"FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS OF VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA,
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SOURCES
NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES 
Albemarle
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1982. Old Albemarle County, North Carolina, Miscellaneous Records, 1678 to ca 1737. Durham, N.C.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1980. Old Albemarle County, North Carolina, Perquimans Precinct, Births, Marriages, Deaths & Flesh Marks 1659 thru 1820.
 
Anson
MS Record of Deeds. Books 1, 6, 7, A, B, C-1. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.005.4002 & C.005.40001.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Treasurer and Controller's Papers.
Holcolm, Brent, Howard. Anson County, North Carolina, Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795. Columbia, S.C.
 
Beaufort
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Secretary of State Papers (SS 837).
MS Beaufort County Minute, Appearance, Prosecution, & Trial Dockets, County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, 1756-1761, North Carolina State Archives Microfilm # C.009.30001.
MS Beaufort County Court Minutes 1785-1786, 1809-1814, 1824-1829, North Carolina State Archives Microfilm # C.009.3002.
Beaufort County Genealogical Society. 1990. Beaufort County, North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1720-1868. Washington, NC.
Camin, Betty J. 1984. Beaufort Orphans Book A 1808-1828 (Wills and Estate Record of Beaufort County, North Carolina. Raleigh, N.C.
 
Bertie
MS Apprentice Indentures prior to 1750. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 10.101.
MS Real Estate Conveyances, 1722-1784, Vols. A-M. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.010.40001-5.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 10.702.
MS Tax Lists, Secretary of State. SS 837.
MS Colonial Court Records, Taxes & Accounts, 1679-1754, stack file number CCR.190.
Dunstan, Edythe Smith. 1966. The Bertie Index for Courthouse Records of Bertie County, North Carolina, 1720-1875. privately printed.
Gammon, David B. 1986. Records of Estates Bertie County, North Carolina Volume I, 1728-1744, 1762-1790. Raleigh, N.C.
Gammon, David B. 1993. Records of Estates Bertie County, North Carolina Volume II, 1734-1788. Raleigh, N.C.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1976-1984. Bertie County North Carolina County Court Minutes (Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions). Durham, N.C., Book I, 1724-1739, Book II, 1740-1762, Book III, 1763-1771, Book IV 1772-1780, Book V, 1781-1787, Book VI, 1788-1792.
 
Bladen
MS Tax Lists, Secretary of State [SS 837].
MS Deeds and Wills photocopied by the Court Clerk of Bladen County.
Bladen County Historical Society. 1784 Tax List Bladen County N.C. Elizabethtown, N.C.
Byrd, William L. 1998. Bladen County, North Carolina Tax Lists, 1768 through 1774, Volume I. Privately printed.
Byrd, William L. 1998. Bladen County, North Carolina Tax Lists, 1775 through 1789, Volume II. Heritage Books, Inc. Maryland.
Philbeck, Miles S. 1985. Surviving Land Warrants and Surveys 1735-1749 and Surviving Land Entries 1743-1761.
Pruitt, A.B. 1989. Abstracts of Land Entries: Bladen County, NC, 1778-1781. Cary, N.C.
 
Brunswick
MS Tax Lists, General Assembly [GA 11.1], Secretary of State [SS 837].
Pruitt, A.B. 1989. Abstracts of Land Entries: Brunswick County, NC, 1794-1820. Cary, N.C.
 
Bute
MS List of Taxables. 2 pamphlets, 1771. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm CR.015.70001.
Holcolm, Brent Howard. 1988. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Minutes 1767-1779. Columbia, S.C.
 
Carteret
MS County Court Minutes 1723-1747, 1747-1777. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.019.30001-2.
 
Caswell
MS Tax Lists, North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 020.701.10, Secretary of State SS 837.
Pruitt, A.B. 1990. Abstracts of Land Entries: Caswell Co, NC 1778-1795, 1841-1863, and Person Co, NC 1792-1795. Cary, N.C.
 
Chatham
MS County Court Minutes, 1774-1841. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.022.30001-3.
 
Chowan
Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1755-1772, North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.024.30001.
MS Record of Deeds Vol. W-1. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.024.40001.
MS Tithables, 1717-1769. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 024.701.2.
MS General Court Docket, 1742-1745, Vols. 36-43. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm *Y.1.10011.
Fouts, Raymond Parker. 1983. Vestry Minutes of St. Paul's Parish, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1701-1776. Cocoa, Fl.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1983. Chowan County, North Carolina, County Court Minutes (Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions), Book I (1730-1745), Book II (1735-1738: 1746-1748), Book III, 1749-1754. Durham, N.C.
Hoffman, Margaret M. 1972. Chowan Precinct North Carolina 1696 to 1723. Genealogical Abstracts of Deed Books. Weldon, N.C.: The Roanoke News Company.
 
Craven
MS Apprentice Indentures, County. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 28.101.1.
MS County Court Minutes, 1758-1766, 1764-1775, 1772-1784, 1784-87. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.028.30004-7.
MS Deeds, photocopied by Ms. Becky Thompson, Register of Deeds, Craven County, New Bern, North Carolina.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1978-1987. Craven County, North Carolina, County Court Minutes (Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions): Book I, 1712-1715, Book II, 1730-1741, Book III, 1742-1748, Book IV, 1749-1756. Durham, N.C.
 
Cumberland
MS County Court Minutes, Minutes 1755-1844. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.029.30001-5.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Treasurer and Controller's Papers.
 
Currituck
MS Tax Lists, Treasurer and Controller's Papers.
MS Deeds and Wills photocopied by the Court Clerk of Currituck County.
Bates, Jo Anna Heath. 1985. The Heritage of Currituck County, North Carolina. Currituck, NC.
Bennett, William Doub. 1994. Currituck County, North Carolina, Eighteenth Century Tax & Militia Records. Baltimore.
Jones, Gordon C. 1982. Abstract of Land Grants, Tax Lists, Orphans Dockets, Inventories and Other Records Currituck and Dare Counties North Carolina.
 
Dobbs
MS Grantee Index to Deeds 1746-1880, Lenoir, Johnston, Dobbs Co. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm MF.95.
 
