The history of the free African American community as told through the
family history of most African Americans who were free in the Southeast during the
colonial period
Winner: The American Society of Genealogists' Donald Lines Jacobus Award
and The North Carolina Genealogical Society Award of Excellence in Publishing
Two books you can read on-line containing about 2,700 pages of family
histories based on all colonial court order and minute books on microfilm at the state
archives of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Delaware (over 1000 volumes), tax
lists, wills, deeds, free Negro registers, marriage bonds, parish registers, Revolutionary
War pension files, etc. There are also another 5,000 pages of abstracted colonial tax
lists, Virginia personal property tax lists, under "Colonial Tax Lists..." Send
questions and comments to paulheineggATgmail.com substitute @ for AT
Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina (latest updates): 1:/1/21: Lawrence, Flood, Banks,
Cousins, Gallimore, Hicks, Toney, Spinner; March and April 2021 updated most families;
5/27: Case, George, Perkins. 6/4/2022: Locust.
Foreword by historian Ira Berlin
Maryland and Delaware (latest
update 10/2021 Lett, Banneker)
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Colonial Tax Lists, Virginia personal property tax lists,
Census, and Court Records for Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennesse
and Virginia Includes a list of taxable free persons of color in Virginia from
1782 to about 1820. Latest Updates: Fairfax County, Norfolk City and Orange County
personal protperty tax lists
Service in the Revolutionary War Updated March 20,
2021 Richard Spinner, Thomas Garnes
19th century photos of free African American and Indian families
List of Indian
Slaves, Free Indians, and Free African Americans identified in Colonial Records Without
Last Names
Virginia Slaves Freed After 1782
East Indians in Colonial Maryland, Virginia
and North Carolina
Slaves named in colonial Halifax County, North
Carolina, and King George County, Virginia wills
Illinois Free and American, A study of
Eleven Illinois Families of Colour, by Darrel Dexter (Updated November 2004)
Tennessee & Indiana
The Lyles Family by Arlene B. Polk
Hard copies of Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware
and Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina can be
purchased from the publisher:
Link to order books on North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the Revolutionary War from Genealogical
Publishing
or call 1-800-296-6687