Surname swap, no. 1.
by Lisa Y. Henderson
In the 1850 census of South Side of the Neuse, Wayne County: Haywood Musgrave, 40, wife Penny, 25, and children Susan, 8, Simon, 6, Jane, 5, Green, 4, and George, 2.
But in the 1860 census of Indian Springs, Wayne County: Haywood Hays, 48, and wife Elizabeth, 32, Susan E., 16, Simon, 15, Jane, 14, Green, 13, George, 12, Lucretia, 11, Alchi, 10, Mary A., 9, Nancy, 8, Alfred, 7, and Betsey, 5.
[…] colored children, were brought into Wayne County Superior Court upon the petition of their father, Haywood Musgrove. William J. Kornegay, in his defense, presented a deed that Musgrove had executed to Kornegay, […]