found: Second daughter, 1996:CIP galley (Elizabeth Freeman, also called Mum Bett, b. 1742, married Josiah Freeman, won her freedom from slavery in Mass. in 1770s)
found: In black and white, c1980:v. 1, p. 338 (Elizabeth Freeman, 1732-1829; worked in Sedgewick family)
found: LC data base, 05-12-95(Freeman, Elizabeth, 1744-1829)
found: Wilds, M. MumBet, 1999:CIP t.p. (MumBet : the life and times of Elizabeth Freeman) CIP galleys (Elizabeth "MumBet" Freeman; referred to in various historical accounts, as Betty, Bett, Mum Bett, or Mumbet; "The Chronicles of Old Canaan" mention that Bett was ca. 14 in 1746; another story, attributed to the Ashley family, says that Bett came to Ashley House in 1744; however, when Bett died in 1829, the Sedgwick family, who remained among her closest friends, guessed she died in her 85th year)
found: Mother of freedom, c2009:t.p. (Mum Bett) p. 110 (Elizabeth Freeman; d. Dec. 28, 1829 at about age 85 yrs.)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Freeman, Elizabeth; Mum Bett; slave, litigant, nurse; born in 1744 in Claverack, New York, United States; sued for freedom with lawyer Theodore Sedgwick, who won the historic case, Brom and Bett v. J. Ashley Esq. (1781); exemplary for illiterate African Americans who contributed to black communities' challenges to racial inequality in the early republic; former slave become renowned abolitionist; became a sought-after nurse; died 28 December 1829 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States)
found: Bentley's miscellany, 1853:volume 34, number 202, pages 417-424 (Slavery in New England; discusses Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mammy Bet, which evolved into Mum-Bett, and translated into French as Chut Babet)