Edgecombe
MS County Court Minutes, 1757-1800. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reels 1&2.
Gammon, David B. 1992. Abstract of Wills Edgecombe County, North Carolina Volume I, 1732-1792. Raleigh, N.C.
Gammon, David B. 1989. Records of Estates Edgecombe County, North Carolina Volume I, 1761-1825. Raleigh, N.C.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1985. Edgecombe County North Carolina County Court Minutes, 1744 thru 1762, Book I (Fee Docket 1745-1746) Edgecombe County, Northampton County (Crown Docket 1755-1763) Edgecombe County. Durham, N.C.
Hoffman, Margaret M. 1969. Abstracts of Deeds, Edgecombe Precinct, Edgecombe County, North Carolina 1732 through 1758 as found in Halifax County, North Carolina Public Registry Deed Books 1-2-3-4-5-6. Weldon, N.C.: The Roanoke News Co. repr. 1987.
Watson, Joseph W. 1966. Abstracts of Early Deeds of Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1759-1772.
Watson, Joseph W. 1970. Estate Records of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Rocky Mount, N.C.
 
Franklin
Watson, Joseph W. 1984. Abstracts of The Early Deeds of Franklin County, North Carolina 1779-1797. Rocky Mount, N.C.
Bradley, Stephen E. 1996. Franklin County, North Carolina Original Wills, vol. I: 1780-1861. Privately printed.
 
Gates
Fouts, Raymond Parker. Minutes of County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Gates County, N.C. 1779-1786; 1787-1793; Vols. I-IV: 1794-1799, 1800-1805, 1806-1811, 1812-1817. Cocoa, Fl.
Taylor, Mona Armstrong. 1987. Abstracts of Deeds Books A-5, Gates County, North Carolina 1776-1803.
 
Granville
MS Apprentice Indentures. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 044.101.2-7.
MS Record of Deeds, 1746-1751, Vol. A., B, C-1, C-2, D-L. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reels 28-33.
MS Wills, Vols. 1-5. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.044.8002-3.
MS County Court Minutes, 1754-1770 & 1766-1795. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reels 2 & 3.
MS Granville County Marriage Bonds. North Carolina State Archives microfilm.
MS Tax Lists, 1755, 1769, 1771, 1780, 1782, 1785, 1786, 1786-1791, 1796-1802, 1803-1809. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.044.70012.
MS Tax Lists, 1767-1823. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reel 162.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 44.701.19-20.
MS Criminal and Civil Action Papers Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color [CR 044.928.15 & CR 44.289.19].
Gwynn, Zae Hargett. 1978. Granville County Guardian Accounts, 1810-1856. Rocky Mount, N.C.
Owen, Thomas McAdory. 190_. Granville County, North Carolina, Notes. Montgomery, Alabama. Library of Congress Microfilm Shelf No. 28037, call no. F262.G85087. (Minutes 1746-1759, 1767-1772, transcribed in 1895 - now missing).
Pruitt, A.B. 1988. Abstracts of Land Entries: Granville Co., N.C. 1778-1877. Cary, N.C.
 
Halifax
MS Record of Wills, Vols. 1-6, North Carolina Archives Microfilms C.047.80001, 2.
MS Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions 1784-87, 1796-98, 1799-1802, 1822-1824, 1832-1846, 6 Vols. North Carolina Archives Microfilm Reels 1 & 2.
MS The Roanoke Advocate, 5 January 1832 - February 1856. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm HaRA-2.
Bradley, Stephen E., Jr. 1989-1991. The Deeds of Halifax County, North Carolina, 1758-1771, 1771-1786, 1786-1796.
Gammon, David B., 1996. Records of Estates, Halifax County, North Carolina, Volume II, Revised Edition, 1759-1805.
 
Hertford
Tax Lists. North Carolina Archives General Assembly Papers GA 30.1 and L.P. 64.1.
Fouts, Raymond Parker. 1993. William Murfree Tax Receipt Book, Hertford County, North Carolina. Cocoa, Fl.
 
Hyde
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Treasurer and Controller's Papers.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1985. Hyde County, North Carolina County Court Minutes (Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions) 1736-1756, Book I (1736-1756), Book II (1757-1785). Durham, N.C.
 
Johnston
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives General Assembly Papers GA 64.1.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1980-1988. Johnston County, North Carolina, County Court Minutes (Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions), Book I (1759-1766), Book II (1767-1777), Book III (1778-1786), Book IV (1787-1792). Durham, N.C.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1980-1988. Johnston County, North Carolina, Deed Abstracts, Vol. I, 1759-1771, Vol. II,1764-1791, Vol. III, 1771-1782, Vol. IV, 1779-1794
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1980. Johnston County, North Carolina, Land Entries 1778-1805. Durham, N.C.
 
Martin
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives General Assembly Papers GA 30.1.
 
Mecklenburg
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 065.928.5.
 
Nash
MS Wills 1778-1897, Vol 1-5. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.069.80001.
Watson, Joseph W. 1963. Abstracts of Early Records of Nash County, North Carolina 1777-1859. Rocky Mount, N.C.
 
New Hanover
MS Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Minutes 1738-1769, 1771-1798. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reel 1.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Treasurer and Controllers Papers.
MS Deeds & Wills, Vols. AB, A-C. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reels 26, 27.
Pruitt, A.B. 1990 Abstracts of Land Entries: New Hanover County. Cary, N.C.
 
Northampton
MS Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes 1792-96, 1813-21, 1821-25. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm Reels 2 & 3.
MS Real Estate Conveyances Vols. 1-11, 28. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm reels C.071.40001-3, reels 21-22.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives General Assembly Papers GA 46.1.
MS Record of Wills, Vols 1-6. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm Reels 125-6.
MS St. George's Parish Warden Records, 1773-1814. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 71.927.1.
MS Troop Returns. North Carolina State Archives file no. TR 1-3.
Gammon, David B. Records of Estates Northampton County, North Carolina, Volume I.
Hoffman, Margaret M. 1974. 1741-1759, Abstracts of Deeds, Northampton County, North Carolina Deeds, Public Registry Deed Book One and Deed Book Two. Privately printed.
 
Onslow
MS Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes 1734-1778, 1779-1794. North Carolina State Archives Microfilms C.072.30001-2.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file CR 72.703.1, General Assembly Papers GA 11.1, Secretary of State Papers SS 837.
Orange
MS Record of Deeds, Vol. 1, 2. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.073.40001.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Treasurer and Controllers Papers T&C 1.
Haun, Weynette Parks. Orange County, North Carolina, Court Minutes, Volume I, 1752-1761; Volume II, 1762-1766. Durham, N.C.
 
