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Biddy Mason (1818 - 1891) Profile

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Biddy Mason

Williams, Jean Kinney. Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Slave to Businesswoman (Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2006

African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Dorothy C. Salem, ed., New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 351

Brown, John Zimmerman, comp. Autobiography of Pioneer John Brown, 1820-1896 (Salt Lake City, 1941), 88, 96, 100

Beasley, Delilah L. The Negro Trail Blazers of California (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1919), 109-110

Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Notable Black American Women (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992), 732-734

Carter, Kate B. The Story of the Negro Pioneer. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1965

Mulford, Karen Surina. Trailblazers: Twenty Amazing Western Women (Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 2001), 2, 24-31

Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849

Los Angeles County Recorder, California. Register of deaths, v. 2, 1888-1892 Register of deaths v.3, 1892-1896 Register of deaths v. 4, 1897-1900 Register of deaths v. 5, 1896-1900, 1902, FHL microfilm: 1033297, digital image 100. In Register of deaths, 1877-1905 for Los Angeles County: and indexes of deaths, 1873-1920

"Slave Inhabitants in Utah County, Deseret," 1850 Utah Census, Utah County

California State Census, 1852

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African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Dorothy C. Salem, ed., New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 351

Beasley, Delilah L. The Negro Trail Blazers of California (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1919), 109-110

Brown, John Zimmerman, comp. Autobiography of Pioneer John Brown, 1820-1896 (Salt Lake City, 1941), 88, 96, 100

Camp of Israel schedules and reports, 1845-1849

Carter, Kate B. The Story of the Negro Pioneer. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1965

Mulford, Karen Surina. Trailblazers: Twenty Amazing Western Women (Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 2001), 2, 24-31

Smith, Jessie Carney, ed. Notable Black American Women (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992), 732-734

Williams, Jean Kinney. Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Slave to Businesswoman (Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2006

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Ended 1848 October 10

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Biddy Mason

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Joined Willard Richards Company

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Ended 1848 October 10

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Robert Mays Smith (43)Rebecca Ruth Dorn (38)Hannah Smiley (26)Rande (26)John Dorn Smith (13)Ann Smiley (11)William D. Smith (11)Elijah B. Smith (9)Ellen Mason (9)Lawrence Smiley (7)James S. Smith (5)Nelson Smiley (5)Ann Mason (4)Sarah F. Smith (3)Harriet Mason (0)Jane Smiley (0)Joseph Smith (0)

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