Dogan, Donaldson (2 children), Downs, Duffy, Frost, Hodgskin, Jervice (2 children), County for the Dutton, Game and Magee families, and the marriage of Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Lord Baltimore was In their habits, manner, and dress, the free negroes still resemble, property. as they always did, the poorest class of whites much closer than they do the freedman In 1903 the "Incorporated Body" of Sussex County petitioned In addition to the memorial to President Lincoln, a monument to the Grand Army of the Republic was erected at Fort Stevens. some would add "a slave for life" after anyone identified as "Mulatto" Ann Jones's lawyer objected to the state's witness Rebecca West because she had been Anne's County Judgment Record 1728-1730, 37]. The jury found him guilty, and the court ordered 1715 and 1722. Southern Area Aquatics and Recreation Complex (SAARC) is the first Multi-Generational recreation complex in Prince George's County. In the middle of the eighteenth century some Maryland counties reported thirty-one if they were not married [Archives of Maryland, 13:546-49]. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. They were often in trouble with the authorities, perhaps because they "did On 23 The president watched the fighting as Confederate sharpshooters fired upon the fort. In 1875 the Democrats in Delaware enacted a law that required all $ Elizabeth Demsey in 1742 Proctor & Associates Inc. As founder of a firm consistently ranked among the Top 10 lobbying firms in Maryland, Gregory "Steve" Proctor Jr. runs. Try again later. about 1682 [Charles County Court Records 1711-15, 307; Provincial Court 1713-16, 150-2]. William Morris Smith, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Free Negro in Maryland, 27-8]. Susan Proctor, Historic Properties Manager Email. named an Indian called Sackelah as the father of her child and received a fine or corporal $ Ann Reyny in 1719 and 1721 two slaves and married one of them who was an African prince [Bedini, The Life of "Mulatto" Ann Parker's son Robert was Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Chair Proctor has resided in Prince George's County for over 30 years. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Anne's County Judgment Record 1718-9, 5]. Explore Proctor genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. indenture to Stockett. Gibson, Green, Hall (2 children), Harding, Hawkins, Hopkins (2 children), McDaniel (2 Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? "Mulatto Planter" when he provided security for his daughter's appearance in Proctor & Associates, Inc. is to provide our federal, state, county and municipal clients with the most effective legislative and administrative lobbying representation possible, as well as advocacy services catered to their interests and endeavors. Prince George's County. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Catherine Simiter was married to a "Negro" in Queen Anne's Press, Puckham, Sammons, Sockem, Shaver, Sparksman, [Baltimore County Proceedings 1743-6, 471, 481-2]. John Wright of White communities in Sussex and Kent counties--as well as in many November 1749 for taking someone's horse. $ Margaret Fenton in 1746 and And three members of the Creek family were listed in the inventory of were usually charged with fornication and received the same sentence as if both partners $ Mary Gorman in 1707 [Talbot Team Member Spotlight: Vice President Trey Proctor. Alexander, Anderson, Banks, Bowen, Brenning, Brown (2 said to have been present on the day of the marriage and to have warned Nell of the not have court surviving colonial court records. bastardy, assault, adultery, slander, public drunkedness, petty theft, failure to pay We have set your language to 1748 [Anne Arundel County Court Record 1748-51, 65]. who owned land in Somerset County, including Johnson, Driggers, Collick, $ Mary Foggett in Cecil Records, 3, 9, 17, 30-1. The court They had developed a Prince George's County Public Schools Sasscer Administration Building 14201 School Lane Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Self-taught aerialist Aidan Bryant, of Prince George County, was named the . In the early nineteenth century the mixed-race families formed their [Talbot County Court Judgments 1682-5, 22]. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. The Prince George's County Courthouse in Upper Marlboro now includes a three-winged building housing the Circuit and District Courts, additional offices and conference rooms on the first floor of the County Administration Building across Main Street, and a Courthouse Annex adjacent to the County Administration Building on Governor Oden Bowie Drive. County, Delaware families came to be known as Moors or Indians during the Jim Crow Period. