About hlg1776
I research African American records from the colonial to post-Reconstruction period. My personal research focuses on free and enslaved peoples (red & black) in Connecticut, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia.
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Annotation added: Anderson represents as not being intended for sale, and that this certificate is applied for to be in conformity to the requests of an Act of Assembly of the State of South Carolina to enable him pass on into the State of Georgia.
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Annotation added: James Anderson of said County hath made known to me his intentions of removing himself with three Negroes which he hath owned for several years past namely John a man about 60 years of age Patty a woman of about 50 years of age and their child Aberdeen a boy of about ten years of age together with a small Negro man named Tom who is sent in his care to Augusta, the property of a certain Allan Grimes late of Jones County in this State but now residing in the State of Georgia, which said four negroes the said
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Annotation added: Richard Potter a man of collour
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Annotation added: I do further declare on oath that I am very old as can be collected from the foregoing; have no family except a wife & children who are slaves - and no one to look to for support whomsoever, that he is a farmer so far as he has ability to do anything which by occasion of infirmity is very little.
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Annotation added: This applicant states that he was born in Louisa County, State of Virginia (the year he does not know) having no record of his age, where he lived until 12 or 13 years after the Revolution, whereof he moved to this County, where he has since lived.
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Charles W. Chesnut was an African American writer. This record reflects the birth of Charles and Susan Chesnut's youngest daughter. Although the given name is that of her mother, Susan U. Chesnut, the child is referenced in all of her father's biographies as Dorothy. The 1900 Cleveland Census lists her as Dorothy Chesnut, born December 1890. The birth record gives her date of birth as ...morecommented on this Image. (27 Feb 2009)
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