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Historical Documents of Genealogical Interest to Researchers of North Carolina's Free People of Color

Tag: Nash County

October 24, 2012

Surnames: Nash County, 1860.

The following surnames were found among free people of color in the 1860 census of Nash County:

ALLEN, ANDERSON, BAKER, BATTLE, BOON, BOOTH, BRANTLEY, BRASWELL, DICKENS, DOYLES, DUNCE, ETHRIDGE, EVANS, GODRICH, HAGANS/HAGINS, HAMPELTON, HARRIS, HAWKINS, HENDRICK, HOWARD, JAMES, JONES, JOYNER, LEWIS, LINCH, LUCAS/LOCUS, MILLS, MITCHELL, MOBLEY, MORGAN, MURPHEY, NUCKLES, PACE, PARMER, PETTIFORD, POWELL, PULLEY, REVELL, RICHARDSON, ROUNTREE, SPEARS, TABORN, TAYLOR, TONEY, TUCKER, VAUGHN, VICK, WIGGINS, WILKINS, and WOODROUGH.

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October 17, 2012

Jacob Ing’s children.

In the name of God I Jacob Ing of the County of Nash and State of North Carolina being of sound mind and memory do this 8th day of April A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Seven, make this my last Will and Testament as follows (viz)

I will and direct that my Executor hereinafter named Sell my real and perishable Estate either private or publick at his discretion, and the proceed therefrom together with all species of Property of every discription be disposed of as follows (to wit)

I give and bequeath to Mary Reynolds, wife of Benjamin Reynolds, Elizabeth Boon wife of Jesse Boon, Selah White, wife of James White, Sally Reynolds, wife of William H. Reynolds, William C. Jones, Matthew Jones, also old Chaney Freed woman (formally my house servant) also Lucinda Artist (dead) to her Children if any surviving (all colored) to be Equally divided in Nine parts, and distributed as above directed.  In case any of the above named persons dies before the execution of this will, leaving Children, in that event their child or children will take the parents intended shear to them and their heirs for ever. (carried forward)

I do hereby nominate and appoint my friend Jesse H. Drake the sale executor of this my last will and Testament ratifying this and no other to be my last.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Jacob Ing

April 30th 1869.  I Jacob Ing of the County of Edgecombe and State of North Carolina do make this my Codicial to my last will and Testament, bearing date the 8th day of April 1867.  I will and direct that said will be so amended that altered that the said old woman Chaney therein provided for I loan her the lot and improvements whereon I now live (in Battleboro) during her natural life and at her death the same be sold and proceeds Equally divided amongst the surviving Legatees there mentioned.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and date above written.

Jacob Ing

Easter Jones, also known as Hester, was the mother of Jacob Ing’s children.  The family appear together in the 1850 census of Nash County: Jacob Ing (64, white, farmer) and Easter Jones (55), John Jones (20) (and his wife Dolly, 21), Matthew Jones (18) and Lucy Jones (16), all mulatto.  

Lucinda “Lucy” Jones married Adam T. Artist on 10 October 1855 in Nash County.  Their children Noah, Mary Jane and Augustus Kerney Artis inherited her share of her father’s estate.

Wills, Nash County Records, North Carolina State Archives; Estates Records, Wayne County Records, North Carolina State Archives; Marriage Records, Register of Deeds, Wayne County Courthouse, Goldsboro NC; 1850 federal census schedule.

An earlier post shows Ing’s application for a marriage license for his daughter Elizabeth and Jesse Boon.

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October 14, 2012

Free-Issue Death Certificates: POWELL.

Elijah Powell.  Died 5 Apr 1914, Wilson township, Wilson County.  Black. Married.  Farmer.  Age 84.  Born in Nash County to Elijah Powell and Seathie Powell.  Buried Wilson County.  Informant, T.A. Jones.

Nineteen year-old farmer Eligah Powell is listed with his parents, Eligah and Selah Powell, in the 1850 census of Nash County.

Dolison Powell.  Died 23 Dec 1915, Wilson township, Wilson County.  Colored.  Married.  Farmer.  Born 5 Apr 1840 in Wilson County to Steven Powell and Sintha Powell, both of Edgecombe County.  Buried Wilson County.  Informant, Howard Powell.

“Dolly” Powell, age 7, is listed in the household of his parents, Stephen and Synthia Powell, in the 1850 Nash County census.

Mary Ann Powell.  Died 5 Apr 1921, Jackson township, Nash County.  Widow of Ickibuck Powell.  Colored.  Age 74.  Born in Wilson County to Silas Lassiter & Orpie Lassiter, both of Wilson County.  Buried Powell gtaveyard.  Informant, Henry Powell.

Mary Lassiter, age 11, is listed in the household of her parents, Silas and Orpie Lassiter, in the 1860 census of Wilson township, Wilson County. 

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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 4, 2012

… whether they are paupers or not!

P.L. Ferrell v. Hilliard Boykin, 61 NC 9 (1866)

An unmarried free negro woman gave birth to a child in Nash County.  She and the child lived there until December, 1856, when they moved to Wilson County, where the child continued to reside until the time of the trial.  In June, 1857, soon after his mother’s death, the child was bound [apparently in Wilson County] by his mother’s husband, who was also his reputed father, to the defendant, Hilliard Boykin.  At November term, 1857, Nash County Court bound the child as an apprentice to the plaintiff, P.L. Farrell, who demanded that Boykin deliver up the boy.  Boykin refused, and the suit was brought.

From the decision: “In the course of argument here, it was said that the County Court of Nash ought not to have assumed jurisdiction over the boy, unless that of Wilson had returned him thither, as a pauper.  The answer to this is, that it is the duty of the court to bind out all free base-born colored children, whether they are paupers or not!  At least such was the law at the time of this transaction.  It was assumed by the Legislature that children in their condition would be neglected, and so the courts were directed to bind out all of that class.  In the present case, the County Court of Nash County, being responsible for the proper nurture of the boy, was not to wait until he became a vagabond, and has been cast back upon it as a pauper, by the county of Wilson; but it was its duty at once to exercise its legitimate control, and bind him  as an apprentice.”

Judgment for plaintiff.  The holding: “An illegitimate free negro child who has gained a new settlement by a year’s residence insome other county is, for the purpose of being apprenticed, subject to the jurisdiction of the county in which its which its mother lived of its birth.” “A master may recover damages of anyone who, after demand, detains an apprentice.”

P.L. [Pleasant Luten] Ferrell is listed as a head of household in the 1860 federal census of Bailey township, Nash County NC.  There is no free colored apprentice in his household.   On the other hand, two, John (11) and Zilpha Brantley (9), both described as mulatto, are listed with Hilliard Boykin in 1860 Old Fields township, Wilson County. 

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