At just twelve years old, Jin Cole (c. 1723–1808) was uprooted from her homeland in Africa, enduring the harrowing experience of capture, a transatlantic crossing, and sale in the American colonies. Also called Jenny or Jenne, Jin gave birth to a son named Cato who was still an infant when he and his mother were sold in Boston to the Reverend Jonathan Ashley of Deerfield in about 1738. Jin would spend the rest of her life enslaved within the walls of Ashley House, where she cooked, cleaned, and tended to the needs of the Ashley family. Jin and her son continued to serve the Ashley family beyond the legal end of slavery in Massachusetts. A record of “Deaths in Mr. Jont Ashley his Family included “Jenny Cole a Negro Servant of the Rev. Jonathan Ashley Died Sep 1st 1808.”