Yarmouth Project/Indigenous and Other People of Color - Episode 1: Cato and Lucy Judah with Notes on Eleazer and Mary Black
Please note that the information contained in these Project Episodes may be edited and updated as I discover more documents and information. I will note them as edited if so. If any reader knows of, or has information that may add to or change anything I note, I would love to hear from you. Cato and Lucy Judah An oft repeated factoid in many written histories of Yarmouth is that concerning Lucy and Cato Judah, who in 1797 were noted as being the last residents at Bass River living in a "wigwam." (1) Lucy was of purported indigenous ancestry and her husband Cato was a former slave. At about this time, land in this South Yarmouth area was proposed to be used for salt works; a portion of said land being the site of native burials. Lucy and Cato were so "grieved" at this idea that either they, or another party, had bodies disinterred and buried in a location along Long Pond. It is not clear to me from the descriptions of this event who it was that disinterred and