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Historical Documents of Genealogical Interest to Researchers of North Carolina's Free People of Color

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October 14, 2012

Artis was borned.

Mary Artis was borned 24 day of April in the year 1846

Penninah Artis was borned the 3rd day of August 1848

Lewis Artis was borned the 12th day of December in the year 1850

William G. Artis was borned the 10th July in the year 1853

Benajy C. Artis was borned the 22nd January 1859

make indentures                James Scott surety

These children appear in the household of their parents, Asa and Pherebe Artis, in the 1860 census of Nahunta township, Wayne County.  When were they indentured?  Why?  Were they suddenly orphaned?

Apprenticeship Records, Wayne County Records, North Carolina State Archives.

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October 14, 2012

Children Ages

Elizzey Jones Children Ages

Saram Jones was Born on the 12 of August 1845

Penny Jones was Born on the 5 of Apirul 1847

Wiley Jones was Born on the 1 Day of January 1849

This undated note is found among apprenticeship records for Wayne County at the North Carolina State Archives.  Eliza Jones’ children were bound to blacksmith Barden Jones at August Term, 1849 of the Wayne County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions.  The 1850 census of Wayne County shows that the children’s mother, Eliza Jane Jones, lived with them in Barden Jones’ household.  In 1857, they were re-apprenticed to Joseph M. Caho.  The 1860 census shows Sarah and Wiley with steam miller Caho, but Penny with a neighboring farmer, Bryant Minshew.  “Elizabeth” Jones and her younger children, Terence, Nancy and Eliza, are listed in a household adjacent to Caho’s.

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HAGANS -- Eliza Hagans Children

Bring in the bodies.

On motion it is ordered that the sheriff of this county be directed to bring into Court at the next term the bodies of Lavinia Hagans & Rebecca Hagans coloured children of Eliza Hagans and notify said Eliza Hagans to show cause, if any she has, why the said children should not be bound out to service.

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October 7, 2012

He has a free woman for his wife.

$25 REWARD.  RAN AWAY from the subscriber in February last, my Negro man BOB, commonly called Amason hopping Bob, well known in the neighborhood of Stantonsburg.  He has a free woman for his wife, one of old Stephen Mitchell‘s daughters.

She and old Mitchell live in the neighborhood of Theophilus Eason, in the edge of Greene county, where it is supposed Bob is lurking about.  All persons are forewarned employing, harboring or giving him aid, or countenancing him in any way, under penalty of the law.  I will give the above reward of $25, and all reasonable expenses paid, to have him confined in any jail so that I can get him again — or delivered to Mr. William Barnes, on White Oak, in Edgecombe County.  JOSEPH J.M. BARNES.

Tarboro Press, 1 Feb 1840.

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October 7, 2012

Application to marry.

Ing’s Mills Dec’r 13th 1844

F.M. Taylor Clerk &c Sir

James Jones a free man of colour will apply to you for licence to Marry Jesse Boon and Elizabeth Jones, both free persons of colour, __ should you have any scruples in regard to granting them ,__ I can inform you that I am acquainted with the parties and wou’d not suppose them any liability on your part as they are of contracting ages &c &c           Yrs sincerely

Jacob Ing

Records of Slaves and Free People of Color, Nash County Records, NC State Archives

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October 2, 2012

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