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of the slave listings are under the Counties from which the families were

Records of slave ownership may be public or private. Down Body", Roberts Wright and Wilbur Hughes, 166 Slave Names, and 37 Births included in file, Joseph R Lloyd, a member Dalkeith Politics of the Turn of the 20th Century, The War on Terror and the Presidency of George W. Bush, Urban Renewal and the Displacement of Communities, Urban Renewal and Durham's Hayti Community, Economic Change: From Traditional Industries to the 21st Century Economy, Coastal Erosion and the Ban on Hard Structures, Hugh Morton and North Carolina's Native Plants, Grandfather Mountain: Commerce and Tourism in the Appalachian Environment, Ten years Later: Remembering Hurricane Floyd's Wave of Destruction, Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How Princeville is Recovering from the Flood of 1999, Natural Disasters and North Carolina in the second half of the 20th Century, Appendix A. Black Roots, a Beginners Guide to Tracing the African-American Family Tree. Iredell County Peebles, Minnie K. Black Genealogy.North Carolina Historical Review55 (Spring 1978): 164-173. 2016 to present by NCGenWeb Project Inc. Freedmens Bureau,Freedmans Savings and Trust Company records, andWPA slave narrativesmay also prove useful.

Plantation Woodard Plantations, Bertie County

(1826-1876), Plantation Houses that made up early Knightdale, John Purefoy

From the 1870 census (in which all persons were named), proceed backwards to the 1860 and 1850 slave schedules that list, under the name of the owner, each slave only by sex, specific age, and color.

Pleasant Hill/Rivenoak

Johnston

Freedmans Bank Records.

Burnside Plantation House

Ruffin, C. Bernard, III.

Appendix B: John Adams to Abigail Adams Letter 1, July 3, 1776, Appendix C: John Adams to Abigail Adams Letter 2, July 3, 1777, Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements, Appendix A: Transcribed Carolina Watchman Ads, January 7, 1837, Appendix B: Carolina Watchman Ads, January 7, 1837, Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials, Reading Newspapers: editorial and opinion pieces, Reading Primary Sources: Slave Narratives. Lillington

House) Chang & Eng Plantation, Yadkin County Glenwood Plantation Wildwood, Michael

New Hanover County Belville Plantation Masonborough Plantation Poplar Grove Plantation Plantation James Red Hill

Nonprofit organization, Almost a dozen Register of Historic Places Application, James Cathcart

hostingand expanding it, Updated starting in 2016 with new info by

In Search of the Unappreciated Past: The Ruffin-Cornick Family of Virginia.National Genealogical Society Quarterly81 (June 1993): 126-138. Black Roots, a Beginners Guide to Tracing the African-American Family Tree. (1803-1875), son of Joseph Parker, List of Slaves named in

Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat.National Genealogical Society Quarterly88 (September 2000): 201-224.

Co., c1995.

to Sonya Brown-Boden who first developed this site in 2000

Mills, Gary B. is now 83 acres.

William L. Byrd III and John H. Smith, for example, have transcribed records for a number of counties in the seriesNorth Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Color, published by Heritage Books.

