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Only his aunt remains alive.
Charlotte County Virginia. This day Mary Belcher came before me Hillery Moseley a Justice for said County at the request of Lucy Chavers who has been married to Robert Cole both black persons and the...
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Freedman’s Bank depositor, no. 4.
No. 7110. Record for Jno. Artis. Date July 14, 1873. Where born: Wilmington. Where brought up: ditto. Residence: Corner Brunswic & 7th Sts. Age: 21. Complexion: dark. Occupation: carpenter for...
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The Howe family.
The Howe Family of Wilmington, North Carolina, encompassed at least four generations of men of color active in the city’s building trades. As traced in William Reaves’ Strength Through Struggle: The...
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And rapacious, to boot.
Superior Court, Edgecombe County Fred Philips Administrator of Wright Locust Against Augustus Locust, Primmy Washington, Charity Battle, Isham Locust, Harry Locust, Martha Ann Woodley, Mourning Jones,...
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He maintained ties to politics.
In 1860 Henry C. Cherry, a 24 year-old free mulatto carpenter residing in Edgecombe County, owned no property. By 1870 he owned real estate valued at $1,000 and had already served as a delegate to the...
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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...
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During a deranged spell.
Suicide. In the Southeastern part of Lincoln county, on the 2d ultimo, a free mulatto named Thos. Taylor, committed suicide by shooting himself in the throat with a pistol. It took place at the house...
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He was business first, last and all the time.
State Fair Entries. The following are some of the entries in the First Department: THOROUGHBREDS. … Moses Simmons, Cleveland, Gelding “Frank Greyson.” … Plain Dealer, Cleveland OH, 11 September 1863....
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For fear of cholera, a drain is contracted.
In March 1873, the Messick pond was ordered surveyed and drained in the general cleaning up made in fear of the appearance of cholera. The contract for building a sewer or drain, with twelve-inch hard...
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He releases the brute creation from many complaints.
To the worshipfull Court of the County of Perq’s Now Siting Greeting &c. Whereas I have a Certain Negro Man named Francis which Nergroe I purchased about five years past Since which Time he hath...
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