Just up the bank from Town Pond in East Hampton’s South End Burying Ground stands a small, brown headstone that reads:

Here lies the remains of
Peggy Negro
Serv. to Capt. Abraham Gardiner
Aged 22 years

Peggy was almost certainly born into slavery, so it is unusual that she was buried in the South End Cemetery among the Hedges, Mulfords, Gardiners, and East Hampton’s other founding families. Read More