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| Soldiers at Yorktown, including a black infantryman from the 1st Rhode Island Regiment. |
When he died in January 1777, Francis Tanner of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, owned an enslaved man and woman named Quom and Cloe. He left Quom to his son Joshua Tanner, later the father of John Tanner. Since Quom became the property of Joshua and not one of his older half-brothers, he probably came into the Tanner household through an inheritance from the family of Joshua's mother and Francis's second wife, Elizabeth Shelton Tanner.
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| "Also I give and bequeath to my said son Joshua Tanner my negro boy Quom" |