Pasquotank
County Court Minutes 1737-1785, North Carolina State Archives microfilm no. C.075.30001.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR.075.701. Secretary of State Papers SS 837.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1981. Pasquotank County, North Carolina, Births, Marriages, Deaths, Brands & Flesh Marks, & County Claims 1691-1833. Durham, N.C.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1983, 1990. Pasquotank County, North Carolina, County Court Minutes 1737-1746 (I), 1747-53 (II). Durham, N.C.
 
Perquimans
Minutes, Precinct Court, 1688-1693, 1688-1706, 1735-1738; Minutes County Court 1738-1742, 1752-1755, 1759-1761, 1774, 1755-1761, 1784-1789, North Carolina State Archives microfilm no. C.077.30002.
MS Apprentice Indentures. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 077.101.6.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 077.701.1.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1987. Perquimans County, North Carolina County Court Minutes. 1638 thru 1754, Books I & II. Durham, N.C.
 
Person
MS Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Minutes 1792-1802. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.078.30001.
Pruitt, A.B. 1990. Abstracts of Land Entries: Caswell Co, NC 1778-1795, 1841-1863, and Person Co, NC 1792-1795. Cary, N.C.
 
Pitt
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Secretary of State Papers SS 837.
 
Richmond
MS Minutes, County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 1779-1808, 5 vols. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.082.30001-2.
Pruitt, A. B. Abstracts of Land Entries: Richmond County, North Carolina: 1780-1795. Cary, N.C.
 
Robeson
MS Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Minutes 1797-1843, 1843-1860. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.038.30001-2.
MS Wills and Deeds photocopied by the Court Clerk of Robeson County.
Pruitt, A.B. Abstracts of Land Entries: Robeson County, N.C., 1787-1795. Cary, N.C.
 
Rowan
Minutes, Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions (Abstracts), 1753-1795, Vols. 1, 2. North Carolina State Archives microfilm no. C.085.30001.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 085.701.6.
 
Sampson
Bizzell. Sampson County Court Minutes 1784-1800.
 
Surry
Absher, Mrs. W. O.. 1985. Surry County, North Carolina, Court Minutes, Volume I & II, 1768-1789. Southern Historical Press.
 
Tyrrell
MS Apprentice Indentures. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 96.102.1.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives Treasurer and Controllers Papers T&C 105, box 1.
 
Wake
MS Apprentice Indentures. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 099.101.1.
MS Tax Lists. North Carolina State Archives stack file no. CR 99.101.1.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1978. Wake County, North Carolina, County Court Minutes (Minutes of Pleas & Quarter Session), Vol. A1, I & II. Durham, N.C.
 
Warren
MS Record of Deeds, Warren County 1764-1787, Vols. A-8. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm C.100.40001-5.
Gammon, David B. 1988. Records of Estates, Warren County, North Carolina, Volume I, Estates Found in Court Records 1780-1805. Raleigh.
 
Wilkes
Absher, Mrs. W.O. 1989. Wilkes County, N.C. Will Books One & Two 1778-1811. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Absher, Mrs. W.O. 1988. Wilkes County Court Minutes 1778-1788, Volumes I & II, Volumes III & IV. Easley S.C.: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Absher, Mrs. W.O. 1989. Some Pioneers from Wilkes County, North Carolina. Easley S.C.: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Pruitt, A.B. Abstracts of Land Entries: Wilkes County. Cary, N.C.
 
VIRGINIA COUNTIES
Accomack
MS Accomack County Court Orders 1663-1770. The Library of Virginia Microfilms 1-9 and 79-84.
MS Register of Free Negroes photocopied by the Clerk of Accomack County.
Nottingham, Stratton, comp. 1931. Accomack Tithables (Tax Lists) 1663-1695. Onancock, Va.
 
Albemarle
MS Court Orders 1791-95, Library of Virginia microfilm reel 47.
Weisiger, Benjamin B. 1987. Albemarle County, Virginia, Court Papers, 1744-1783. Richmond.
 
Amelia
MS Court Orders 1735-1782, Latter Day Saints Family History Department microfilm no. 30459. Virginia State Archives microfilm reels 40-43.
MS List of Tithables, Virginia State Archives microfilm reel 55.
 
Amherst
MS Court Orders 1766-1784,  Library of Virginia microfilm reel 27.
Houck, Peter, W. 1984. Indian Island in Amherst County. Lynchburg, Virginia: Progress Printing Co., Inc.
McLeRoy, Sherrie S. & William R. 1993. Strangers in Their Midst, The Free Black Population of Amherst County, Virginia. Heritage Books, Inc.
Sweeny, William Montgomery. 1973. Marriage Bonds and Other Marriage Records of Amherst County, Virginia 1763-1800. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company.
Sweeny, Lenora Higginbottom. 1951. Amherst County, Virginia, in the Revolution, Including Extracts from the "Lost Order Book" 1773-1782. Lynchburg, Virginia.
 
Arlington County
MS Free Negro Register, 1797-1861, Library of Virginia microfilm reel 62. (District of Columbia, Alexandria)
Provine, Dorothy S. 1996. District of Columbia Free Negro Registers 1821-1861. 2 vols. Heritage Books. Bowie, Maryland.
 
Bedford
T.L.C. Genealogy. 2000. Bedford County, Virginia Order Book 1, 1754-1761. Miami Beach, Florida.
 
Botetourt
MS A List of Free Negroes & Mulattoes 1802-1804 [Orders 1800-1804, Loose Papers] photocopied by the Clerk of Botetourt County.
MS Free Negroes &c Registered in the Clerks office of Botetourt County photocopied by the Clerk of Botetourt County.
 
Brunswick
MS Orders 1732-1784, Deed Books 1-21, Will Books 2-7. The Library of Virginia microfilm nos. 1-10, 20-22, 29-33.
Wynne, Frances Holloway. 1983. Register of Free Negroes and also Dower Slaves: Brunswick County, Virginia 1803-1850. Fairfax, Virginia.
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1953. Marriage Bonds & Ministers' Returns of Brunswick county, Virginia, 1750-1810.
Hopkins, William Lindsay. 1989. Bath Parish Register 1827-1897 of Dinwiddie County and St. Andrew Parish Vestry Book, 1732-1797, of Brunswick County, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia.
 
