Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - David Field
DAVID FIELD
David Field, a colored man, received 100 acres of land from Cyprian Lee
for two years' labor and settled on it about 1826. He was born a
slave, given his freedom and brought to Delaware County when a boy by
John Mark. He was a strong, muscular man, and would not bear
imposition. For a while he was industrious and economical, but
through sickness his farm became involved and he finally lost it.
He never regained any property and died a pauper in an adjoining county.