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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