://stoppingstones.org/grace-farrell-zimmertreasurer-of-the-board-of-directors/) - Grace Farrell Zimmer is a former editor and publisher and President Emerita of the Hyland House Museum. Grace@WitnessStonesProject.org
- [Who We Are](https://stoppingstones.org/who_we_are/) - The Witness Stones Project, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) registered in the State of Connecticut.
- [Dennis Culliton](https://stoppingstones.org/dennis-culliton-executive-director-co-founder/) - Dennis Culliton, M.A.T., C.A.G.S., is the Co-Founder and Director Emeritus of the Witness Stones Project. He retired from the Project after leading it for more than 8 years. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps before attending college at the University of Massachusetts, where he received degrees in anthropology and economics. After a decade working
- [Liz Lightfoot](https://stoppingstones.org/liz-lightfootdirector-of-operations/) - Liz Lightfoot serves as Director of Operations for the Witness Stones Project. A former journalist, she has worked in education for the last 15 years, holding a variety of roles, including overseeing communications and alumni relations, serving as a history teacher, and facilitating the Witness Stones Project. She also works as a freelance writer.
- [Our Local Affiliates](https://stoppingstones.org/local-partners/)
- [Speakers Bureau](https://stoppingstones.org/speakers-bureau/) - We offer educational presentations for organizations, schools, and communities seeking to deepen their understanding of the history and legacy of slavery in New England and beyond. What We Offer Our Speakers Bureau provides tailored presentations to meet the unique needs of your group. Topics may include: The History of Slavery in New England: Uncovering the
- [Contact Witness Stones Project](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-contact/)
- [Veronica Zimmer](https://stoppingstones.org/veronica-zimmer/) - Veronica Zimmer is a Guilford High School student pursuing an International Baccalaureate Diploma.
- [MA 10 - Adam](https://stoppingstones.org/adam-ma10/)
- [MA 33 - Onesimus](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-33-onesimus/) - More information from African Americans in the Record
- [MA 26 - Robert Tigo](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-26-robert-tigo/) - His name might have been Roberto Santiago. More information from African Americans in the Record
- [MA 2 - Cato Cole](https://stoppingstones.org/cato-ma2/) - From African Americans in the Record Born of Jin Cole sometime after she was captured from Guinea and when she was living in Boston; Elihu Ashley purchased her and brought her to Deerfield, MA, with baby Cato in her arms; baptized in 1738, died around the age of 86-90; served in the French & Indian
- [MA 1 - Jin Cole](https://stoppingstones.org/jin-cole-ma1/) - From African Americans in the Record More first name spellings: Jenne, Gin, Jene captured at about age 12 by white slavers and brought to Boston where Ashley purchased her 3-4 years later; she arrived in Deerfield, MA, with a baby (Cato Cole); she was about 85 years old when she died of a fall down
- [NY 6 - Rose Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-6-rose/)
- [NY 13 - Elenor Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-13-elenor-heady/)
- [NY 10 - Amos Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-10-amos-heady/)
- [NY 9 - Robert Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-9-robert-heady/)
- [NY 12 - Jacob Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-12-jacob-heady/)
- [NY 11 - Dennes Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-11-dennes-heady/)
- [NY 8 - Frances Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-8-frances-heady/)
- [NY 7 - Lazarus Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-7-lazarus-heady/)
- [NJ 4 - Nance](https://stoppingstones.org/nj-4-nance/) - From Narrative of Nance’s Life by Student Corinne Saindon Nance, most likely born around 1785 based on a record saying she was 65 in 1850, was an enslaved woman presumably born into slavery. While not much is known about her life, it can be inferred what it was like on the Phillips’ farm. Her
- [Narrative of Nance’s Life ](https://stoppingstones.org/narrative-of-nances-life/) - By Student Corinne Saindon Introduction Slavery in the United States began even before the British colonies separated from their motherland. In 1619, the first of the many enslaved Africans were brought onto unknown soil and made to work against their will. The Triangular Trade was the trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas where
- [NY5 - Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/ny5-anthony/) - More information on Anthony
- [NY4 - Susanna](https://stoppingstones.org/ny4-susanna/) - More on Susanna
- [NY 4 - Susanna](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-4-sussana/)
- [NY 3 - Peg Lyon](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-3-peg-lyon/) - From Remembering Peg Lyon and Anthony Green by Descendant Teresa Vega Who were Peg and Anthony Green? They represent the genesis of our ancestral lineage. Their descendants, including their sons—Charles Merritt, Jack Husted, Anthony Jr., Platt, Allan (my third great-grandfather), Henry, and Solomon—stand as testaments to their enduring legacy. While the specifics of their
- [Teresa Vega](https://stoppingstones.org/teresa-vega/) - Teresa Vega has dedicated over two decades to researching her family history and genealogy. In 2010, she delved deeply into this pursuit, combining traditional genealogy with genetic genealogy research. Through her efforts, Teresa successfully traced several maternal mixed-race lines back to Colonial New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Notably, she uncovered direct
- [RI 2 - Sylvia Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/ri-2-sylvia-torrey/) - Sylvia Torrey was kidnapped as girl from West Africa. After a trans-Atlantic trip that would have lasted around 80 days, she was sold to Matthew Robinson of Newport, Rhode Island. She married Cuffee Torrey and had a least one son, Lewis, with him. Lewis was born free in 1784. His status as free person
- [RI 1 - Cuffee Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/ri-1-cuffee-torrey/) - Cuffee is an Akan name given to boys who are born on a Friday. We do not know when he arrived in Rhodes Island. He was enslaved by the Rev. Joseph Torrey, the first minister of what is now the Kingston Congregational Church. Documents show that he was occasionally loaned out to work for others.
- [NY 2 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/jack-ny2/) - Jack was enslaved by the Halstead family around 1805. Evidence suggests that he was emancipated in 1825. More on Jack
- [NJ 3 - Henry Staats](https://stoppingstones.org/nj-3-henry-staats/) - From the New Jersey Slavery Records Henry Staats (also known by his nickname Harry) was a Black man enslaved by Abraham Staats of Franklin Township, Somerset County (in the present-day area of South Bound Brook). In the early 19th century, he lived with the Staats family at the Abraham Staats House, which is now
- [NJ 2 - Frost Blackwell](https://stoppingstones.org/nj-2-frost-blackwell/) - Frost Blackwell's Biography A Student Essay by Gwyneth Denham Slavery was brought into America in the founding stages and thrived for almost 200 years. Throughout the early years of America, generations of people were treated with brutality and constant oppression. Slavery in the United States was very different from other countries since it was
- [NJ 1 - Friday Truehart](https://stoppingstones.org/friday-truehart-nj1/) - From the Keynote Address by Patricia True Payne at the Friday Truehart Witness Stone Installation Ceremony My ancestor, Friday Truehart, arrived in the Sourland region at the age of 13 as the slave of the Rev. Oliver Hart, who purchased him in Charleston, South Caroline, on April 9, 1771, which is 251 years ago. According
- [CT130 - Rose Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/ct130-rose-nichols/) - Rose was born in the American colonies. She and Boston were parents to nine children: Lydia, Boston Jr., Thomas, Thomas Boston, Jemima, Liverpool, Richard, Rebeckah, and Bristow. They resided on Charter Oak Avenue in West Hartford before moving to Rocky Hill, CT. The couple was freed in 1774, but their nine children would stay enslaved
- [CT 99 - Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-99-cuff/) - A Student Essay by Teagan Connellan, Class of 2022, Elisabeth C. Adams Middle School No birth records. No death records. No marriage records. No working records. Someone who wasn’t even seen as a person. Someone who would be traded or worth a unit of dollars. Someone who was with five different people in his lifetime.
- [CT 98 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/jack-ct-98/) - Jack was one of the sixteen known enslaved people held at the Bush-Holley House. He was the oldest child of Candice Bush and the brother of Hester, who were also enslaved by the Bush family. Jack was among the last of the enslaved children born in the Bush-Holley House, along with his sister, Hester, and
- [CT 97 - Cull Bush Jr.](https://stoppingstones.org/cull-bush-jr-ct97/) - Cull Bush Jr was one of the sixteen known enslaved people held at the Bush-Holley House. He was the youngest child, and only son, of Cull Bush Sr and Patience, who were also enslaved by the Bush family. Unlike his five older sisters, who were sent to work in other households once they were old
- [CT 95 - Nimrod Benedict](https://stoppingstones.org/nimrod-benedict-ct95/) - Nimrod Benedict (c. 1761-1837) was a Danbury resident who was sold in 1765 by Joseph Taylor to Noble Benedict. He was four years old at the time. . Nimrod served in the Revolutionary War and gained his freedom thereafter. More information on Nimrod Benedict
- [CT 94 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-94-cesar/) - Cesar was born enslaved in 1784 in the Samuel McClellan home. In 1803 he self-emancipated and gained his freedom. More on Cesar
- [CT 93 - Caesar Stevenson](https://stoppingstones.org/caesar-stevenson-ct-93/) - Caesar and his wife, Candace, were married by the Re. Elizur Goodrich in the First Congregational Church of Durham in 1771 "with the permission of [his enslaver] Thomas Camp." The 1790 Durham Censu lists Caesar and 5 family members. They are the only free non-white people listed in this census. A property transfer of
- [CT 92 - Titus Kent](https://stoppingstones.org/titus-kent-ct-92/) - From Wikipedia: Titus Kent was an enslaved man in colonial Suffield, Connecticut, the father of Titus Gay and a Connecticut militiaman in the American Revolutionary War. Kent served with his enslaver, Elihu Kent (1733–1814), and with others from Suffield, Connecticut. Kent served in the 3rd Connecticut Regiment in the Connecticut Line; Colonel Samuel Wyllys commanded, serving under General Samuel Holden Parsons. His regiment served in
- [CT 91 - Peter Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-91-peter-cesar/) - More on Peter Cesar
- [CT 90 - Theophilus Niger](https://stoppingstones.org/theophilus-niger-ct90/) - Theophilus Niger: A Short History A Biographical Sketch Written by Students at The Country Schoool Editor’s Note: After spending weeks collectively researching documents, students worked individually to piece together a biographical narrative reflecting Theophilus Niger’s life story. What follows is a composite of their sketches. Like all histories, elements of this narrative are likely
- [CT 88 - Lois Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-88-lois-tritton/) - Lois was the daughter of Lucy Tritton. From A Student Reflection on the Witness Stones Project: I feel it is my duty to spread the story of Lois, not just because she was an amazing person, but because at the time she was alive, being an abolitionist, not many people supported what she was
- [CT 87 - Lucy Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-87-lucy-tritton/) - From Witness Stones Shed Light On New Haven’s History Of Enslavement Downtown Lucy was most likely born in West Central Africa in 1764 and later kidnapped and trafficked to the island of St. Thomas, where she was sold into chattel slavery. General R. Tritton, a merchant who sailed ships in and out of New
- [Bill of Sale of Dinah to the Selectmen of Guilford, Connecticut, 1792](https://stoppingstones.org/bill-of-sale-of-dinah-to-the-selectmen-of-guilford-connecticut-1792/) - Know all men by these Present that I Elias Cadwell of Guilford in New Haven County & State of Connecticut for the Consideration of the Sum of Twelve pounds lawful Money Rec’d to my full Satisfaction of Joseph Weld, Sam’l Lee, Sol’ Stone, Sam’l Johnson Jun’r & others Select Men for s’d Town, have bargained
- [Last Will and Testament of Ruth Naughty, 1771](https://stoppingstones.org/last-will-and-testament-of-ruth-naughty-1771/) - This is the last Will and Testament of Ruth Naughty, widow of David Naughty who died 33 years earlier. In his will, he directed his executrix (Ruth) to free the enslaved couple Montros and Phillis and their children at her death. Her will frees only Montros and Phillis and explains why she felt she did
- [Last Will and Testament of David Naughty, 1738](https://stoppingstones.org/last-will-and-testament-of-david-naughty/) - [rl_gallery id="1518"] Last Will and Testament of David Naughty(e) Dated: 26 June 1738 The last will and testament of David Naughty(e) was written in 1738 and lists how his estate would be distributed upon his death. He instructs his executor, heir, and wife Ruth Naughty to free his slaves Montros, Phillis, Pompey, and their future
- [Bill of Sale to Thomas Pynchon](https://stoppingstones.org/bill-of-sale-to-thomas-pynchon/) - 6. N. Loysel to Dr. Thomas Pynchon, Vol. 15, p. 200.jpeg Doctor Thos A. Pynchon Know all Men by these presents that Nicholas Lozelle of Guilford in New Haven County & State of Connecticut for the consideration of the Sum of Five hundred pounds ??? to my full satisfaction of Thomas A. Pynchon
- [Montros & Phillis Family Tree](https://stoppingstones.org/montros-phillis-family-tree/)
- [Winchester, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/winchester-connecticut/) - Local Partner Local News
- [Emancipation of Candace by Hooker Bartlett](https://stoppingstones.org/emancipation-of-candace-by-hooker-bartlett/) - Emancipation of Candace by Hooker Bartlett et al Guilford Grantor – Grantee Property Records Volume 14, page 233 (Transcribed) Hooker Bartlet, (et al) Their Letter of Emancipation to Their Negro Girl Candace To all People to whome these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that we the Subscribing Authority being apply’d to by
- [Indenture of Moses to the Reverend Amos Fowler](https://stoppingstones.org/indenture-of-moses-to-the-reverend-amos-fowler/) - Indentures are traditionally an agreement between two parties where one party agrees to provide labor in recompense for money loaned to them (in many cases, a ship’s passage from Europe to the New World) or in recompense for a skilled learned such as an apprenticeship. Indentures usually had time limits and responsibilities of both
- [Karla Spurlock-Evans](https://stoppingstones.org/karla-spurlock-evans/) - After working for two years as an assistant professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at the State University of New York at Albany, in 1977 Karla Spurlock-Evans left research and teaching to become a student affairs administrator and diversity officer, focusing in particular on supporting the academic and social aspirations of
- [MA 12 - Young Girl](https://stoppingstones.org/young-girl-ma12/)
- [Woodstock, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/woodstock-connecticut/) - Local Partners Local News
- [MA 13 - Woman](https://stoppingstones.org/woman-ma13/)
- [West Hartford, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/westhartford-ct/) - Local Partners Local News
- [MA3 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/titus-ma3/)
- [MA 19 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/titus-ma19/)
- [MA 18 - Rebecca](https://stoppingstones.org/rebecca-ma18/)
- [MA 17 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/pompey-ma17/)
- [MA14 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/phillis-ma14/)
- [NY 1 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/rose-ny1/) - Location: Timothy Knapp House, 265 Rye Beach Avenue, Rye, New York Rose was born sometime in the year 1773. She was enslaved in Rye by Ezekiel Halsted, Sr., and by his son, Philomen Halsted. On June 5, 1808, Rose married Jack, a free black man. She was emancipated in 1809. More on Rose
- [MA8 - Mescheck](https://stoppingstones.org/mescheck-ma8/)
- [MA4 - Lucy Terry](https://stoppingstones.org/lucy-terry-ma4/)
- [MA15 - Humphry](https://stoppingstones.org/humphry-ma15/)
- [MA9 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/caesar-ma9/)
- [MA7 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/caesar-ma7/)
- [MA5 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/caesar-ma5/)
- [MA16 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/caesar-ma16/)
- [MA6 - Servant](https://stoppingstones.org/servant-ma6/)
- [NY 7 - Lazerus](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-7-lazerus/)
- [NY 5 - Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/ny-5-anthony/)
- [MA 37 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-37-peter/)
- [MA 36 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-36-phillis/)
- [MA 35 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-35-peter/)
- [MA 34 - Young Girl](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-34-young-girl/)
- [MA 32 -Coffee](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-32-coffee/)
- [MA 31 - Town](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-31-town/)
- [MA 30 - Fortune](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-30-fortune/)
- [MA 29 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-29-caesar/)
- [MA 28 - Peter Pur](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-28-peter-pur/)
- [MA 27 - Kedar](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-27-kedar/)
- [MA 24 - Parthena](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-24-parthena/)
- [MA 23 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-23-pompey/)
- [MA 22 - Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-22-prince/)
- [MA 21 - Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-21-hartford/)
- [MA 20 - Ishmael](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-20-ishmael/)
- [MA 11 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-11-peter/)
- [MA 8 - Mescheck](https://stoppingstones.org/ma-8-mescheck/)
- [Cheo Hodari Coker](https://stoppingstones.org/cheo-hodari-coker/) - Seattle based Cheo Hodari Coker is the creator and former Showrunner and Executive Producer of Marvel's Luke Cage. The critically acclaimed drama ran two seasons, from 2016-2018 and is popularly known as “the show that broke Netflix.” A 1994 graduate of Stanford University, Coker started his career in journalism as a staff writer for
- [A Letter from Our Chair](https://stoppingstones.org/a-letter-from-our-chair/) - I was introduced to the Witness Stones Project in its earliest days when middle school teacher Dennis Culliton and psychotherapist Douglas Nygren were contemplating an idea to uncover and acknowledge the humanity and contributions of enslaved people who had helped to build their town of Guilford, Connecticut. Dennis described his work guiding his students at
- [Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery](https://stoppingstones.org/3488-2/) - [maxbutton id="8"] Please visit Unforgotten: Connecticut's Hidden History of Slavery to watch, listen, or read the full series.
