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Index to Granville Co. African American Records

Date:     Submitter:
       
12/18/2022 African American Members of Island Creek Church Emerson Foster
09/08/2021 Thomas Evans, War of 1812 Pension Deloris Williams
10/28/2017 Tax Lists: Free People of Color 1780-1860 Jahrod Pender
10/31/2016 Slaves listed in Sneed Family Bible Deloris Williams
05/01/2011 Granville County Slavery Petitions Deloris Williams
01/06/2011 1860 Granville Co. Slave Schedule - link to the breakdown of slaves & slaveowners Barnetta M. White
12/12/2010 Montpelier Plantation/John Williams,d. 1799 will - contains many slave names Deloris Williams
02/28/2010

News Article:  Horrible Murder by Slaves Deloris Williams
02/09/2010 News Article: The Industry of Dr. Shaw Deloris Williams
02/08/2010 Death of Henry Plummer Cheatham Deloris Williams
01/18/2010 Historical Accounts of African American Families Deloris Williams
12/13/2009 The Afro American (newspaper) Aug. 12, 1933 Taneya Koonce
11/22/2009  Enslaved Ancestors Abstracted From Deed Books Granville Co., NC  
  This is a great link sent to us by the author, Dr. Barnetta McGhee White, Ph.D  
08/28/2009  Marriages of Freedmen of Granville County, NC Deloris Williams
11/25/2007 U.S. Colored Troops- Granville County- Updated 2/18/2011 Deloris Williams
11/25/2007 Freedmen's Bank Records -Granville County Deloris Williams
11/03/2007

Revolutionary War Pension File of George Pettiford Deloris Williams
04/05/2007 Free People of Color Petition-1771 Deloris Williams
03/31/2007

Revolutionary War Pension File of William Taborn Deloris Williams
03/14/2007

Revolutionary War Pension File of William Guy Joe Guy
       

Visit our DEEDS Index for lists containing entries with names of the Enslaved

Visit our WILLS section which contains many, many Wills & Estates with the names of Enslaved People

More NCGenWeb Project Records:

View our How to Research Enslaved People page with instructions, guides and links to other resources

Statewide African American Pages

Plantations of North Carolina

North Carolina Slave Deed Index

U.S. Colored Troops Formed in NC

Links to African American Research Sites:

NC Slavery & Bondage Collection ~ searchable on FamilySearch
Free African Americans- Paul Heinegg's landmark research Large Slaveholders of 1860 & 1870 Surname Matches

Taxables of Colonial Granville County ~ from Free African Americans website

Colored Patriots of the American Revolution ~online book from UNC-Chapel Hill

Free African Americans in Antebellum North Carolina

Black Loyalists: Index to Black Pioneers History
A History of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina Black Loyalists in the American Revolution
Black Firefighters of North Carolina Virtual Jamestown ~Early Slave Laws

Petitions: Free Colored People & Slaves

Forgotten Patriots~ AA & American Indians; free DAR download
Race and Slavery Petitions ~ searchable database Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade~database of slave voyages
Slave Deeds of NC Index ~ abstracts by Counties Born in Slavery, Slave Narratives Project

Slavery Era Insurance Registry of CA ~ names of slaves & slaveowners insured throughout the South

Pre-1820 Virginia Manumissions ~wills & deeds with slaves freed in several VA Counties near NC borders
Slave Policies Reported to Illinois Div. of Insurance 12 Years A Slave: Solomon Northup ~ free online book
Freedman's Bank Records Collection 1865-1874 Sanofagen's Plantations & Slavery Research ~by County
Freedmen's Bureau Records African American Odyssey ~ Library of Congress records
We hope that if you have any family records, public records, family Bibles or early photos that you will share them with other researchers by submitting them to be posted here.

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