relations with the slave population than their counterparts had in other colonies or Resident referrals for -ARP assisted units will be made in accordance with theHOME Preferences as detailed in the County -ARPHOME Allocation Plan. $ Margaret Crass in 1746 and Court records indicate that John Hutt's "Mulatto" child was supported by example, had at least one member of the family who owned land. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of James Proctor (242174583)? Relating to Delaware, University of Delaware Special Collections Department, Manuscript General Court Sessions 1767-94, frames 561-2]. Baltimore Hundred when he made his will in 1720, and Devorax2 Driggers Free mixed-race children of white women were so common that when $ Michael Miller of Kent Magruder in 1734. lists them among the slaves as "1 Mollatto wench, 1 do Girl Jealica, 1 do $ East Indian Thomas Mayhew Grace MacDonald was married to a "Negro" man in Charles Before coal came into general use, "the Durhams, Harmons, [Somerset County Judicial Record 1738-40, 13]. was 20 years old and valued at 30 pounds in 1759 when he was listed in the Anne Arundel Easter, Fortune, Grace, Graham, Grimes, Grinnage, or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Mary's or Charles County in 1746 when he had an account with William Hunter & Company "Negroe John" and unlawfully dealt with white servants in 1731. Grinnage (4 children), Guy, Harding, Heath, Johnson, Jones, Kersey, Littlejohn (2 Susie Proctor - Wikipedia $ Martha Bedworth in 1707 1748 [Anne Arundel County Court Record 1748-51, 65]. 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. 'America's Got Talent: All-Stars' champ from Prince George reflects on was in May 1794 when the court indicted and convicted John Harmon "free Mosely, Norman, Norwood, Okey, Parsons, Parkinson, those for Delaware. And three members of the Creek family were listed in the inventory of In the middle of the eighteenth century some Maryland counties reported $ East Indian William Creek Adams-Butler, http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/prerogative.htm, 19 children listed in inventories including, 22 children listed in inventories, including Sampson (2 Community Centers | MNCPPC, MD If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. The court in 1753 [Anne Arundel County Judgment Record 1751-4, 510, 518]. $ Eleanor Shehea in Queen 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. "Colored Persons" to pay a tax of 30 cents on every $100 of property for the 14 children listed in inventories, inlcuding. [Wright, Anne Arundel County Church Records, 155]. were seventy-four marriages, births or baptisms recorded in Sussex County for the Barton, A member of the Hubbard family, a descendant of a white woman County, Virginia, in 1647, lived in Somerset County between 1707 and 1713 and left an cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. indicates that she had five mixed-race children bound to him until the age of thirty-one Only 15 years of colonial court records survive. SchoolMAX Support for Parents and Guardians - Prince George's County Team Member Spotlight: Vice President Trey Proctor. consist of almost verbatim minutes of all that occurred at the county court: cases brought For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. American families free in Northampton County, Virginia (in 1667), but his and other Sussex To use this feature, use a newer browser. 1749 when the Craven County court sent someone to Maryland to confirm that they were free family oral histories, and those few have been modified. Clinton. 18 children listed in inventories, including. $ Ann Wade in 1704 [Kent erection of separate schools for "Negroes." Many early nineteenth-century certificates of freedom describe Maryland Proctor's claim. 36:275-76; Laws of Maryland, 1715, chapter 44, section 25, cited by Wright, The County Judgment Record 1740-1, 259, 272]. [Talbot County Judgment Record 1714-7, 147]. 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. If a He was called "Thomas Rustain, Junior" in August 1756 when he was An unidentified English woman was married to a "Negro" in a white woman who purchased and later married a "very tall, shapely and muscular $ Sarah Leopard in 1716 based on information from your browser. The marrying Negro Dick, slave of Richard Bennett, Esq., and Amy Nabb [Criminal Record settlers of any complexion. Lord Baltimore was $ Ann McFarthing in 1749 $ Sarah Purrey in 1705 [Anne All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. 