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- [FAQ](https://stoppingstones.org/faq/) - The purpose of the Witness Stones Project is to restore the memory of the enslaved who lived in Guilford, CT, and is inspired by the Stolpersteine Project.
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- [Annual Reports](https://stoppingstones.org/annualreport/)
- [Ruth Mercedes](https://stoppingstones.org/ruth-mercedes/) - Ruth Mercedes is a rising senior at Haverford College double majoring in History and Spanish. A Ridgefield, Connecticut, local, she first began working with the Project through volunteering at the Ridgefield Historical Society. Ruth’s research interests include redefining archives as a space of pedagogical promise, rather than inaccessibility. She is particularly excited to explore the
- [Rita Coté](https://stoppingstones.org/rita-cotesecretary-of-the-board-of-directors/) - Rita Coté, MLS, is a retired teacher and librarian. Contact Rita Coté.
- [Westchester County, New York](https://stoppingstones.org/westchester-county-new-york/) - Local Partners Westchester County Witness Stones Rose (NY 1) - Timothy Knapp House, 265 Rye Beach Avenue, Rye, New York Jack (NY2) - Timothy Knapp House, 265 Rye Beach Avenue, Rye, New York Westchester County News
- [CT 9 - Chris](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-9-chris/) - Location: 34 North Main Street, West Hartford, Connecticut More information
- [Washington County, Rhode Island](https://stoppingstones.org/washington-county-rhode-island/) - Local Partners Local News
- [Julie Hughes](https://stoppingstones.org/julie-hughes/) - Julie Hughes earned her PhD in South Asian history from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published with Harvard University Press, in various academic journals, and in the popular press on topics ranging from tiger hunting in colonial India through Black history in Wilton, Connecticut. She is archivist at the Wilton History Room
- [Wilton, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/wilton-connecticut/) - Local Partners Wilton News
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- [Brayton Price](https://stoppingstones.org/brayton-price/) - Brayton Price received a Bachelors of Science in History from Portland State University and is a Public History graduate student at Central Connecticut State University. Researching and bringing history to light for everyone is what makes history his passion. Working with the Witness Stones Project is a great opportunity to do just that.
- [Become a Supporter](https://stoppingstones.org/become-a-friend3/) - The Witness Stones Project is an ongoing effort to restore history and to educate while honoring the humanity and the contributions of the enslaved individuals and supporting justice, equality, inclusion in the world today. In order to do so, we will need your support. Please consider becoming a supporter through your membership or by giving a one-time contribution.
- [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement](https://stoppingstones.org/witness-stones-project-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement/) - The Witness Stones Project’s purpose is to uncover, restore, and honor the history and humanity of enslaved individuals. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion must be at the center of how we think and act in order to fulfill that mission. We value the diversity of the students, educators, parents and families, communities, staff and
- [Strategic Plan](https://stoppingstones.org/strategic-plan/)
- [The Inspiration of the Sankofa Symbol](https://stoppingstones.org/what-is-the-witness-stones-project/sankofa-by-design/) - The word Sankofa is from the Asante Twi language of the Akan people of Western Africa. This area, which we now know as Ghana and the Ivory Coast, is where many (if not most) of those who were captured and sold into slavery bound for the "New World" originated. The word itself means, "to return and get it" (san - "to return"; ko - "to go"; fa - "to fetch, to seek and take"). 
- [Sylvia Gafford-Alexander](https://stoppingstones.org/sylvia-gafford-alexander/) - Sylvia Gafford-Alexander is retired from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, Organizational and Skill Development (DSS) where she served as the Executive Program Director.
- [Lauren Cutuli](https://stoppingstones.org/lauren-cutulidirector/) - Lauren Cutuli is an educational and non-profit consultant.
- [CT 89 - Dimmas Proctor](https://stoppingstones.org/dimmas-proctor-ct89/) - Witness Stone Location: Westfield Congregational Church 1369 Hartford Pike, Dayville, Connecticut Witness Stone Installation Date: May 26, 2022 More information on Dimmas Proctor
- [Courtney King Murphy](https://stoppingstones.org/courtney-king-murphydirector/) - Courtney King Murphy is the Director of Global Impact Citizenship at BNY Mellon.
- [Michael Negrón](https://stoppingstones.org/michael-negron/) - Michael J. Negrón is the Founder and President & CEO of NEGRON Consulting, focused on leadership development, coaching, diversity initiatives, workshop facilitation, an international Speakers Group and select services to the nonprofit sector. Consulting has included projects with The Travelers Companies, Priceline.com, Aetna, Fortune 50 Telecom & Consumer firms, McGraw-Hill Companies, Urban League, Habitat for
- [Kevin Brett Jennings](https://stoppingstones.org/kevin-brett-jennings/) - Kevin Brett Jennings is an American educator, author, and administrator. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, an American civil rights organization that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities as well as people living with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, societal education, and public policy work. He was
- [CT 98 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/ct-98-jack/) - Witness Stone Installation Date: May 25, 2022 Witness Stone Location: Bush-Holley House, 25 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, Connecticut More on Jack
- [Joy Burns](https://stoppingstones.org/joy-burns/) - Joy Burns, PA, MMSc, is a Physician Assistant at the Yale Cancer Center. She is a member of the Amistad Committee and the Yale and Slavery Working Group.
- [Donna Dufresne](https://stoppingstones.org/donna-dufresne/) - Donna Dufresne is an educator, teacher, writer, and historian from the “Quiet Corner” of Connecticut. She is a member of the Windham/Willimantic NAACP and currently involved in several historical research projects to educate students and adults about the rich and diverse understory of local history. Her research and writing has helped to shed light on
- [Wallingford, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/wallingford-ct/) - Local Partners Wallingford News
- [Chester, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/chester-connecticut/) - Local Partners Chester News
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- [John Sanzo](https://stoppingstones.org/john-sanzo/) - John Sanzo is a Public History graduate student at Central Connecticut State University. He is also a Long-Term Social Studies Substitute Teacher and Para-educator for West Hartford Public Schools.
- [Kate Klein](https://stoppingstones.org/kate-klein/) - Kate Klein is a political science and sociology undergraduate student at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Kate has had "change the world" on her to-do list since she was in fourth grade, and working with the Witness Stones Project is a first step.
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- [Learning](https://stoppingstones.org/learning-about-enslaved-people/) - Just as Norwich has its Boston Trowtrow, Hartford has its Cuff, and Madison has its Pompey, Guilford has Moses, an enslaved person who is remembered, if incompletely, in our local histories. But how many more enslaved people contributed to Connecticut in the Colonial and Early American periods. Who were they? Where did they live? Did they die enslaved? 
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## Locations

- [903 Pequot Trail, Stonington, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/7091/)
- [903 Pequot Trail, Stonington, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/7083/)
- [1166 Boston Post Rd, Westbrook, CT 06498, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/7074/)
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- [763 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6948/)
- [763 Longmeadow St, Longmeadow, MA 01106, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6946/)
- [30 Church St, Hebron, CT 06248, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6941/)
- [150 East Street, Hebron, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6932/)
- [581 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT 06443, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6918/)
- [248 Old Whitfield St, Guilford, CT 06437, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6890/)
- [25 Lighthouse Rd, New Haven, CT 06512, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6886/)
- [50 Burlington Road, Harwinton, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6880/)
- [76 Federal St, New London, CT 06320, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6872/)
- [60 Church St, Brooklyn, CT 06234, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6862/)
- [55 Forest St, Hartford, CT 06105, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6853/)
- [350 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT 06475, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6838/)
- [65 N Main St, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6826/)
- [393 N Main St, Stonington, CT 06378, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6817/)
- [](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6811/)
- [1907 Litchfield Turnpike, Woodbridge, CT 06525, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6806/)
- [50 Burlington Road, Harwinton, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6801/)
- [26 Meeting House Ln, Madison, CT 06443, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/6791/)
- [165 Church Street, New Haven, CT 06510, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-50/)
- [1009 Main St, Branford, CT 06405, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-49/)
- [Cemetery Road, Stonington, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-48/)
- [76 Federal St, New London, CT 06320, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-47/)
- [Sill Lane, Old Lyme, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-46/)
- [](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-45/)
- [Old Road, Guilford, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-44/)
- [Long Hill Road, Guilford, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-43/)
- [228 Main St, Durham, CT 06422, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-42/)
- [117 Cemetery Road, Plainfield, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-41/)
- [11 Hempstead St, New London, CT 06320, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-40/)
- [54 Warrenville Road, Mansfield Center, CT 06250, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-39/)
- [54 Warrenville Road, Mansfield Center, CT 06250, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-38/)
- [805 Old Main Street, Rocky Hill, CT 06067, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-37/)
- [36 New Canaan Rd, Wilton, CT 06897, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-36/)
- [42 Camp Rd, Woodstock Valley, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-35/)
- [4 Sunset Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-34/)
- [4 Sunset Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-33/)
- [4 Sunset Lane, Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-32/)
- [230 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-31/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-30/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-29/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-28/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-24/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-27/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-26/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-25/)
- [41625 Court House Drive, Leonardtown, MD, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-23/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-22/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-21/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-20/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-19/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-18/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-17/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-16/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-15/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-14/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-13/)
- [84b Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA 01342, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-12/)
- [96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-11/)
- [34 North Main Street, West Hartford, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/34-north-main-street-west-hartford-ct-usa/)
- [4 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-10/)
- [4 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-9/)
- [110 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-8/)
- [4 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-7/)
- [Old Shore Rd & Buttonball Rd](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-6/)
- [Auto Draft](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-5/)
- [350 Main St](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-4/)
- [Historic Huguenot Street](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-2/)
- [242 Christian St](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft-3/)
- [North Bennington Road](https://stoppingstones.org/location/auto-draft/)
- [Rye Historical Society Knapp House Archives](https://stoppingstones.org/location/265-rye-beach-avenue-rye-ny-usa/)
- [Old Lyme Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/location/lyme-street-old-lyme-ct-usa/)
- [Wooster School](https://stoppingstones.org/location/91-miry-brook-road-danbury-ct-usa/)
- [First Congregational Church of Stonington](https://stoppingstones.org/location/903-pequot-trail-stonington-ct-usa/)
- [Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden](https://stoppingstones.org/location/9-main-st-n-bethlehem-ct-usa/)
- [9 Boston Street, Guilford, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/9-boston-street-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Historic Rock Ford](https://stoppingstones.org/location/881-rockford-road-lancaster-pa-usa/)
- [88 Boston Street, Guilford, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/88-boston-street-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Hyland House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/84-boston-st-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Historic Huguenot Street](https://stoppingstones.org/location/81-huguenot-street-new-paltz-ny-usa/)
- [Historic Deerfield](https://stoppingstones.org/location/80-old-main-street-deerfield-ma-usa/)
- [8 Stone Bridge Road, Woodstock, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/8-stone-bridge-road-woodstock-ct-usa/)
- [First Church of Christ](https://stoppingstones.org/location/763-longmeadow-street-longmeadow-ma-usa/)
- [Howell Living History Farm](https://stoppingstones.org/location/70-woodens-lane-lambertville-nj-usa/)
- [70 State St, Windsor, VT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/70-state-st-windsor-vt-usa/)
- [Unitarian Universalist Society](https://stoppingstones.org/location/7-hartford-rd-brooklyn-ct-usa/)
- [Main School Building, Deerfield Academy](https://stoppingstones.org/location/7-boyden-lane-deerfield-ma-usa/)
- [First Church of Christ](https://stoppingstones.org/location/689-hopmeadow-street-simsbury-ct-usa/)
- [Guilford Free Library](https://stoppingstones.org/location/67-park-st-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [65 Water St, Guilford, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/65-water-st-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [St. Paul's Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/65-n-main-st-wallingford-ct-usa/)
- [63 E River Rd, Riverton, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/63-e-river-rd-riverton-ct-usa/)
- [Ancient Burial Ground](https://stoppingstones.org/location/60-gold-street-hartford-ct-usa/)
- [Old Trinity Church & Cemetery](https://stoppingstones.org/location/60-church-st-brooklyn-ct-usa/)
- [Deacon John Grave House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/581-boston-post-road-madison-ct-usa/)
- [58 Fair St, Guilford, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/58-fair-st-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Phelps Hatheway House and Garden](https://stoppingstones.org/location/55-s-main-st-suffield-ct-usa/)
- [First Congregational Church of Woodstock](https://stoppingstones.org/location/543-ct-169-woodstock-ct-usa/)
- [Mansfield Library](https://stoppingstones.org/location/54-warrenville-road-mansfield-center-ct-usa/)
- [Nehemiah Royce Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/location/538-n-main-st-wallingford-ct-usa/)
- [Kent Memorial Library](https://stoppingstones.org/location/50-n-main-st-suffield-ct-usa/)
- [The Foote School](https://stoppingstones.org/location/50-loomis-place-new-haven-ct-usa/)
- [Bush-Holley House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/47-strickland-road-cos-cob-ct-usa/)
- [Hopewell Baptist Meeting House Cemetery](https://stoppingstones.org/location/46-48-west-broad-street-hopewell-nj-usa/)
- [Watson Farm](https://stoppingstones.org/location/455-north-rd-jamestown-ri-usa/)
- [1855 Harris-Kearney Historical House Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/location/4000-baltimore-avenue-kansas-city-mo-usa/)
- [4 Sunset Ln, Ridgefield, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/4-sunset-ln-ridgefield-ct-usa/)
- [St. Clement's Island State Park](https://stoppingstones.org/location/38370-point-breeze-road-coltons-point-md-usa/)
- [Philipsburg Manor](https://stoppingstones.org/location/381-north-broadway-sleepy-hollow-ny-usa/)
- [37 Main St, Stonington, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/37-main-st-stonington-ct-usa/)
- [36 Mountain Rd, Suffield, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/36-mountain-rd-suffield-ct-usa/)
- [Hancock-Clarke House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/36-hancock-st-lexington-ma-usa/)
- [General William Hart House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/350-main-st-old-saybrook-ct-usa/)
- [Leffingwell House Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/location/348-washington-st-norwich-ct-usa/)
- [St. George Catholic Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/33-whitfield-street-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Mount Carmel Congregational Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/3284-whitney-avenue-hamden-ct-usa/)
- [Pardee-Morris House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/325-lighthouse-road-new-haven-ct-usa/)
- [St. Thomas Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/322-church-st-wood-river-junction-ri-usa/)
- [320 Boston St, Guilford, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/320-boston-st-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Guilford Town Clerk](https://stoppingstones.org/location/31-park-street-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [St. John's Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/3-cross-st-essex-ct-usa/)
- [Kingston Congregational Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/2610-kingstown-road-kingston-ri-usa/)
- [First Congregational Church of Madison](https://stoppingstones.org/location/26-meeting-house-lane-madison-ct-usa/)
- [St. James Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/25-west-st-danbury-ct-usa/)
- [Homestead Student Dormitory](https://stoppingstones.org/location/242-christian-street-wallingford-ct-usa/)
