Farmer. Son of Zachariah and Joannah Oxford.

Research provided by contributor Martha Hazard-Small (#47496789):

Clarendon Oxford is the husband of my 3rd great Aunt Martha "Patty" Freeman b. 1804 Lancaster, MA d. 23 AUGUST 1897 Gardner, MA. She was the daughter of Phillip Freeman b. 10 MAY 1774 Holliston, MA d. 04 JULY 1841 Gardner. (Son of Sambo, pronounced Zambo, Freeman and Eleanor Donahue Oxford of Holliston) and Martha "Patty" Hammond b. abt 1777 d. 15 DEC 1868 Gardner (daughter of Caesar Hammond and Mercy Travers see Caesar Hammond) Family info below.

Clarendon Oxford's Parents info is as follows:

Zachariah Oxford b. 1778 Marlboro, MA d. 1829 Sterling, MA m. 30 Jun 1800 Boylston, MA Joannah Bondsman b. 1775 Boylston daughter of Cato Bondsman (This family also went by last name of Bond) b. abt. 1747 d. 1801 Boylston and Eunice ? b. cir. 1750.

Cato and Eunice Bondsman had the following children:

Joanna (above)
Roly (male) bp. 7 Feb 1773 Marlboro, MA
Prince b. abt. 1776
Moses Roberts b. 17 AUGUST 1777, Lancaster, MA d. Feb 1810 Boylston, MA m. Seraphina Dorchester b. 08 MARCH 1784 Sterling, MA d. 05 JUNE 1857 Lancaster, daughter of Ishmael Dorchester and Margaret "Peg" Rogers. Seraphina also married Perley Hammond of Lancaster, son of Caesar Hammond Rev War Veteran of Lancaster and Mercy Travers (a white woman) my 5th great grandparents. Ishmael Dorchester was the son of Dorchester and Margaret b? d 9 APRIL 1816 Sterling Mass.

For Dorchester and Margaret's kids see the following link for documentation p. 91:

https://books.google.com/books?id=3A_SHqQ7kMEC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=%22Jenny+Blackendon%22+OR+%22Jenny+*+Blackendon%22+OR+%22Blackendon,+Jenny%22&source=bl&ots=wXTmxnmT6K&sig=uyAiYbXTs04JxhUpyAE_d3NpiPY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bKZ7UoPfHsb1qAG6lYGgCw&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=dorchester&f=false

For Seraphina and Moses Roberts Bondsman marriage see Boylston Marriages page 58. Joanna and Zachariah's marriage is directly beneath theirs. See link below:

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Boylston/Images/Boylston_M058.shtml

Perley Hammonds father Caesar Hammon/Hammond had a brother named Cuff Cozzens also a Rev War Veteran who changed his name to his fathers name of Tindy after he was free and then went by the name of Cuff Tindy. Their father was a slave named James Tindy who belonged to John Jones of Hopkinton, MA.

For Cuff Tindy's info see link below:

http://clinton.wickedlocal.com/x898077907/Lancaster-first-town-to-pass-resolution

See link to will of Jones Jones for slave James (Tindy) below:

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~locatedgrtgm/jones/10-jones-john-1773-will-transcription.html#10will

For Perley Hammonds family see p. 126 at link below:

https://books.google.com/books?id=jUUVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=perley+hammond+mulatto&source=bl&ots=GJ03KKEapL&sig=FNYWBJXdD5FM-Glpetfwy3QAld4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4XxyUtW-IMqwygGuzYDwCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=perley%20hammond%20mulatto&f=false

Note: Sambo Freeman signed one of only a few slave petitions in existence which are owned by the Mass. HX society. He is also mentioned several times in Timothy Dickinson's, of Holliston, MA, diary. See copy of petition in link below p. 2:

http://www.clayton.k12.mo.us/cms/lib/MO01000419/Centricity/Domain/243/Slave%20Petitions%20for%20Freedom.pdf