Buckingham
Ward, Roger G. Buckingham County Virginia Records, Land Tax Summaries & Implied Deeds, 1782-1814, Volume 1. Athens, Georgia.
 
Campbell
MS List of Free Negroes. Campbell County Courthouse photocopied by Duke University Library.
 
Caroline
MS Court Orders 1732-1763, Virginia State Archives microfilm reels 13-16.
Dorman, John Frederick. 1965-1990. Caroline County, Virginia Order Book 1732-40, 1740-46, 1746-54, 1755-8, 1759-63, 1765-7. Washington, D.C.
Sparacio, Ruth and Sam. 1989. Order Book Abstracts of Caroline County, Virginia 1765-1778. McLean, Va.: The Ancient Press.
 
Charles City
MS Deeds, Wills, Orders 1655-1665, Latter Day Saints Family History Department Microfilm #30989.
MS Court Orders 1650, 1672-73, 1677-79, 1680, 1685, 1687-95, The Library of Virginia reel no.13.
Ayres, Margaret McNeill. 1968. Charles City County, Virginia Order Book 1676-1679. Privately printed.
Weisiger, Benjamin B. III. 1986. Charles City County, Virginia Records 1737-1774. With Several 17th Century Fragments. Privately printed.
 
Charlotte
MS Court Orders 1765-1792, The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 22-25.
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1957. Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns of Charlotte County, Virginia, 1764-1815.
 
Chesterfield
MS Court Orders 1749-1771, The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 38-39.
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1958. Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns of Chesterfield County, Virginia, form 1771-1815.
 
Culpeper
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1954. Marriages of Culpeper County, Virginia, 1771-1815.
 
Cumberland
MS Order Books 1749-62, 1762-67, Virginia State Archive Microfilm Reels, no. 23, 24.
 
Dinwiddie
MS Order Book 1789-91, Latter Day Saints Family History Department microfilm #31090.
Hughes, Land Records, Dinwiddie County.
 
Elizabeth City
MS Court Orders 1692-99, 1715-60. The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 1, 3, 4, 5, 17.
Neal, Rosemary Corley. 1988. Deeds, Wills, Court Orders 1715-1721. Heritage Books, Inc.
Neal, Rosemary Corley. 1986. Deeds, Wills, Court Orders, Etc. 1634, 1659, 1688-1701. Heritage Books, Inc.
von Doenhoff, Marion Ruth. 1957. The Vestry Book of Elizabeth City Parish, 1751-1784. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History of the College of William and Mary.
 
Essex
MS Orders 1685-1783, Deeds, Wills 1699-1702, The Library of Virginia Microfilm reels 1-3, 65-82.
Dorman, John Frederick. 1961. Essex County, Virginia Wills, Bonds, Inventories, etc. 1722-1730. Washington, D.C.
Sparacio, Ruth and Sam. 1989-1991. Essex County Order Book Abstracts 1695-1729. McLean, Va.: The Ancient Press.
 
Fairfax
MS Court Orders 1756-63, Library of Virginia microfilm reel 38.
Sparacio, Ruth and Sam. 1988. Land Records of Long Standing, Fairfax County, Virginia (1742-1770). McLean, Va.: The Ancient Press.
 
Fauquier
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1993-1996. Minute Book Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia 1759-1775. The Antient Press. McLean, Virginia.
 
Fluvanna
List of Free Negroes photocopied by the Court Clerk of Fluvanna County.
 
Fredericksburg
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1954. Marriage Bonds & Ministers' Returns of Fredericksburg, Virginia 1782-1850.
 
Gloucester
Mason, Polly Cary. 1946. Reprint 1965. Records of Colonial Gloucester County Virginia. A Collection of abstracts from original documents concerning the lands and people of Colonial Gloucester County. vol. I. Berryville, Va.
 
Goochland
MS Court Orders 1728-1779. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Register of Free Negroes 1804-1857, The Library of Virginia microfilm reel 43.
Williams, Kathleen Booth. 1960. Marriages of Goochland County, Virginia 1733-1815.
 
Greensville
MS Deed Books 1, 2; Will Books 1-5, Court Orders 1781-1810, The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 1, 2, 7, 8, 12, 13.
MS Registry of Free Negroes photocopied by the Court Clerk of Greensville County.
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1955. Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns of Greensville County Virginia 1781-1825. Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Vogt, John and T. William Kethley, Jr. eds. 1989. Greensville County Marriages 1781-1853. Athens, Ga., Iberian Publishing Co.
 
Halifax
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1957. Marriage Bonds & Ministers' Returns of Halifax County, Virginia, 1753-1800.
TT.L.C. Genealogy. 1998-2000. Halifax County, Virginia Court Orders 1755-1773. Miami Beach, Florida.
 
Hanover
Cocke, William Ronald, 1956. Hanover County Taxpayers, Saint Paul's Parish, 1782-1815.
 
Henrico
MS Court Orders 1678-93, 1694-1701, 1707-9, 1710-4, Minutes 1719-24, Orders 1737-46, 1752-67, The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 53, 65, 66, 67.
Lindsay, Joyce H. 1960. Marriages of Henrico County, Virginia, 1680-1808.
Weisiger, Benjamin B. 1977. Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia. Part Two, 1737-1781. Richmond, Va., Privately Printed.
 
Isle of Wight
MS Court Orders 1746-1780. The Library of Virginia microfilm.
MS List of Free Negroes photocopied by the Clerk of Court of Isle of Wight County.
Boddie, John Bennett. 1973 [1938]. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia. Genealogical Publishing.
Chapman, Blanche Adams. 1976. Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800.
 
James City
Duvall, Lindsay O. 1979. Virginia Colonial Abstracts Series 2, Volume 4, James City County, Virginia 1634-1904. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
 
King George
MS Court Orders 1721-1790; Register of Free Person 1785-1799. The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 22, 24, 25, 26, 58.
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1992. Order Book Abstracts of King George County, Virginia 1721-1728. The Antient Press. McLean, Virginia.
 