- [Trinity on the Green Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/230-temple-street-new-haven-ct-usa/)
- [United Churches of Durham](https://stoppingstones.org/location/228-main-st-durham-ct-usa/)
- [226 Wildcat Road, Madison, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/226-wildcat-road-madison-ct-usa/)
- [Log Cabin Village](https://stoppingstones.org/location/2100-log-cabin-village-lane-fort-worth-tx-usa/)
- [210 Main St, Danbury, CT](https://stoppingstones.org/location/210-main-st-danbury-ct-usa/)
- [Long Ridge United Methodist](https://stoppingstones.org/location/201-long-ridge-road-danbury-ct-usa/)
- [Town Green](https://stoppingstones.org/location/185-north-main-street-suffield-ct-usa/)
- [Abraham Staats House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/17-von-steuben-ln-south-bound-brook-nj-usa/)
- [Amistad Memorial](https://stoppingstones.org/location/165-church-st-new-haven-ct-usa/)
- [The Porter-Phelps Huntington Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/location/131-river-dr-hadley-ma-usa/)
- [Royall House](https://stoppingstones.org/location/15-george-st-medford-ma-usa/)
- [Hebron Parks & Recreation](https://stoppingstones.org/location/148-east-st-hebron-ct-usa/)
- [Sutter County Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/location/1333-butte-house-road-yuba-city-ca-usa/)
- [Pennington Presbyterian Church](https://stoppingstones.org/location/13-s-main-st-pennington-nj-usa/)
- [129 A Old Main Street, Deerfield, MA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/129-a-old-main-street-deerfield-ma-usa/)
- [Church of Christ, Congregational (UCC)](https://stoppingstones.org/location/12-litchfield-rd-norfolk-ct-usa/)
- [Plainfield Cemetery](https://stoppingstones.org/location/117-cemetery-rd-plainfield-ct-usa/)
- [Guilford Town Green](https://stoppingstones.org/location/1-park-st-guilford-ct-usa/)
- [Wayside Cottage](https://stoppingstones.org/location/1039-post-road-scarsdale-ny-usa/)
- [1 Whitfield Street, Guilford, CT, USA](https://stoppingstones.org/location/1-whitfield-street-guilford-ct-usa/)

## Partners

- [RHAM Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/rham-middle-school/)
- [Hebron Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/hebron-historical-society/)
- [Friends of the Office of State Archaeology](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/friends-of-the-office-of-state-archaeology/)
- [Mansfield Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/mansfield-middle-school/)
- [Plainfield Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/plainfield/)
- [](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/6582/)
- [The Williams School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/the-williams-school/)
- [Rocky Hill Congregational Church](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/rocky-hill-congregational-church/)
- [Camp Woodstock YMCA](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/camp-woodstock-ymca/)
- [Trinity Church on the Green](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/trinity-church-on-the-green/)
- [St. Thomas’s Day School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/st-thomass-day-school/)
- [The Foote School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/the-foote-school/)
- [Historic New England](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/historic-new-england/)
- [School of the Holy Child](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/school-of-the-holy-child/)
- [Northwestern Connecticut Community College](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/northwestern-connecticut-community-college/)
- [St. James Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/st-james-episcopal-church/)
- [Wooster School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/wooster-school/)
- [Trinity Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/trinity-episcopal-church/)
- [The Last Green Valley](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/the-last-green-valley/)
- [Killingly High School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/killingly-high-school/)
- [Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/wallingford-historic-preservation-trust/)
- [Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/pocumtuck-valley-memorial-association/)
- [Hamden Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/hamden-middle-school/)
- [Stonington Middle School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/stonington-middle-school/)
- [Greenwich Academy](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/greenwich-academy/)
- [Sacred Heart Greenwich](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/sacred-heart-greenwich/)
- [Bush-Holley House](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/bush-holley-house/)
- [James Hillhouse High School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/james-hillhouse-high-school/)
- [Ulster BOCES](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/ulster-boces/)
- [School District of Lancaster](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/school-district-of-lancaster/)
- [African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/african-american-historical-society-of-south-central-pennsylvania/)
- [Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/6246/)
- [Suffield Academy](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/suffield-academy/)
- [The Deacon John Grace House](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/the-deacon-john-grace-house/)
- [The Country School](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/the-country-school/)
- [Florence Griswold Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/florence-griswold-museum/)
- [Lyme- Old Lyme Schools](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/lyme-old-lyme-schools/)
- [First Congregational Church of Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/first-congregational-church-of-old-lyme/)
- [Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/old-lyme-phoebe-griffin-noyes-library/)
- [Witness Stones Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/witness-stones-old-lyme/)
- [Connecticut Landmarks](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/bethlehem/)
- [Hebron Parks and Recreation](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/hebron/)
- [Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/porter-phelps-huntington-museum/)
- [Old Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/old-lyme/)
- [St. Thomas Episcopal Church](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/st-thomas-episcopal-church/)
- [Kingston Congregational Church](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/kingston-congregational-church/)
- [West Hartford Public Schools](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/west-hartford/)
- [Historic Rock Ford](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/historic-rock-ford/)
- [Historic Huguenot Street](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/historic-huguenot-street/)
- [Historic Hudson Valley](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/philipsburg-manor/)
- [Friends of Abraham Staats House](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/south-bound/)
- [Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/hopewell/)
- [Historic Deerfield](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/historic-deerfield/)
- [Bennington Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/bennington-museum/)
- [Adams Middle School, Guilford Public Schools](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/adams-middle-school-guilford-public-schools/)
- [Westport Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/westport-historical-society/)
- [Lexington History Museums](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/lexington-history-museums/)
- [Sutter County Museum](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/sutter-county-museum/)
- [St. Mary's County Museum Division](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/st-marys-county-museum-division/)
- [Rye Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/rye-historical-society/)
- [Scarsdale Historical Society](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/scarsdale-historical-society/)
- [Log Cabin Village](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/log-cabin-village/)
- [Isaac Royall House and Slave Quarters](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/isaac-royall-house-and-slave-quarters/)
- [Historic Windsor Preservation Works](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/historic-windsor-preservation-works/)
- [Woodstock Valley](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/woodstock-valley/)
- [Woodstock](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/woodstock/)
- [Wilton](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/wilton/)
- [Wallingford](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/wallingford/)
- [Suffield](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/suffield/)
- [Stonington](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/stonington/)
- [Riverton](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/riverton/)
- [Ridgefield](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/ridgefield/)
- [Pennington](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/pennington/)
- [Old Saybrook](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/old-saybrook/)
- [Norwich](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/norwich/)
- [New London](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/new-london/)
- [New Haven](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/new-haven/)
- [Mansfield](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/mansfield/)
- [Manchester](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/manchester/)
- [Madison](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/madison/)
- [Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/lyme/)
- [Longmeadow](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/longmeadow/)
- [Lambertville](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/lambertville/)
- [Killingly](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/killingly/)
- [Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/hartford/)
- [Hamden](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/hamden/)
- [Guilford](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/guilford/)
- [Farmington](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/farmington/)
- [Essex](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/essex/)
- [Durham](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/durham/)
- [Dayville](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/dayville/)
- [Danbury](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/danbury/)
- [Cos Cob](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/cos-cob/)
- [Brooklyn](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/brooklyn/)
- [Branford](https://stoppingstones.org/partner/branford/)

## Projects

- [CT220 - Lewis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct220-lewis/)
- [CT219- Robin Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct219-robin-freeman/)
- [CT 218 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-218-caesar/)
- [CT217 - Dorcas](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct217-dorcas/)
- [CT216 - Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct216-prince/)
- [CT215 - Negro Woman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct215-negro-woman/)
- [CT214 - Philis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct214-philis/)
- [CT213 - Zacheus Still](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct213-zacheus-still/)
- [CT212 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct212-cesar/)
- [CT199 - Dinah Fellows](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct199-dinah/)
- [CT210 - Phyllis Brown](https://stoppingstones.org/project/7089/)
- [CT209 - Pero Hallam](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct209-pero-hallam/)
- [CT238 - Chloe Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct238-chloe-anthony/)
- [CT237 - Timothy Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/project/6802/)
- [CT207 - Jude](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct207-jude/)
- [CT236 - Violet](https://stoppingstones.org/project/c236-violet/)
- [CA3 - Carter Perkins](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ca3-carter-perkins/)
- [CA2 - Robert Perkins](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ca2-robert-perkins/)
- [CA1 - Sandy Jones](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ca1-sandy-jones/)
- [MA39 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma39-peter/)
- [MA38 - Nicholas](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma38-nicholas/)
- [CT206 - Toby Bardo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct206-toby-bardo/)
- [MA36 - Calab Sharp](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma36-calab-sharp/)
- [MA35 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma35-peter/)
- [MA34 - Young girl](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma34-young-girl/)
- [MA33 - Onesimus](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma33-onesimus/)
- [MA32 - Coffee](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma32-coffee/)
- [MA31 - Town](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma31-town/)
- [MA30 - Fortune](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma30-fortune/)
- [MA29 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma29-caesar/)
- [MA28 - Peter Pur](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma28-peter-pur/)
- [MA27 - Kedar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma27-kedar/)
- [MA26 - Robert Tigo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma26-robert-tigo/)
- [MA25 - Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma25-frank/)
- [MA24 - Parthena](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma24-parthena/)
- [MA23 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma23-pompey/)
- [MA22 - Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma22-prince/)
- [MA21 - Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma21-hartford/)
- [MA19 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma19-titus/)
- [MA18 - Rebecca, Wife of Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma18-rebecca-wife-of-pompey/)
- [MA17 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma17-pompey/)
- [MA16 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma16-caesar/)
- [MA13 -Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma13-caesar/)
- [MA15 - Humphry](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma15-humphry/)
- [MA14 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma14-phillis/)
- [MA12 - Lucy Terry Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma12-young-girl/)
- [MA11 - Woman Name No Longer Known](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma11-woman-name-no-longer-known/)
- [MA10 -Young Girl](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma10-adam/)
- [MA9 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma9-caesar/)
- [MA8 - Adam](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma8-adam/)
- [MA7 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma7-caesar/)
- [MA6 - Mesheck](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma6-mesheck/)
- [MA5 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma5-caesar/)
- [MA4 - Lucy Terry](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma4-ishmael/)
- [MA20 - Ishmael](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma20-ishmael/)
- [MA3 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma3-titus/)
- [MA2 - Cato](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma2-cato/)
- [MA1 - Jin Cole](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma1-jin-cole/)
- [RI5 - Orman Remington](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ri5-orman-remington/)
- [MO1 - Hattie](https://stoppingstones.org/project/mo1-hattie/)
- [MA56 - Zickery Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma56-zickery-prince/)
- [MA 57 - James](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma-57-james/)
- [MA36 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma36-phillis/)
- [MA1A - Zebulon Prutt](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma1a-zebulon-prutt/)
- [NY14A - Sibb Lewis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny14a-sibb-lewis/)
- [CT 164 - Lettice](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-164-lettice/)
- [NJ3 - Henry "Harry" Staats](https://stoppingstones.org/project/nj3-harry-staats/)
- [NY20 - Hendricks](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny20-hendricks/)
- [NJ1 - Friday Truehart](https://stoppingstones.org/project/nj1-friday-truehart/)
- [NY8A - Frances Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny8a-frances-heady/)
- [NY5 - Flip](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny5-flip/)
- [RI1 - Cuffee Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ri1-sylvia-torrey/)
- [NY9 - Charles](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny9-charles/)
- [MA2A - Cesar Phelps](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma2a-cesar-phelps/)
- [NY16A - Betty](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny16a-betty/)
- [CT244 - Martin Powers](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct244-martin-powers/)
- [CT243 - Cesar Peters Junior](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct243-cesar-peters-junior/)
- [CT204 - Henry Peters](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct204-henry-peters/)
- [CT103 - Pomp Mundo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct103-pomp-mundo/)
- [CT102 - Cesar Peters](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct102-cesar-peter/)
- [CT241- Ichabod Pease](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct241-ichabod-pease/)
- [CT211 - Prince Wright](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct211-prince-wright/)
- [CT166- Flora](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct166-flora/)
- [CT101 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct101-dinah/)
- [CT147 - Ned](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct147-ned/)
- [CT143 - Nean](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct143-nean/)
- [CT105 - Romeo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct105-romeo/)
- [CT226 - Tony](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct226-tony/)
- [CT224 - Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct224-cuff/)
- [CT227- Cyrus](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct227-cyrus/)
- [CT 228 - Nell](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-228-nell/)
- [CT 229 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-229-rose/)
- [CT230 - Sias](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct230-sias/)
- [CT240 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct240-jack/)
- [CT 232 - Daniel](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-232-daniel/)
- [CT 233 - Tamar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-233-tamar/)
- [CT 234 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-234-phillis/)
- [NJ5 - Cuffee Voorhees](https://stoppingstones.org/project/nj5-cuffee-voorhees/)
- [CT 124 - Esau](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-124-esau/)
- [CT 123 - Grace](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-123-grace/)
- [CT339 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct339-rose/)
- [CT235 - Cesar Rogers](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct235-cesar-rogers/)
- [CT89 - Dimmas Proctor](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct89-dimmas-proctor/)
- [RI4 - Daniel Davis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ri4-daniel-davis/)
- [CT99 - Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct99-cuff/)
- [CT132 - Boston Junior Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct132-boston-junior-nichols/)
- [CT133 - Lydia Boston](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct133-lydia-boston/)
- [CT134 - Jemima Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct134-jemima-nichols/)
