Name/Title
Black Apostle to YankeelandEntry/Object ID
2022.38.2Description
Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833) was born in West Harford, Connecticut, the son of a caucasian woman and a black bondman. His mother disowned and abandoned as a baby. At 5 months of age, he was bound out as a servant for twenty one years and was reared as a bondboy in the family of Deacon David Rose of Granville, Massachusetts. He served in the Revolutionary War. After the war, he studied Latin and homiletices with Rev. Daniel Farran and then Greek with Rev. William Bradford. He was licensed to preach in 1780 and ordained a minister of the Congregational Church five years later. He married Elizabeth Babbit, a caucasian, at Hartland, Connecticut, in 1783. They had nine children, 1785-1805. He served as pastor at Middle Granville, Massachusetts, 1780-1785, pastor at Torrington, Connecticut, 1785- 1787, pastor of West Parish, Rutland, Vermont, 1788, visiting minister, Dorset parish, Vermont, 1789-1795, appointed to labour in the destitute sections of Vermont, 1804, pastor at Manchester, Vermont, 1818-1822, part at South Granville, New York, 1822-1833. He died at South Graville in 1833.