![]() ![]() Birch for $650, claiming that he was a fugitive slave. It is possible that "Brown" and "Hamilton" incapacitated Northup-his symptoms suggest that he was drugged with belladonna or laudanum, or with a mixture of both-and sold him to Washington slave trader James H. He died on November 22, 1829, and his grave is in Hudson Falls Baker Cemetery. Mintus and his wife last lived near Fort Edward. As boys, Northup and his brother worked on the family farm. He provided an education for his two sons at a level considered high for free black people at that time. It is notable that Mintus Northup was able to save enough money as a freedman to buy land that satisfied this requirement, and registered to vote. From 1821 on, when it revised its constitution, the state retained the property requirement for black people, but dropped it for white men, thus expanding their franchise. A farmer, Mintus Northup was successful enough to own land and thus meet the state's property requirements. Solomon described his mother as a quadroon, meaning that she was one-quarter African American, and three-quarters European. ![]() ![]() Their two sons, Solomon and Joseph, were born free according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, as their mother was a free woman. ![]() Mintus Northup married and moved with his wife, a free woman of color, to the town of Minerva in Essex County, New York. ![]()
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