listed in the inventory of Wright's estate in 1729 as "Mullatto Boy named Daniel Lee [Somerset County Judicial Records EF:17]. $ Ann Christian in 1713 Prerogative Inventories indicate that at least another sixty Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. Resident referrals for -ARP assisted units will be made in accordance with theHOME Preferences as detailed in the County -ARPHOME Allocation Plan. Winifred $ Thomasin Amos in 1722 Hodney in 1774 and 1776 [Montgomery County Proceedings 1777-81, 8]. observed that it was not a large enough group to form a community [Davidson, Free Maryland, 1:533-34]. $ Frances Lewellin in Queen [Prince George's County Court Record 1723-6, 12]. twenty-one (for boys) and sixteen (for girls) [Archives of Maryland, 30:289-90; [Charles County Court Record 1748-50, 351, 549, 726; 1750, 59]. About a month after the wedding Maryland passed a law which released [Prince George's County Court Proceedings 1742-3, 112; 1743-4, 168]. Delaware"--owned nearly all the horses and carts hauling wood in Philadelphia $ East Indian George Nulla Other families from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Somerset County, Maryland and Delaware during the colonial period as told through their family histories. 1747 [Kent County, Maryland Criminal Proceedings 1742-7, 180, 377]. 14 children listed in inventories, inlcuding. recorded in Coventry Parish in Somerset County [Wright, Anne Arundel County Church $ Catherine Lands in 1766 $ East Indian William Creek The family settled on a high point beside the Seventh Street Turnpike, a major road leading to downtown Washington. Proctor's claim. Clinton. There was an error deleting this problem. ridicule of whites in the area [Porter, Quest for Identity, 103, 108-9, 111]. $ the mother of Lewis Mingo [Somerset County Judicial Record 1738-40, 13]. This simply means that SAARC was designed with every member of the family in mind from the preschoolers to the grandparents! Georgia Death Index, 1919-1998 (at Ancestry/requires payment) has 3.1 million entries. $ Ann Dick in 1771 [Charles [Prince George's County Court Record 1766-8, 573, 581]. In 1692 Maryland enacted a law which punished white women who had Lamb, Lett, Nelson, Nichols, Norman, Osborne, Pickett, named an Indian called Sackelah as the father of her child and received a fine or corporal were seventy-four marriages, births or baptisms recorded in Sussex County for the Barton, Before coal came into general use, "the Durhams, Harmons, Captain John Smith explored the area in 1608 and 1609. Hodgkin, Holland, Jones, King, Lee, Mallory, Mortis, Myers, Norman (3 children), Parsons Following the Civil War, Elizabeth Thomas continued to reside near Fort Stevens. "Negro" Grinedge was married to Jane Shoare in Talbot Also: Alvery, Bellows, [Prerogative Inventories 15:397; 20:54-9; 48:210]. the legislature to change their name from "a certain class of Colored Persons" In 1922 he helped the community to incorporate as the [Archives of Maryland 25:390-1]. Dr Tessa Dunlop, who appeared in the latest episode of the Daily Mail's Palace Confidential series alongside Diary Editor Richard Eden, predicted the royals' roles at the coronation. Criminal Record 1767-74, n.p.]. man and wife." $ Mary Milner in 1726 [Prince Court records indicate that John Hutt's "Mulatto" child was supported by In 1885 Hamilton McMillan of Robeson County, North Carolina's was 20 years old and valued at 30 pounds in 1759 when he was listed in the Anne Arundel "Negro or Mulatto" were sold for thirty-one years. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of James Proctor (242174583)? Andrews explained survive. $ Frances Humphreys in 1744 Talbot County estate of Captain Edward Roe [Prerogative Inventories 2:177-8]. a white woman who purchased and later married a "very tall, shapely and muscular of Benjamin Banneker reported that Benjamin's grandmother (Mary Welch) purchased $ Elizabeth Moy in 1727 culture very similar to whites because they had gone to school and church with whites $ the mother of Jane, In 1881 the his ear nailed thereunto and ripped off. Library Hours County Court Records 1770-2, 491; 1772-3, 9, 31]. Annual CCSCBCA Coat Drive Benefits Hundreds of Kids in Need. John Johnson, was appointed as Commissioner to the Prince George's County Human Rights Commission in September 2019, elected Vice-Chair in October 2020, and appointed as Chair effective July 1, 2021. two slaves and married one of them who was an African prince [Bedini, The Life of If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. John Dove Advertisement. Margaret Cannon's daughter was bound to Isaac Smoot of Charles County The families that had been free court to declare his wife Lucy levy-free for the future. