BOON, CAESAR, CAVENDER, CHANCE, CONNER, CREEL, CRAWFORD, DAVIS, DEVERS, DOVE, FIELDS, FREE, HAMMONS/HAMMONDS, HARRELL, HARRISS, HENDERSON, HOWARD, HUMPHREY, JARMAN, KING, LITTLETON, MASHBURN, MERRICK, MUCK, PETTIFOR, PITTMON, PRESCOTT, RODGERS, SAMPSON, SHEPHERD, SIMMONS, SKIPP, STILES, TYLER, WARD,WEBB, WHITE and WHITUS.
State of No Ca, Johnston County }
Personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county William Bryan of said county and state and having been duly sworn doth on his oath declare and say, that in the times of out Revolutionary War free negroes and mulattoes mustered in the ranks with white men in said State, at least in that part of the State in which he then resided, and in which Holiday Hethcock then resided, to wit in the county of Johnston. This affiant has frequently mustered in company with said free negroes and mulattoes, and he believes he has mustered with the Said Holiday Hethcock, That class of persons were equally liable to draft, and frequently volunteered in the Public Service. This affiant was in the army a short time at Wilmington at the time Craig was near that place, and remembers that one mulatto was in his company as a common soldier whose name Archibald Artis. This affiant has always known the said Holiday Hethcock, and has always understood that he was in the army of the Revolution.
Sworn to and subscribed this 29th day of November 1834. William Bryan
From the file of Holiday Hethcock, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, National Archives and Records Administration.
State of North Carolina, To the Sheriff of Onslow County — Greeting
Whereas James Barrow had by the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Onslow some courts back had bound to him a certain child a person of Coulor by the name of Mary Hammond without the consent or knowledge of the mother of said child and where the said mother Serena Hammond hath made application for us to grant her a relief so as to have said child taken from said Barrow and bound unto some other person and we willing to do the premisis whatever seems right you are therefore commanded to make known to the said James Barrow to appear before our County Court to be held for the County of Onslow at the Court house in Onslow on the first Monday of August next then and there go Show Cause if any he has why said Indentur should not be recinded and herein fail not and have you then and there this writ
Witness Banester Clerk of our said at Court at Onslow the first Monday of May 1819 and in the 43rd year of American Independence BANESTER LESTER CCC
Apprentice Records, Records of Onslow County, North Carolina State Archives.
ARTESS [ARTIS], BARFIELD, BOWENS, BRADLEY, BUTTS, CLARK, CONNER, FORREST, GRANT, HALL, HOLLON, HOLMS, IRVEN, JONES, JORDAN, KING, KNOX, LANE, LYNTCH, MITCHELL, MOORING, STOCKWEATHERS, SUGG/SUGGS, TYLER, WADE, WALLAS and WILKINS.
Adam T. Artis. Died 10 Feb 1919, Nahunta, Wayne County. Colored. Married. Born 19 Jul 1831. Farmer. Parents unknown. Buried in Artis graveyard. Informant, Frank Reid.
Richard Artis Sr. Died 12 Feb 1923, Great Swamp, Wayne County. Colored. Married. Farmer. Born 1850 in Wayne County to Solomon Artis and Sar[illegible]. Informant, Richard Artis Jr.
In the 1850 census of Greene County: Adam Artess, 18, Jane, 17, and Charity Artess, 13, in the household of white farmer Silas Bryant. Next door, their mother and siblings: Vicy Artess, 40, Zilphy, 22, Louis, 8, Jonah, 7, Jethro, 5, and Richard, 1. [Sidenote: Adam Toussaint Artis was my great-great-great-grandfather. — LYH]
John Artis. Died 30 Aug 1839, Greene County. Born 1859, Fremont. Widower of Lucy Artis. Son of Alford Artis and Eliza Edmondson. Farmer. Informant, John Eddie Artis.
W.B. Artis. Died 20 Nov 1911, Goldsboro. Resided 510 E. Spruce Street. Colored. Married. Barber. Age about 65. Son of Henderson Artis and unknown mother. Informant, William B. Artis, Jr.
Wealthy Artis. Died 10 Nov 1928, Nahunta, Wayne County. Colored. Widow. Farmer. Born Wilson County to unknown parents. Buried Jones cemetery. Informant, Richard Artis.
In the 1860 census of Nahunta, Wayne County: Asberry, 14, Nancy A., 17, Richard, 11, Welthy, 7, and Simson Artis, 1, in the household of white farmer Burket Barnes.
Susiannah Artis. Died 11 Sept 1931, Nahunta, Wayne County. Widow of Richard Artis Sr. Age 74. Farmer. Born Wilson County to unknown and Nicy Linch of Wilson County. Informant, Richard Artis Jr.
George Artis. Died 26 Jul 1928, Brogden, Wayne County. Colored. Married to Annie Artis. Age unknown. Born Wayne County to Abcent Artis and Mary Eliza Artis.
