After 20 letters and emails, I found the descendants of Alexander Herritage Newton!!!

Wondering if there are any Connecticut Historians out there that can help me with this question. The Connecticut State Library has a page that lists all people who enlisted in the Connecticut 29th Colored Regiment, the Connecticut 30th Colored Regiment and the New York 31st Colored Regiment.

I came home to this email! Our first grant award!!! Alex Breanne Corporation has been awarded a $5,100 CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grant from CT Humanities (CTH), with funding from the Connecticut State Department of Economics and Community Development/ Connecticut Office of the Arts (COA) from the Connecticut State Legislature!!!

Last week, in viewing our non-profit corporation logo, a friend said. “Is this your wife’s silhouette? Curious about the back story!" I explained that it wasn't any particular person, just a generic image meant to represent the plight of the American enslaved. It was meant to highlight the largely unsung leadership role the African-American woman has always played, which is why I intentionally depicted the woman as leading. It’s in dark shades to represent the difficult in finding and seeing who they were due to lack of documentation.

Prince Mortimer was an 18th century enslaved individual and Revolutionary War vet in Connecticut who was sent to prison for life at age 87, accused of attempting to poison his enslaver as a means to free himself. He should have been freed 4 decades prior for his service in the Revolutionary War, but wasn’t. He also should have been freed in 1794 when his prior enslaver (Philip Mortimer) freed him in his will…a will that was overturned in the courts when contested by the enslavers son-in-law (George Starr), who became his new enslaver and the person he was accused of attempting to poison in 1811.

I've been digging, trying to find proof Prince Mortimer’s remains were sent to Yale for dissection.