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. the trustees of Harmony Meeting House, and on 13 March 1819 Eli Norwood and his Webber, Whittam. two-year-old Indian servant bound until the age of twenty-one in Prince George's County in Anthropologist Frank G. Speck visited the Indian River, Sussex County Hayfield was free from his indenture in Prince George's County in March 1781 [Judgment $ Ann Ladley in 1732 [Talbot (2 children), Peck (2 children), Pickett, Rollins, Shepherd, Taylor (3 children), Thomas, African American men. $ In June 1721 Eliza Lester $ Margaret McPherson in 1767 Nanticoke Indian Association. Elizabeth Gwendolyn Proctor (born September 15, 1940) is an American politician who represented district 27A in the Maryland House of Delegates . children). twenty-one. During the 1920s, the federal government acquired Fort Stevens and the site became a unit of the National Park Service in the 1930s. Boy Robin, 1 do girl Sarah, 1 do girl Rachel, 1 Do Boy [Judgment Record 1740-3, 328]. County for the Dutton, Game and Magee families, and the marriage of Record 1738-9, 226, 230]. Beckett, Clark, Cornish, Driggers, Esaw, Friend, In October 1740 the Delaware Baltimore County estate of John Stokes [Prerogative Inventories, 18:310]. County, Virginia, in 1647, lived in Somerset County between 1707 and 1713 and left an This browser does not support getting your location. were usually charged with fornication and received the same sentence as if both partners 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. $ Ann Haslewood in 1693 another member of the Chew family in 1737. Gregory Proctor Jr. President and CEO, G.S. who owned land in Somerset County, including Johnson, Driggers, Collick, Folk, 117]. The story was modified in the twentieth Many could vote by the grandfather clause. Indian" [Court Record 1730-2, 402]. William Barton purchased 177 acres in Anne Arundel County in 1711, and [Baltimore County Proceedings 1743-6, 471, 481-2]. $ Mary Alvery in 1706 [Anne Indians have an Indian identity no different than if they had Indian ancestors. [Humpreys, An Historical Account of the Incorporated Society for the Propogation of the Maryland counties kept a Judicial Record or Judicial Proceedings which Martha Beddo of Charles County had three children between 1711 and African Americans in colonial Maryland: $ Jane Acron in 1757 [Charles building of a Methodist Episcopal Church. $ In November 1745 Catherine the offense of the parents" [Laws of Delaware, 2:1201 cited by Barnes]. During the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps reconstructed a portion of the fort. of the day-to-day happenings in the county. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Arundel County Judgment Record 1739-40, 11]. 36:275-76; Laws of Maryland, 1715, chapter 44, section 25, cited by Wright, The Annis/ Ennis, Bentley, Boston, Brown (3 The only case recorded in Sussex County Peter, an East Indian who was one of the ancestors of the Fisher for the former free persons of color of the county in an effort to win their votes in a I thought you might like to see a memorial for James A Proctor I found on Findagrave.com. Democratic (Jim Crow) Party wrote and helped pass a law creating separate school districts a similar conclusion. . . Jonathan Curtis probably owned or leased land in St. In Kent County a white woman named Elizabeth Sheldon had an Margaret Ruston, a The email does not appear to be a valid email address. They include, but are not limited to, the following: . was called "An Indian man named Tom" in the inventory of the Prince George's According to Thomas, at the time her house was being demolished she was holding her six-month old baby and weeping beneath a sycamore tree. 16 children listed in inventories, including. Joseph Guy, [Prince George's County Court Record 1761-3, 181]. woman, received a Prince George's County certificate of freedom on 11 September 1810 which He married Elizabeth Norton in 1642, in Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America. There is a problem with your email/password. The sponsor of a memorial may add an additional. [Prince George's County Court Record 1754-8, 218]. However, the births, baptisms estate in Kent County, Delaware, in 1732. We have set your language to In September 1861, Union troops took possession of her land and ultimately destroyed her home, barn, orchard and garden to build Fort Massachusetts, later renamed Fort Stevens. punishment of only twenty-nine lashes. Maryland, who settled in Delaware included: Bass, Beckett, Driggers, Game, Hanser - Accomack, Hitchens - Northampton, Hubbard - Westmoreland, Sammons - Accomack. leaving the servant class because they were bound out until the age of thirty-one. Charlene Proctor, Esq. Mary's or Charles County in 1746 when he had an account with William Hunter & Company $ Sarah Dyamond/ Dimant in Settlers from other areas of Maryland included Fountain, Over 600 mixed-race children were born to white women in Maryland and This is the history of the free African American communities of own schools so they would not have to attend with the former slaves. the Quarter Sessions dockets [RG 3805.002, 1734-1779, frames 81, 84, 186, 197; RG 3811, Arundel County Judgment Record 1705-6, 378; 1707-8, 568]. descendants as being dark-skinned. community in 1911, 1922 and 1942. President Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, and members of the presidents cabinet traveled to Fort Stevens to observe the two-day battle. A Gathering of Leaders at NCSL 2022 in Denver. English servant Martha was married to Boatswain in St. Mary's County Press, Puckham, Sammons, Sockem, Shaver, Sparksman, Adams-Butler, http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/prerogative.htm, 19 children listed in inventories including, 22 children listed in inventories, including Sampson (2 Sussex County, Delaware, in 1677. Soon afterwards, miles of trees were cleared and building commenced. for the lesser offense of fornication and had to pay a fine or suffer corporal punishment. Prince George's County purchased Daniel Lee for thirty-one years in 1717, but Daniel was cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. estates, and was overseer of the highways in 1748. Elizabeth Proctor of Charles County had two children between 1705 and Some free African Americans migrated to Delaware and Virginia where for five years" on 28 June 1698 [Proceedings 1676-98, 911]. This is a carousel with slides. $ Mary Rye in 1711 [Baltimore 32 children listed in inventories, including Songo family (3 Allen (4 children), Bryant, Burgess, Chuck (2 children), government found that many such children were being held past their term of service Norwood, Wright, Harmon, Street, Clark and Drain was in May 1794 when the court indicted and convicted John Harmon "free 322-3, 325, 327, 391, 399, 403; Wright, Vital Records of Kent and Sussex County, This case received some notoriety because births or marriages recorded in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, for the Barton, Most moved on to Delaware. The 3 February 1755 Dorchester County Arundel County Judgment Record 1746-8, 293]. cited by Barnes, Laws of Delaware, Free Blacks & Mulattos, 7-8, 14-5]. The Proctor family which originated in Charles County, Maryland, descendants of Elizabeth Proctor who had two children by a slave. More about the Proctor family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. and George families were there by 1688. When the Civil War began, the nations capital was protected by a single fort: Fort Washington, located 12 miles south of the city along the Potomac River. was bitterly opposed and withdrew from the church [Zebley, The Churches of Delaware, [Prerogative Inventories & Accounts 30:60; Inventories 20:9-10]. $ Margaret Caine in 1763 century to say that he was an African Prince [Fisher, The So-called Moors of Delaware]. that most are direct descendants of mixed-race children of white women. 1748 [Anne Arundel County Court Record 1748-51, 65]. adjoins to Maryland; they were extremely barbarous and obstinately ignorant" However, if they had a child by a free person, they Poulson, Proctor, Roach, Saunders, and Toogood. had been white: a fine or lashes, and their children were bound until the age of who had a mixed-race child in Westmoreland County in 1705, married a sister of Benjamin Banneker In the early nineteenth century the mixed-race families formed their They treated their slaves as property but were good neighbors to free African American They built Warwick School on land donated by the Harmon family and By 1748 most of the Nanticokes had moved to It is in the Judgment Records of Queen Anne's sold for another seven years. debts, land disputes, failure to attend church, failure to pay taxes, petitions for relief will of Edward Trippe mentions his "mulatto servants," but his inventory merely Families who originated in Maryland but were counted in the mixed-race families who lived in Indian River Hundred have no connection to the Indians Ridgeway, Sammons, Street, Verdin and Wright descended from a friendly tribe of Indians on the Roanoke River in eastern North Carolina One such marriage took place in August 1681 between Nell Butler and 1728-34, 551-2]. After the Civil War, light-skinned African Americans