From African Americans in the Record
More first name spellings: Jenne, Gin, Jene captured at about age 12 by white slavers and brought to Boston where Ashley purchased her 3-4 years later; she arrived in Deerfield, MA, with a baby (Cato Cole); she was about 85 years old when she died of a fall down stairs; from “The History of Deerfield”, by George Sheldon, 1895, pg. 897: “She could not forget her early life, its sunny days, her royal blood, and her cruel wrongs. And she fully expected at death, or before, to be transported back to Guinea; and all her long life she was gathering, as treasures to take back to her motherland, all kinds of odds and ends, colored rags, bits of finery, peculiar shaped stones, shells, buttons, beads, anything she could string.” “…a few days before the tragic death of Jin, a neighbor found these two old crones [Jin and her owner, Mrs. Ashley] and cronies sitting together busily engaged in sewing, and chatting merrily over their work like children making dresses for their dolls. The work they had in hand proved to be a shroud for Jin.”