In the 1860 census of Buck Swamp, Wayne County: Absalom Artis, 32, wife Eliza, 22, children John F., 4, James W., 2, and George W., 3 mos., plus Mary, 35, Henry, 16, and Bunyan Mitchell, 14.
North Carolina Death Certificates; US population schedules.
55 Inf. (Col’d) Mass. Jacob Ash. Co. K, 55 Reg’t Mass. Inf. (Col’d.) appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 23 years; height, 5 feet 3 inches; complexion, light; eyes, grey; hair, dark; where born, Halifax Co., NC; occupation, farmer. Enlistment: when, June 6, [no year]; where, Readville, Mass.; by whom, Lt. Stimpson; term, 3 years. Remarks: “Letters to be directed to Emmanuel Ash, Big Run Station, Athens Co., O.”
4 U.S.C.T. Elijah Ash. Co. F, 4 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 20 years; height, 5 feet 5 inches; complexion, octoroon; eyes, black; hair, black; where born, Halifax Co., NC; occupation, waiter. Enlistment: when, August 4, 1863; where, Baltimore; by whom, Col. W. Burney; term, 3 years. Remarks: “Wounded in action before Petersburg Va June 15 1864.”
38 U.S.C.T. Bolden Flood. Co. D, 38 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 45 years; height, 5 feet 10 inches; complexion, dark; eyes, dark; hair, black; where born, Hertford Co., NC; occupation, farmer. Enlistment: when, February 6, 1864; where, Newberne NC; by whom, Lt. S.M. Horton; term, 3 years.
23 U.S.C.T. Nicholas Pettiford. Co. F, 2 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Inf. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 22 years; height, 5 feet 5 3/4 inches; complexion, yellow; eyes, brown; hair, dark; where born, Brandon NC; occupation, laborer. Enlistment: when, March 29, 1864; where, Washington; by whom, Capt. Sheetz; term, 3 years.
2 U.S.C.T. Daniel Locus. Co. G, 2 Reg’t U.S. Col’d Cav. appears on Company Descriptive Book of the organization named above. Description: age, 40 years; height, 5 feet 8 inches; complexion, dark; eyes, dark; hair, dark; where born, Wait [Wake?] Co., NC; occupation, laborer. Enlistment: when, January 10, 1864; where, Fort Munn; by whom, Col. G.W. Cole; term, 3 years. Remarks: “Deserted June 14, 1865 at Portsmouth Va”
Alexander Flanner filed claim #8852 with the Southern Claims Commission. He was from New Hanover County. An official noted that Flanner was a colored man formerly the slave of Joseph H. Flanner of Wilmington. Before leaving for Europe in March 1865, Joseph Flanner secured a marriage for Alexander to a free woman of color and gave him money and two houses. Alexander Flanner worked as a drayman until the federal occupation of Wilmington.
B.T. was born in the mid-1960s in Nash County NC. He is descended from:
(1) Harriet Evans [1816-ca1890, Franklin County]
(2) Fronie Mills [1857-??, Nash County]
(3) Elizabeth Patrie [1834-ca1890, Franklin County]
(4) John Toney [1805-ca1890, Franklin County] via Joseph J. Toney [1848-??, Nash County]
(5) Jarrett Wilkins [1830-ca1890, Franklin County]
William Mayho, by his next friend, v. Edward Sears, 25 NC 224 (1842).
On 23 July 1805, John Moring of Surry County, Virginia, executed a deed of manumission for his slaves. Hannah, Patrick, Cherry, Jordan and Charlotte were to be freed immediately. Isabel, Carter, Polly, Burwell, Maria and Willis were to be set free over the next 19 years, according to a set schedule. Thereafter, Moring moved to Orange County, North Carolina, bringing Polly with him. Prior to 1 April 1814 (her scheduled date of manumission), Polly gave birth to a daughter, who gave birth to plaintiff William Mayho in about 1830. After 1 April 1814, Polly, her daughter and grandson lived by themselves and acted in every respect as free persons. They were regarded as free people of color by their neighbors and recognized as such by Moring, until 1838, when he sold Mayho to Edward Sears.
The question before the North Carolina Supreme Court was whether Mayho’s mother was free at birth, or became so prior to his birth. “There is a natural inclination in the bosom of every judge to favor the side of freedom, and a strong sympathy with the plaintiff, and the other persons situated as he is, who have been allowed to think themselves free and act for so long a time as if they were; and, if we were permitted to decide this controversy according to our feelings, we should with promptness and pleasure pronounce or judgment for the plaintiff. But the court is to be governed by a different rule, the impartial and unyielding rule of the law; and, after, giving to the case an anxious and deliberate consideration, we find ourselves obliged to hold, that in the law the condition of the plaintiff is that of slavery.” In other words, applying the laws of Virginia, Polly was still a slave when her daughter was born, making the daughter a slave, and Mayho a slave in turn.
ALLEN, BAIRD, BOLDIN, BROOKS, CANNON, EUBANKS, MAYBERRY, RABB and WOODRUSS.
Fourth Generation Inclusive 