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CT 53 – Candice Bush

Candice Bush was one of the sixteen known enslaved people held at the Bush-Holley House. Our earliest known rerecord of Candice is in the first United States Census in 1790, in which she is listed among the enslaved. She was 10 years old.

Candice would remain enslaved to the Bush family until just before her 45th birthday in 1820. By the laws of the time, this was the oldest an enslaved person could be and still qualify for emancipation.

In freedom, Candice formed a household in Hangroot with her daughter, Hester, and her grandson, William. She would live in this house, with the ones she loved, until her death in 1840.

Candice is buried in Union Cemetery. She and her daughter are the only the only formerly enslaved people in Greenwich to have headstones.

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