Harriet Jennings Newby Robinson
Birth: unknown
Death: 1884 Fairfax City, Virginia, USA
Burial: Burial Details Unknown
Memorial #: 230374355
Bio: excerpt:
https://piedmontlifestyle.com/history/the-newby-families/
Dangerfield married Harriet Jennings, an enslaved woman owned by Dr. Lewis A. Jennings who owned property along the Rappahannock River below Fauquier Springs, a home in Warrenton, and a farm at Brentsville.
Dangerfield and Harriet eventually had seven children, and it became his primary goal to purchase the freedom of Harriet and their children from Jennings. For years, Dangerfield worked as a blacksmith and was hired out to work on the Rappahannock River Canal.
"Dangerfield Newby was a quiet man, upright, quick-tempered, and devoted to his family," wrote Thomas Featherstonhaugh in John Brown's Men: The Lives of Those Killed at Harper's Ferry, published by the South
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excerpt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerfield_NewbyLetter from Harriet Newby
The following letter was found on Dangerfield Newby's body after the failed Harpers Ferry raid:
BRENTVILLE, August 16, 1859
Dear Husband.
I want you to buy me as soon as possible for if you do not get me somebody else will. The servants are very disagreeable. They do all that they can to set my mistress against me. Dear Husband you are not the trouble I see these last two years. It has been like a troubled dream to me. It is said that the Master is in want of monney. If so I know not what time he may sell me. Then all my bright hopes of the future are blasted. For there has been one bright hope to cheer me in all my troubles, that is to be with you. For if I thought I should never see you on this earth, life would have no charm for me. Do all you can for me which I have no doubt you will. I want to see you so much. The children are all well. The baby cannot walk yet. The baby can step around any thing by holding on to it, very much like Agnes. I must bring my letter to close as I have no news to write. You must write soon and say when you think you can come
Your affectionate Wife,
— HARRIET NEWBY
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Dangerfield Newby 1815-1859
Created by: Maria Elizabeth V. Embry-Antioch (46588544)
Added: 5 Aug 2021
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230374355/harriet-jennings-robinson
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230374355/harriet-jennings-robinson : accessed 05 January 2022), memorial page for Harriet Jennings Newby Robinson (unknown–1884), Find a Grave Memorial ID 230374355, ; Maintained by Maria Elizabeth V. Embry-Antioch (contributor 46588544) Burial Details Unknown.
