Slave-owning ministers from the Connecticut Valley of western Massachusetts.

Jonathan Ashley         Deerfield         1732-1780      Yale, 1730

Edward Billing           Belchertown   1740-1752 

                                     and Greenfield 1754-1760 Harvard, 1731

Robert Breck              Springfield      1736-1784      Harvard, 1730

James Bridgham         Brimfield         1736-1776      Harvard, 1726

Daniel Brewer            Springfield      1694-1733      Harvard, 1687

Nehemiah Bull           Westfield        1726-1741       Yale, 1723

Isaac Chauncey           Hadley            1696-1745      Harvard, 1693

Ebenezer Devotion     Suffield*         1710-1741      Harvard, 1707

Benjamin Doolittle     Northfield       1718-1749      Yale, 1716

Jonathan Edwards       Northampton  1727-1750      Yale, 1720

Ebenezer Gay             Suffield*         1742-1793      Harvard, 1737

Samuel Hopkins         W. Sringfield  1720-1755      Yale, 1718

Samuel Kendall          New Salem     1742-1776      Harvard, 1731

Noah Merrick             Wilbraham      1741-1776      Yale, 1731

Roger Newton            Greenfield       1761-1816      Yale, 1758

David Parsons            Amherst          1739-1781      Harvard, 1729

John Russell               Hadley            1659-1692      Harvard, 1645

Chester Williams        Hadley            1741-1753      Yale, 1735

John Williams            Deerfield         1688-1729     Harvard, 1683

Stephen Williams       Longmeadow  1716-1782      Harvard, 1713

William Williams       Hatfield           1686-1741      Harvard, 1683

Listed here are the 21 ministers for whom I have good evidence of slave ownership. There are undoubtedly others for whom I have not yet found the evidence. The dates are the dates of their ministries (beginning with the year of their ordination), as well as the dates of their graduation from Harvard or Yale. 

* Suffield, now part of Connecticut, is included because until about 1750 it was a part of Massachusetts.

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