Lancaster
MS Court Orders 1696-1783. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS List of Tithables, 1745-1795. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Wills 1690-1835. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
Burkett, Brigette. 1999. Lancaster County, Virginia, Register of Free Negroes. Iberian Publishing.
Lee, Ida J. 1972. Lancaster County, Virginia Marriage Bonds, 1652-1850.
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1995-1999. Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book, 1678-1706. The Antient Press. McLean, Virginia.
 
Loudoun County
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1997. Loudoun County, Virginia Order Book, 1757-1764. The Antient Press. McLean, Virginia.
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1998. Loudoun County, Virginia Tithable Lists, 1770-1774. The Antient Press. McLean, Virginia.
 
Louisa
Abercrombie, Janice. 1994. Free Blacks of Louisa County, Virginia. Iberian Publishing. Athens, Georgia.
Davis, Rosalie Edith. 1981. Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census 1743-1785. Manchester, Mo., Heritage Trails.
Davis, Rosalie Edith. 1980. Louisa County, Virginia, 1743-1814: Where Have All the Children Gone? Manchester, Mo.: Heritage Trails.
 
Lunenburg
MS Court Orders 1746-84, The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 25-30.
MS Tax List 1748-1752, The Library of Virginia Accession no.20094.
MS List of Free Negroes photocopied by the Clerk of Lunenburg County.
Free Negro & Slave Records, 1802-1803 ("Free Negro" census). The Library of Virginia.
Bell, Landon C. 1974. Sunlight on the Southside; List of Tithes, Lunenburg County, Virginia 1748-1783. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing.
TLC Genealogy. Lunenburg County Deeds 1746-1790. TLC Genealogy.
 
Mecklenburg
MS Orders 1765-1792. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Personal Tax Lists, 1782-1797. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS "Free Person of Color" Registry 1809-1835 photocopied by the Clerk of Mecklenburg County.
T.L.C. Genealogy. Mecklenburg County Deeds 1765-1776. Miami Beach.
 
Middlesex County
MS Court Orders 1721-26; 1732-82. Library of Virginia microfilm reels 4, 23, 37-40.
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1994-1998. Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts, 1673-1721. The Antient Press. McLean, Virginia.
T.L.C. Genealogy. 1997. Middlesex County, Virginia Court Orders 1711-1713. Miami Beach, Fl.
 
New Kent
NSCDA, 1904. The Parish Register of St. Peter's, New Kent County, Virginia, 1680-1787. Richmond.
T.L.C. Genealogy. 1992. New Kent County, Virginia Land Tax Lists, 1782-1790. Miami Beach.
 
Norfolk
MS Orders 1685-1768. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Norfolk County Register of Free Negroes & Mulattos photocopied by the Court Clerk of Norfolk County.
McIntosh, Charles Fleming. 1914. Brief Abstracts of Norfolk County Wills, 1637-1710.
Wingo, Elizabeth B. 1961. Marriages of Norfolk County, Virginia, 1706-1792.
Wingo, Elizabeth B. and W. Bruce Wingo. 1979-1985. Norfolk County, Virginia, Tithables 1730-1750, 1751-1765, 1766-1780.
 
Northampton
MS Order Books: 1645-51, 1651-54, 1657-64, 1664-74, 1674-79, 1679-89, 1690-98, 1698-1710, 1710-1716, Tithables 1720-23, 1727, 1737, 1744 at the County Courthouse. Loose Papers at the County Courthouse.
Mihalyka, Jean M. 1997. Loose Papers and Sundry Court Cases 1628-1731. Hickory House, Eastville, Virginia.
Nottingham, Stratton. 1974. The Marriage Bonds of Northampton County, Virginia, from 1706-1854.
 
Northumberland
MS Court Order Books, 1699-1783. The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 49-56.
MS Personal Property Taxes 1782-1813. The Library of Virginia.
Fleet, Beverley. 1961. Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Northumberland County Record of Births 1661-1810. Washington, D.C.
Nottingham, Stratton. 1976. The Marriage Bonds of Northumberland County, Virginia, from 1783-1850.
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1995-1999. Northumberland County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1669-1686. McLean, Virginia.
 
Orange
MS Court Order Book 1734-41. Latter Day Saints Family History Department film #33035. MS Order Book 1741-47, Library of Virginia microfilm reel 31.
Little, Barbara Vines. 1988. Orange County, Virginia Tithables 1734-1782. Orange, Virginia.
Little, Barbara Vines. 1990. Orange County, Virginia Order Book One 1734-1739, Part One 1734-1736. Orange, Virginia.
Sparacio, Sam & Ruth. 1997-1998. Orange County, Virginia Order Book, 1747-1756. McLean, Virginia.
T.L.C. Genealogy. 1994. Orange County, Virginia, Court Orders, 1734-1741: An Every Name Index. Miami Beach, Fl.
 
Powhatan
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1957. Marriage Bonds & Ministers' Returns of Powhatan County, Virginia 1777-1830.
 
Prince George
MS Court Orders 1720-1740. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
 
Princess Anne
MS Court Orders/ Minutes 1691-1784. The Library of Virginia Microfilm reels 38-41.
Wingo, Elizabeth B. 1961. Reprint 1978. Marriages of Princess Anne County, Virginia 1749-1821.
 
Prince William
Sparacio, Ruth & Sam. 1988. Prince William County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1752-1767. McLean, Virginia.
 
Richmond
MS Orders 1721-32, 1732-39, 1739-46, 1746-52. Latter Day Saints Family History Department microfilm #33708-33710. MS Orders 1692-1704, 1752-69. Library of Virginia microfilm reels 30, 31, 36 and 37.
King, George Harrison Sanford. 1966. The Register of North Farnham Parish, 1663-1814, and Lunenburg Parish, 1783-1800, Richmond County, Virginia. Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Sparacio, Ruth & Sam. 1996-1997. Richmond County, Virginia Order Book, 1704-1721. McLean, Virginia.
TLC Genealogy. Richmond County, Virginia Court Orders, 1721-1752: An Every-name Index. TLC Genealogy.
 
Southampton
MS Orders 1749-63. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Personal Property Taxes 1782-1830. The Library of Virginia.
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1955. Marriage Bonds & Ministers' Returns of Southampton County, Virginia 1758-1800.
 