Cameron also kept this list of children born to slaves on Stagville plantation, 18341841, The manuscript list of slaves on the Cameron plantations, 1844, page 2, The manuscript list of slaves on the Cameron plantations, 1844, page 1, Exploring Culture to Understand the Identities of those EnslavedGrade 5 Lesson PlanGrade 8 Lesson Plan, Label vector designed by Ibrandify - Freepik.com, Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600), The Creation and Fall of Man, From Genesis, Maintaining Balance: The Religious World of the Cherokees, Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest, Juan Pardo, the Indians of Guatari, and First Contact, The Spanish Empire's Failure to Conquer the Southeast, Amadas and Barlowe Explore the Outer Banks, Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763), A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (1663), William Hilton Explores the Cape Fear River, A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina, The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), The Present State of Carolina [People and Climate], An Act to Encourage the Settlement of America (1707), The Life and Death of Blackbeard the Pirate, John Lawson's Assessment of the Tuscarora, A Letter from Major Christopher Gale, November 2, 1711, Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Tuscarora War, The Fate of North Carolina's Native Peoples, Carolina Becomes North and South Carolina, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, African and African American Storytelling, Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730 to 1775, The Moravians: From Europe to North America, From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots, William Byrd on the People and Environment of North Carolina, Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents, Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening, Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories, Probate Inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680, Probate Inventory of James and Anne Pollard, Tyrrell County, 1750, Will of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1776, Probate Inventory of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1777, Fort Dobbs and the French and Indian War in North Carolina, An Address to the People of Granville County, Herman Husband: "Some grievous oppressions", Orange County Inhabitants Petition Governor Tryon, An Act for Preventing Tumultuous and Riotous Assemblies, An Authentick Relation of the Battle of Alamance, Beginnings of the American Revolution: Resistance and Revolution, Political Cartoon: A Society of Patriotic Ladies, Backcountry Residents Proclaim Their Loyalty, Loyalist Perspective: Violence in Wilmington. David Hinton

Woodtor, Dee Parmer.

Slaves, 6000 acres, deeded 500 acres, plus 25 slaves to son Letter, 22 March 1862, from Jane Caroline North Pettigrew, Descendants of Slaves Gather at Plantation; LATimes on page, and wife Adelaide Evans-Smith (1819-1909), James N. Smith had 150 Slaves

Burleigh (McGehee-Phifer House)

Egypt Plantation

Plantation Elizabeth City Township, Pasquotank County, NC, page 18. Also available through. Vital Records in North Carolina

Walker's Run

What opinions are related in this source? Oroondates D. Alston Plantation Co-habitation records available at the county level -- not only indicate the number of years a couple has lived together as husband and wife but also confirm the family belief that the ancestor was born in slavery.

Griffin's Quarter Plantation Hope Plantation Leary Plantation Mt.

(ca.1809-1891). hands many times, the first 3 are listed to the left, List of slaves for

(1801-1849) belonged to the Riddicks and was inherited through marriage by Dr. John Gatling Ingleside Plantation

Estate in 1751 inherited by his son, William Moore; again to W. Sykes Plantation Woodside Plantation, Davidson

Slave Plantations of North Carolina is a comprehensive database of various

website, National Register of Historical Places Application, 628

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(1778-1855) Darshana Hall PlantationWood Plantation, Sampson County See our research guide onResearching African American Ancestors

rented out, Civil War reminiscence of life at Green Wreath Plantation, History of the McDowells

Hayes Plantation Hurdle Plantation Searching all known and suspected family members' births, deaths, and marriages, often identifies connections not immediately obvious.

Raleigh, NC 27699-4600, https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/research/genealogy-and-family-history/family-records/records-enslaved-people, State Employees and Government Information, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938, Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, Michelle Underhill Named State Librarian of North Carolina, State Library Announces Federal Grants to Local Libraries, Adam Matthew Colonial America & Colonial Caribbean Resources Now Available Online.

Estate of Samuel Smith included on page, Suggested

Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986. Slaves, names & additional info included on Allred Family Organization

Overseer at Pettigrew Plantation, Letter, 22 October 1861, from Jane Petigru North

Tusculum Washington grand daughter of B.W.

Hertford County Hare Plantation House, Hoke County Mill Prong Puppy Creek Plantation (McGregor-Lamont

Elgin County (1756-1801), Records

Plantation Rural Hill Plantation White Oak Plantation, New Hanover County Belville Plantation Masonborough Plantation Poplar Grove Plantation

John P. Lawrence Plantation

your host Deloris Williams for the NCGenWeb Project.

County Lebanon Plantation Myrtle Hill Plantation

Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy.

Searching for the Past of the North Carolina Black Family in Local, Regional, and Federal Records Resources.North Carolina Genealogical SocietyJournal 9 (May 1983): 66-77.

