FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS OF VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND AND DELAWARE The history of the free African American community as told through the family history of most African Americans who were free in the Southeast during the colonial period About 2,000 pages of family histories based on all colonial court order and minute books on microfilm at the state archives of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Delaware (over 1000 volumes), 1790-1810 census records, tax lists, wills, deeds, free Negro registers, marriage bonds, parish registers, Revolutionary War pension files, etc. There are also another 2,000 pages or so of abstracted tax lists, census records, etc., under "Colonial Tax Lists..." Paul Heinegg Send questions and comments to pheinegg@comcast.net Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina Foreword by historian Ira Berlin Recent updates: July 2005: Bell, Cassidy, Day, Hall, Haws, Jones (Lancaster County), Laws, Nickens, Rich, Shoecraft, Sorrell, Weaver. Service in the Revolutionary War August 2005: Bee, Boyd, Carpenter, Credit, Day, Evans, Nickens, Rich, Sorrell, Toulson, Weaver, Wiggins (Northumberland County). | |
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