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ENSLAVED ANCESTORS ABSTRACTED FROM GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
DEED BOOKS A-Z & 1-21, 1746-1864 By Barnetta McGhee White, PhD

Boyd, John to Josiah Daniel. "...one Negro woman named Bett ..."
(BOS-1798, p. 388, book Q)

Boyd, Alexander [Mecklenburg Co. VA] to Henry Fitts [Warren Co, NC].
"...also the following Negro slaves:Chavous, Dafney, Rose, Isaac, Davy,
Jinnie, Ben, Rilla, Patty, Fanny, Leatha, Litty, Sarah, Mary, Betsey,
Ratter,Isaac, Luci (now at Island Creek), Edmund, Jim, Moses, Matt, Kit,
Tom, Fred, Jim, Edmund, Henry, Amos,Cesar, Martin, Andrew, Anthony,
Patty, Shade, Nathan, Ritty, Eliza, Robert & Mary, Martha, Elinder,
Ritty,William, Lucy, Burwell, Philip, Lucy, Daniel, Charity & Fanny...&
the future increase of the females of said slaves..." (DIT-1823, pp.
457-460, book 1)

Boyd, Mary Ann [of Halifax County, VA] to William H. Webb. "...the
following Negroes, to wit, Caroline, Charlotte aged twenty two years or
thereabouts and her two children Ann Victoria aged five years, and
Alexander Munroe aged three years..." [one month later, Webb sold these
same slaves to William W. Vass, p.48] (BOS-4th September, 1843, p.47,
book 13)

Boyd, James of Hertford Co. NC to John Butler of David Co. Tennessee.
"... two Negroes, to wit, James & Dafney his wife. James about forty &
Dafney about forty..." (BOS-1822, p. 474, book 4)

Lyne, Henry to the executors of James Boyd, dec'd of Franklin County.
"...Sucky, daughter of Celia, John son of Milly, & Aggy daughter of
Sabina, one tract or parcel of land..." (DIT-1814, pp. 70-72, book X)

Marshall, William to James Lyne & James Boyd & Co. "...seven Negroes, to
wit, four men, Caswel, Babel, Brandy & one boy Limus & one woman with
her two children..." (D-1809, pp. 412-413, book T)

Smith, William [of Warren County] to Alexander Boyd [of Mecklinburg
County, VA] for $100,600 plantation in Warren & Granville on both sides
of Nutbush Creek, a plantation which once belonged to Hezekiah Strum in
Granville county on Island Creek, another plantation in Granville on
Grassy Creek, and..."ninety negro slaves...Ben S., Patrick, Stephen D.,
Jane, Lucy, Nancy, Davy, London, Tom, Elijah, Watt, Ritter, Harry,
Squire,Big Isaac, Davy, Hilyard, little Dick, Rachel, Mary, Patty,
Molly, Sarah, Dicy, Daphney, old Fanny, Viny,Lucinda, Ben C., Prudence,
old Rose, Lily, Sam, Ivine, Phillis, Wake, Jacob, Peter, Gloster,
Granville, Silas,Daniel, old Davey, Chavis,John, Ransom, Santee, Amy,
Sooky, Jane, Beck, Franky, Aggy, Kissy, Creua, Little Ben, Charely,
Judah, Roseany, Milly, Partheny, Abby, Mariah, Hampton, Kitty, Ben (son
of Jane), Green,Madison, little Franky, Beddy, Martha, Charlotte,
Nathan, Lethe, Emily, little Fanny, Eliza, Sally, Betsy, Mary,Milly,
little Rose, Isaac (son of Daphny), Kizziah, Naney, George, Cherry,
Prudence, Henderson, Dilly..."[also included was all the other personal
property on the plantations named] (DEED-1818, pp. 244-246, book Y)

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