NOTICE.
Ran away from the Subscriber on the 13th of September last, a bound boy of color, by the name of WILLIAM HAITHCOCK, eighteen years of age, weighing about one hundred and fifty pounds. I hereby forewarn all persons from harboring or employing said boy under the penalty of the law. WM. P. McDANIEL. October 21.
Hillsborough Recorder, 21 October 1863.
To the worshipful Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Brunswick County
The Petition of Temperance Chavers humbly sheweth that she has raised two Boys Billy and Elick from their birth to the present time with much difficulty trouble & expence and that just as they are Beginning to remunerate her by plowing & other services She is threatened with their being bound out which She thinks a Great hardship but if the law of the State required She humbly beseeches that they may be bound to Geni: Smith in whose justice to raise them properly and have them taught useful Trades She can Confide – Your worships granting this will be an alleviation to her Distress & She as in duty bound will ever pray &ca: Temperance X Chavers Jan: 27th: 1810
Witness Ben. B. Smith
Apprentice Bonds and Records, Brunswick County Records, North Carolina State Archives.
MISSED AND SUPPOSED TO BE KIDNAPPED.
A free Black-Boy named BILL.
Twelve or thirteen years of age, has but one eye; formerly of the slaves belonging to the Estate of Col. WM. THOMPSON of Beaufort, Carteret County. – Said boy was placed by his mother under the care of SAM WHITNEY; who passes for a free negro in the Town of Newbern. – Said Boy disappeared about the 2nd Monday in March last, nor has his mother or any one been able to obtain any account of him. – If any information of said boy can be lodged by any one with the Editor of this paper he would thereby subserve the cause of humanity & probably of public Justice. Newbern, 11th April, 1818.
Carolina Federal Republican, Newbern, 11 April 1818.
Febry the 10th 1802
Wm. Littlejohn Esqr., Sir
I am Informed by Mr. Domenick That Eli Wilkins a person of Coulour In the Town of Edenton hath been Taken Up Under Some of the Acts of Assembly & bound for his appearance to Chowan County Court at March Term 1802 where he is to Stand his Tryal for to be Sold as a Slave if my affidavit that I herewith forward to you is Not Sufficient to Extricate the sd. Boy & for you to Give Up the Recognizance of the sd. Domenick & Let the sd. Boy Stand Discharged I will forward any Other proof that May be Deemed Necessary to that Efect as I am duly able So to do & More Also bound by the Laws of Nature & humanity.
I am with Submition, Your Hu’le Serv’t Tamor Wilkins
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State of No Carolina, Martin County } Personally apeard before Me Ebenezer Seadons of The Justices for the County aforesaid Tamor Wilkins & Made Oath In Dew form That on The Seventh of July one Thousand Seventeen hundred & Eighty five She was Delivered of a Male Child which She Called Eli Wilkins a Natural Born & Child of Coulour which Child after Comeing of age to be bound She Bound as an apprintis to one John Edwards of Bertie County who Some Time Afterwards Removed to The then Cumberland Settlement & gave up the Indnturs of sd. boy to his sd. Mother She then put The sd. boy with one John Acrey to Learn The Hatters Trade the Boy as She this Deponat Has Since Understood Runaway from sd. Acre Better then Three years ago & as She has been Informed hath been Living with One Domenick Sinc that Time In the Town of Edenton which sd. boy Hath been brought to Her by this sd. Domenick on the 10th Day of February one Thousand Eighteen Hundred & Two In the County & State aforesaid & She this Deponant Doth Acknowlede & Swore him To be the Same boy In Testimony wherof She this Deponant Hath af[illegible] her hand & Declared the Same. Tamer X Wilkins
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Febry the 10th 1802 This May Certify That I have Known the within Mentioned Tamer Wilkins for Several Years & Believe ther is No Doubt of Her being free Born as will more fully appear By the Testimony of Many In the County of Bertie If it is Should be Necessary given – Under My hand and Seal the day & Date above written. E. Slade {seal}
Miscellaneous Records, Chowan County Records, North Carolina State Archives.
Five cents Reward.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, on the 5th inst. An indented mulatto boy named WHITMEL Anderson, about 15 or 16 years old, very bright complexion, and has a large scar across the right hand. It is supposed that he is lurking about Col. Joshua Pender’s mill in Conetoe, where his connexions reside. The above reward will be given for the apprehension and delivery of said boy to me in Edgecombe county. All persons are forbid harboring, employing, or carrying off said boy under penalty of the law. BURREL DUNN. Oct. 7, 1834.
Tarboro Press, 10 Oct 1835.
Nancy Midgett v. Willoughby McBryde, 48 NC 21 (1855).
“Nancy Midgett, is a white woman, but her two children are mulattoes begotten by a negro father.” The Currituck County Court ordered that children be bound to Willoughby McBryde. Midgett presented evidence that for the last three years she had been living near her father in a house he built for her; that he had taken charge of her children and kept them diligently and industriously employed; that he was himself an honest, respectable and industrious man, well able to take care of her and her children and willing to do so; and that she herself had, during the last three years, behaved orderly and industriously. Accordingly, contended Midgett’s counsel, the children did not fall within the category of those liable to be bound out by the County Court. The trial judge disagreed, upheld the County Court’s action, and Midgett appealed.
The North Carolina Supreme Court held that the County Court had power to bind out all free base-born children of color, without reference to the occupation or condition of the mother. The provision of the statute that refers to the occupation or employment of the parents is confined to cases of free negroes and mulattoes whose children are”legitimate.” “In such cases, if the parents have no honest or industrious occupation, the children may be bound out. These considerations do not arise when the child is a bastard.” Judgment affirmed.
The following free children of color were apprenticed in Onslow County during the period 1801 through 1809:
Salona Hammons to John Willey, 1801.
Asa Hammonds to John Willey, 1801.
Henry Mashburn to Hach James, 1804.
Omy Whiters to Henry Horn, 1806.
Joshua Whiters to Henry Horn, 1806.
Rose Boon to James Thompson, 1807.
Hardy Jarman to Frances Willey, 1808.
Sucky Henderson to Richard Trott, 1809.
Polly Henderson to Isaac Barber, 1809.
Apprenticeship Records, Onslow County Records, North Carolina State Archives.
Fourth Generation Inclusive 