Jenny Cumfry Williams

Jenny Cumfry Williams (born c. 1778) was a formerly enslaved 19th-century American woman.

Life Jenny was likely born near Schenectady, New York. Originally enslaved, she escaped and fled to Springfield, Massachusetts in the early 1800s, as the state had abolished slavery in 1783.

On September 2, 1802, Jenny married a Black man named Jack Williams at First Church in Springfield, Massachusetts,

In the following years, Williams worked as a washerwoman and became known as "an honest, industrious and useful person," who was well-liked by the community. now known as Mason Square, where she "dispensed spruce beer for a consideration to the thirsty". According to the 1810 census, a second free person also lived with the couple.

The year and circumstances of Williams' death are unknown.