Clik here to view.
Free Colored Inhabitants of the Town of Hillsborough, Orange County, 1850.
#286. Green Caudle, 33, cabinet maker, born in NC, and Catharine Strudwick, 24, born Orange County. #287. Henry Evans, 33, cabinet maker, born Hillsboro, wife Henrietta, 22, born NC, and children...
View ArticleClik here to view.
He gave the last and final vote.
Hillsboro. I am indebted to my uncle Alex Smith for the following short history of Hillsboro, written by Lawyer Joe Turner over twenty years ago, thinking it may interest some of the readers of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Horse-stealer sold for payment of fines.
Superior Court. – At the late September term of Orange Superior Court, Judge DICK presiding, there was an unsual amount of business on the criminal docket to be disposed of. There were three...
View ArticleClik here to view.
He is making for the Western Country.
One Hundred Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 6th day of March last, a mulatto man by the name of JACK, well built, about five feet five or six inches high, 28 years of age, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Runaway redux.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on Saturday night, the 27th inst. his negro boy TOM, about fifteen years of age, he was clad in dark homespun clothes, has a scar over his right eye near the brow – he rode...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free-Issue Death Certificates: MISCELLANEOUS, no. 11.
Jane Ceaser. Died 27 October 1921, Mount Airy, Surry County. Black. Widow of Phillip Ceaser. Age about 90. Born in NC to [first name unknown] Starling and unknown mother. Buried Ararat cemetery....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jeffreys, woodworkers.
Thomas Day—who was born in 1801 in Greensville County, Virginia, to mixed-race parents, John and Mourning Day—moved with his family to Warren County, North Carolina, in 1817. When he moved to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Impostors.
The Subscriber is a free colored man, and some persons a few days past stole his Pocket Book, containing his papers of freedom, signed by John Taylor, Clerk of the court of Orange county – should any...
View ArticleClik here to view.
He gave this boy his pass.
$30 REWARD. RANAWAY from the Subscribe, living in Orange County, N.C., on the 4th inst. a Negro man named SAM. He is about 30 or 32 year of age, about five ten inches in height, rather chunky made, no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The free people of color would harbor him.
Twenty Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber in February last, a tall negro man by the name of WILLIS, about thirty-five years of age; he is rather slim built and thin visage; has a down look,...
View Article