Colored people in the news. (Or, at least, that's how it started. It's now the Tumblr outlet of www.ncfpc.net, a blog about North Carolina's free people of color.)
Burnett shares his estate.
In the name of God, Amen, I David Burnettof the County of Cumberland & State of North Carolina…
State of North Carolina Wak County pearsonally appeared before us Nancey Whitehead widow of Burwell Whitehead Aged ninety years and made oath in Dew form of Law to following affidaved
That She was Raised in the County of hallifax and State of North…
The following surnames are found among free people of color in Ashe County in the 1860 census: ANDERSON, BARLEY, BASS, BRACINS, BROWN, DUNKIN, EVANS, FOE, GAIN, GILLY, GOINS/GOWIN, GRIMES, GRINTON, HARRIS, JOHNSON, JONES, RIDDER, RIDDLE, TEDLINE,…
James Edward Reed.
Mr. J. E. Reedwas born of free parents in North Carolina, and knew nothing of slavery. He came to…
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
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Mr. Courts, from the Committee on Propositions and Grievances, reported unfavorably in the bill to emancipate Jno. Good. On motion of Mr. Jones, of Orange, the bill was indefinitely postponed. Also, unfavorably, to the bill to…
State of N. Carolina, Wayne County, March 31st 1884.
Know all men by these presents that I Itey Simmonsbeing of sound mind and frail in body, knowing the uncertainty of life, and the certainty of Death and desiring to arrange my worldly affairs while I…
October, 10th 1856.
To the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina.
The Memorial of James Newlin of the County of Alamance respectfully represents:
That his slave Sam, commonly called Sam Morphis, desires to be emancipated buy the General Assembly…
Wilie Carroll was bound to William McKinne in 1839.
Bill Capps, 7, was bound to Harris Barfield in 1839.
Jinnet Burnett, 7, was bound to Calvin Coor in 1839.
In the 1850 census of North Side of Neuse, Wayne County: Jennett Burnett, 18, in the household of…
SUPERIOR COURT DECISIONS
The Superior Court of Law and Equity for the Counties of Cumberland and Harnett has been in Session during the present week. Nearly the whole of the Term has been taken up with the Criminal Docket. A part of Tuesday and the whole…
Lewis W. Leary, a free Negro, one of the insurrectionists, who was shot at Harper’s Ferry, was a native of Fayetteville, an infamous scoundrel who ran away from justice and thereby cheated the rope of a deserving compliment. His father still lives in…