- [CT137 - Rebeckah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct137-rebeckah/)
- [CT130 - Rose Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct130-rose-nichols/) - Rose was born in the American colonies. She and Boston were parents to nine children: Lydia, Boston Jr., Thomas, Thomas Boston, Jemima, Liverpool, Richard, Rebeckah, and Bristow. They resided on Charter Oak Avenue in West Hartford before moving to Rocky Hill, CT. The couple was freed in 1774, but their nine children would stay enslaved for 11
- [CT129 - Boston Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct129-boston-nichols/) - Boston, an enslaved man who was trafficked from West Africa, was brought to Antigua, and then finally to America where he married Rose, an enslaved woman born in the American colonies. Boston and Rose were parents to nine children: Lydia, Boston Jr., Thomas, Thomas Boston, Jemima, Liverpool, Richard, Rebeckah, and Bristow. They resided on Charter Oak Avenue in West Hartford before
- [CT86 - Jullia Thomas](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct86-jullia-thomas/)
- [CT85 - Titus Thomas](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct85-titus-thomas/)
- [CT84 - Prime](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct84-prime/)
- [CT83 - Plimouth](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct83-plimouth/)
- [CT81 - Boy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct81-boy/)
- [CT80 - BOY Child of Silva](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct80-boy-child-of-silva/)
- [CT79 - Ismael](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct79-ismael/)
- [CT78 - Silva](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct78-silva/)
- [CT77 - Lill Child](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct77-lill-child/)
- [CT76 - Lill](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct76-lill/)
- [CT75 - Daughter of Hagar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct75-daughter-of-hagar/)
- [CT74 - Bristo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct74-bristo/)
- [CT73 - Hagar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct73-hagar/)
- [CT47 - Ismael](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct47-ismael/)
- [CT46 - Child of Silva](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct46-child-of-silva/)
- [CT45 - Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct45-frank/)
- [CT44 - Rachel Nott](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct44-rachel-nott/)
- [CT43 - Peleg Nott](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct43-peleg-nott/)
- [CT42 - Pheebe](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct42-pheebe/)
- [CT41 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct41-peter/)
- [CT40 - Neptune](https://stoppingstones.org/project/neptune/)
- [CT39 - Sam](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct39-sam/)
- [CT38 - Unnamed Infant](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct38-unnamed-infant-2/)
- [CT37 - Unnamed Boy 1](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct37-unnamed-boy-1/)
- [CT36 - Daughter of Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct36-dinah-daughter/)
- [CT35 - Rubin](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct35-rubin/)
- [CT34 - Ned](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct34-ned/)
- [CT33 - Coffy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct33-coffy/)
- [CT32 - Greenville](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct32-greenville/)
- [CT31 - Sarah Coffy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct31-sarah-coffy/)
- [CT30 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-30-caesar/)
- [CT29 - Kate](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct29-kate/)
- [CT28 - Lew](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct28-lew/)
- [CT27 - York](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct27-york/)
- [CT25 - Lyde](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct25-lyde/)
- [CT26 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct26-jack/)
- [CT24 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct24-dinah/)
- [CT225 - Aaron Pease](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct225-aaron-pease/)
- [CT 177 Cambridge](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-177-cambridge/)
- [CT176- Mint Palmer](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct176-mint-palmer/)
- [CT2 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct2-phillis/) - Phillis was purchased along with Montros in Boston in 1728 by David Naughty. Montros and Phillis were the parents of eight children who were all born into slavery. Only one of the children, Candace, was known to have been freed. Phillis waited thirty-three years for her freedom but died just a couple of months before it would have
- [CT12 - Page](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct12-page/)
- [CT13 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct13-pompey/)
- [CT14 - Ben](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct14-ben/)
- [CT15 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct15-caesar/)
- [CT16 - Hanibal](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct16-hanibal/)
- [CT17 - Simone](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct17-simone/)
- [CT18 - Hercules](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct18-hercules/)
- [CT11 - Prut](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct11-prut/)
- [CT10 - Bristow](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct10-bristow/)
- [CT9 - Chris](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct9-chris/)
- [CT5 - George](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct5-george/)
- [CT4 - Jude](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct4-jude/)
- [CT200 - Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct200-bristol/)
- [CT223 - Sabina Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct223/)
- [CT221 - Prince Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct221-prince-freeman/)
- [CT222 - Jordan Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct222-jordan-freeman/)
- [CT 23 - Peter Gardner](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct-23-peter-gardner/)
- [CT22 - Tombo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct22-tombo/)
- [CT21 - Shem](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct21-shem/)
- [CT6 - Jouachim](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct6-jouachim/)
- [CT165 - Jenny](https://stoppingstones.org/project/6594/)
- [CT163 - Miriam Eaton](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct163-miriam-eaton/)
- [CT168 - Adam Jackson](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct168-adam-jackson/)
- [CT169 - Tobijah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct169-tobijah/)
- [CT170 - Pegg](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct170-pegg/)
- [CT242 - Cloe Prut](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct242-cloe-prut/)
- [CT88 - Lois Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct88-lois-tritton/)
- [CT171 - John C. Walley](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct171-john-c-walley/)
- [CT172- Crumbo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct172-crumbo/)
- [CT208 - Ann](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct208-ann/)
- [CT174- Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct174-peter/)
- [CT173 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct173-dinah/)
- [CT128 - Quash](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct128-quash/)
- [CT127 - Lidia](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct127-lidia/)
- [CT87 - Lucy Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct87-lucy-tritton/)
- [CT68 - Pompey Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct68-pompey-freeman/)
- [TX1 - Molly](https://stoppingstones.org/project/tx1-molly/)
- [TX2 - Jefferson Walton](https://stoppingstones.org/project/tx2-jefferson-walton/)
- [NY2A - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny2a-jack/)
- [CT92 - Titus Kent](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct92-titus-kent/)
- [NY10A - Amos Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny10a-amos-heady/)
- [MD5 - Tom](https://stoppingstones.org/project/md5-tom/)
- [MD1 - Rimus or George](https://stoppingstones.org/project/md1-rimus-or-george/)
- [MD2 - Alonzo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/md2-alonzo/)
- [MD4 - John](https://stoppingstones.org/project/md4-john/)
- [MD3 - George Scriber](https://stoppingstones.org/project/md3-george-scriber/)
- [CT148 - Dick Putnam](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct148-dick-putnam/)
- [CT161 - Hagar Jeffery](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct161-hagar-jeffery/)
- [CT59 - Humphrey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct59-humphrey/)
- [CT194 - James Chagum](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct194-james-chagum/)
- [CT197 - Patience](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct197-patience/)
- [CT198 - Old Pero](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct198-old-pero/)
- [CT125 - Dick Freedom](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct125-dick-freedom/)
- [CT144 - Dick Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct144-dick-bristol/)
- [CT145 - Cato Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct145-cato-cuff/)
- [CT60 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct60-caesar/)
- [RI3 - Sarah Chauqum](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ri3-sarah-chauqum/)
- [CT151 - Cyrus](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct151-cyrus/)
- [CT72 - Cuffee](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct72-cuffee/)
- [CT142 - Cuff Fellows](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct142-cuff-fellows/)
- [CT94 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct94-cesar/)
- [CT150 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct150-cesar/)
- [CT64 - Crusa](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct64-crusa/)
- [CT156 - Cornelia](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct156-cornelia/)
- [CT57 - Cato](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct57-cato/)
- [CT53 - Candice Bush](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct53-candice-bush/)
- [CT3 - Candace](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct3-candace/)
- [CT93 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct93-caesar/)
- [CT196 - Cadjoe](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct196-cadjoe/)
- [NY10 - Billy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny10-billy/)
- [NY17 - Betty](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny17-betty/)
- [PA1 - Bet](https://stoppingstones.org/project/pa1-bet/)
- [CT111 - Basil](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct111-basil/)
- [CT152 - Barbara Butler](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct152-barbara-butler/)
- [CT70 - Arabella](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct70-arabella/)
- [CT82 - Ambo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct82-ambo/)
- [CT96 - Abda Duce-Ginnings](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct96-abda-duce-ginnings/)
- [CT187 - Bristo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct187-bristo/)
- [CT20 - Lettuce](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct20-lettuce/)
- [CT49 - Tamar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct49-tamar/)
- [CT90 - Theophilus Niger](https://stoppingstones.org/project/6218/)
- [CT167 Cate](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct167-cate/)
- [CT175 Tome](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct175-tome/)
- [CT146 - Stepney](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct146-stepney/)
- [CT149 - Negro Servant](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct149-negro-servant/)
- [CT155 - George](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct155-george/)
- [VT04- Margaret "Peg" Bowen](https://stoppingstones.org/project/vt04-margaret-peg-bowen/)
- [CT157 - Neptune](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct157-neptune/)
- [CT159 - York](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct159-york/)
- [CT158 - Phyllis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct158-phyllis/)
- [CT154 - Rose Jackson](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct154-rose-jackson/)
- [CT153 - Lewis Butler](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct153-lewis-butler/)
- [CT52 - Stepna](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct52-stepna/)
- [CT51 - Pink](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct51-pink/)
- [CT50 - James Mars](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct50-james-mars/)
- [CT71 - Tamer](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct71-tamer/)
- [CT69 - Samuel Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct69-samuel-freeman/)
- [CT67 - Temperance Still](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct67-temperance-still/)
- [CT66 - Jane](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct66-jane/)
- [CT65 - Nancy Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct65-nancy-freeman/)
- [CT63 - Luce](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct63-luce/)
- [CT62 - Jenny Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct62-jenny-freeman/)
- [CT61 - Jack Howard](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct61-jack-howard/)
- [CT58 - Lewis Lewia](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct58-lewis-lewia/)
- [CT141 - Charles](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct141-charles/)
- [CT140 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct140-rose/)
- [CT139 - Milley](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct139-milley/)
- [CT138 - Phyllis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct138-phyllis/)
- [CT136 - Richard](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct136-richard/)
- [CT135 - Liverpole Wadsworth](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct135-liverpole-wadsworth/)
- [CT131 - Thomas Boston](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct131-thomas-boston/)
- [CT126 - Violet](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct126-violet/)
- [CT122 - Hannah Duce](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct122-hannah-duce/)
- [CT121 - Mingo](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct121-mingo/)
- [CT120 - Moses](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct120-moses/)
- [CT119 - Warwick](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct119-warwick/)
- [CT118 - Grace](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct118-grace/)
- [CT117 - Jube](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct117-jube/)
- [CT116 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct116-jack/)
- [CT115 - Samuel](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct115-samuel/)
- [CT114 - Temperance Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct114-temperance-freeman/)
- [CT113 - Harry Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct113-harry-freeman/)
- [CT112 - Prince Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct112-prince-freeman/)
- [CT110 - Margaret Crosley Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct110-margaret-crosley-freeman/)
- [CT109 - Phyllis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct109-phyllis/)
- [CT108 - Salem Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct108-salem-freeman/)
- [CT107 - Katherine Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct107-katherine-freeman/)
- [CT106 - Tantiphant](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct106-tantiphant/)
- [CT100 - Flora](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct100-flora/)
- [MA3A - Margaret "Peg" Bowen](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma3a-margaret-bowen/)
- [MA1B - Belinda Sutton](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma1b-belinda-sutton/)
- [MA5A - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma5a-phillis/)
- [MA4A - Rosanna](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma4a-rosanna/)
- [RI2 - Sylvia Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ri2-cuffee-torrey/)
- [CT48 - Unnamed Boy 3](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct48-unnamed-boy-3/)
- [CT195 - Jack Woosley](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct195-jack-woosley/)
- [PA2 - Susan](https://stoppingstones.org/project/pa2-susan/)
- [PA3 - Robert](https://stoppingstones.org/project/pa3-robert/)
- [PA4 - Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/project/pa4-frank/)
- [NY13 - Abigail](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny13-abigal/)
- [NY15A - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny15a-jack/)
- [NY4A - Susanna](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny4a-susanna/)
- [NY5A - Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny5a-anthony/)
- [NY1A - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny1a-rose/)
- [NY24 - Tom](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny24-tom/)
- [NY23 - Charles](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny23-charles/)
- [NY22 - Sam](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny22-sam/)
- [NY21 - Dimond](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny21-dimond/)
- [NY8 - James](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny8-james/)
- [NY19 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny19-caesar/)
- [NY18 - Harry](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny18-harry/)
- [NY16 - Unnamed Infant of Dina](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny16-unnamed-infant-of-dina/)
- [NY15 - Dina](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny15-dina/)
- [NY14 - Massy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny14-massy/)
- [NY12 - Sue](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny12-sue/)
- [NY11 - Susan](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny11-susan/)
- [NY7 - Venture](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny7-venture/)
- [NY6 - Tom](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny6-tom/)
- [NY4 - Kaiser](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny4-kaiser/)
- [NJ2 - Frost Blackwell](https://stoppingstones.org/project/nj2-frost-blackwell/)
- [CT192 - Pomp Henry](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct192-pomp-henry/)
- [CT191 - Prince Brown](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct191-prince-brown/)
- [CT190 - Boston](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct190-boston/)
- [CT189 - Cuff Condol](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct189-cuff-condol/)
- [CT188 - Suberiah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct188-suberiah/)
- [CT186 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct186-peter/)
- [CT185 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct185-pompey/)
- [CT184 - Jenny](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct184-jenny/)
- [CT183 - Dina](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct183-dina/)
- [CT162 - Prince Griswold Crosley](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct162-prince-griswold-crosley/)
- [CT160 - Jack Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct160-jack-freeman/)
- [NY1 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny1-caesar/)
- [CT182 - Dorcas Scudder](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct182-dorcas-scudder/)
- [CT181 - Peggy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct181-peggy/)
- [CT180 - Nanny](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct180-nanny/)
- [CT179 - Lucy](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct179-lucy/)
- [CT98 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct98-jack/)
- [CT97 - Cull Bush Jr.](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct97-cull-bush-jr/)
- [CT56 - Hester Mead](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct56-hester-mead/)
