Mecklenburg County "Register of Free Negroes", 1809-1841

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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
John Stewart 1 1809-11-22 Male free man "made application to me for this Certificate being fearful of molestation"
John Burwell Free John 2 1810-12-30 emancipated by deed Edwin Burwell former enslaver gave him a tract of land, witness J. Nelson Mecklenburg, Co. VA; wife is Courtney Pettifoot
Courtney Pettifoot 2 1810-12-30 Female born free/free born husband is John Burwell, "free John"
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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
Peter Stewart 3 1812-05-20 Male bright mulatto 5 10.75 sear on the forefinger of the left hand and a mole on his forehead and one in his right cheek born free/free born 1789 Mecklenburg County Born and raised in Mecklenburg County, VA, witnesses: Clent. Blackburn, Alex. S. Field, J. B. Jones, Jo. B. Clauret. "...has generally supported a good character."
James Harris 4 1812-06-29 40 Male little removed from black 5 7 has lost all his upper fore teeth born free/free born Mecklenburg County Born and raised in Mecklenburg County, VA. Completed apprenticeship with Benjamin Ferrell. "...has generally supported a good character."
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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
Godfrey Maclin 5 1814-01-03 29 Male Mahogany 6 2 born free/free born Mecklenburg County, VA "Godfrey (Maclin) lived in the family of the father of John Bragg, then with John Bragg's own family, from the time that he was four years old, until he was 22 years old. During the whole of which he conducted himself in an honest and orderly manner, and has conducted himself since in such a manner as to have supported a good character"
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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
Robert Evans 6 1814-09-19 49 Male black 5 8 good stature. head nearly half gray, he has a small scar under his right eye of the shape V and one on his left hand born free/free born Robert Evans has uniformly supported a good character as far as I recollect
John Trevor 7 1814-09-19 25 black 5 11.75 Slender made. a small scar on his right cheek and a large one on the instep of his left foot born free/free born John Trevor has supported a good character as far as I recollect
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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
Charles Stewart 8 1814-09-19 27 Male yellow 5 9 good stature. a scar just above his right knee born free/free born has supported a good character as far as I recollect
Ephraim Drew, Jr. 9 1814-09-19 21 Male yellow 5 11.5 scar over his left eye about one inch long across his forehead and two other on his right arm one near his elbow about one and a half inch long and the other near his rist about the size of the eighth of a dollar & appears to be two nearly of equal size & some what detailed occasioned by a burn. born free/free born Mecklenburg, Virginia Has supported a good character from his youth up as I have been acquainted with him nearly all his life & never heard anything to the contrary; shoemaker by trade
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