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:

 

May 2009: Grayson County Personal Property Tax List 1805-1818; Mathews County Personal Property Tax List 1791-1815; Fredericksburg City Personal Property Tax List 1787-1815; Alexandria City Personal Property Tax List 1787-1800; Spotsylvania County Personal Property Tax List 1782-1822

June 2009: Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, most counties, about 1782-1820; Wythe County Personal Property Tax List 1802-1830; Washington County Personal Property Tax List 1806-1827; Montgomery County Personal Property Tax List 1787-1812

 

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