Spotsylvania
MS Court Orders 1738-82. Library of Virginia microfilm reels 44 and 45.
Sparacio, Ruth & Sam. 1987-8. Spotsylvania County Court Orders 1724-1730; 1730-1746. McLean, Virginia.
T.L.C. Genealogy. 1999. Spotsylvania County Court Orders 1746-48; 1748-50. Miami Beach, Florida.
 
Stafford
Sparacio, Ruth & Sam. 1987-8. Stafford County, Virginia Order Book Abstracts 1691-1692, 1664-1668, 1689-1690, 1691-1692, 1692-1693. McLean, Virginia.
 
Surry
MS Orders 1671-1691, 1691-1713, 1713-1718, 1741-1744, 1744-1749, 1749-1751, 1751-1753, 1753-1757, 1757-1764, 1764-1774, 1775-1785, 1785-1795, 1795-1800. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Personal Tax Lists, 1782-1810, The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Property Tax Alterations 1782-1810, The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Guardian Accounts Book, 1783-1804. Registry of Free Negroes at back of book. The Library of Virginia Microfilm.
MS Registry of Free Negroes, 1804-1840. Abstracted by Mrs. Doris Stone at the Surry County Court House.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1986-1992. Surry County, Virginia Court Records, Book I (1652-1663), Book II (1664-1671), Book III (1672-1682), Book IV (1682-1691), Book V (1691-1700), Book VI (1700-1711). Durham, N.C.
Hudgins, Dennis. 1995. Surry County, Virginia Register of Free Negroes. Virginia Genealogical Society.
Knorr, Catherine Lindsay. 1960. Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns of Surry County, Virginia, 1768-1825.
 
Sussex
MS Court Orders 1754-1776. The Library of Virginia microfilm
MS Certificates granted to Free negroes & mulattoes from October 1800 in conformity of an act of December 1793 photocopied by the Court Clerk of Sussex County.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1993. Sussex County, Virginia Court Records 1754-1801, Book I, Court of Oyer & Terminer, 1754-1801; Order Book 1754-56. Durham, N.C.
Knorr, 1952. Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns of Sussex County, Virginia, 1754-1810.
 
Warwick
MS Court Orders 1713-1714, Minute Book 1748-1762, The Library of Virginia microfilm.
 
Westmoreland
MS Court Orders 1690-1790. The Library of Virginia microfilm reels 52-61.
Dorman, John Frederick. 1962-1988. Westmoreland County, Virginia, Order Books 1675-1689, 1690-1698, 1698-1705. Washington, D.C.: J.F. Dorman.
Nottingham, Stratton. 1928. Reprint 1975. The Marriage License Bonds of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1786 to 1850.
 
York
MS Court Orders 1677-1783. Latter Day Saints Family History Department microfilms #34404-34412.
MS Free Negroes Register 1831-1850 photocopied by the Clerk of York County.
Dorman, John Frederick. 1974-1980. York County, Virginia, Deeds, Orders, Wills, etc., 1687-1697. Washington, D.C.: J.F. Dorman.
Duvall, Lindsay O. 1978. Virginia Colonial Abstracts Series 2, Vol. 5, Wills, Deeds, Orders of York County, Virginia 1657-1659. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press.
 
SOUTH CAROLINA
Journal of the South Carolina Court of General Sessions, 1769-1776. South Carolina Archives microfilm SC-AR-M-14, AD721.
MS South Carolina Tax Returns 1783-1800, South Carolina Archives microfilm AD-941 and AD-942.
MS Marlboro County, South Carolina, Clerk of Court Minutes of the County; Intermediate; Common Pleas; and Gen Sessions Court. South Carolina Archives Microfilm C258.
MS Fairfield County, South Carolina County Court Minutes of the County Court, 1785-86; 1791-99. South Carolina Archives microfilm C348.
MS Parochial Register of the Parishes of St. Thomas & St. Denis, 1693-1794. Latter Day Saints Microfilm no. 22742.
The Combined Alphabetical Index. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina.
Accelerated Indexing Systems. 1973. South Carolina 1800 Census. Accelerated Indexing Systems.
Brown, Richard Maxwell. 1963. The South Carolina Regulators. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University.
Gregg, Right Rev. Alexander. 1867. History of the Old Cheraws. New York.
Henry, H.M. 1968. The Police Control of the Slave in South Carolina. New York: Negro Universities Press.
Holcolm, Brent Howard. 1980. South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799. Genealogical Press.
_____. 1996. Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals, Volume I (1734-1748) Volume III (1752-1753). Columbia, S.C.
Lucas, Silas Emmett, Jr. 1977. An Index to Deeds of the Province and State of South Carolina 1719-1785 and Charleston District 1785-1800. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press.
NSCDA. 1916. The Register Book for the Parish Prince Frederick Winyaw. Baltimore.
Salley, A.S., Jr., ed. 1904. Reprint 1971. Register of St. Philips Parish, Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758. University of S.C. Press.
Smith, D.E. Hugger and Salley, A.S., Jr., ed. 1927. Reprint 1971. Register of St. Philips Parish, Charles Town, or Charlestown, South Carolina, 1754-1810. University of S.C. Press.
Warren, Mary Bondurant. 1988. South Carolina Newspapers, Heritage Papers.
 
CENSUS RECORDS
MS North Carolina Governor's Office Census of 1784-87. North Carolina State Archives Microfilm S.51.567.
MS North Carolina Census: 1800, 1810, 1820, and 1830. Microfilms M32:29-34; M252:38-43; M33:80-85; M19:121,123.
MS Virginia Census: 1810 and 1820. M252:66-71; M33:130, 140.
MS South Carolina Census: 1810. Microfilms M252:60-62.
Bradley, Stephen E., Jr. 1987. The 1860 Federal Census Halifax County, North Carolina. South Boston, Va.: Privately printed.
Bureau of the Census. 1966 [1908]. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 - Records of the State Enumerations: 1782 to 1785, Virginia. Baltimore.
Bureau of the Census. 1990 [1908]. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: North Carolina. Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Co.
Bureau of the Census. 1978 [1908]. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: South Carolina. Baltimore.
Bureau of the Census. 1965 [1908]. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: Maryland. Baltimore.
Bureau of the Census. Pennsylvania, First Census 1790.
Schreiner-Yantis, Netti and Florene Speakman Love. 1987. The 1787 Census of Virginia. An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male Tithable Over 21 Years; the Number of Slaves Over 16 & those Under 16 Years; together with a Listing of their Horses, cattle & Carriages; and also the Names of all Persons to whom Ordinary Licenses and Physician's Licenses were Issued. Springfield, Virginia, Genealogical Books in Print.
Fothergill, Augusta B. and John Mark Naugle. 1986. Virginia Tax Payers 1782-87 Other Than Those Published by the United States Census Bureau. Baltimore.
Yantis, Netti Schreiner. 1971. A Supplement to the 1810 Census of Virginia.
 
