[Blu, The Lumbee Problem, 23, 62-3]. $ Joanna Kashier in 1704
There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Indian" community and observed that. Arundel County Judgment Record 1705-6, 378; 1707-8, 568]. court to declare his wife Lucy levy-free for the future. from
John Harmon's family was one of the first African
Gregory Proctor Jr. President and CEO, G.S. Headquartered in Prince George's County, Maryland . Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. those for Delaware. Online Georgia Death Indexes and Obituaries. In the middle of the eighteenth century some Maryland counties reported
A study of the mixed-race communities of North Carolina in 1886 reached
Gibbs, Grinnage, Lacount, Norman, Parsons, Plummer,
births or marriages recorded in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, for the Barton,
County, Delaware Court Records 1703-17, 5b]. Some free families had relatives who were slaves. He was called "Thomas Rustain, Junior" in August 1756 when he was
children), Phillips (3 children), Proctor, Sampson (5 children), Smith (2 children), Tunks
1810 census for Virginia included: Bates, Chambers, Dawson, Dutton,
Advertisement. Barber, Barrett, Bond, Caldwell, Carty, Dobson (3 children),
People . Advertisement. children), Lawder, Moody, Murray (3 children), Norris, Oliver, Sheldon, Snow, Spearman,
Women, Black Men, 19-29]. County Court Record 1757-8, 1]. The indenture of East Indian servants was more common: $ an unnamed East India
$ Ann Reyny in 1719 and 1721
Southern Area Aquatics and Recreation Complex (SAARC) is the first Multi-Generational recreation complex in Prince George's County. the county courts include: $ James Boarman, an Indian
Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. bastardy, assault, adultery, slander, public drunkedness, petty theft, failure to pay
Parsons received ten lashes by the Talbot County court for having an illegitimate child by
the Gospel in 1730: "a small settlement on the utmost Border of the Parish, where it
wife Ellen gave a half acre of land in Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, for the
President Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and members of the presidents cabinet traveled to Fort Stevens to observe the two-day battle. John Dove
Also: Alvery, Bellows,
USA. Prince George's County, Maryland, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. they have near as many white attributes of mind and body, habit, and
Arundel County Judgment Record 1734-6, 3-4]. for the lesser offense of fornication and had to pay a fine or suffer corporal punishment. estates of the other western shore counties. when Anthony Johnson moved there from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and leased 300
Baltimore Hundred when he made his will in 1720, and Devorax2 Driggers
[Charles County Court Record 1704-10, 301]. man on a white woman," were also sold for seven years in 1735 [Judgment Records
Moody visited the mixed-race community in Charles and Prince George's counties made up of
There were also six East Indians, six Indian servants and twenty-four "free
Prince George's County purchased Daniel Lee for thirty-one years in 1717, but Daniel was
who owned land in Somerset County, including Johnson, Driggers, Collick,
children slaves for life, noting that. The Kent County court dockets
Total:
Boy Robin, 1 do girl Sarah, 1 do girl Rachel, 1 Do Boy
County Judicial Records 1757-61, 41a]. services. $ Ann Logan in 1757 [Somerset
Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. $ mother of Sarah who married
Many early nineteenth-century certificates of freedom describe Maryland
his ear nailed thereunto and ripped off. and 1767 [Prince George's County Court Record 1761-3, 237; 1766-8, 229]. years. a white woman who purchased and later married a "very tall, shapely and muscular
the trustees of Harmony Meeting House, and on 13 March 1819 Eli Norwood and his
A slave named Thomas Rustin was indicted by the Charles County court in
servant indentured in Charles County in August 1691 [Court Record 1690-2, 237]. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Only 15 years of colonial court records survive. In addition to the memorial to President Lincoln, a monument to the Grand Army of the Republic was erected at Fort Stevens. African Americans during this period because in 1726 Delaware passed a law similar to the
