Mahala (Freeman) Lew (1790 - 1854)

Born 5 Dec 1790 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Wife of Zimri Lew I — married 31 Aug 1811 in Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Wife of William Goddard — married 9 Nov 1853 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 22 May 1854 at age 63 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Mahala (Freeman) Lew is a part of US Black heritage.

Mahala Freeman was the daughter of Cato Freeman (abt.1768-1853) and Lydia (Bristow) Freeman (1765-1854). She was born on the 5th of December in 1790. She was the first of nine children born free to parents who had been enslaved and emancipated with the ending of slavery in Massachusetts.

Mahala married first Zimri Lew (abt.1785-abt.1847) on August 21,1811 in Dracut, Massachusetts and they had six children.

She married second William Goddard (abt.1778-abt.1861) in Boston, Massachusetts the 9th of November 1853 and she died the following May.

She was buried in Dracut, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQ6-W2Z : 10 November 2020), Mahala Goddard, 22 May 1854; citing Death, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004273916.

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKQ-987 : 15 January 2020), Mahala Freeman, 1790. (no image)
• "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com, Mahala Freeman, Birth Date: 5 Dec 1790, Birth Place: Andover, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Cato Freeman, Mother: Lydia Freeman; Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011, Provo, UT, USA (with image)

• New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Dracut, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, p. 179; Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850. Mahala Freeman, Marriage, Date: 31 Aug 1811, Dracut, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA, Zimri Lew. Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; 2018, Lehi, UT, USA

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDS7-THC : 22 December 2020), Mahala Lue, Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHYY-QYL : 28 July 2021), Mahala Freeman Lew in entry for William Goddard, 1853.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHQ6-W2Z : 10 November 2020), Mahala Goddard, 22 May 1854; citing Death, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004273916.

• "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7KB-G68 : 2 March 2021), Mahala Goddard, 22 May 1854; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, v 86 p 40, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,170.