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Free Colored Inhabitants of the Town of Greenville, Pitt County, 1850.

#20. R.A. Brooks, 13, servant, in the household of E.A. Long.

#44. Alvana Albertson, 13, servant, in the household of Richard Rouse, silversmith.

#50. Eunice Graham, 84, washwoman.

#51. Morning Brooks, 48, servant, in the household of M.A.M. Pearce, seamstress.

#65. Mary Norris, 28, servant, in the household of John Chestnut, laborer.

#74. Richard Keel, 40, carpenter, reported personal property valued at $3000.

#78. Jenny Hanrahan, 33, washwoman, in the household of Martha Hanrahan. She reported owning $150 real property and $100 personal property.

US Federal Population Schedule.

Register of (NC-born) Negroes & Mulattos: Bartholomew County, Indiana, no. 2.

Christy Ann Blanks, age 18, born Robeson County NC, registered 21 Sep 1853. She was described as a mulatto woman; 5 feet 9; no marks or brands; unmarried. Witness: Edward A. Herod.

Eli Blanks, age 13, born Robeson County NC, registered 21 Sep 1853. He was described as a mulatto boy; “young, likely and growing finely;” hair nearly straight; no marks or brands; son of John Blanks. Witness: Edward A. Herod.

Elizabeth Blanks, age 15, born Robeson County NC, registered 21 Sep 1853. She was described as a mulatto girl; 5 feet 5 inches and growing; has a blemish on the ball of the right eye; small scar on right arm; no other marks. Witness: Edward A. Herod.

John Blanks, age 54, born Robeson County NC, registered 21 Sep 1853. He was described as a mulatto man; 6 feet high; no hair on the top of his head where hair ought to grow; crooked left wrist; right big toe wounded by an ax. Witness: Edward A. Herod.

Willis Blanks, age 21, born in Robeson County NC, registered 21 Sep 1853. He was described as a mulatto man; 6 feet 2; scar on left side of left wrist about one inch long; no other marks. Witness: Edward A. Herod.

February 8, 2013

To prevent him from becoming the property of his own children or sold off from them.

Craven County, June Term 1797,

To the Justices of the Court of Sd. County, The Petition of Margaret Moore, a free negro woman, Humbly sheweth, that your petitioner has been possessed for seven years past of a negro man slave named Jack Fennel, with whom she has lived several years as a wife, & by whom she has had a number of children.

That she has acquired, chiefly thro’ the industry, labour & economy of said slave, a plantation containing two hundred acres of land, on which he has built her a good house & grow many valuable improvements; that the said farm is stocked with cattle, hogs &c.

That the said Slave has otherwise rendered her several meritorious services;

That her duty prompts her not to detain her said husband in bondage, & to endeavour if she can do it to prevent him from becoming on her death the property of his own children, or, being otherwise sold off from them.

She therefore prays that Your Worships would grant her a license authorising her to emancipate & set free the said negro Jack Fennell & as in duty bound &c. T.N. Martin att: Pet.

Miscellaneous Records, Craven County Records, North Carolina State Archives.