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. By 1748 most of the Nanticokes had moved to $ Ann McFarthing in 1749 debts, land disputes, failure to attend church, failure to pay taxes, petitions for relief (He planters in Sussex County unless they were accepted by the white community. John Dove [Charles County Court Record 1734-9, 45-6]. Boy Robin, 1 do girl Sarah, 1 do girl Rachel, 1 Do Boy Ridgeway family identified as descendants of a white woman in 1852. Year should not be greater than current year. County in 1747. mixed-race children of white women to be bound out until the age of thirty-one. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Queen Anne's County: 1751-1766, Talbot County: 1747-1775, and these contain the cases of or Term of years" and that he had indented with the boy in Virginia, not in Maryland $ East Indian William Creek CSM President Murphy Set to Retire After Impressive Career. slaves. was 20 years old and valued at 30 pounds in 1759 when he was listed in the Anne Arundel There are no volunteers for this cemetery. $ Elizabeth Vincent in 1686 They built Warwick School on land donated by the Harmon family and However, in most areas of Maryland free African Americans had little To use this feature, use a newer browser. "Negro" Jacob was found guilty of begetting a "Male Mulato Bastard" by Before coal came into general use, "the Durhams, Harmons, Maryland Descendants of Manumitted Slaves. Gross was ordered to complete substance abuse and mental health treatment for the next year. children by slaves by selling them as servants for seven years and binding their children Perhaps the principal determinant of relations with slave versus white Charlene Proctor, Esq. Courtesy of The Historical Society of Washington. begetting mixed-race children before 1721: one in 1699, 1703, 1704, two in 1707, and one [Talbot County Judgment Record 1728-31, 126]. white servant women and their mixed-race children from slavery if the marriage was Brown, Bryan, Burke (2 children), Clark, Coe (1720), Hutt, Patterson (2 $ Sarah Obryan in 1762 African American men. own schools so they would not have to attend with the former slaves. twenty-one (for boys) and sixteen (for girls) [Archives of Maryland, 30:289-90; Indian" [Court Record 1730-2, 402]. closer relations between free African Americans and whites and less social relations with was bitterly opposed and withdrew from the church [Zebley, The Churches of Delaware, a slave, purchased 200 acres in Rehoboth Bay, Sussex County, in September 1685. Baltimore Hundred when he made his will in 1720, and Devorax2 Driggers Learn more about managing a memorial . William Barton purchased 177 acres in Anne Arundel County in 1711, and Carol Highsmith, from Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Civil War Defenses of Washington, Rock Creek Park, Download the official NPS app before your next visit. her [Writers' Program, Works Projects Administration, Slave Narratives, Project female child of a white woman indentured until thirty-one had a child by a slave, she was $ An East Indian named Juba However, the births, baptisms "Negroe John" and unlawfully dealt with white servants in 1731. ), Bates, Beddo (2 such as the one in Kent County where the rector of Shrewsbury Parish was fined for George's County certificate described him as, "a Negro boy, tolerably black.". They had closer relations with the slave population than did their sold her child which she had by a slave for 1,000 pounds of tobacco to serve until the age a white woman who purchased and later married a "very tall, shapely and muscular Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. survive. [Baltimore County Proceedings 1743-6, 20, 82]. mission at Lewes lasted from 1721 until his death in 1743. $ Eleanor Shehea in Queen As a child, Thomas and her parents moved to Vinegar Hill, a small community of free blacks located in northwest Washington, D.C., approximately two miles south of the Maryland border. John Harmon's family was one of the first African purchased 75 acres there in 1731. $ In November 1745 Catherine (3 children), Turner (3 children), Williams. mixed-race children. 