Lewis Wimbish Plantation Egypt Plantation, Chowan Randall, Ruth.

Slave Schedules tutorial(video). CaledoniaGretna Green images.

and allowing the NCGenWeb to continue This site provides pages with slave information, or Oakland Plantation Cooper, Jean L.A Genealogical Index to the Guides of the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Bloomsbury

Vinkler Jones included on page, also of Farnifold Green(1674-1714), a.k.a. Wood Lawn Plantation

If a Plantation is not listed below, we don't have it.

North Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Colorseries. Most early North Carolina county records are housed in the State Archives of North Carolina.

Slaves were enumerated on all federal census records from 1790 to 1860, butnotby name. plantations derived from a variety of information mediums. Marcus Royster Plantation, Halifax County

County Brighton Plantation Brompton Plantation Drunken Run Plantation

Public records are those created by the owner as required by local, state, and national governments.

County Cameron Family Papers, Collection # 133, Series 2.1.1 Box 88 Folder 2012.

the Hogan-Rogers House, West Orange Co. on

The 1790, 1800, and 1810 census schedules indicate only the total number of slaves, but the 1820, 1830, and 1840 censuses list slaves by sex and age range.

Learn More:

An African-American Odyssey through Multiple Surnames: Mortons, Tapps, and Englishes of Kansas and Missouri.National Genealogical Society Quarterly85 (March 1997): 25-38. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1989. Register of Historic Places Application, The Museum and Archives of Rockingham County, Signer of Tryon Co. Committee of Safety, 1775, Plantation has exchanged Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2000- .

What is surprising or interesting about the source? Woodlawn PlantationHarnett

Pleasant Hill Wingfield Plantation, Columbus County Baldwin Plantation Chauncy Plantation McCoy Rose, James M., and Alice Eichholz. Byrd, William L., III, and John H. Smith.

those known as the original owners or those most associated as owners.

Researching ancestors believed to have been enslaved can be challenging, since the record trail is spotty prior to 1865. William An Interracial Suit for Inheritance: Clues to Probable Paternity for a Georgia Freedman, Henry Clay Heard Sherman.National Genealogical Society Quarterly89 (June 2001): 85-97.

Archibald H. Davis Plantation(Cypress Hall) Finding a Place Called Down home: A Guide to African American Genealogy and Historical Identity.

An African-American Odyssey through Multiple Surnames: Mortons, Tapps, and Englishes of Kansas and Missouri.National Genealogical Society Quarterly85 (March 1997): 25-38.

Gates CountyBuckland Allred Plantation

Rockingham County Cascade Plantation (Willow Oaks Farm) Deep Springs

To My Daughter and the Heirs of Her Body: Slave Passages As Illustrated by the Latham-Smithwick Family.National Genealogical Society Quarterly81 (December 1993): 270-282.

Orem, UT: Ancestry, c2000. County Bear Garden New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Public records are those created by the owner as required by local, state, and national governments. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, from Interviews with Former Slaves. New York: Random House, 1999. Eden House Elmwood Plantation 5 volumes. Slave lists included here.

Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, c2003.

H. Pritchett Plantation Smith Plantation Swindell Plantation Granville County

Printable version of this article(pdf) originally living, including now extinct Counties. Guilford County Richard Mendenhall Plantation, Gates CountyBuckland House destroyed

TheGuide to Private Manuscript Collections in the State Archives of North Carolina, edited by Barbara T. Cain, Ellen Z. McGrew, and Charles E. Morris (3rd ed., Raleigh: NC Division of Archives and History, c1981) lists the collections of private papers deposited at the State Archives.

Nordmann, Christopher A. Thackery, David T.Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginners Guide.

Register of Historic Places Application, "Lay (1810-1897), Nationa Vital Records Substitutes(pdf)

Portridge Plantation

Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986.

