Peter Tusco

"... involved on both sides of the issue,” hc said, noting that the first pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Curtiss, who came to the congregation in 1728, owned a slave named Peter Tusco. When Curtiss married a woman from Berlin whose family owned Tusco, Curtiss became master. Tusco, who came from the Caribbean, is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, according to Elizabeth Kopec, ..."

"... her father sel his hand and seal to a document "in the twelfth year of thc reign of our Sovereign Lord, George thc second of Great Britain" and made Peter Tusco "to bc set and at his own disposal” (ns recorded in History of And so. Peter Tusco came to a free person. He remained wuh Mrs. Curtiss and ls sald to have been devoted lo Bie family and they to hlm He died in 1767 As a ..."

"... markers, and there are modem ones, too. of the older stones mark graves of families no longer listed as residing in the town. One stone marks the spot where Peter Tusco, a Spanish Indian slave, made a freedman here in Connecticut found his last resting place. This grave was dug in 1767, yet the marker still bears a clear inscription, easily ..."

"... the Rev. Jeremiah Curtiss, and other early pastors, are buried at the top of a hill with their families. At the base of the hili is the grave of Peter Tusco, "a Spanish Indian Free Man," as his tombstone states. He died on March According to a Kensington minister had given Tusco to the Curtiss family as a gift. The had ..."