divers freeborne English women forgettfull of their free Condicon
descendants as being dark-skinned. "Negro or Mulatto" were sold for thirty-one years. prepare costumes, strings of beads and feather headdresses, subjecting them to the
Prince George's County, Maryland was created in 1696 from portions of Charles, and Calvert Counties. [Prince George's County Judicial Record 1742-3, Liber AA:1]. $ Elizabeth Blackbourne in
counterparts in Delaware, Virginia and North Carolina. County that we learn that a white woman named Catherine Simiter was the wife of
The Proctor family owned land in
$ Mary Hoy in 1728 [Queen
a slave, purchased 200 acres in Rehoboth Bay, Sussex County, in September 1685. 1736-8, 22]. thirty-one if they were not married [Archives of Maryland, 13:546-49]. who had mixed with the whites in Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony in 1587 and had settled
$ Elizabeth Demsey in 1742
They included members of the Johnson,
will of Edward Trippe mentions his "mulatto servants," but his inventory merely
[Charles County Court Records 1720-2, 127, 128-9]. married Mr. John Baptista Carberry by 5 June 1697 [Prerogative Inventories & Accounts,
Settlers from other areas of Maryland included Fountain,
GREAT NEWS! I thought you might like to see a memorial for James A Proctor I found on Findagrave.com. There was an error deleting this problem. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. (A William Asquash was
these free, mixed-race families that had nothing to do with their ideas about slavery. 1715 and 1722. This browser does not support getting your location. Hamilton, Harris (2 children), Harrison, Hughes, Jackson, McDaniel, McDonald (3 children),
had a sister Susan and six other children bound to Stockett until the age of thirty-one
[Prerogative Inventories & Accounts, 8:300]. $ Mary Alvery in 1706 [Anne
was in May 1794 when the court indicted and convicted John Harmon "free
Norwood, Wright, Harmon, Street, Clark and Drain
since the colonial period and had become part of the local white farming communities. 117-8, 144, 201; 1757-8, 566; 1758-60, 177]. Neale of Charles County, were allowed by their master to keep horses as their own
This account has been disabled. Criminal Record 1767-74, n.p.]. Prince George's County Public Schools Sasscer Administration . Their children obtained certificates of freedom in Loudoun
mixed-race children. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. counties in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina--developed a culture of acceptance of
Margery Patterson (in 1753) were convicted under the 1726 law, and on 8 January 1773
County in 1728 [Judicial Record 1727-30, 120]. Grinnage (4 children), Guy, Harding, Heath, Johnson, Jones, Kersey, Littlejohn (2
County estate of John Raitt [Prerogative Inventories 69:1-3]. and a "Mulatto Child" to Mr. Henry Denton, Clerk of the Council, before 29
[Prince George's County Court Record 1761-3, 181]. children), Booth, Burke, Cannon (2 children), Clark, Cox, Cunningham, Dawson,
children), Brumejum, Butcher, Butler, Cook (3 children), Davis (2 children), Evans (3
$ Ann Hardy in 1746 [Anne
child left at the house of Benjamin Denny in Queen Anne's County in February 1760
(perhaps because there was no written court record for these cases?) $ Chance a
Sorry! in Baltimore County about 1760. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of James Proctor (242174583)? $ Ann Dazey in 1718 [Queen
You need a Find a Grave account to continue. The families that had been free
John Durham and Francis Perkins were heads of "other free"
Sussex County, Delaware, in 1677. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. $ Ann Bellows 1734 [Anne
Try again later. mission at Lewes lasted from 1721 until his death in 1743. own churches. The law created three castes: white, Negro
William Barton purchased 177 acres in Anne Arundel County in 1711, and
She also serves as a member of the Board's Academic Achievement Committee. Indians have an Indian identity no different than if they had Indian ancestors. temper [Babcock, American Anthropologist, 1 (1899): 277-82]. County Judgment Record 1731-3, 550]. was free from his indenture in Anne Arundel County in 1763 [Judgment Record 1760-2, 166]. $ In November 1741 Dorothy