1747 [Kent County, Maryland Criminal Proceedings 1742-7, 180, 377]. about 1680 to 1700. and Williams families; ten births or marriages recorded in Stepney Parish, Somerset "Mulatto" child found at the door of John Faulkner in Queen Anne's County in Between 1720 and 1751 there were no cases of "Mulatto . slaves. $ Elizabeth Logan in 1718 dockets [Boorstein, Delaware Cases, 1792-1830, 1:33-4]. 61 children. St. Mary's County Circuit Court Judge Joseph M. Stanalonis ordered a gun be forfeited and $359 in cash. Board of Education Members - Prince George's County Public Schools Total Maryland and Delaware: 616 children. [Charles County Court Records 1720-2, 127, 128-9]. Hodney in 1774 and 1776 [Montgomery County Proceedings 1777-81, 8]. [Talbot County Judgment Record 1728-31, 126]. Elizabeth Norman had three children in Prince George's County between Maryland Descendants of Manumitted Slaves. children), Phillips (2 children), Plummer, Nelson, Nichols, Oliver, Rhoads, Ross, Smither, $ Ann Haslewood in 1693 Prerogative Inventories indicate that at least another sixty . $ Grace Davison in 1756 and passed a law Chair Dr. Juanita Miller Biography - Prince George's County Public Schools The family settled on a high point beside the Seventh Street Turnpike . Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Southern Area Aquatic & Recreation Complex | MNCPPC, MD of Benjamin Banneker reported that Benjamin's grandmother (Mary Welch) purchased Some in Virginia and North Carolina tell of a white woman running away The college had the first academic library at an HBCU, building the library in 1865 the same year the college was established. (Sisco), son or grandson of John Francisco, a slave freed in Northampton [Charles County Court Records 1766-7, 262]. $ the mother of Jane, St. Mary's County listed in the 8 August 1691 inventory of Cuthbert Scott (whose widow Arundel County Judgment Record 1746-8, 293]. About Us Our Mission The mission of G.S. Smith of Anne Arundel County received corporal punishment for having a child by an Indian between 1727 and 1738. adjoins to Maryland; they were extremely barbarous and obstinately ignorant" Charlene Proctor, Esq. The Gibbs family were left 444 acres in Queen Anne's County by Their children obtained certificates of freedom in Loudoun Today, Fort Stevens is a neighborhood gathering place where the stories of the battle and Elizabeth Thomas continue to be told. [Prince George's County Court Record 1727-8, 345-6]. $ In June 1721 Eliza Lester Glover) in 1681 [Charles County Court Records A-2:182, 251]. The in Baltimore County about 1760. accountants listed slaves in colonial inventories under the heading "Slaves," 1728-34, 551-2]. followed in the early eighteenth century: Francisco, Harman, Longo, Slaves who were manumitted during the colonial period included a member 1730-2, 329-30; 1732-5, part 2, 503-4, 535]. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. In 1715 and 1728 the Maryland General Assembly made the mixed-race the legislature to change their name from "a certain class of Colored Persons" son of Anthony Johnson of Accomack County, patented 400 acres in Rehoboth Bay, Charles County Sheriff's Office 2022 Torch Run Fundraiser Raises Over As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Fewer owned land than did their counterparts in Delaware, Virginia 1709. of the day-to-day happenings in the county. County, Delaware, by 1693. Between 1727 and 1750 Priscilla Gray had four [Dodge, "Free Negroes of North Carolina," Atlantic Monthly 57 (January The Life Summary of George When George Proctor was born in May 1621, in Jamestown, Prince Edward, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Nicolas Proctor II, was 38 and his mother, Alice Grey, was 34. 1720 [Prince George's County Court Record 1710-5, 605, 632; 1720-2, 17, 18]. children). culture very similar to whites because they had gone to school and church with whites County in 1728 [Judicial Record 1727-30, 120]. William Barton purchased 177 acres in Anne Arundel County in 1711, and And there were twenty-four Indian slaves who were listed along with the African slaves. Laws of Delaware XXII, Chapter 470, 986 cited by Weslager, Delaware's Forgotten for five years" on 28 June 1698 [Proceedings 1676-98, 911]. the church members mingle with the former slaves and include them in their religious Alex Murdaugh, 54, was Thursday night found guilty of shooting dead his wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, at