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 2,000 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), 1790-1810
census records, 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, census records, etc.,
under "Colonial Tax Lists..."
Paul Heinegg
Send questions and comments to pheinegg@verizon.net
Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina
Foreword by historian Ira Berlin
Maryland and Delaware
Recent updates:
June 2010: Most Delaware and Maryland families updated. Free African Americans and
Indians listed in Maryland Prerogative Court Inventories, 1674-1769: http://www.freeafricanamericans.com.prerogative.htm
May 2010: Delaware and Maryland:Free African American Taxables in
Kent County, Delaware from 1726-1784 ; 1785-1798;
Family updates: Beckett, Consellor, Dublin, Flamer, Gibbs, Grinnage, Guy, Hanser, Harding,
Hughes, Hutt, Jackson, Jeffreys, Morris, Mosely, Munt, Pride, Summers and many other
Delaware and Marland families.
Illinois
Free and American, A study of Eleven Illinois Families of Colour, by Darrel
Dexter (Updated November 2004)
19th century photos of free African American and Indian families
Colonial Tax Lists, Virginia personal property tax lists,
Census, and Court Records for Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennesse
and Virginia
List of Indian Slaves, Free Indians, and Free African
Americans identified in Colonial Records Without Last Names
Service in the Revolutionary War
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
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 book on North Carolina and Virginia from Genealogical Publishing
book
on Maryland and Delaware
or call 1-800-296-6687