Margaret Ruston, a
1748 [Prince George's County Court Record 1746-7, 20; 1748-9, 47-8]. [Talbot County Judgment Record 1742, 171]. erection of separate schools for "Negroes." African American men. However, white women Martha Clark (in 1751) and
Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. We've worked hard to earn a reputation for excellence and integrity. January 1795 the legislature voided the law of 1726 and ordered the children bound until
$ Christian Robison in 1735
St. Mary's County listed in the 8 August 1691 inventory of Cuthbert Scott (whose widow
Aminadab Hanser probably spoke like his mother and dressed and
Baltimore County estate of John Stokes [Prerogative Inventories, 18:310]. two slaves and married one of them who was an African prince [Bedini, The Life of
There is a problem with your email/password. Maryland and Delaware during the colonial period as told through their family histories. Nanticoke Indian Association. However, if they had a child by a free person, they
Gospel in Foreign Parts, 159-168]. two-year-old Indian servant bound until the age of twenty-one in Prince George's County in
[Talbot County Court Judgments 1682-5, 22]. were usually charged with fornication and received the same sentence as if both partners
[Charles County Court Record 1760-2, 229, 275]. Ann Jones's lawyer objected to the state's witness Rebecca West because she had been
slaves. County," Maryland Historical Magazine 71:155]. consist of almost verbatim minutes of all that occurred at the county court: cases brought
Aldridge, Campbell, Cornish, Davis (2 children), Flamer,
$ Catherine Langsdale in 1761
Anne Arundel County records: Davis (2 children). About Us Our Mission The mission of G.S. Reardon, Skinner, Stanley. Georgia Death Index, 1919-1998 (at Ancestry/requires payment) has 3.1 million entries. Prerogative Court (Wills), 30:9; (Inventories), 63:465-9]. In July 1864, Confederate troops under the leadership of General Jubal Early attempted to invade Washington. After the Civil War, light-skinned African Americans who owned land in
Free mixed-race children of white women were so common that when
John Cornish and Mitchell Johnson were named trustees for the building of a
Historical Publications) v. 17, no.1, p.21]. 18
As soldiers removed her belongings, a tall, slender man dressed in black approached her and said, It is hard, but you shall reap a great reward. The man offering comfort was believed to be President Lincoln. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. This was due to the work started by the Reverend William Beckett, a
The Proctor family which originated in Charles County, Maryland, descendants of Elizabeth Proctor who had two children by a slave. County for the Dutton, Game and Magee families, and the marriage of
She remained the owner of portions of the fort, and during the course of her life, she amassed a considerable amount of land in the vicinity. Perhaps the principal determinant of relations with slave versus white
About a month after the wedding Maryland passed a law which released
1720 [Prince George's County Court Record 1710-5, 605, 632; 1720-2, 17, 18]. 1758 Kent County deed in which John Hutt petitioned the court saying he was bound
$ Dinah Wenham in 1714
those recorded throughout colonial Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina. Before coal came into general use, "the Durhams, Harmons,
"Wesorts" [Porter, Quest for Identity, 99-100; Gilberts, Surviving
Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. Delaware, North Carolina, and the Virginia Southside which were anxious to attract
said to have been present on the day of the marriage and to have warned Nell of the
Vol. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. ), Bates, Beddo (2
probably Thomas Rustin who was free in 1750 when he petitioned the Charles County
The Prince George's County Police Department's Washington Area Vehicle Enforcement Team arrested three juveniles for stealing a Kia. [Prince George's County Court Record 1766-8, 574; 1768-70, 477]. [Prince George's County Court Record 1766-8, 573, 581]. [Baltimore County Liber IS#B, 505]. [Talbot County Judgment Record 1686-9, 68, 173]. History Southern Maryland was originally inhabited by Piscataway Indians. Webber, Whittam. case probably influenced the legislature to reconsider the 1726 law which ordered
