Sippy, an enslaved person, was sold and then repurchased by Eleazar Wheelock in the 1760s
In a bill of sale from 1761, a transaction is recorded whereby Eleazar Wheelock buys back an enslaved man named Sippy from Timothy Huntington and Elisha Wales, all men from the Colony of Connecticut. As mentioned in the bill, Sippy had been purchased only one year before by the two sellers. (It was not uncommon for ownership of enslaved people in New England to be shared; Wheelock himself was joint owner of at least one enslaved man.) The work that Sippy performed, his fate, and the reasons for his changing hands remain unknown.
The name Sippy is likely derived from Scipio Africanus, the name of a Roman general. It was conventional to employ the classical and classicizing references popular in 18th-century Britain in the naming of enslaved people, and Scipio was common among these.