The descendants of Nicholas and Bungey Manuel , "negro slaves" freed by the 28 October 1718 Elizabeth City County, Virginia will of Edward Myhill, were in the Edgecombe, North Carolina Militia in the 1750s [Elizabeth City County Deeds, Wills 1715-21, 194-5; Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 675]. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. 2, 1678-93, 276], Elizabeth Lane in 1691 (two children) [Surry Orders 1682-91, 771, 777], Mary Collowhough in 1691 [Westmoreland Orders 1690-92, 24], Bridget Ludgrove in 1692 [Henrico County Record Book no. Some masters took the apprenticeships seriously. Lumbees do live in the areas from Robeson and Scotland Counties, NC and into Marlboro County, SC. James Revell of Cumberland County entrusted his executor with the task of making application to the legislature for his wife's freedom [WB C:21]. They may have migrated south from VA. One of the few written articles that I have found about Goinstown is an article in in the book, "The Heritage of Rockingham County," by the Rockingham County Historical Society, published in 1983. Reading Soundex films, then reading the associated census pages. What people are saying - Write a review. (Note 8). Still the highest concentration of us are in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Nancy Davids, 25, stout wench, 3 small children, (Benjamin Grosvenor). Paul Heinegg's Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia is a collection of genealogies about African American families living in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The Lumbees in Marlboro are usually of the Locklear, Lowery, Chavis, and Clark families. RESIDENTS. George Cummins had the indenture of his white servant woman named Christian Finny extended by a year and her child bound for 31 years by order of the 7 December 1736 Carteret County Court because she had a "Mallatto Bastard Child during her service" [Minutes 1723-47, fol.33c]. Specifically, he shows how the social status of many landowning African-American families changed so much over the years that "by the 20th century they had no idea their ancestors had been free." They joined the same households with white servants ó working, eating, sleeping, getting drunk, and running away together [Northampton Orders 1664-74, fol.25, p.31 - fol.31; McIlwaine, Minutes of the Council, 466-7; Hening, Statutes at Large, II:117]. page 128, household 21, family 21, enumerated 4 September, FUQUAY, Robert, black, male, page 139, household 76, family 81, enumerated 3 June, FUQUAY, Robert, head, black, Robert Murphy. The 14 November 1778 issue of the North Carolina Gazette of New Bern advertised a reward for a. 10 p. [North Carolina] [General Assembly?] Former Georgia Governor Roy E. Barnes is the most notable member of all 15 branches of our family. Some went to Canada and a few to Haiti and Liberia. It also prohibited interracial marriages and ordered the illegitimate, mixed-race children of white women bound out for 30 years [Hening, Statutes at Large, III:86-87]. About Us | Contact Us | Rootsweb Blog | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material the information presented in the. That question has plagued me for decades and caused years of research. 1720 to 1730 Michael Going “other” of Granville Co, NC parent of Jenkins mulatto family. Reading I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator and moderator of Mixed Race Studies, introduced me via email to the Group’s Executive Director, Marvin T. Jones. checked, with negative results. DESERTED, from the U.S. Thomas was the son of Zachariah Hagins, a "Mulatto" bound out in Johnston County Court in October 1760 [Haun, Johnston County Court Minutes, I:46]. By 1790 free African Americans were concentrated in these areas, representing about 10% of the free population of the Eastern Shore, 6% of New Kent, 8% percent of the free population of twelve southside Virginia counties, and 17% of the free population of York County [Heads of Families - Virginia, 9]. These families were also known to be of Mattamuskeet origin. Other leading white settlers who sold them land adjoining theirs and witnessed their deeds were Richard Washington, William and Thomas Bryant, Richard Pace, and William Whitehead. Salisbury, page 604, household Barnaby McKinnie, member of the General Assembly from Edgecombe County in 1735, was witness to many of the early Bass , Bunch , Chavis , and Gibson deeds. Slaves in the United States of America were commonly viewed as chattel and were subjected to long working hours, harsh conditions, floggings, and separation from families and loved ones. The court ruled in the favor of the petitioners in every case [Minutes 1758-66, 1:22c; 1764-75, 1:50d; 1772-84, 1:49c, 58c-d, 59d, 61c; 2:4b, 34a-b, 49a, 79a; 1784-87, 1:5c, 11c, 33d; 2:26b].Note 14. 1816 c 910 s 8 The issue of negroes &c. imported included in this provision. From these genealogies, it appears that they were the primary source of the increase in the free African American population for this period.