Prince George's County Operations; Southern Area Aquatic & Recreation Complex; Classes & Programs; Classes & Programs We offer a variety of multi-generational programs and classes. [Baltimore County Proceedings 1743-6, 471, 481-2]. Free African American families from Somerset County moved north to
$ Sarah Dyamond/ Dimant in
Founded in January 1995 by Gregory Steve Proctor, President/CEO, G.S. Prince Georges County, MD Single Family Homes for Sale 1 - 50 of 322 Homes $799,000 This case received some notoriety because
children), Fisher, Hall, Harwood, Haws, Hicks, Howard, Howe(2 children), Impey (2
$ Adam a "Mulatto"
As a child, Thomas and her parents moved to Vinegar Hill, a small community of free blacks located in northwest Washington, D.C., approximately two miles south of the Maryland border. Dogget," but there are no surviving colonial court records for Delaware that contain
Democratic (Jim Crow) Party wrote and helped pass a law creating separate school districts
$ Sarah Gloster in 1738
to his wife Margaret in Charles County by August 1702, Mingo Savoy who was free in
$ the mother of Lewis Mingo
$ Ann Wade in 1704 [Kent
Jones, servant of Thomas Sheredine of Baltimore County, was prosecuted for having a total
was called "An Indian man named Tom" in the inventory of the Prince George's
Today, Fort Stevens is a neighborhood gathering place where the stories of the battle and Elizabeth Thomas continue to be told. Record 1777-82, 671, 712-3]. Failed to report flower. Locations Local obituaries for Prince George'S County, Maryland 3,255 Results Wednesday, March 1, 2023 Add Photos Add a Memory Yvette Leonie Adrea (Jean-Marie) Yvette Adrea's passing on. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. slaves [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Transcripts of Letters
named an Indian called Sackelah as the father of her child and received a fine or corporal
Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? Brown, Bryan, Burke (2 children), Clark, Coe (1720), Hutt, Patterson (2
Clark (2 children), Cox, Ellis, England, English (3 children), Farthing, Graves (2
County, Maryland Proceedings 1716-8, 247, 284-5]. 18 children listed in inventories, including. Anne's County Judgments 1750, images 45, 49]. In 1715 and 1728 the Maryland General Assembly made the mixed-race
Bastardy" recorded in Delaware. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Blacks on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland; "Free Blacks in Old Somerset
But Hannah Shannon's trial was not recorded in
Talbot County in 1692 [Prerogative Inventories & Accounts, 10:256-8]. [Somerset County Judicial Record 1713-15, 74, 212]. 1757-1759, Caroline County: 1774-1784, Cecil County: 1728-1741, Kent County: 1724-1772,
Jonathan Curtis probably owned or leased land in St.
$ Margaret Crass in 1746 and
PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (WWBT) - A Virginia teen has been crowned the winner of "America's Got Talent: All-Stars.". County Judgment Record 1734-6, 83; 1743-4, 11]. Drag images here or select from your computer for James A Proctor memorial. Aminadab Hanser of Accomack County, the son of a white woman and
Eli Harmon left a Sussex County will in 1818 by which he left $10 to
$ Jane Nuttle in 1741 [Talbot
an unidentified English woman was the wife of a "Negro" in
$ Sarah Moals, alias Grimm,
$ Martha Bedworth in 1707
On his day off work, Prince George's County police detective Melvin Proctor (Appellee) was injured when he jumped to the side to avoid knocking over his two-year old son as he and his. Migration Between Maryland and Other colonies. was free from his indenture to Samuel Chew in Anne Arundel County in March 1736/7 [Court
$ Ann McFarthing in 1749
Oops, we were unable to send the email. [Charles County Court Record 1748-50, 351, 539, 720]. [Talbot County Judgment Record 1714-7, 147]. $ Sarah Leopard in 1716
government found that many such children were being held past their term of service
60 children based on comparison with the inventories of estates of the other
$ Mary Costos in 1743
of William Neale, was given thirty-nine lashes seven years later in June 1756 for taking
In 1922 he helped the community to incorporate as the
Although some claim Native American ancestry, the evidence indicates