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Ceasar Homan

Cesar

Status (enslaved, free or both): unknown

Known dates: 1762

Ceasar Homan is referred to as a hired (or possible "borrowed") shipwright or maritime-related laborer in the diaries of Ashley Bowen in May and June 1762, often related to Bowen's work on Gamliel Smethurst's Rambler. In May of 1762, Gamliel Smethurst hired Ashley Bowen to serve as Sailing Master of his schooner Rambler, anchored at Redstone Cove in Marblehead. Bowen, who kept a detailed diary, records hiring Cato Watts to work on the schooner beginning on May 10, 1762: “Employed Mr. Morse, Caesar Homan, Cato Watts."

See Cato Watts.

Bibliography:

Journals of Ashley Bowen, May-June, 1762, Marblehead Museum.

Note: Possible death record - Dorchester, MA First Church, died August 11, 1767.

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