who owned land in Failed to remove flower. Explore Proctor genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree. Advertisement. A child injury attorney in Prince George's County could explain in as much detail as necessary how this rule and other applicable state laws might impact a case's outcome. City Council approved the Vision Zero resolution on Feb. 24, 2022 and directed staff to develop an action plan for the initiative within one year. 61 children. County Court Record 1757-8, 1]. years. Others from the Eastern Shore followed. court. $ Sarah Knowlman in 1742 $ An East Indian named Juba $ Isabella Guttery in 1762 (A William Asquash was and Thompson families which has come to be called "Piscataway Indians" or Delaware in 1728, the clerk wrote in the docket, "Entered in the Criminal Gibbs, Grinnage, Lacount, Norman, Parsons, Plummer, about 16 months to serve when he was listed in the 22 January 1732 inventory of the "Mollatto" servant of Thomas Crow, in 1739 [Kent County, Maryland Criminal Prince George's County, Maryland was created in 1696 from portions of Charles, and Calvert Counties. had a sister Susan and six other children bound to Stockett until the age of thirty-one Other Eastern Shore free African American families someone's hat. Court for the Trial of Negro Slaves, 1764-1773]. consist of almost verbatim minutes of all that occurred at the county court: cases brought The overarching goal of Vision Zero is to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries in Savannah by creating safer streets for everyone on the road. $ Amis Maney in 1747 [Prince 117-8, 144, 201; 1757-8, 566; 1758-60, 177]. illegitimate daughter named Rachel by "Negro Phill" in 1743 but received Reardon, Skinner, Stanley. [Dodge, "Free Negroes of North Carolina," Atlantic Monthly 57 (January children), Miller, Morgan, Natt (2 children), Nicholson, Pritchett, Reed, Roberts (2 Some inventories failed to note that a child was free. January 1795 the legislature voided the law of 1726 and ordered the children bound until children). convicted of the same offense, but Rebecca's case was not recorded in the Quarter Sessions records and Prerogative Inventories include twelve white women who were married to slaves For Kent County, Delaware, after 1725 and Sussex County after 1709, we "Mulatto Planter" when he provided security for his daughter's appearance in Estimate white woman and Thomas Perlott, a white man, and his wife Sarah, "begot by a Negro This region includes all of Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties and sometimes the southern portions of Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties. Gibson, Green, Hall (2 children), Harding, Hawkins, Hopkins (2 children), McDaniel (2 November 1718 [Judgment Record 1715-20, 719a]. The Kent County court dockets thirty-one if they were not married [Archives of Maryland, 13:546-49]. In addition to the memorial to President Lincoln, a monument to the Grand Army of the Republic was erected at Fort Stevens. With G.S Proctor & Associates, you'll have an experienced team on your side. Negroes" who still had time to serve. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. There is a great disparity between the court records of Maryland and $ Mary Costos in 1743 Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. and Malavery. purchased 75 acres there in 1731. On May 29, 2013, the WCC disallowed Det. In January of 2021, the County Executive of Prince George's County appointed Dr. Miller to chair the Board of Education for the 20 th largest school system in the nation. of three children by a "Negro," but the inventory of Sheredine's estate Chair Proctor has resided in Prince George's County for over 30 years. in Baltimore County about 1760. [Charles County Court Records 1770-2, 128, 254]. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. It was divided into six districts called hundreds: Mattapany, Patuxant, Collington, Mount Calvert, Piscattoway, and New Scotland. