Thomas was given some land near Plumadore Pond. Stager also brought some soil from Maryland and dumped it at John’s gravestone. “I brought some earth from John’s grave, and I flung it there and said, ‘This is all of John Thomas you’re ever going to get,'” Stager said. He pointed out that John had the Thomas name forced on him. Stager said on his road trip, he found the Thomas plantation - he called it a “forced labor camp” - in Barclay, Maryland. He was one of a few Smith grantees who had formerly been enslaved. Thomas escaped slavery in Massachusetts and became a Smith grantee in Vermontville. “He was announcing publicly to the world, ‘I escaped from those people,'” Stager said. Stager pointed out that John Thomas’s gravestone lists the Maryland county he was born in, which is uncommon for a gravestone. He said this aspect of Adirondack history is just starting to be rediscovered now. Stager said a book centralizing this information doesn’t exist … yet. Armand and Bellmont were Black-owned,” Stager said.īut their stories are not well known. In recent months, Stager has been mapping all 3,000 lots, learning about the people who owned them and digging up their life stories. In all, Stager said Smith gave away over 100,000 acres to 3,000 Black New Yorkers. To skirt this exclusionary law, abolitionist Gerrit Smith granted hundreds plots of land in the area to Black men around the state in the 1840s, securing them the right to vote. New York officially abolished slavery on July 4, 1827, but the state implemented a law requiring Black men to own $250 in property to have the right to vote here. Stager said that in the 1800s, “monied interests” in New York - people who made lots of money off of slavery - were invested in suppressing the Black vote and maintaining slavery in slave states. But he added that the roots of racial issues today can be traced back to those days. That’s how different it was back then, Stager said. When these people were alive, people in this country were seriously debating whether enslaving them was good or bad. Stager said Monday’s gathering was “totally impromptu.” They returned from their road trip earlier than planned and he figured the Fourth of July was a good time to recognize a piece of American history right here in Vermontville. Thomas escaped slavery in Massachusetts in the 1800s and moved to Vermontville to find freedom. Thomas escaped slavery in Massachusetts in the 1800s and moved to Vermontville to find freedom.Ĭurt Stager empties a baggie of dirt by the gravesite of of John Thomas in Union Cemetery in Vermontville on Monday. Stager said Louisa probably never saw her son’s grave, so he reunited them in death.Ĭurt Stager points to the gravestone of John Thomas in Union Cemetery in Vermontville on Monday. Stager emptied a baggie of dirt from Brady’s son’s New Orleans gravesite where he likely died of disease during the Civil War. In the foreground, the grave of Louisa Brady, a Black Adirondacker buried in the 1800s, is adorned with Lincoln pennies. Over 120 server settings allow you to personalize every detail of the game.Curt Stager leads a group of two dozen people in a rendition of “John Brown’s Body” while playing the banjo in Union Cemetery in Vermontville on Monday. Participate in the community and enlist with a Regiment (Clan) to take part in massive, organized battles with players re-enacting historically accurate tactics of the Civil War Era.
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