The Free and Enslaved People of Color in Marblehead Online Database

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Flora Gerry

Flora Boyd

Status (enslaved, free or both): free

Known dates: circa 1789-1804

Flora Gerry was the daughter of Cato Gerry and Phillis Batchelder Gerry. She was baptised alongside her sister Peggy at the Second Congregational Church on February 25, 1799 at the age of 10. On July 17, 1804, Flora married John Boyd of Marblehead in a ceremony solemnized by Isaac Mansfield, Esq. No other records exist for either Flora or John.

Bibliography:

1790 United States Federal Census of Marblehead.

1800 United States Federal Census of Marblehead.

Marblehead, Early Vital Records of Massachusetts: From 1600 to 1850, https://ma-vitalrecords.org/.

Records of the Second Congregational Church of Marblehead, Marblehead Museum.

Vital and Town Records of Marblehead, ancestry.com.

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