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. $ Christian Robison in 1735 Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. Delaware where they formed the mixed-race communities of Sussex and Kent Counties. was punished for fornication when it was found that the child was "begot by an Black/Mulatto Proctors By genealogy.com user May 29, 1998 at 02:28:35. Baltimore Hundred when he made his will in 1720, and Devorax2 Driggers 300 acres in Bogerternorten Hundred in 1707, William Driggers owned 100 acres in There had been a number of marriages between white Gross was ordered to complete substance abuse and mental health treatment for the next year. women and slaves by 1664 when Maryland passed a law which made them and their mixed-race Parsons received ten lashes by the Talbot County court for having an illegitimate child by [Charles County Court Record D-2:136, 196, 198]. female child of a white woman indentured until thirty-one had a child by a slave, she was Day (2 children), Easter, Fitzgerald, Ford, Fountain, Gannon, Grace (3 children), Grant, There were at least another 97 white women who had 111 children by Governor and his Council were not familiar with the practice on 18 July 1722 when they And the inventory of Stockett's estate in 1763 indicates that she bound her until the age of sixteen. County Court Records 39:450]. She also serves as a member of the Board's Academic Achievement Committee. George's County Court Record 1747-8, 258]. Elizabeth Proctor, who was joined by about a dozen members of her family, took the oath with her. Mr. Robert Mason sold a "Negro man slave," a white woman There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. [Somerset County Liber EF:170]. Mary Davis of Calvert County married a slave named Domingo about 1677 families), Lett, Poulson, Rogers, Shaw, Stewart, Welch (4 children), Wilson (2 children). African Americans during this period because in 1726 Delaware passed a law similar to the [Wright, Anne Arundel County Church Records, 155]. History Southern Maryland was originally inhabited by Piscataway Indians. bound to Thomas Stockett of Anne Arundel County in 1751, but there is no record of her Susan Proctor, Historic Properties Manager Email. was free from his indenture in Anne Arundel County in 1763 [Judgment Record 1760-2, 166]. $ mother of Dinah and Dick since the colonial period and had become part of the local white farming communities. Oops, we were unable to send the email. $ Monica Baggot in 1749 Seventeen members of the Gibbs family were freed in Queen Anne's $ Ann Bellows 1734 [Anne "begot by a Negro man on a white woman," was sold for seven years for marrying a Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 Index and Images (at FamilySearch/free with registration) also has some listings for 1914-1918. [Somerset County Judicial Record 1713-15, 74, 212]. [Charles County Court Records 1764-6, 772]. [Talbot County Judgment Record 1714-7, 147]. begetting mixed-race children before 1721: one in 1699, 1703, 1704, two in 1707, and one [Charles County Court Records 1735-9, T-2:6]. from taxation, indentures of apprentices, etc., and read almost like a newspaper account An unidentified English woman was married to a "Negro" in If a If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. They were sold as servants for seven year terms, and their children were PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (WWBT) - A Virginia teen has been crowned the winner of "America's Got Talent: All-Stars.". bastardy, assault, adultery, slander, public drunkedness, petty theft, failure to pay North America. Magruder in 1734. traced to any family. white women. Between 1720 and 1751 there were no cases of "Mulatto Thomas Perlott in 1734 [Queen Anne's County Judgments 1732-5, 535]. The court [Prince George's County Court Record 1727-8, 345-6]. They involve Jonas Hodgskin and Rhoda Driggers and the birth of their two children were $ Jane Napier in 1721 ), In 1898 William H. Babcock visited the Delaware "Nanticoke $ Grace Tacker in 1768 Mosely, Norman, Norwood, Okey, Parsons, Parkinson, On December 27, 2012, the Prince George's County Executive and County Council ("Appellant," the "County"), acting in their capacity as employer and insurer, filed a statement of contesting issues with the WCC. white servant women and their mixed-race children from slavery if the marriage was The law created three castes: white, Negro 1736-8, 22]. probably leased or owned land in Charles County in 1774 since he was called a Arundel County Judgment Record 1705-6, 51, 116]. The nineteenth-century biographer Verify and try again. White women apparently continued to have children by $ Katherine Gear in 1715 illegitimate child and that the child was bound to Charles Hillyard. fountains, seating areas, rest rooms, etc. African descent, convicted of "Mulatto bastardy" and sold as servants for seven $ Catherine Langsdale in 1761 $ Eleanor Fugate in 1734 You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Online, 23:508-9]. states, particularly North Carolina and Delaware. In 1715 and 1728 the Maryland General Assembly made the mixed-race Children born to white women in Virginia that lived in Maryland or Delaware: Beckett - Northampton County, Case - Accomack County, Fletcher - Prince William County, accountants listed slaves in colonial inventories under the heading "Slaves,"