African American Records, Granville Co., NC

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

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