VIRGINIA PARISH REGISTERS AND VESTRY BOOKS
MS Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Register 1724-1774. Virginia Archives Accession No. 25593.
MS Bruton Parish, James City and York County Register and Baptisms 1739-1797, Burials 1662-1761. The Library of Virginia Miscellaneous Microfilm Reel 448a.
MS Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Register.
MS Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex County Parish Register, 1739-1778, Latter Day Saints Family History Department microfilm no. 0030161.
MS St. Paul's Parish, King George County, Virginia, Parish Register, 1716-1793. Latter Day Saints Family History Department microfilm no. 0033859.
Bell, Landon C. 1932. Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, History and Registers, Births 1648-1789, Deaths 1665-1787. Richmond: VSLB.
Chamberlayne, Churchill G. 1898. The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789. Richmond, Va.: William Ellis Jones Steam Book and Job Printer.
Chamberlayne, Churchill G. 1931. The Vestry Book of Stratton Major Parish, King & Queen County, Virginia, 1729-1783. Richmond.
Chamberlayne, Churchill G. 1935. The Vestry Book of Blisland Parish, New Kent and James City Counties, Virginia, 1721-1786. Richmond: Virginia State Library Board.
Chamberlayne, Churchill G. 1937. The Vestry Book & Register of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent & James City Counties, Virginia 1684-1786.
Chamberlayne, Churchill G. 1940. The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish Hanover County Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Library Board.
Davis, Rosalie Edith. 1981. Fredericksville Parish Vestry Book, Indentures and Processioning Returns 1742-1787. Manchester, Mo.: Heritage Trails.
Historic Dumfries Virginia, Inc. 1976. The Records of Dettingen Parish, Prince William County, Virginia, Vestry Book 1745-1785, Minutes of Meetings of the Overseers of the Poor 1788-1802, Indentures 1749-1782. Dumfries.
Jones, W. Mac. 1966. The Douglas Register, Being a Detailed Record of Births Marriages and Deaths, Kept by Rev. William Douglas 1750-1797. Baltimore.
Matheny, Emma R. and Helen K. Yates. Kingston Parish Register, Gloucester and Mathews Counties, 1749-1827. privately printed.
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. 1964. The Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia from 1653 to 1812. Baltimore.
Richards, Gertrude, R.B. 1958. Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry & Sussex Counties, Virginia, 1739-1778.
 
GENERAL
MS The Virginia Gazette, photocopied by Prince William County Genealogical Society, Manassas, Virginia 22110-0812.
Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. Compiled by Professor Thomas Costa, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia's College at Wise. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/runaways/allrecords.html
MS Revolutionary War Pension Files. National Archives microfilm series M805.
Adjutant General of North Carolina. 1976. Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812 Detached from the Militia of North Carolina in 1812 and 1814, Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore.
Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers.
Byrd, William L. 1999. In Full Force and Virtue: North Carolina Emancipation Records, 1713-1860. Heritage Books, Inc. Bowie, Maryland.
Clark, Murtie June. 1983. Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Clark, Walter, ed. 1895-1907. The State Records of North Carolina. 16 vols. numbered XI-XXVI. Winston and Goldsboro, N.C.: State of North Carolina.
Creekmore, Pollyanna. 1980. Early East Tennessee Taxpayers. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press.
des Cognets, Louis, Jr., ed. 1958. English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records. Princeton.
Dorman, Frederick. 1958-1995. Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications, Volumes 1-45. Washington, D.C.
Dumont, William H. Some Virginia Revolutionary Veterans and Their Heirs. Washington, D.C.: Fiscal Section of the National Archives.
Fouts, Raymond Parker. 1984. Abstracts from Newspapers of Edenton, Fayetteville, & Hillsborough, North Carolina 1785-1800. Cocoa, Fl.
Fouts, Raymond Parker. 1983. Abstracts from the North Carolina Gazette of New Bern, North Carolina 1751-1759 and 1768-1790 Volume I. Cocoa, Fl.
Fouts, Raymond Parker. Abstracts from the North Carolina Journal, Halifax, North Carolina. 1792-1794, Vol. I. Cocoa, Fl.
Gray, Gertrude Entz. 1987. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694-1742. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Gill, Harold B. 1989. Apprentices of Virginia, 1623-1800. Ancestry.
Grimes, Bryan J. 1967. Abstract of North Carolina Wills. Compiled from Original Wills Recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State. Baltimore.
Hall, Wilmer L., ed. 1945. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, Vol. V, November 1739 - May 7, 1754. Virginia State Library.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1990. North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts Secretary of State Treasurer's & Comptroller's Papers, Vol. I & II, Part II. Durham, N.C.
Haun, Weynette Parks. 1989. North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts Secretary of State Treasurer's & Comptroller's Papers, Journal "A", (Public Accounts) 1775-1776. Durham, N.C.
Hening, William W., ed. 1809-23. The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia. Richmond.
Hillman, Benjamin J., ed. 1966. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, Vol. VI., June 20, 1754 - May 3, 1775. Virginia State Library.
Historical & Genealogical Society of Randolph County (Indiana) 1882. History of Randolph County.
Hoffman, Margaret M. 1979. Province of North Carolina, 1663-1729, Abstracts of Land Patents. Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Hoffman, Margaret M. Colony of North Carolina (1735-1764), Abstracts of Land Patents, Volume I. Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Hoffman, Margaret M. 1984. Colony of North Carolina (1765-1775), Abstracts of Land Patents, Volume II. Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Hoffman, Margaret M. 1986. The Granville District of North Carolina 1748-1763: Abstracts of Land Grants. Roanoke Rapids, N.C.
Hopkins, William Lindsay. 1988. Suffolk Parish Vestry Book, 1749-1784, Nansemond County, Virginia, and Newport Parish Vestry Book, 1724-1772, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Richmond, Va.
Hopkins, William Lindsay. 1988. Virginia Revolutionary War Land Grant Claims, 1783-1850 (Rejected). Richmond.
Joyner, Peggy Shomo. 1986. Abstracts of Virginia's Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Dunmore, Shenandoah, Culpeper, Prince William, Fauquier & Stafford Counties 1710-1780. Volume III. Portsmouth, Va.: Privately printed.
Kent, Henriette Thorne. 1991. Swampers, Free Blacks and The Great Dismal Swamp. Privately printed.
Leary, Helen F.M., and Maurice R. Stirewalt, eds. 1980. North Carolina Research, Genealogy and Local History. Raleigh: North Carolina Genealogical Society.
McBride, Ransom. Revolutionary War Service Records and Settlements, published in the North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal.
MacLean, J. P. 1907 (1975 reprint). Shakers of Ohio: Fugitive Papers Concerning the Shakers of Ohio, with Unpublished Manuscripts. Philadelphia: Porcupine Press.
McIlwaine, H. B., ed. 1925. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, Vol. I, June 11, 1680 - June 22, 1699 ... Vol. IV. Virginia State Library.
McIlwaine, H. B., ed. 1908. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1658/9 ... 1761-1765. Richmond.
McIlwaine, H.B., ed. 1979 (second edition). Minutes of the Council and General Court of Virginia, Richmond: Virginia State Library.
North Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution. Roster of Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. Durham: North Carolina DAR, 1932. reprinted: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984.
North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal. Raleigh: North Carolina Genalogical Society. 1975-.
North Carolina Historical & Genealogical Register (Hathaway's Register). 1970-1971. Baltimore: Genalogical Publishing
The North Carolinian. 20 volumes (Raleigh, 1955-74).
Nugent, Nell Marion. 1934-1980. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1732. 3 Vols. Richmond.
Puetz, C.J. 1983. North Carolina County Maps. Lyndon Station, Wisconsin.
Saunders, William L., et. al., eds. 1886-1890. The Colonial Records of North Carolina, vols. I-IX. Raleigh, N.C.: Josephus Daniels.
Smith, Annie Laurie Wright, comp. 1975. The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Southern Historical Press. 1978. Virginia Colonial Abstracts Series 2, Vol. 5. Wills, Deeds, Orders of York County, Virginia 1657-1659. Easley, S.C: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
Torrence, Clayton. 1965. Virginia Wills and Administrations 1632-1800.
Torrence, Clayton. 1973 [1935]. Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland: A Study in Foundations and Founders. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company.
Turner, C.H.B. 1909. Some Records of Sussex County, Delaware. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott.
Turpin, Joan. 1985. Register of Black, Mulatto, and Poor Persons in Four Ohio Counties 1791-1861. Heritage Books, Inc.
Virginia Genealogist, Volumes 1-33. Washington D.C.
Whitelaw, Ralph T. 1951. Virginia's Eastern Shore. Virginia Historical Society.
Woodson, Robert F. and Isobel B. 1970. Virginia Tithables from Burned Record Counties. Richmond.
 