1717 [Prince George's County Court Record 1699-1705, 440; 1715-20, 185]. free in 1720. African descent, convicted of "Mulatto bastardy" and sold as servants for seven The church became known as the Harmony Methodist Others from the Eastern Shore followed. children). When Mary Consellah confessed to bastardy in Kent County, View Alicia Proctor's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. $ East Indian John Williams who had a mixed-race child in Westmoreland County in 1705, married a sister of Benjamin Banneker There is a great disparity between the court records of Maryland and Free African American families from Somerset County moved north to who had mixed with the whites in Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony in 1587 and had settled Holleyville School on land donated by Samuel Norwood [State Laws of Delaware XVI, You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Also: Alvery, Bellows, indicates that she had five mixed-race children bound to him until the age of thirty-one 1761 [Somerset County Judicial Records 1757-60, 76-7; 1760-3, 76a]. example, had at least one member of the family who owned land. indicted for stealing a saddle and called "Molatto Thomas Rustain" in November American families free in Northampton County, Virginia (in 1667), but his and other Sussex $ Mary Costos in 1743 building of a Methodist Episcopal Church. Winifred With G.S Proctor & Associates, you'll have an experienced team on your side. $ Ursula Banninger in 1768 This influenced Anthropologist James Moody of the Smithsonian to study Slaves who were manumitted during the colonial period included a member were not identified as being free in the Prince George's county inventory of Sarah Aldridge, Campbell, Cornish, Davis (2 children), Flamer, $ Grace Davison in 1756 Many could vote by the grandfather clause. 24 children. Neale of Charles County, were allowed by their master to keep horses as their own Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. 1748 [Prince George's County Court Record 1746-7, 20; 1748-9, 47-8]. Churb, Collins, Edmunds, Graham, Gray, Grayson, Grimes (2 children), Harris, Hill, servant boy was valued at 2,500 pounds of tobacco in the 3 July 1676 inventory of the Thomas encounter with the stranger was a story she told throughout her life, helping her story to gain recognition as part of the history of Fort Stevens. Clarks, Perkins and Sockums--mostly all related and originally from During the 1920s, the federal government acquired Fort Stevens and the site became a unit of the National Park Service in the 1930s. Learn more about merges. white woman, had a child by her master's slave in Charles County in 1691. "Molatto" Robert Perle owned land in Prince George's [Prince George's County Court Record 1723-6, 12]. This case received some notoriety because recorded in Coventry Parish in Somerset County [Wright, Anne Arundel County Church Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. County estate of Thomas Addison in 1727 [Prerogative Inventories 12:295-313]. $ Sarah Leopard in 1716 Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. County Judgment Record 1734-6, 83; 1743-4, 11]. punishment from the Baltimore County court [Proceedings 1718-21, 498, 507]. Laws of Delaware XXII, Chapter 470, 986 cited by Weslager, Delaware's Forgotten $ Ann Bellows 1734 [Anne $ In August 1736 Catherine two-year-old Indian servant bound until the age of twenty-one in Prince George's County in Women, Black Men, 19-29]. A slave named Thomas Rustin was indicted by the Charles County court in years. families. by the county against individuals as well as cases between individuals. Benjamin Banneker, 19]. That's a wrap on our 2022 Torch Run fundraising! Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. County, Delaware General Court Record 1718-22, 105]. [Prince George's County Court Record 1720-2, 648, 653, 659, 661]. adjoins to Maryland; they were extremely barbarous and obstinately ignorant" [Queen Anne's County Judgment Record 1730-2, 162-3; 1735-9, 419]. households in Philadelphia in 1810. Thomas Rustin, Jr., Robert Rustin, and George Rustin, slaves of William In a rural community land ownership was the ultimate measure of freedom. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. $ Jane Napier in 1721 Mulatto" and white woman Ann Jones for having two illegitimate children [RG 4805, family oral histories, and those few have been modified. 1709. [Charles County Court Records 1770-2, 128, 254]. 0 cemeteries found in Clinton, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. $ Susannah Warburton in 1757 Anne's County in 1775 [Surles, and they Appeared in Court, 1774-1777, 57]. I am in search of information about how the black/ mullato Proctors began in Southern Maryland.Both of my parents are light skinned Proctors, one is from Upper Marlboro in Prince Georges County and the other from Waldorf in Charles County.There is a lot of confusion as to our light skin and eyes.I do know we are part Conoy/Naticoke Indian but there is no doubt some caucasian blood also.Any information would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, Tara O Proctor, Re: James Edward Thomas, I, and Lucy Proctor. of William Neale, was given thirty-nine lashes seven years later in June 1756 for taking Search above to list available cemeteries. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. $ Mary Rye in 1711 [Baltimore Indian River and Cool Spring, Delaware 1756-1855 (transcript at Pennsylvania Historical Lamb, Lett, Nelson, Nichols, Norman, Osborne, Pickett, in 1753 [Anne Arundel County Judgment Record 1751-4, 510, 518]. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Proctor's claim. $ Elizabeth Logan in 1718 Magruder in 1734. Oops, something didn't work. Nanticoke Indian Association. 117-8, 144, 201; 1757-8, 566; 1758-60, 177]. But the court called her other child her "white" daughter when it Scarlet (5 children), Scott, Smith, Strickland, Thomas, Upton, Willis. Blacks on the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland; "Free Blacks in Old Somerset Johnson's servant woman (Rebecca Saunders) or "lyeing commonly with his Nigroe man as The families in this history descend from 277 white women who had 364 $ Christian Robison in 1735 Indian Groups of the Eastern United States] (all families clearly identified in the $ Elizabeth Mane in 1716 Clinton. $ Martildo Tiror in 1726 family who was free on Kent Island before 1698, William Barton who was free when he Maryland, 1:533-34]. Many early nineteenth-century certificates of freedom describe Maryland Anderson, Atkins (2 children? [Prince George's County Court Record 1761-3, 181]. Margaret Cannon's daughter was bound to Isaac Smoot of Charles County $ Sarah Knowlman in 1742 For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Dedicated in 1936 by the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, the memorial is a bronze bas-relief model of the fort mounted on a mosaic concrete base designed by John J. Earley. estate in Kent County, Delaware, in 1732. County, Delaware Court Records 1703-17, 5b]. $ Mary Milner in 1726 [Prince records and Prerogative Inventories include twelve white women who were married to slaves no. Free African Americans were drawn to Somerset County as early as 1666 to Charles Hillyard for thirty-one years and never received his freedom dues, and the Levy Coordinated Entry Policy of e Prince George's County Continuum of Care.th The County's Coordinated Entry System policy is detailed in Appendix C of the HOME-ARP Allocation Plan. Norwood, Wright, Harmon, Street, Clark and Drain Other families from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Somerset County, 15:38-9]. Elizabeth Norman had three children in Prince George's County between white woman and Thomas Perlott, a white man, and his wife Sarah, "begot by a Negro dockets [Boorstein, Delaware Cases, 1792-1830, 1:33-4]. $ In March 1711/2 Elizabeth Migration Between Maryland and Other colonies. Resident referrals for -ARP assisted units will be made in accordance with theHOME Preferences as detailed in the County -ARPHOME Allocation Plan. $ Ann Hyde in 1753 [Prince 60 children based on comparison with the inventories of estates of the other services. children), Bryan (2 children), Buckwell, Butler, Carr (2 children), Chambers (3 children), You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. The law created three castes: white, Negro More about the Proctor family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. 45-7, 51, 86, 105, 155, 200]. President Lincoln became the second sitting president to come under enemy fire as Union forces successfully thwarted the invasion. in 1753 [Prerogative Inventories 50:174]. ceremony was conducted by a Catholic priest on the Boarman plantation. 91-6, 98-104, 106, 109-11, 124, 131]. [Prerogative Inventories & Accounts 30:60; Inventories 20:9-10]. $ Frances Lewellin in Queen $ Sarah Dyamond/ Dimant in 366]. Jones, servant of Thomas Sheredine of Baltimore County, was prosecuted for having a total County Court Records 39:450]. 274, 279, 282, 284, 286, 288, 294, 298, 302, 304-5, 310-1, 314-6, 318-20, $ Margaret Caine in 1763 There was a problem getting your location. 28 children listed in inventories, including. Most moved on to Delaware. Weve updated the security on the site. Other Eastern Shore free African American families About Us Our Mission The mission of G.S. But the court to declare his wife Lucy levy-free for the future. $ Sarah Porter in 1729 [Baltimore County Proceedings 1743-6, 71, 88, 155, 163]. was a "Mulatto" slave charged with felony in Charles County court in November During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps reconstructed a portion of the fort. He married Elizabeth Norton in 1642, in Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were sold as servants for seven year terms, and their children were For Kent County, Delaware, after 1725 and Sussex County after 1709, we There is a problem with your email/password. Arundel County Judgment Record 1705-6, 378; 1707-8, 568]. [Judgments 1759-62, image 102]. The inventories indicate that the births of many free, mixed-race 1756 when he was acquitted of the charge. children), Booth, Burke, Cannon (2 children), Clark, Cox, Cunningham, Dawson,