Draft – 11/04/24
- Harriette Merrifield Forbes – The Hundredth Town – There are references throughout; check specific pages: 58-59, 63, 153, 155, 188-193. Online edition.
- Some Old Houses in Westborough, Mass. and Their Occupants – Reference to Captain Stephen Maynard (once the “richest man in town”) owning slaves, p. 7: https://archive.org/details/someoldhousesinw00west/page/6/mode/2up.
- Parkman Project: Diary: Africans and African Americans
- Parkman Project: Enslaved Persons in Westborough 1754 – Westborough’s response to the 1754 Massachusetts slave census.
- Parkman Project: Reconstitution Data for Westborough Families: http://www.ebenezerparkman.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/RECONSTITUTIONS-Westborough-Family-Data-2023-05-12.pdf
- Check Church Records – parishioner lists, usually at the end.
- The History of Boys – State Reform School (Massachusetts), 1856-1857: No. 80—“Moral History of James Buchanan” (there are probably similar stories in the book); https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/book_viewer/commonwealth:pc28bf73p (Image #166)
- Alice Clark Gilmore Papers (LH.041) – Eli Whitney Play (warning: the play contains some difficult material to read today)
- History of Westborough, Massachusetts by DeForest and Bates, pp. 190-191: Stephen Maynard, Parkman, James Bowman, and “traditions of others.”
- LH.001 – Local History By Subject: “African Americans”
- “The Soldiers’ Monument,” Saturday Evening Chronotype, December 7, 1867, page 4. Mention of finding a skeleton of a negro in the old cemetery (Memorial Cemetery) while clearing space for the Soldiers’ Monument.
- “Peter Maynard a Molatto” appears on “A List of Male persons Belong [sic] to Westboro January the 1 A.D.: 1777 who are 16 years old,” Westborough Public Library, Box 1, Folder 1.02; digital image at https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:z316sd686 (image 1). Peter Maynard was the only person identified as “a Mulatto.”