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Bell, Albert D. 1961. Bass Families of the South, A collection of historical and genealogical source materials from public and private records. Rocky Mount, N.C.: Privately printed.
Berlin, Ira. 1976. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Vintage Books.
Blu, Karen. 1980. The Lumbee Problem. Cambridge University Press.
Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. 1988. Virginia's Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore.
Brown, Kathleen M. 1996. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
BButler, Reginald Dennin. 1989. Evolution of a rural free black community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832. Ph.D. Diss. The Johns Hopkins University.
Catterall, Helen Honor Tunnicliff. 1926. Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. Carnegie Institute of Washington; repr. New York: Negro Universities Press, a Division of Greenwood Publishing Corp., 1968.
Crow, Jeffrey J. 1983. The Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina. Raleigh.
Davidson, Thomas E. "Free Blacks in Old Somerset County, 1745-1755," Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 80, no.2, 151-156.
Deal, Joseph Douglas, III. 1981. Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen and Africans on the Eastern Shore during the Seventeenth Century. Ph.D. Diss., Univ. of Rochester.
Franklin, John Hope. The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Horton, James Oliver and Lois E. 1979. Black Bostonians. New York.
Jackson, Luther Porter. 1944. Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the Revolutionary War. Norfolk, Virginia.
Johnston, James Hugo. 1970. Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South 1776-1860. Amherst.
Jordan, Winthrop D. 1977. White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Kimmel, Ross M. "Free Blacks in Seventeenth Century Maryland," Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 71, No. 1, 19-25.
Koger, Larry. 1995. Black Slaveowners: Free Black Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. University of South Carolina Press.
Madden, T.O. 1993. We Were Always Free. Vintage Books.
Minton, Henry M. Early History of Negroes in Business in Philadelphia (read before the American Negro Historical Society, March 1913). Nashville, Tennessee: A.M.E.S.S. Union.
Morgan, Edmund S. 1975. American Slavery American Freedom, The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York.
Nicholls, Michael, L., "Passing Through This Troublesome World, Free Blacks in the Early Southside," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 92(1984), 50-70.
Norment, Mrs. Mary C. 1895. The Lowrie History. Weldon, N.C.: Harrell's Printing House.
Richter, Caroline Julia. 1992. A Community and its Neighborhoods: Charles Parish, York County, Virginia, 1630-1740. PhD. Dissertation, College of William and Mary.
Rountree, Helen C. "The Termination and Dispersal of the Nottoway Indians of Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 95 No.2 (1987), 193-214.
Rountree, Helen C. 1990. Pochahontas's People. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through four centuries. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Russell, John H. 1913. The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865. Baltimore.
Sneed, Laurel C. & Christine Westfall. 1995. Uncovering the Hidden History of Thomas Day: Findings and Methodology. Thomas Day Education Project of the Communications Resources Foundations, Inc. of North Carolina.
Taylor, R. H. 1920. The Free Negro in North Carolina (James Sprunt Historical Publications). Chapel Hill.
Swanton, John R. 1979. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institute Press.
Wiley, Bell I., ed. 1980. Slaves No More: Letters From Liberia, 1833-1869. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Wise, Erbon, W. 1983. Sweat Families of the South. Sulphur, La.: Privately printed.
Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Virginia. 1994. The Negro in Virginia. Winston Salem, North Carolina.

 

 

 

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