Robbins House (Concord, Massachusetts)

Originally located in an isolated field on the outskirts of town, it was the childhood home of Caesar Robbins' granddaughter Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark, one of the first people to legally test the 1866 Civil Rights Act.

[5][6] Described as "the big burly son of Caesar Robbins," Peter worked as a farmer and seasonal laborer, selling timber from the trees on his land and the rye and cranberries he grew.

Deeply in debt from mortgaging two farms, by 1835 Peter lost all his property to his creditors, but he soon leased it back, becoming a tenant farmer.

As the daughter and wife of previously enslaved men, Susan signed petitions against slavery, the slave trade, the annexation of Texas, and the removal of the Cherokees from their homeland in the southeastern United States.

In February 1804, New Jersey passed a law providing for the "gradual emancipation of slaves" and became the last Northern state to begin the process of ending slavery within its borders.

People held in bondage who had been born before these laws were passed remained enslaved until 1846 when they were considered indentured servants who were "apprenticed for life".

This no doubt motivated Jack Garrison to escape, finally finding freedom in Concord, MA.

Slavery denied Jack an education; he signed his name with an "X" throughout his life, but his surviving children went to Concord schools and were "literate and good students."

He married Nancy Dager, a woman of Welsh descent, at the First African Baptist Church in Boston, with whom he had six children.

Fifty years after his death, a local firewood business was named the Peter Hutchinson Company in his honor.

[13] Fatima Oliver (Caesar Robbins' Daughter-in-law, 1786–1873) was part of a large, mixed-race family, including Peter Hutchinson, whose members lived in nearby communities.

Fatima filed for divorce in 1837 when a law passed that made adultery no longer an offense punishable by imprisonment.