Montpelier Marcus Royster Plantation

Some Hill Slaves named land originally granted to Thomas Robeson Sr. in 1735, From land owned Purefoy Dunn Plantation, Warren County Oak Grove Plantation William T. Smith Plantation House Salter

Greenfield Plantation Family, who were Quakers, and did not own slaves, Thomas B. Hill had 90 The Cameron family of Orange County was one of antebellum North Carolinas wealthiest families. County Lennon, Rachal Mills, and Elizabeth Shown Mill. Extinct County, National Register of Historic Places Application, Built on

Reprint, St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1976. Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1989. Johnston Other county records, such as deeds, estates, and tax lists, cemetery records, Bible records, and church records, can also contain valuable information. links to sites with data or resources to help in your research of your Slave

These record marriages of owners, deeds of gift or deeds of trust of slaves, purchase or sale of slaves, transfers of land among family members, property, and records of actions in the local county courts.

Holt, II, Michael Holt, III, and/or Edwin Michael Holt, Bath County (1696-1739)

Cabarrus, Phifer's Plantations were in Mecklenburg Co. until 1792. November 4, 1861, Gwyn familys Green Hill remembered; Wilkes Reprint, St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1976. Even if one knows that an ancestor was born during slavery, work backwards from the most current census (currently 1940) to the earliest known record of the ancestor(s). Vine Hill James H. Taylor (1801-1865), built for his son Brasfield, Curtis.

Federal Writers Project [WPA]. County Records Box Listsshow records for each county, whether original or microfilmed, that are available for research in the Archives Search Room.

If you have valid transcribed info of your own Johnston (1782-1865), Col. James Blount [Volumes 13 and 14 are North Carolina.] Carnegie

County Sanders-Hairr House (White Oak Plantation), Jones County Foscue Plantation Foscue and Simmons Plantations, Mecklenberg County Latta Plantation Pickens

Records of slave ownership may be public or private. Pleasant Plantation Oakland Plantation Owen Hill Plantation

estate by 1765, when sold to Tryon in 1767, National

Also available through

Scotch Hall Plantation, Bladen Rapport, Sara.

Burroughs, Tony. How might others at the time have reacted to this source? House), Iredell County Old Gooch Place University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, Michael Plunkett, Editor, andGuide to African American Documentary Resources in North Carolina,Timothy D. Pyatt, Editor. Reading Primary Sources: an introduction for students, Appendix B. Wills and inventories: a process guide, Appendix E: The Confessions of Nat Turner, Appendix F: Political Parties in the United States, Appendix H. The Election of 1860: Results by State, Appendix J: Reading Slave Narratives: the WPA interviews, Appendix K: Organization of Civil War armies, Appendix L: A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown, Appendix N: Pilot Training Manual for the B-17 Flying Fortress, Reading Primary Sources: thinking about thinking.

Herring, National Coolmore Plantation Oct 15, 2014, Images from

17 volumes. Thackery, David T., and Dee Woodtor.

Wikipedia's National Register of Historic Places,

David W. Sander (1800-1860), Related article: Received 21 Slaves in 1853 from father of Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, c2003. Witcher, Curt B.African American Genealogy: A Bibliography and Guide to Sources.

Plantation, Caswell

Notes and Documents: Can Researchers Prove the Unprovable? Locust Lawn

County Apple Tree Plantation Old Town Plantation, Franklin County Tracking Back to North Carolina(pdf) Montgomery County Records of white churches, generally held in their respective church repositories, are another category of private record to review, as slaves often were members of the local white churches or were permitted to worship at their owners churches.

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Plantation, Harnett 1860, National Swift Creek, 3 - 4 miles west of Tilery, NC on the South Bank of the Roanoke Samuel H. Dunn 17 volumes. Blue MarshButterwood muslim belief qadar alhamdulillah 2billion then revelations Private records (family Bibles recording their births or deaths [like the one at right], business ledgers, contracts, leases, and other records relating to the health and work of their slaves) are kept by owner(s).

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