- [CT55 - Patience](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct55-patience/)
- [CT54 - Cull](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct54-cull/)
- [CT19 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct19-dinah/)
- [CT8 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct8-pompey/)
- [CT7 - Montros](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct7-montros/)
- [MA03 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ma03-dinah/)
- [NY3 - Sampson](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny3-sampson/)
- [NY6A - Rose Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny6a-rose-heady/)
- [NY3A - Peg Lyon](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny3a-peg-lyon/)
- [NY7A - Lazarus Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny7a-lazarus-heady/)
- [NY9A - Robert Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny9a-robert-heady/)
- [NY2 - Dimond Boatman](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny2-dimond-boatman/)
- [NY13A - Elenor Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny13a-elenor-heady/)
- [NY12A - Jacob Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny12a-jacob-heady/)
- [NY11A - Dennis Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ny11a-dennis-heady/)
- [NJ4 - Nance](https://stoppingstones.org/project/nj4-nance/)
- [CT1 - Moses](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct1-moses/)
- [VT2 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project/vt2-dinah/)
- [VT1 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/project/vt1-jack/)
- [CT193 - Prince Duplex](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct193-prince-duplex/)
- [CT104 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct104-titus/)
- [CT95 - Nimrod Benedict](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct95-nimrod-benedict/)
- [CT91 - Peter Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project/ct91-peter-cesar/)

## Sources

- [Manumission of Lewis 1804](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/manumission-of-lewis-1804/)
- [Robin Freeman Black Roots](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/robin-freeman-black-roots/)
- [1800 Runaway Advertisement](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1800-runaway-advertisement/)
- [1803 manumission of Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1803-manumission-of-cesar/)
- [Emancipation of Dorcas, 1793](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/emancipation-of-dorcas-1793/)
- [Prince Deed of Sale 1792](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/prince-deed-of-sale-1792/)
- [Philis Baptism, Lyme, 1748](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/philis-baptism-lyme-1748/)
- [Zacheus Still Muster Roll](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/zacheus-still-muster-roll/)
- [Zacheus Birth Record - Lyme Land Records](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/zacheus-birth-record-lyme-land-records/)
- [Excerpt, Peleg Brown's 1796 Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-peleg-browns-1796-inventory/)
- [Pero Manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pero-manumission/)
- [Excerpt, 1755 Thomas Noyes Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-1755-thomas-noyes-inventory/)
- [Westbrook's enslaved population](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/westbrooks-enslaved-population-2/)
- [John Lay Will 1768](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/john-lay-will-1768/)
- [Arrest of Fugitive Slaves, Sacramento Daily Union, June 3, 1852](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/arrest-of-fugitive-slaves-sacramento-daily-union-june-3-1852/)
- [Toby Promised Freedom 1780](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/toby-promised-freedom-1780/)
- [Westbrook's Enslaved Population](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/westbrooks-enslaved-population/)
- [Dr. Thomas Williams medical record](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/dr-thomas-williams-medical-record/)
- [Probate Inventory, Samuel Dickinson (1761)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/probate-inventory-samuel-dickinson-1761/)
- [Baptism of Fortune 1737](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-fortune-1737/)
- [Pompey and His Wife Rebecca Taken into the Church](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pompey-and-his-wife-rebecca-taken-into-the-church-2/)
- [Pompey and His Wife Rebecca Taken into the Church](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pompey-and-his-wife-rebecca-taken-into-the-church/)
- [Caesar Baptism July 26 1741](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/caesar-baptism-july-26-1741/)
- [Humphry baptized](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/humphry-baptized/)
- [Names of Persons Taken into Church](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/names-of-persons-taken-into-church-2/)
- [Sale of Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sale-of-phillis-2/)
- [Sale of Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sale-of-phillis/)
- [Names of Persons Taken into Church](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/names-of-persons-taken-into-church/)
- [Lucy Prince Obituary](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lucy-prince-obituary/)
- [August 13, 1744, Lusey Servant to Ebenezer Wells was admitted to the fellowship of the church](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/august-13-1744-lusey-servant-to-ebenezer-wells-was-admitted-to-the-fellowship-of-the-church/)
- [Prescription in Dr. Richard Crouch’s account book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/prescription-in-dr-richard-crouchs-account-book/)
- [Young Girl in Thos Williams letter](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/young-girl-in-thos-williams-letter/)
- [Adam and Peter Servants to Justice Thomas Wells assented to articles of Christian faith](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/adam-and-peter-servants-to-justice-thomas-wells-assented-to-articles-of-christian-faith-2/)
- [Adam and Peter Servants to Justice Thomas Wells assented to articles of Christian faith](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/adam-and-peter-servants-to-justice-thomas-wells-assented-to-articles-of-christian-faith/)
- [Caesar servant to Lt. Hoyt baptized July 26, 1741](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/caesar-servant-to-lt-hoyt-baptized-july-26-1741/)
- [Mesheck Admitted to Full Communion](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/mesheck-admitted-to-full-communion/)
- [Col. Hinsdale purchasing shoes for Caesar, Ebenezer Arms Daybook](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/col-hinsdale-purchasing-shoes-for-caesar-ebenezer-arms-daybook/)
- [Ishmael purchasing buttons, 1751, Elijah Williams Day Book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/ishmael-purchasing-buttons-1751-elijah-williams-day-book/)
- [Ishmael 20 in Elijah Williams Day Book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/ishmael-20-in-elijah-williams-day-book/)
- [Personal accounts of John S. Peters, Museum of Connecticut Culture and History](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/personal-accounts-of-john-s-peters-museum-of-connecticut-culture-and-history/)
- [Hebron land records, May 21, 1833 sale of land by Sylvester Gilbert to Henry Peters](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/hebron-land-records-may-21-1833-sale-of-land-by-sylvester-gilbert-to-henry-peters/)
- [Deposition in Support of the Peters’ Family’s Emancipation by Elijah Graves (original, Deposition in Support of the Peters’ Family’s Emancipation by Elijah Graves (transcribed)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/eposition-in-support-of-the-peters-familys-emancipation-by-elijah-graves-original-deposition-in-support-of-the-peters-familys-emancipation-by-elijah-graves-trans/)
- [Deposition in Support of the Peters’ Family’s Emancipation by Elijah Graves (original), Deposition in Support of the Peters’ Family’s Emancipation by Elijah Graves (transcribed)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/deposition-in-support-of-the-peters-familys-emancipation-by-elijah-graves-original-deposition-in-support-of-the-peters-familys-emancipation-by-elijah-graves-tra/)
- [Pomp Mundo May 1789 Emancipation by Connecticut Assembly](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pomp-mundo-may-1789-emancipation-by-connecticut-assembly/)
- [Prince Bill of Sale 1771](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/prince-bill-of-sale-1771/)
- [Prince in Grave Family Account Book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/prince-in-grave-family-account-book/)
- [Bill of Sale- Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bill-of-sale-dinah/)
- [Samuel Smith Testimony](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/samuel-smith-testimony/)
- [Permission for Christopher Leffingwell to Emancipate Exeter, Isaac & Romeo, 8 September 1778](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/permission-for-christopher-leffingwell-to-emancipate-exeter-isaac-romeo-8-september-1778/)
- [Thomas Ruggles 1767 Will mentioning Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/thomas-ruggles-1767-will-mentioning-cuff/)
- [Tony's Injury](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/tonys-injury/)
- [Sale of Cyrus, 1786](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sale-of-cyrus-1786/)
- [Bishop Samuel Seabury 1796 Inventory Excerpt](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bishop-samuel-seabury-1796-inventory-excerpt/)
- [Providence Gazette 1775-09-23](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/providence-gazette-1775-09-23/)
- [Excerpt, Godfrey Malbone letter to brother, John 1779](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-godfrey-malbone-letter-to-brother-john-1779/)
- [Excerpts, Elisha Lord 1725 Probate Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpts-elisha-lord-1725-probate-inventory/)
- [Sale of Tamar and Cato to William Hart 1787](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sale-of-tamar-and-cato-to-william-hart-1787/)
- [Phillis Jackson Death](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/phillis-jackson-death/)
- [Tamar Attachment](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/tamar-attachment/)
- [Excerpt from Titus Brockett Will](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-from-titus-brockett-will/)
- [Mary Brockett Will](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/mary-brockett-will/)
- [Charles Phelps and Ebenezer Scranton Agreement Regarding Rose and Jack, 1807](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/charles-phelps-and-ebenezer-scranton-agreement-regarding-rose-and-jack-1807/)
- [Rose and Jack - Phelps to Scranton](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/rose-and-jack-phelps-to-scranton/)
- [Manumission of Timothy and Chloe Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/manumission-of-timothy-and-chloe-anthony-2/)
- [Manumission of Timothy and Chloe Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/manumission-of-timothy-and-chloe-anthony/)
- [1791 Court Case: King & Baldwin vs. Welton](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1791-court-case-king-baldwin-vs-welton/)
- [Excerpt from Nathaniel Hill’s 1773 Probate Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-from-nathaniel-hills-1773-probate-inventory/)
- [Aaron Pease Elijah Davis Journal 1796 11_29 Crews List](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/aaron-pease-elijah-davis-journal-1796-11_29-crews-list/)
- [Cambridge in Sarah Gould's  1788 inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/cambridge-in-sarah-goulds-1788-inventory/)
- [Widow Sarah Gould's portion Distribution](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/widow-sarah-goulds-portion-distribution/)
- [Excerpt, Dr. William Gould's Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-dr-william-goulds-inventory-2/)
- [Excerpt, Dr. William Gould's Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-dr-william-goulds-inventory/)
- [Mint (Palmer) p 79 2nd Church, Stonington Connecticut, U.S., Church Record](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/mint-palmer-p-79-2nd-church-stonington-connecticut-u-s-church-record/)
- [Sarah Palmer inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sarah-palmer-inventory/)
- [Hannibal](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/hannibal/)
- [The Dignity of Goodness, Delivered at the Funeral of Mr. Ichabod Pease](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/the-dignity-of-goodness-delivered-at-the-funeral-of-mr-ichabod-pease/)
- [Manumission 1794](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/manumission-1794/)
- [Bristol's Manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bristols-manumission/)
- [Advertisement forbidding anyone to marry Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/advertisement-forbidding-anyone-to-marry-bristol-2/)
- [Peter Gardner Manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/peter-gardner-manumission/)
- [Shem in church records](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/shem-in-church-records/)
- [Flora in History of East Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/flora-in-history-of-east-hartford/)
- [Elisha Pitkin, Will 1818](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/elisha-pitkin-will-1818/)
- [Nursing Wadsworth brothers back to Health: excerpt from General James Wadsworth: The Life and Times of Brevet Major General James S. Wadsworth](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/nursing-wadsworth-brothers-back-to-health-excerpt-from-general-james-wadsworth-the-life-and-times-of-brevet-major-general-james-s-wadsworth/)
- [Jenny baptized by Elizur Goodrich, 1771](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/jenny-baptized-by-elizur-goodrich-1771/)
- [Emancipation of Miriam Eaton, 1792](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/emancipation-of-miriam-eaton-1792/)
- [Adam Jackson in New London Tax Roll 1764](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/adam-jackson-in-new-london-tax-roll-1764/)
- [“I bot Adam” and “Adam is come”: Excerpt from Hempsted Diary, September 1727](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/i-bot-adam-and-adam-is-come-excerpt-from-hempsted-diary-september-1727/)
- [S. Conant, Inventory, 1776- Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/s-conant-inventory-1776-titus/)
- [Baptism of Fanny, Daughter of Tobijah and Pegg](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-fanny-daughter-of-tobijah-and-pegg/)
- [Baptism of Tobijah](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-tobijah/)
- [Japhet Will Purchase of Pomp Dorus land](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/japhet-will-purchase-of-pomp-dorus-land/)
- [Death Records](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/death-records/)
- [Pomp Dora 1800 Census](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pomp-dora-1800-census/)
- [Daniel Buck Account Book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/daniel-buck-account-book/)
- [Hagar and Pomp Dorus (Silas Deane’s Probate Inventory)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/hagar-and-pomp-dorus-silas-deanes-probate-inventory/)
- [1796 House by Cloe Prutt and Hagar Dorus  Source: Wethersfield, Connecticut Land Records (1790-1798), vol.20, p. 490](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1796-house-by-cloe-prutt-and-hagar-dorus-source-wethersfield-connecticut-land-records-1790-1798-vol-20-p-490/)
- [Katherine Rusell Probate Records  Volume 22 to 23, 1774 to 1788, Hartford Connecticut  Will (written June 4, 1773)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/katherine-rusell-probate-records-volume-22-to-23-1774-to-1788-hartford-connecticut-will-written-june-4-1773/)
- [Rev. Isaac Chauncey and those he enslaved](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/rev-isaac-chauncey-and-those-he-enslaved/)
- [Prut Family Birth Records](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/prut-family-birth-records/)
- [Wally - Church bells and payment](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/wally-church-bells-and-payment/)
- [Notes from David Van Hoosear (Wilton Historical Society collection)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/notes-from-david-van-hoosear-wilton-historical-society-collection/)
- [PG 2 EBENEZER LYON WILL transcription](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pg-2-ebenezer-lyon-will-transcription/)
- [History of Woodstock by Clarence Winthrop Bowen, 1926](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/history-of-woodstock-by-clarence-winthrop-bowen-1926/)
- [David Scott’s 1760 Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/david-scotts-1760-inventory/)
- [Sale of Dinah and Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sale-of-dinah-and-peter-2/)
- [Sale of Dinah and Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/sale-of-dinah-and-peter/)
- [Inquest](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/inquest/)
- [Quash Freedom](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/quash-freedom/)
- [David Scott giving Lidia to Northrops](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/david-scott-giving-lidia-to-northrops/)
- [Lucy Tritton’s Manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lucy-trittons-manumission/)
- [Lois Tritton Obituary](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lois-tritton-obituary/)
- [Lucy Tritton's 1825 Manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lucy-trittons-1825-manumission/)
- [Testimony by Hannah Austin in Pension application](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/testimony-by-hannah-austin-in-pension-application/)
- [Runaway Slave Advertisement](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/runaway-slave-advertisement/)
- [Land Purchase by Orman Remington](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/land-purchase-by-orman-remington/)
- [Deed of Manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/deed-of-manumission/)
- [Excerpt from Israel Putnam, Pioneer, Ranger, and Major General, 1718-1790, William Farrand Livingston (1901)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-from-israel-putnam-pioneer-ranger-and-major-general-1718-1790-william-farrand-livingston-1901/)
- [Humphrey CT 59 Emancipation](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/humphrey-ct-59-emancipation/)
- [Runaway Ad](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/runaway-ad/)
- [Joseph Taylor Jr. Will](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/joseph-taylor-jr-will/)
- [Cuff Fellows, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/cuff-fellows-the-history-of-woodstock-connecticut/)
- [Marriage Record](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/marriage-record/)
- [Bristol Manumission 1802](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bristol-manumission-1802/)
- [Advertisement forbidding anyone to marry Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/advertisement-forbidding-anyone-to-marry-bristol/)
- [Lists and Returns Connecticut Men in the Revolution – Wallingford Soldiers](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lists-and-returns-connecticut-men-in-the-revolution-wallingford-soldiers/)
- [Partially printed Pay Document to Black Connecticut Revolutionary War Soldier Dick Freedom, received and signed for on his behalf by another Black Soldier, Cuff Liberty. 1780](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/partially-printed-pay-document-to-black-connecticut-revolutionary-war-soldier-dick-freedom-received-and-signed-for-on-his-behalf-by-another-black-soldier-cuff-liberty-1780/)
- [Dec. 5, 1762 Baptism of Titus and Humphry](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/dec-5-1762-baptism-of-titus-and-humphry/)
- [Runaway advertisement, Boston Post-Boy](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/runaway-advertisement-boston-post-boy/)
