Essex Co. "Register of Free Negroes", 1843-1861

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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Physical description Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Additional information
Diana Bunday 340 1843-10-15 22 Female Black 5 3.5 mole over her right eye, scar on her right breast made by a burn and a scar under her chin certificate of Thomas H. Pitts
Mary Bunday 341 1843-10-15 19 Female Black 5 0.75 a small scar on the right temple certificate of Thomas H. Pitts
William Vessels 342 1843-10-21 22 Male dark mulatto 5 5 with holes in his ears and rings fastened in them. a scar on the breast caused by a burn certificate of Richard Baylor
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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Physical description Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Additional information
Matilda Brooks 343 1843-12-05 23 bright mulatto 5 4.5 a full head of hair and no apparent scars or marks born free/free born
Ellen Reeves 344 1844-02-19 20 Female bright mulatto 5 1.25 a natural mark on the right temple and a part of the nail of the middle finger on the right hand washed off. born free/free born Polly Reeves Mother's alias is Polly Braxton, evidence given by Dr. Ro R Rennolds
James Mann 345 1844-02-24 24 Male black 5 6.75 small scar just under his lower lips and his lower lip very very mink. born free/free born Lucky Mann evidence by Thomas Matthews
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First Name Middle Name Last Name Alias Registration number Date of registration Age Gender Color Height- Feet Height - Inches Physical description Free status Where emancipated Who emancipated Previous place of registration Date of birth Place of birth Name of mother Additional information
William Clark Byrd 346 1844-05-20 25 Male bright mulatto 5 10 hair somewhat like a white persons. born free/free born Francis Clark Mother was a white woman. Evidence given by Thomas H. Pitts.
Gabriel Clark 347 1844-05-20 22 Male bright mulatto 5 10.5 scar over the left eye with long hair like a white person born free/free born Frances Clark Mother was a white woman. Evidence is certificate by Thomas H. Pitts.
Richard Goode 348 1844-05-20 25 bright mulatto face with a scar just under the left jaw and another on his left thumb. born free/free born Evidence is certificate from [illegible] Pitts.
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