Robert Stafford

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From Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician By Mary R. Bullard and Tracy Moxhay Castle. The African Diaspora Archeology Network: March 2009 Newsletter.

In 1860 Dr. Bacon identified to the census enumerator his ward, Robert Stafford. Born to
Elizabeth, Georgia’s stiffening racial laws of the 1840s required the mulatto boy to have a white guardian. Stafford sent both sons to Connecticut to live at the home of a friendly school-master named Samuel Lamb. We think this boy may have been mentally slow. In 1860 the lad was entered at the Meriden School for Boys, a farm school not far from Hartford (Connecticut) for troublesome boys. In Connecticut not only would he have access to doctors, but he would be able visit his mother and sisters in Stafford’s handsome new house on the Thames River at New London. Most of the boys at the school had their crime listed (theft, trespass, forgery, and the like), but next to the name of this Robert Stafford is written just: “Boarder.” 19

• 18 Elizabeth Bernardey’s children were placed at the home of Belton Copp, a close friend of Robert Stafford. Copp looked after their interests until his death in 1858.

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• Residence: Groton, New London, Connecticut
  • Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 3 2016, 6:57:51 UTC
• Residence: 1860 USFC - Groton, New London, Connecticut
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - [http://www.geni.com/pro* http://www.diaspora.illinois.edu/news0309/news0309-8.pdf Frau Doktor Nancy Stafford of Georgia: From Slave to Physician By Mary R. Bullard and Tracy Moxhay Castle. The African Diaspora Archeology Network: March 2009 Newsletter.
• page 317 of Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island: Growth of a Planter By Mary Ricketson Bullard
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