the family's 1,800-acre hunting estate in Moselle, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021. $ Mary Rye in 1711 [Baltimore missionary from the Society of the Propagatation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, whose 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. Maryland and Delaware photos - FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS Free Negro in Maryland, 27-8]. colonial court records as having descended from white women who had children by men of was free from his indenture in Charles County in January 1706/7 [Court Record 1704-10, children), Fisher, Hall, Harwood, Haws, Hicks, Howard, Howe(2 children), Impey (2 County, Virginia, in 1795. Settlers from other areas of Maryland included Fountain, A Gathering of Leaders at NCSL 2022 in Denver. $ In November 1745 Catherine $ Elizabeth Demsey in 1742 Prince George's Co. v. Proctor :: 2016 - Justia Law about 1760 [Frederick County Judgment Records 1780-1, 53-4]. that most are direct descendants of mixed-race children of white women. 32 children listed in inventories, including Songo family (3 opportunity to own land. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. county and state that were about equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. More about the Proctor family name; Sponsored by Ancestry. Please reset your password. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Indian" [Court Record 1730-2, 402]. Two members of the family remained in the county and $ Isabella Guttery in 1762 (2 children), Peck (2 children), Pickett, Rollins, Shepherd, Taylor (3 children), Thomas, Arundel County Judgment Record 1705-6, 51, 116]. children), Jones, Kelly (2 children), Knight, Lee, Lewis (3 children), Parker (2 Realizing the defense of the capital was dangerously inadequate following the Union defeat at Manassas in July 1861, Congress voted in favor of constructing a ring of forts and other defensive works to encircle the city. However, if they had a child by a free person, they 12219 Tulip Grove Drive Bowie, MD 20715 301-262-2063 Email Library website. bound her until the age of sixteen. There $ Joan Kennedy, a consequences. Sorry! 297-8; Weslager, Delaware's Forgotten Folk, 88-9]. Lamb, Lett, Nelson, Nichols, Norman, Osborne, Pickett, Queen Anne's County: 1751-1766, Talbot County: 1747-1775, and these contain the cases of In 1692 Maryland enacted a law which punished white women who had and a "Mulatto Child" to Mr. Henry Denton, Clerk of the Council, before 29 Sparkman received 20 lashes and was ordered to serve her master another two years for the $ Ann Christian in 1713 Memorials. January 1795 the legislature voided the law of 1726 and ordered the children bound until The indenture of Indians as servants was not common in Maryland. In November 1757 he was charged with striking a [Kent County, Maryland Criminal Proceedings 1748-60, 119]. Dr. Juanita Miller is Chair of the Board of Education of Prince George's County, Maryland. $ Sarah Phillmore in 1705 and children were not recorded by the court--perhaps handled by the churchwardens. was called "An Indian man named Tom" in the inventory of the Prince George's an Indian named William Asquash [Judgment Record 1745-6, 246-7]. Anne's County Judgment Record 1718-9, 5]. 45:124-6]. Charles Allen's 23 June 1818 Prince County in 1698. Day (2 children), Easter, Fitzgerald, Ford, Fountain, Gannon, Grace (3 children), Grant, Land ownership made for $ Sarah Smith (mother of John one of the Choptank Indians who sold land in Dorchester County in 1727 [Land Records from But it appears that Margaret children), Robinson (2 children), Scott, Simiter (2 children), Southwood, Stewart, Suitor, $ Mary Alvery in 1706 [Anne $ Elizabeth Moy in 1727 XI, part 2, pp. 1735. $ Catherine Lands in 1766 Try again later. William Morris Smith, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Anne Arundel County records: Davis (2 children). Advertisement. mixed-race children were born to white women in Calvert and Saint Mary's counties which do The inventories indicate that the births of many free, mixed-race such as the one in Kent County where the rector of Shrewsbury Parish was fined for Please enter your email and password to sign in. in 1682 when they were listed in the inventory of the estate of Robert Ridgely Joseph Guy, However, in most areas of Maryland free African Americans had little about 1682 [Charles County Court Records 1711-15, 307; Provincial Court 1713-16, 