- [Hartford 1758 Bill of Sale](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/hartford-1758-bill-of-sale/)
- [Baptism of Pompey 1741](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-pompey-1741/)
- [Excerpt 2, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-2-the-redeemed-captive-returning-to-zion/)
- [Excerpt 1, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-1-the-redeemed-captive-returning-to-zion/)
- [Marriage of Parthena and Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/marriage-of-parthena-and-frank/)
- [Robert Tigo 1695 Death](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/robert-tigo-1695-death/)
- [Kedar and Mesheck - Inventory of Parson Williams](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/kedar-and-mesheck-inventory-of-parson-williams/)
- [Excerpt, December 9, 1728 advertisement in The New England Weekly Journal](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-december-9-1728-advertisement-in-the-new-england-weekly-journal/)
- [Excerpt, Elisha William Account Book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-elisha-william-account-book/)
- [Baptism of Onesimus, July 13, 1766](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-onesimus-july-13-1766/)
- [Titus in Ashley Account Book](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/titus-in-ashley-account-book/)
- [Death Records, Jin and Cato Cole](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/death-records-jin-and-cato-cole/)
- [Baptism of Cato, Servant to Revd Ashley, August 1739](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-cato-servant-to-revd-ashley-august-1739/)
- [Jin Cole -  Births, Marriages, and Deaths, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/jin-cole-births-marriages-and-deaths-massachusetts-u-s-town-and-vital-records-1620-1988/)
- [Cato Cuff CT 145 in agreement of Cheseborough brothers](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/cato-cuff-ct-145-in-agreement-of-cheseborough-brothers/)
- [Hugh Hall Account book from Mass Historical Society, May 1728. Page 6 with Mary Danielson (wife of James) and Cuffee](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/hugh-hall-account-book-from-mass-historical-society-may-1728-page-6-with-mary-danielson-wife-of-james-and-cuffee/)
- [Account of Manumission- History of Woodstock p 202](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/account-of-manumission-history-of-woodstock-p-202/)
- [1792 Marriage of Cuff and Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1792-marriage-of-cuff-and-dinah/)
- [Cesar CT 94 Woodstock Vital Records, p 172](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/cesar-ct-94-woodstock-vital-records-p-172/)
- [Cesar Rogers CT 150 manumission](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/cesar-rogers-ct-150-manumission/)
- [Thomas Ruggles Will with Cuff, 1767](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/thomas-ruggles-will-with-cuff-1767/)
- [Receipt for the sale of Betty, an enslaved woman, 1694](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/receipt-for-the-sale-of-betty-an-enslaved-woman-1694/)
- [Lettuce Bailey - Almshouse record 1812](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lettuce-bailey-almshouse-record-1812/)
- [Original Will of Rev. Tod](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/original-will-of-rev-tod/)
- [Original Will of Rev. Jonathan Todd](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/original-will-of-rev-jonathan-todd/)
- [Theophilus Niger - Gift of Property from Jedediah Coe Guilford, CT Land Records, Vol. 8, pp. 88, 89](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/theophilus-niger-gift-of-property-from-jedediah-coe-guilford-ct-land-records-vol-8-pp-88-89/)
- [Excerpt from 1726 will of John Grave II](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-from-1726-will-of-john-grave-ii/)
- [Tome 1705 Benjamin Stone Debt](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/tome-1705-benjamin-stone-debt/)
- [1732 Stepney and John gathering corn](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1732-stepney-and-john-gathering-corn/)
- [The Hartford Courant 1903](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/the-hartford-courant-1903/)
- [Emancipation of Candace by Hooker Bartlett](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/emancipation-of-candace-by-hooker-bartlett/)
- [Jefferson Walton](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/jefferson-walton/)
- [James Mars](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/james-mars/)
- [Lewis Lewia - Primary Source](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lewis-lewia-primary-source/)
- [Edward Hand Return October 1780 pdf](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/edward-hand-return-october-1780-pdf/)
- [Powder Horn made and decorated with birds, animals and reptiles by Dick Freedom](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/powder-horn-made-and-decorated-with-birds-animals-and-reptiles-by-dick-freedom/)
- [Lettice servant of Caleb and Ruth Atwater March 27 1781](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/lettice-servant-of-caleb-and-ruth-atwater-march-27-1781/)
- [Flora in David Naughty Inventory 1739](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/flora-in-david-naughty-inventory-1739/)
- [The Petition of Belinda Sutton (previously known as Belinda Royall)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/6047/)
- [The Petition of Belinda Sutton (previously known as Belinda Royall)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/the-petition-of-belinda-sutton-previously-known-as-belinda-royall/)
- [Dick's Conditional Manumission by Daniel Greene 1796 New Haven](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/dicks-conditional-manumission-by-daniel-greene-1796-new-haven/)
- [Death of Cajoe, Servant of Amos Morris](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/death-of-cajoe-servant-of-amos-morris/)
- [Jack Woolsey Sept 1, 1797](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/jack-woolsey-sept-1-1797/)
- [Occom Visit to James Chagum](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/occom-visit-to-james-chagum/)
- [Ad for Sue’s return](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/ad-for-sues-return/)
- [Runaway Advertisement for Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/runaway-advertisement-for-frank/)
- [Molly](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/molly/)
- [Proclamation Confiscating Property of the English: 1673](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/proclamation-confiscating-property-of-the-english-1673-2/)
- [Proclamation Confiscating Property of the English: 1673](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/proclamation-confiscating-property-of-the-english-1673/)
- [Will of Oliver Hart, Hopewell, NJ](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/will-of-oliver-hart-hopewell-nj/)
- [Inventory - Great Prince, Little Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/inventory-great-prince-little-prince/)
- [“Ran away … a Negro man slave named BOSTON.”](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/ran-away-a-negro-man-slave-named-boston/)
- [Emacipation of Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/emacipation-of-cuff/)
- [Daniel Ely's 1776 Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/daniel-elys-1776-inventory/)
- [Bristo in Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bristo-in-black-roots-in-southeastern-connecticut-1650-1900/)
- [Excerpt, Nathan Jewett 1761 Probate Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-nathan-jewett-1761-probate-inventory/)
- [Dina in an Excerpt From Samuel Selden's1745 Inventory Lyme](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/dina-in-an-excerpt-from-samuel-seldens1745-inventory-lyme/)
- [Gravesite of Prince Griswold Crosley (Duck River Cemetery, Old Lyme, CT)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/gravesite-of-prince-griswold-crosley-duck-river-cemetery-old-lyme-ct/)
- [Revolutionary War Pay Warrant](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/revolutionary-war-pay-warrant/)
- [Pero in 1779 Letter from Godfrey Malbone to John Malbone (June 1799)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/pero-in-1779-letter-from-godfrey-malbone-to-john-malbone-june-1799/)
- [Bill of Sale of Dinah to the Selectmen of Guilford, Connecticut, 1792](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bill-of-sale-of-dinah-to-the-selectmen-of-guilford-connecticut-1792/)
- [Last Will and Testament of David Naughty, 1738](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/last-will-and-testament-of-david-naughty-1738-2/)
- [Bill of Sale to Thomas Pynchon](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/bill-of-sale-to-thomas-pynchon/)
- [Inventory featuring Henry Staats](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/inventory-featuring-henry-staats/)
- [Sarah Chauqum (“Chargain”) v. Edmund Robinson](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/5570/)
- [Elder Daniel Davis](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/elder-daniel-davis/)
- [Letter to Sherriff to Sell at Auction Four Enslaved Persons](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/letter-to-sherriff-to-sell-at-auction-four-enslaved-persons/)
- [Emancipation for Rose:](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/emancipation-for-rose/)
- [Excerpt from Ezekiel Halsted Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/excerpt-from-ezekiel-halsted-inventory/)
- [Receipt for Bill of Sale of Betty](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/receipt-for-bill-of-sale-of-betty/)
- [Jack Bill of Sale - cursive transcription](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/jack-bill-of-sale-cursive-transcription/)
- [Baptism of Sib’s children by her enslaver](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/baptism-of-sibs-children-by-her-enslaver/)
- [Last Will and Testament for Thomas Hadden, p 497](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/last-will-and-testament-for-thomas-hadden-p-497/)
- [Will of  Reverend Matthew Robinson](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/will-of-reverend-matthew-robinson/)
- [1790 Census - South Kingston, Rhode Island Cuffee Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/1790-census-south-kingston-rhode-island-cuffee-torrey/)
- [People Not Property - Stories of Slavery in the Colonial North](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/people-not-property-stories-of-slavery-in-the-colonial-north/)
- [Adolph Philipse's 1750 Probate Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/adolph-philipses-1750-probate-inventory/)
- [Adolph Philipse's 1750 Probate Inventory](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/adolph-philipse-estate-records/)
- [Student Marker](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/student-marker/)
- [News Story about installation ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/news-story-about-installation-ceremony/)
- [Moses working at church](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/moses-working-at-church/)
- [Indenture for Life (1771 Will of Ruth Naughty)](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/indenture-for-life-1771-will-of-ruth-naughty/)
- [Autobiography of Lyman Beecher](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/autobiography-of-lyman-beecher/)
- [Indenture of Moses to the Reverend Amos Fowler](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/indenture-of-moses-to-the-reverend-amos-fowler/)
- [Last Will and Testament of Ruth Naughty, 1771](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/last-will-and-testament-of-ruth-naughty-1771/)
- [Last Will and Testament of David Naughty, 1738](https://stoppingstones.org/project-source/last-will-and-testament-of-david-naughty-1738/)

## Stones

- [CT 220 - Lewis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6660/)
- [CT219 - Robin Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6669/)
- [CT 217 - Dorcas](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6654/)
- [CT216 - Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6651/)
- [CT 215 - Negro Woman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6648/)
- [CT 214 - Philis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6645/)
- [CT213 - Zacheus Still](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6641/)
- [CT212 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6637/)
- [CT199 - Dinah Fellows](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct199-dinah/)
- [CT210 - Phyllis Brown](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7090/)
- [CT209 - Pero Hallam](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7082/)
- [CT238 - Chloe Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6810/)
- [CT237 - Timothy Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6805/)
- [CT207 - Jude](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7072/)
- [CT236 - Violet](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6799/)
- [CA 3 - Carter Perkins](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7068/)
- [CA2 - Robert Perkins](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7064/)
- [CA1 - Sandy Jones](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7058/)
- [MA39 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma39-peter/)
- [MA38 - Nicholas](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma38-nicholas/)
- [CT206 - Toby Bardo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7052/)
- [MA36 - Calab Sharp](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/7045/)
- [MA35 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma35-peter/)
- [MA34 - Young girl](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma34-young-girl/)
- [MA31 - Town](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma31-town/)
- [MA30 - Fortune](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma30-fortune/)
- [MA29 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma29-caesar/)
- [MA28 - Peter Pur](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma28-peter-pur/)
- [MA27 - Kedar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma27-kedar/)
- [MA26 - Robert Tigo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma26-robert-tigo/)
- [MA25 - Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma25-frank/)
- [MA24 - Parthena](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma24-parthena/)
- [MA23 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma23-pompey/)
- [MA22 - Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma22-prince/)
- [MA21 - Hartford](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma21-hartford/)
- [MA19 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma19-titus/)
- [MA18 - Rebecca, Wife of Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma18-rebecca-wife-of-pompey/)
- [MA17 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma17-pompey/)
- [MA16 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma16-caesar/)
- [MA15 - Humphry](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma15-humphry/)
- [MA13 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma13-woman/)
- [MA14 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma14-phillis-age-9/)
- [MA12 - Lucy Terry Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma12-young-girl/)
- [MA10 - Young Girl](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma10-adam/)
- [MA9 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma9-caesar/)
- [MA7 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma7-caesar/)
- [MA6 - Mesheck](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma6-servt-negro/)
- [MA5 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma5-caesar/)
- [MA4 - Ishmael](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma4-lucy-terry/)
- [MA20 - Ishmael](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma20-ishmael/)
- [MA3 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma3-titus/)
- [MA2 - Cato](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma2-cato/)
- [MA1 - Jin Cole](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma1-jin-cole/)
- [MO1 - Hattie](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/mo1-hattie/)
- [MA56 - Zickery Prince](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6975/)
- [MA57 - James](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6972/)
- [MA36 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma36-phillis/)
- [RI5 - Orman Remington](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ri05-orman-remington/)
- [CT164 - Lettice](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6067/)
- [CT244 - Martin Powers](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6943/)
- [CT243 - Cesar Peters Junior](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6938/)
- [CT 204 - Henry Peters](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6930/)
- [CT103 - Pomp Mundo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct103-pomp-mundo/)
- [CT102 - Cesar Peters](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct102-cesar-peter/)
- [MA37 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma37-peter/)
- [CT211 - Prince Wright](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6915/)
- [CT 166 - Flora](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6610/)
- [CT101 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct101-dinah/)
- [CT147 - Ned](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct147-ned/)
- [CT143 - Nean](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct143-nean/)
- [CT105 - Romeo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct105-romeo/)
- [CT 226 - Tony](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6884/)
- [CT224 - Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6889/)
- [CT227 - Cyrus](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6878/)
- [CT228 - Nell](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6870/)
- [CT229 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6867/)
- [CT 230 - Sias](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6861/)
- [CT 240 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6819/)
- [CT232 - Daniel](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6851/)
- [CT233 - Tamar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6845/)
- [CT 234 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6837/)
- [NJ5 - Cuffee Voorhees](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/nj5-cuffee-voorhees/)
- [CT124 - Esau](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6833/)
- [CT123 - Grace](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6824/)
- [CT239 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6815/)
- [CT 235 - Cesar Rogers](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6789/)
- [CT89 - Dimmas Proctor](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct89-dimmas-proctor/)
- [RI4 - Daniel Davis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ri4-daniel-davis/)
- [CT99 - Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct99-cuff/)
- [CT132 - Boston Junior Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct132-boston-junior-nichols/)
- [CT133 - Lydia Boston](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct133-lydia-boston/)
- [CT134 - Jemima Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct134-jemima-nichols/)
- [CT137 - Rebeckah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct137-rebeckah/)
- [CT130 - Rose Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-130-rose-nichols/)
- [CT129 - Boston Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct129-boston-nichols/)
- [CT86 - Jullia Thomas](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct86-jullia-thomas/)
- [CT85 - Titus Thomas](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct85-titus-thomas/)
- [CT84 - Prime](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct84-prime/)
- [CT83 - Plimouth](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct83-plimouth/)
- [CT81 - Boy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct81-boy/)
- [CT80 - Boy, Child of Silva](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct80-boy-child-of-silva/)
- [CT79 - Ismael](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct79-ismael/)
