Crispus Attucks was born in
1723. No one knows his day of birth because he was a slave. His father
Prince was
African and was shipped to New England to be a slave of Colonel
Buckminster in Framingham, Massachusetts. Here he got married to a Natick
Indian named Nancy. Crispus had 2 siblings: Phibe, his older sister and his unnamed baby brother who died
when Crispus was seven due to fever.
Until the age of 16 years, Crispus lived in a little cottage owned by
their
master. From a little boy till he was a young man, Crispus and Prince would
do farm and field work.
As Attucks got older, he developed a desire for freedom. He became a problem
for Colonel Buckminster because he would wander from his work and wouldn't
pay attention. When he was 16 he was sold to Deacon William Brown. His duties
were to buy and sell cattle. What Attucks wanted to do for a living was to
work on boats, something he needed freedom for. At the age of twenty-seven,
he went on a business trip to Boston, Massachusetts. There he secretly
applied for a job as a whaler. He chose a ship that he knew wouldn't
return.