{"id":411,"date":"2009-06-22T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=411"},"modified":"2009-06-22T19:49:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T02:49:21","slug":"petition-of-ned-hyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/petition-of-ned-hyman\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition of Ned Hyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source:<em> Schweninger, Loren, Marguerite Ross Howell, and Nicole Marcon Mazgaj. <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>The Southern Debate Over Slavery \/ Edited by Loren Schweninger<\/em><\/span><em>. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the above-mentioned book appears a petition of <strong>Ned Hyman<\/strong>, a slave who was at that time living in Williamston, Martin County, filed in 1833. The petition is a great source of genealogical information, giving details of Ned&#8217;s life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>he was born 44 or 45 years prior<\/li>\n<li>he was a slave of <strong>Jno. Hyman<\/strong> of Bertie County, NC<\/li>\n<li>when John Hyman died (Ned was about 14), Ned became the property of <strong>Samuel Hyman<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Samuel Hyman died in 1828<\/li>\n<li>when Ned was about 27 he married <strong>Elizabeth Hagans<\/strong>, a free woman of color<\/li>\n<li>Ned &amp; Elizabeth had 3 children, Penny, Sarah and Ned Jr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The petition was filed to try to obtain their emancipation. \u00a0It&#8217;s an interesting read! <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=q2qbjLFSwV8C&amp;pg=RA1-PA146&amp;dq=Hyman+#PRA1-PA147,M2\">Check it out at Google Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Schweninger, Loren, Marguerite Ross Howell, and Nicole Marcon Mazgaj. The Southern Debate Over Slavery \/ Edited by Loren Schweninger. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. In the above-mentioned book appears a petition of Ned Hyman, a slave who was at that time living in Williamston, Martin County, filed in 1833. The petition is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/petition-of-ned-hyman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Petition of Ned Hyman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3871,3705],"tags":[22544,22555],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-slavery","tag-hagans","tag-hyman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}