Samuel May House

This home was owned by Reverend Samuel May, the first Unitarian
minister of the Unitarian Meeting House on the Brooklyn Green. Reverend May was a prominent abolitionist and one of the first members of the National Anti-Slavery Society. When Prudence Crandall wanted to open a school for black girls in nearby Canterbury, Samuel May gave came to her aid. When Crandall was arrested in 1833 and brought to Brooklyn to be incarcerated after refusing to post bond, it was May and the abolitionist Benson family who were there to assist her and, the next day, secure her release. May was also a great supporter of Crandall through her trial at the Old
Windham County Court House, now the Brooklyn Town Hall.