- [CT78 - Silva](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct78-silva/)
- [CT77 - Lill Child](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct77-lill-child/)
- [CT76 - Lill](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct76-lill/)
- [CT75 - Daughter of Hagar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct75-daughter-of-hagar/)
- [CT74 - Bristo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct74-bristo/)
- [CT73 - Hagar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct73-hagar/)
- [CT47 - Ismael](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct47-ismael/)
- [CT46 - Child of Silva](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct46-child-of-silva/)
- [CT45 - Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct45-frank/)
- [CT44 - Rachel Nott](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct44-rachel-nott/)
- [CT43 - Peleg Nott](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct43-peleg-nott/)
- [CT42 - Pheebe](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct42-pheebe/)
- [CT41 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct41-peter/)
- [CT40 - Neptune](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct40-neptune/)
- [CT39 - Sam](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct39-sam/)
- [CT38 - Unnamed Infant 2](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct38-unnamed-infant-2/)
- [CT37 - Unnamed Boy 1](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct37-unnamed-boy-1/)
- [CT36 - Daughter of Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct36-dinah-daughter/)
- [CT35 - Rubin](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct35-rubin/)
- [CT34 - Ned](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct34-ned/)
- [CT33 - Coffy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct33-coffy/)
- [CT32 - Greenville](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct32-greenville/)
- [CT31 - Sarah Coffy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct31-sarah-coffy/)
- [CT30 - Caeser](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct30-caeser/)
- [CT29 - Kate](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct29-kate/)
- [CT28 - Lew](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct28-lew/)
- [CT26 - York](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-27-york/)
- [CT25 - Lyde](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-25-lyde/)
- [CT26 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-26-jack/)
- [CT24 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-24-dinah/)
- [CT 225 - Aaron Pease](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6734/)
- [CT177 - Cambridge](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6722/)
- [CT176 - Mint Palmer](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6710/)
- [CT2 - Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/phillis/)
- [CT241 - Ichabod Pease](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6684/)
- [CT12 - Page](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-12-page/)
- [CT13 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-13-pompey/)
- [CT14 - Ben](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-14-ben/)
- [CT16 - Hanibal](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-16-hanibal/)
- [CT17 - Simone](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-17-simone/)
- [CT18 - Hercules](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-18-hercules/)
- [CT11 - Prut](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-11-prut/)
- [CT10 - Bristow](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-10-bristow/)
- [CT9 - Chris](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-9-chris/)
- [CT5 - George](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-5-george/)
- [CT4 - Jude](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-4-jude/)
- [CT200 - Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct200-bristol/)
- [CT221 - Prince Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6667/)
- [CT222 - Jordan Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6665/)
- [CT 223 - Sabina Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6663/)
- [CT 218 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6657/)
- [CT23 - Peter Gardner](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6630/)
- [CT 22 - Tombo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6622/)
- [CT21 - Shem](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6613/)
- [CT6 - Jouachim](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-6-jouachim/)
- [CT 165 - Jenny](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6595/)
- [CT163 - Miriam Eaton](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6586/)
- [CT168 - Adam Jackson](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6573/)
- [CT169 - Tobijah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6569/)
- [CT170 - Pegg](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6557/)
- [CT242 - Cloe Prutt](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6530/)
- [CT171 - John C. Walley](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6522/)
- [CT172 - Crumbo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6512/)
- [CT 208 - Ann](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6504/)
- [CT174 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6498/)
- [CT 173 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6490/)
- [CT128 - Quash](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct128-quash/)
- [CT127 - Lidia](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct127-lidia/)
- [CT88 - Lois Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct88-lois-tritton/)
- [CT87 - Lucy Tritton](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct87-lucy-tritton/)
- [MA8 - Adam](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma8-mesheck/)
- [TX1 - Molly](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/tx1-molly/)
- [TX2 - Jefferson Walton](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/tx2-jefferson-walton/)
- [NY2A - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny2a-jack/)
- [CT92 - Titus Kent](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct92-titus-kent/)
- [NY10A - Amos Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny10a-amos-heady/)
- [MD5 - Tom](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/md5-tom/)
- [MD4 - John](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/md4-john/)
- [MD3 - George Scriber](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/md3-george-scriber/)
- [MD2 - Alonzo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/md2-alonzo/)
- [MD1 - Rimus or George](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/md1-rimus-or-george/)
- [CT148 - Dick Putnam](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct148-dick-putnam/)
- [CT161 - Hagar Jeffery](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct161-hagar-jeffery/)
- [CT59 - Humphrey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct59-humphrey/)
- [CT194 - James Chagum](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct194-james-chagum/)
- [CT197 - Patience](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct197-patience/)
- [CT198 - Old Pero](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct198-old-pero/)
- [CT 200 - Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6384/)
- [CT125 - Dick Freedom](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct125-dick-freedom/)
- [MA32 - Coffee](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma32-coffee/)
- [MA33 - Onesimus](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma33-onesimus/)
- [RI3 - Sarah Chauqum](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ri3-sarah-chauqum/)
- [CT151 - Cyrus](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct151-cyrus/)
- [CT72 - Cuffee](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct72-cuffee/)
- [CT94 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct94-cesar/)
- [CT145 - Cato Cuff](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct145-cato-cuff/)
- [CT64 - Crusa](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct64-crusa/)
- [CT156 - Cornelia](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct156-cornelia/)
- [CT57 - Cato](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct57-cato/)
- [CT53 - Candice Bush](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct53-candice-bush/)
- [CT3 - Candace](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-3-candace/)
- [CT60 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct60-caesar/)
- [CT196 - Cajoe](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct196-cadjoe/)
- [NY16A - Betty](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny16a-betty/)
- [PA1 - Bet](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/pa1-bet/)
- [CT111 - Basil](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct111-basil/)
- [CT152 - Barbara Butler](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct152-barbara-butler/)
- [CT70 - Arabella](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct70-arabella/)
- [CT82 - Ambo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct82-ambo/)
- [CT20 - Lettuce](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-20-lettuce/)
- [CT49 - Tamar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct49-tamar/)
- [CT90 - Theophilus Niger](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6219/)
- [CT167 - Cate](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6212/)
- [CT 175 - Tome](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6205/)
- [CT146 - Stepney](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct146-stepney/)
- [CT155 - George](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct155-george/)
- [CT1 - Moses](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/moses-king-of-the-slaves-factotum/)
- [CT95 - Nimrod Benedict](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct95-nimrod-benedict/)
- [CT91 - Peter Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct91-peter-cesar/)
- [CT193 - Prince Duplex](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct193-prince-duplex/)
- [CT130 - Rose Nichols](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct130-rose-nichols/)
- [CT104 - Titus](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct104-titus/)
- [CT234 - Phyllis Jackson](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6162/)
- [CT233 - Tamar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/6160/)
- [CT159 - York](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct159-york/)
- [CT158 - Phyllis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct158-phyllis/)
- [CT157 - Neptune](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct157-neptune/)
- [CT154 - Rose Jackson](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct154-rose-jackson/)
- [CT153 - Lewis Butler](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct153-lewis-butler/)
- [CT52 - Stepna](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct52-stepna/)
- [CT51 - Pink](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct51-pink/)
- [CT50 - James Mars](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct50-james-mars/)
- [CT71 - Tamer](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct71-tamer/)
- [CT69 - Samuel Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct69-samuel-freeman/)
- [CT68 - Pompey Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct68-pompey-freeman/)
- [CT67 - Temperance Still](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct67-temperance-still/)
- [CT66 - Jane](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct66-jane/)
- [CT65 - Nancy Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct65-nancy-freeman/)
- [CT63 - Luce](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct63-luce/)
- [CT62 - Jenny Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct62-jenny-freeman/)
- [CT61 - Jack Howard](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct61-jack-howard/)
- [CT58 - Lewis Lewia](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct58-lewis-lewia/)
- [CT96 - Abda Duce-Ginnings](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct96-abda-duce-ginnings/)
- [CT142 - Cuff Fellows](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct142-cuff-fellows/)
- [CT136 - Richard](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct136-richard/)
- [CT135 - Liverpole Wadsworth](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct135-liverpole-wadsworth/)
- [CT131 - Thomas Boston](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct131-thomas-boston/)
- [CT126 - Violet](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct126-violet/)
- [CT122 - Hannah Duce](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct122-hannah-duce/)
- [CT121 - Mingo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct121-mingo/)
- [CT120 - Moses](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct120-moses/)
- [CT119 - Warwick](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct119-warwick/)
- [CT118 - Grace](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct118-grace/)
- [CT117 - Jube](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct117-jube/)
- [CT116 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct116-jack/)
- [CT115 - Samuel](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct115-samuel/)
- [CT114 - Temperance Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct114-temperance-freeman/)
- [CT113 - Harry Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct113-harry-freeman/)
- [CT112 - Prince Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct112-prince-freeman/)
- [CT110 - Margaret Crosley Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct110-margaret-crosley-freeman/)
- [CT109 - Phyllis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct109-phyllis/)
- [CT108 - Salem Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct108-salem-freeman/)
- [CT107 - Katherine Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct107-katherine-freeman/)
- [CT106 - Tantiphant](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct106-tantiphant/)
- [CT100 - Flora](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct100-flora/)
- [MA2A - Cesar Phelps](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma2a-cesar-phelps/)
- [MA1A - Zebulon Prutt](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma1a-zebulon-prutt/)
- [MA4A - Rosanna](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma4a-rosanna/)
- [MA3A - Margaret "Peg" Bowen](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma3a-margaret-bowen/)
- [MA1B - Belinda Sutton](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma1b-belinda-sutton/)
- [CT48 - Unnamed Boy 3](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct48-unnamed-boy-3/)
- [CT15 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-15-caesar/)
- [CT144 - Dick Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct144-dick-bristol/)
- [CT195 - Jack Woosley](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct195-jack-woosley/)
- [PA4 - Frank](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/pa4-frank/)
- [PA3 - Robert](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/pa3-robert/)
- [PA2 - Susan](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/pa2-susan/)
- [NY13 - Abigail](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny13-abigal/)
- [NY15A - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny15a-jack/)
- [NY4A - Susanna](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny4a-susanna/)
- [NY5A - Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny5a-anthony/)
- [NY22 - Sam](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny22-sam/)
- [NY5 - Flip](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny5-flip/)
- [NJ4 - Nance](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/nj4-nance/)
- [NJ2 - Frost Blackwell](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/nj2-frost-blackwell/)
- [NJ1 - Friday Truehart](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/nj1-friday-truehart/)
- [CT192 - Pomp Henry](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct192-pomp-henry/)
- [CT191 - Prince Brown](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct191-prince-brown/)
- [CT190 - Boston](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct190-boston/)
- [CT189 - Cuff Condol](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct189-cuff-condol/)
- [CT188 - Suberiah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct188-suberiah/)
- [CT187 - Bristo](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct187-bristo/)
- [CT186 - Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct186-peter/)
- [CT186 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct185-pompey/)
- [CT184 - Jenny](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct184-jenny/)
- [CT183 - Dina](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct183-dina/)
- [CT162 - Prince Griswold Crosley](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct162-prince-griswold-crosley/)
- [CT160 - Jack Freeman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct160-jack-freeman/)
- [CT93 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct93-caesar/)
- [CT182 - Dorcas Scudder](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct182-dorcas-scudder/)
- [CT181 - Peggy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct181-peggy/)
- [CT180 - Nanny](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct180-nanny/)
- [CT179 - Lucy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct179-lucy/)
- [CT141 - Charles](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct141-charles/)
- [CT140 - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct140-rose/)
- [CT139 - Milley](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct139-milley/)
- [CT138 - Phyllis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct138-phyllis/)
- [CT98 - Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct98-jack/)
- [CT97 - Cull Bush Jr.](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct97-cull-bush-jr/)
- [CT56 - Hester Mead](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct56-hester-mead/)
- [CT55 - Patience](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct55-patience/)
- [CT54 - Cull](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct54-cull/)
- [CT149 - Negro Servant](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct149-negro-servant/)
- [CT150 - Cesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct150-cesar/)
- [CT19 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-19-dinah/)
- [CT8 - Pompey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-8-pompey/)
- [CT7 - Montros](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ct-7-montros/)
- [MA03 - Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ma03-dinah/)
- [NY6A - Rose Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny6a-rose-heady/)
- [NY6 - Tom](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny6-tom/)
- [NY3 - Sampson](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny3-sampson/)
- [NY24 - Tom](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny24-tom/)
- [NY23 - Charles](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny23-charles/)
- [NY21 - Dimond](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny21-dimond/)
- [NY7 - Venture](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny7-venture/)
- [NY7A - Lazarus Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny7a-lazarus-heady/)
- [NY4 - Kaiser](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny4-kaiser/)
- [NY3A - Peg Lyon](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny3a-peg-lyon/)
- [NY8 - James](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny8-james/)
- [NY8A - Frances Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny8a-frances-heady/)
- [NY9 - Charles](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny9-charles/)
- [NY9A - Robert Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny9a-robert-heady/)
- [NY20 - Hendricks](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny20-hendricks/)
- [NY2 - Dimond Boatman](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny2-dimond-boatman/)
