Fourth Generation Inclusive

Ira Berlin died this week. His Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974) helped me make sense of the status of many of my North Carolina ancestors, whose free status ...

https://ncfpc.net/2018/06/09/r-i-p-ira-berlin/

Free man of color Dick Miller appeared in a list of delinquent Greene County taxpayers published in a New Bern newspaper in 1818. Carolina Federal Republican (New Bern), 31 January 1818. Hat tip ...

https://ncfpc.net/2017/09/17/taxes-due-on-one-slave/

The subject of this sketch, Franklin Kesler Bird, was born December 1, 1856, at Rutherfordton, N. C. He was the only child of his father, William Bird, who died when young Franklin was two years ...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/12/01/he-is-devoted-to-his-call-in-the-ministry/

Tarborough Southerner, 15 May 1852. —— NOTICE. $10 Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber, on the 1st day of April, 1852, a mulatto fellow named Jerry Manly, as he calls himself, and says that ...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/10/26/his-papers-have-never-been-seen/

FOUND DEAD. Coroner Jones held an inquest on yesterday, over the body of a free negro woman, named Betsey Hagan, aged about 60 years, found dead on the lot of Mr. J.W. Potter, in the Eastern port...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/09/15/she-had-been-ailing-for-some-years-2/

Fayetteville Weekly Observer, 8 March 1858. In the 1850 census of Northwest, Brunswick County: cooper Henry Patrick, 24, wife Hester, 24, and children Anne, 2, and William, 4 months. Next door: c...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/09/15/committed-on-suspicion/

Notice! Is hereby given to all persons, that I shall proceed to file a petition in the next Superior Court to be held for the County of Iredell, at the Court-House in Statesville, on the Sixth Mo...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/09/15/praying-for-the-emancipation/

Funeral bill for Anna Henderson Simmons, who died in Logansport, Cass County, Indiana, on 16 June 1906. Anna H. Simmons was a native of Wayne County, North Carolina. Contrary to information show...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/09/15/particulars-for-the-funeral/

$10 REWARD. A REWARD of Ten dollars will be paid for the apprehension and delivery to me or his confinment in any Jail so that I get him, of my boy Lafayett Tucker a bright mulatto boy about thir...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/02/24/bright-mulatto-boy-with-one-thumb/

Found Dead. Coroner Jones held an inquest on yesterday, over the body of a free negro woman, named Betsey Hagan, aged about 60 years, found dead on the lot of Mr. J.W. Potter, in the Eastern port...

https://ncfpc.net/2016/02/08/she-had-been-ailing-for-some-years/