- [NY1A - Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny1a-rose/)
- [NY19 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny19-caesar/)
- [NY18 - Harry](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny18-harry/)
- [NY17 - Betty](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny17-betty/)
- [NY16 - Unnamed Infant of Dina](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny16-unnamed-infant-of-dina/)
- [NY15 - Dina](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny15-dina/)
- [NY14A - Sibb Lewis](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny14a-sibb-lewis/)
- [NY14 - Massy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny14-massy/)
- [NY13A - Elenor Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny13a-elenor-heady/)
- [NY12A - Jacob Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny12a-jacob-heady/)
- [NY12 - Sue](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny12-sue/)
- [NY11A - Dennis Heady](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny11a-dennis-heady/)
- [NY11 - Susan](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny11-susan/)
- [NY10 - Billy](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny10-billy/)
- [NY1 - Caesar](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ny1-caesar/)
- [VT04 - Margaret "Peg" Bowen](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/5576/)
- [RI2 - Sylvia Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ri2-cuffee-torrey/)
- [RI1 - Cuffee Torrey](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/ri1-sylvia-torrey/)
- [NJ3 - Harry Staats](https://stoppingstones.org/stone/nj3-harry-staats/)

## Categories

- [Education](https://stoppingstones.org/category/education/)
- [In The Media](https://stoppingstones.org/category/in-the-media/)
- [Witness Stones](https://stoppingstones.org/category/witness-stones/)
- [Witness Stones Installation Ceremony](https://stoppingstones.org/category/witness-stones-installation-ceremony/)
- [Participating Towns](https://stoppingstones.org/category/participating-towns/)
- [Lecture](https://stoppingstones.org/category/lecture/)
- [Student Work](https://stoppingstones.org/category/student-work/)
- [Event](https://stoppingstones.org/category/event/)

## Tags

- [#NorfolkCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/norfolkct/)
- [#JamesMarsCT50](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jamesmars/)
- [#GreenwichCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/greenwichct/)
- [#WestHartfordCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/westhartfordct/)
- [#NorwalkCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/norwalkct/)
- [#NewHavenCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/newhavenct/)
- [#OldLymeCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/oldlymect/)
- [#SuffieldCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/suffieldct/)
- [#MadisonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/madisonct/)
- [#GuilfordCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/guilfordct/)
- [#SalisburyCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/salisburyct/)
- [#LymeCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lymect/)
- [#KillinglyCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/killinglyct/)
- [#DeerfieldMA](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/deerfieldma/)
- [#DurhamCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/durhamct/)
- [#MansfieldCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/mansfieldct/)
- [#SimsburyCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/simsburyct/)
- [#WallingfordCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/wallingfordct/)
- [#TamarCT49](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/tamarct49/)
- [#LettuceBaileyCT20](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lettucebaileyct20/)
- [#CuffeeCT72](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/cuffeect72/)
- [#CT1Moses](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/mosesct1/)
- [#PhillisCT2](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/phillisct2/)
- [#CandaceCT3](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/candacect3/)
- [#JudeCT4](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/judect4/)
- [#GeorgeCT5](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/georgect5/)
- [#CatoCT57](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/catoct57/)
- [#LewisLewiaCT58](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lewislewiact58/)
- [#HumphreyCT59](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/humphreyct59/)
- [#CaesarCT60](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/caesarct60/)
- [#JackHowardCT61](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jackhowardct61/)
- [#JennyFreemanCT62](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jennyfreemanct62/)
- [#LuceCT63](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lucect63/)
- [#CrusaCT64](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/crusact64/)
- [#NancyFreemanCT65](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nancyfreemanct65/)
- [#JaneCT66](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/janect66/)
- [#TemperanceStillCT67](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/temperancestillct67/)
- [#PompeyFreemanCT68](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/pompeyfreemanct68/)
- [#SamuelFreemanCT69](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/samuelfreemanct69/)
- [#ArabellaCT70](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/arabellact70/)
- [#StepnaPrimusCT52](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/stepnaprimusct52/)
- [#MontrosCT7](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/montrosct7/)
- [#TamerCT71](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/tamerct71/)
- [#PinkPrimusCT51](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/pinkprimusct51/)
- [#ShemCT21](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/shemct21/)
- [#PeterGardnerCT22](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/petergardnerct22/)
- [#TomboCT23](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/tomboct23/)
- [#CullBushCT54](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/cullbushct54/)
- [#CandiceBushCT53](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/candicebushct53/)
- [#PatienceCT55](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/patiencect55/)
- [#HesterMeadCT56](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hestermeadct56/)
- [#HartfordCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hartfordct/)
- [#FrankCT45](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/frankct45/)
- [#PelegNottCT43](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/pelegnottct43/)
- [#NewBritainCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/newbritainct/)
- [#HannibalCT16](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hannibalct16/)
- [#SimoneCT17](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/simonect17/)
- [#HerculesCT18](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/herculesct18/)
- [#NedCT34](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nedct34/)
- [#GreenvilleCT32](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/greenvillect32/)
- [#LewCT28](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lewct28/)
- [#KateCT29](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/katect29/)
- [#CaesarCT30](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/caesarct30/)
- [#YorkCT27](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/yorkct27/)
- [#RubinCT35](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/rubinct35/)
- [#SarahCoffyCT31](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/sarahcoffyct31/)
- [#CoffyCT33](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/coffyct33/)
- [#BristowCT10](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/bristowct10/)
- [#PrutCT11](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/prutct11/)
- [#PageCT12](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/pagect12/)
- [#PompeyCT13](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/pompeyct13/)
- [#BenCT14](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/benct14/)
- [#CaesarCT15](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/caesarct15/)
- [#NorwichCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/norwichct/)
- [#CT38UnnamedInfant](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct38unnamedinfant/)
- [#CT43PelegNott](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct43pelegnott/)
- [#CT44RachelNott](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct44rachelnott/)
- [#CT26Jack](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct26jack/)
- [#HebronCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hebronct/)
- [#ChesterCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/chesterct/)
- [#DeepRiverCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/deepriverct/)
- [#EssexCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/essexct/)
- [#DanburyCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/danburyct/)
- [#BranfordCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/branfordct/)
- [#MarlboroughCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/marlboroughct/)
- [#AndoverCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/andoverct/)
- [#StoningtonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/stoningtonct/)
- [#WoodstockCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/woodstockct/)
- [#RidgefieldCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ridgefieldct/)
- [#BrooklynCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/brooklynct/)
- [#CanterburyCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/canterburyct/)
- [#SpragueCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/spraguect/)
- [#FranklinCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/franklinct/)
- [#BozrahCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/bozrahct/)
- [#PrestonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/prestonct/)
- [#VoluntownCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/voluntownct/)
- [#LisbonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lisbonct/)
- [#DickFreedom](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/dickfreedom/)
- [#MiddletownCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/middletownct/)
- [#TitusCT104](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/titusct104/)
- [#RyeNY](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ryeny/)
- [#FranklinCoMA](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/franklincoma/)
- [#SomersetCoNJ](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/somersetconj/)
- [#MercerCoNJ](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/mercerconj/)
- [#WestchesterCoNY](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/westchestercony/)
- [#WiltonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/wiltonct/)
- [#CuffCT99](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/cuffct99/)
- [#FloraCT100](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/floract100/)
- [#NimrodBenedictCT95](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nimrodbenedictct95/)
- [#AbdaDuce-GinningsCT96](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/abdaduce-ginningsct96/)
- [#HannahDuceCT122](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hannahducect122/)
- [#FridayTruehartNJ1](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/fridaytruehartnj1/)
- [#CaesarStevensonCT93](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/caesarstevensonct93/)
- [#TitusKentCT92](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/tituskentct92/)
- [#TheophilusNigerCT90](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/theophilusnigerct90/)
- [#CullBushCT97](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/cullbushct97/)
- [#JackCT98](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jackct98/)
- [#TantiphantCT106](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/tantiphantct106/)
- [#KatherineFreemanCT107](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/katherinefreemanct107/)
- [#SalemFreemanCT108](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/salemfreemanct108/)
- [#PhyllisCT109](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/phyllisct109/)
- [#MargaretCrosleyFreemanCT110](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/margaretcrosleyfreemanct110/)
- [#BasilCT111](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/basilct111/)
- [#PrinceFreemanCT112](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/princefreemanct112/)
- [#HarryFreemanCT113](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/harryfreemanct113/)
- [#TemperanceFreemanCT114](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/temperancefreemanct114/)
- [#SamuelCT115](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/samuelct115/)
- [#Jack#116](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jack116/)
- [#JubeCT117](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jubect117/)
- [#GraceCT118](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/gracect118/)
- [#WarwickCT119](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/warwickct119/)
- [#MosesCT120](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/mosesct120/)
- [#MingoCT121](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/mingoct121/)
- [#DimmasProctorCT89](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/dimmasproctorct89/)
- [#RomeoCT105](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/romeoct105/)
- [#LoisTrittonCT88](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/loistrittonct88/)
- [#GraceCT123](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/gracect123/)
- [#EssauCT124](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/essauct124/)
- [#DinahCT101](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/dinahct101/)
- [#LucyTritonCT87](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lucytritonct87/)
- [#Wallingford](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/wallingford/)
- [#CesarCT94](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/cesarct94/)
- [#DickFreedomCT125](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/dickfreedomct125/)
- [#DinahGardnerCT19](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/dinahgardnerct19/)
- [#DinahCT24](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/dinahct24/)
- [#PompMundoCT103](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/pompmundoct103/)
- [#HamdenCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hamdenct/)
- [#BethlehemCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/bethlehemct/)
- [#NewLondonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/newlondonct/)
- [#WestportCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/westportct/)
- [#ManchesterCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/manchesterct/)
- [#NewYorkCoNY](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/newyorkcony/)
- [#MilfordCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/milfordct/)
- [#PlainfieldCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/plainfieldct/)
- [#WashingtonCoRI](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/washingtoncori/)
- [#OldSaybrookCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/oldsaybrookct/)
- [#VioletCT126](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/violetct126/)
- [#RoseNY1](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/roseny1/)
- [#JackNY2](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/jackny2/)
- [#CatoCuffCT145](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/catocuffct145/)
- [#FarmingtonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/farmingtonct/)
- [#HampdenCoMA](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/hampdencoma/)
- [#SouthingtonCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/southingtonct/)
- [#UlsterCoNY](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ulstercony/)
- [#WoodburyCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/woodburyct/)
- [#NorfolkCoMA](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/norfolkcoma/)
- [#CT142CuffFellows](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct142cufffellows/)
- [#CT154RoseJackson](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct154rosejackson/)
- [#LongmeadowMA](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/longmeadowma/)
- [#CT201OldTi/TitusKent](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct201oldti-tituskent/)
- [#NJ3HenryStaats](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nj3henrystaats/)
- [#CambrigeCT177](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/cambrigect177/)
- [#CT102CesarPeters](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct102cesarpeters/)
- [#LidiaCT127](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lidiact127/)
- [#QuashCT128](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/quashct128/)
- [#CT147Ned](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct147ned/)
- [#CT148DickPutnam](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct148dickputnam/)
- [#CT171JohnCWally](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct171johncwally/)
- [#CT172Crumbo](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct172crumbo/)
- [#CT173Dinah](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct173dinah/)
- [#CT174Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct174peter/)
- [#CT176MintusPalmer](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct176mintuspalmer/)
- [#NJ2FrostBlackwell](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nj2frostblackwell/)
- [#NJ1FridayTruehart](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nj1fridaytruehart/)
- [#NJ4Nance](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/nj4nance/)
- [#RI1CuffeeTorrey](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ri1cuffeetorrey/)
- [#RI2SylviaTorrey](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ri2sylviatorrey/)
- [#CT179Lucy](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct179lucy/)
- [#CT180Nanny](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct180nanny/)
- [#CT181Peggy](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct181peggy/)
- [#CT182DorcasScudder](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct182dorcasscudder/)
- [#NY3PegLyon](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny3peglyon/)
- [#CT195JackWoolsey](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct195jackwoolsey/)
- [#MA36Phillis](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ma36phillis/)
- [#MA37Peter](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ma37peter/)
- [#CT202Kate](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct202kate/)
- [#CT203Mina](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct203mina/)
- [#NY4Susanna](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny4susanna/)
- [CT197Patience](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct197patience/)
- [#NY5Anthony](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny5anthony/)
- [#CT200Bristol](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ct200bristol/)
- [#NY6Rose](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny6rose/)
- [#NY6RoseHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny6roseheady/)
- [#NY7LazarusHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny7lazarusheady/)
- [#NY8FrancesHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny8francesheady/)
- [#NY9RobertHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny9robertheady/)
- [#NY10AmosHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny10amosheady/)
- [#NY11DennisHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny11dennisheady/)
- [#NY12JacobHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny12jacobheady/)
- [#NY13ElenorHeady](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/ny13elenorheady/)
- [#WestbrookCT](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/westbrookct/)
- [#LancasterCoPA](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/lancastercopa/)
- [StoppingStones](https://stoppingstones.org/tag/stoppingstones/)