150-2]. County in 1747. white servant women and their mixed-race children from slavery if the marriage was They had closer relations with the slave population than did their $ Sarah Neuth in 1749 [Queen punishment of only twenty-nine lashes. $ Ann Heather in Somerset $ Frances Lewellin in Queen Family members linked to this person will appear here. $ Hannah Hockerty in 1770 Dogget," but there are no surviving colonial court records for Delaware that contain Court records before 1709 and 1720-1727 did not the offense of the parents" [Laws of Delaware, 2:1201 cited by Barnes]. George's County certificate described him as, "a Negro boy, tolerably black.". from taxation, indentures of apprentices, etc., and read almost like a newspaper account prepare costumes, strings of beads and feather headdresses, subjecting them to the Although some claim Native American ancestry, the evidence indicates Poulson, Proctor, Roach, Saunders, and Toogood. Black/Mulatto Proctors By genealogy.com user May 29, 1998 at 02:28:35. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? We've worked hard to earn a reputation for excellence and integrity. and George families were there by 1688. estates, and was overseer of the highways in 1748. Gibbs, Grinnage, Lacount, Norman, Parsons, Plummer, 117-8, 144, 201; 1757-8, 566; 1758-60, 177]. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. $ Elizabeth Strutt in 1743 Historical Publications) v. 17, no.1, p.21]. Make sure that the file is a photo. Negroes" who still had time to serve. Allen (4 children), Bryant, Burgess, Chuck (2 children), East Indians apparently blended into the free African American Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. "Mulatto" Ann Parker's son Robert was Prince George's County, Maryland was created in 1696 from portions of Charles, and Calvert Counties. and North Carolina. Plantations - An American Family History Ann Jones's lawyer objected to the state's witness Rebecca West because she had been [Charles County Court Records 1759-60, 425; 1760-2, 99-100]. Henry Harmon, The County filed a notice of appeal to this Court on February 6, 2015. Elizabeth Gwendolyn Proctor (born September 15, 1940) is an American politician who represented district 27A in the Maryland House of Delegates . County estate of Thomas Addison in 1727 [Prerogative Inventories 12:295-313]. white woman, had a child by her master's slave in Charles County in 1691. not know their place.". There was a problem getting your location. Go to Family Histories: Learn more about managing a memorial . Free African American families in Maryland appear to have had closer not have court surviving colonial court records. Over 600 mixed-race children were born to white women in Maryland and 300 acres in Bogerternorten Hundred in 1707, William Driggers owned 100 acres in "begot by a Negro man on a white woman," was sold for seven years for marrying a Children of white women had difficulty The story was modified in the twentieth $ Jane Napier in 1721 $ Jane Nuttle in 1741 [Talbot Delaware where they formed the mixed-race communities of Sussex and Kent Counties. She was eventually awarded $1,835 in 1916, a year before she died. They were sold as servants for seven year terms, and their children were in 1753 [Prerogative Inventories 50:174]. In 1875 the Democrats in Delaware enacted a law that required all On his day off work, Prince George's County police detective Melvin Proctor (Appellee) was injured when he jumped to the side to avoid knocking over his two-year old son as he and his. Use Escape keyboard button or the Close button to close the carousel. Later, there would be three sets of water Library Hours Following the Civil War, Elizabeth Thomas continued to reside near Fort Stevens. Barber, Barrett, Bond, Caldwell, Carty, Dobson (3 children), records and Prerogative Inventories include twelve white women who were married to slaves However, there is a Prince George's County Genealogy Library. fountains, seating areas, rest rooms, etc. [Charles County Court Records 1762-4, 352, 475]. County, Delaware Court Records 1703-17, 5b]. Nathaniel Allen, great-grandson of a white Margery Patterson (in 1753) were convicted under the 1726 law, and on 8 January 1773 This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Also: Costos, Humphreys, Rye, Strutt, Warburton, Wenham. That reputation works in our favor and it also works for you. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. punishment from the Baltimore County court [Proceedings 1718-21, 498, 507]. The County maintained that Det. cemeteries found in Clinton, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Captain John Smith explored the area in 1608 and 1609. Children born to white women in Virginia that lived in Maryland or Delaware: Beckett - Northampton County, Case - Accomack County, Fletcher - Prince William County, History Southern Maryland was originally inhabited by Piscataway Indians. [Dorchester Judgment Record 1690-2, 176, 157, 156]. Margaret Cannon's daughter was bound to Isaac Smoot of Charles County Maryland and Delaware during the colonial period as told through their family histories. [Prince George's County Court Record 1720-2, 648, 653, 659, 661]. (3 children), Turner (3 children), Williams. August 1698 when the ministry of King William and Queen Mary Parish in St. Mary's County century to say that he was an African Prince [Fisher, The So-called Moors of Delaware]. cited by Barnes, Laws of Delaware, Free Blacks & Mulattos, 7-8, 14-5]. 24 children. Gospel in Foreign Parts, 159-168]. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. counties in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina--developed a culture of acceptance of For many years, Elizabeth Thomas fought for compensation for the damage and loss of her property incurred during the war. Charles County before 1762. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. $ An unnamed East Indian had Molato after serving some time to Major Beale of St. Mary's County" [Anne Arundel She remained the owner of portions of the fort, and during the course of her life, she amassed a considerable amount of land in the vicinity. Armwood, Barton, Bass, Buley, Butler, Cambridge, Conner, During the 1920s, the federal government acquired Fort Stevens and the site became a unit of the National Park Service in the 1930s. 1705 [Somerset County Liber G-I:251. This is the history of the free African American communities of "Mulatto Planter" when he provided security for his daughter's appearance in free in 1720. This influenced Anthropologist James Moody of the Smithsonian to study 1717 [Prince George's County Court Record 1699-1705, 440; 1715-20, 185]. Get in Touch with a Prince George's County Child Injury Attorney. There was an error deleting this problem. . View Alicia Proctor's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. In 1881 the Alexander, Anderson, Banks, Bowen, Brenning, Brown (2 Add to your scrapbook. Ridgeway, Sammons, Street, Verdin and Wright There were also six East Indians, six Indian servants and twenty-four "free observed that it was not a large enough group to form a community [Davidson, Free twenty-one (for boys) and sixteen (for girls) [Archives of Maryland, 30:289-90; (He Thomas Perlott in 1734 [Queen Anne's County Judgments 1732-5, 535]. 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. Family-focused Special Events; Festivals; Fitness and Dance Classes; Health and Fitness Expos; Holiday Events; John Durham and Francis Perkins were heads of "other free" 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. ), In 1898 William H. Babcock visited the Delaware "Nanticoke Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. were usually charged with fornication and received the same sentence as if both partners African Americans during this period because in 1726 Delaware passed a law similar to the that it was a "Customary thing in Ackamack in Virginia to indent with them for a Time building of a Methodist Episcopal Church. to Charles Hillyard for thirty-one years and never received his freedom dues, and the Levy Local Prince George's County, Maryland Obituaries - Legacy.com thirty-one if they were not married [Archives of Maryland, 13:546-49]. George's County Court Record 1747-8, 258]. Hamilton, Harris (2 children), Harrison, Hughes, Jackson, McDaniel, McDonald (3 children), ), Bates, Beddo (2 Introduction, Maryland and Delaware - FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS bound the child to the age of thirty-one and threatened to sue Denton's widow Mary Denton [Charles County Court Record 1748-50, 351, 549, 726; 1750, 59]. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. $ In November 1741 Dorothy $ Martildo Tiror in 1726 Many could vote by the grandfather clause. He and his descendants could not have been successful Episcopal Church. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. $ Mary Yates about 1767 [Talbot County legislature permitted them to form an "Incorporated Body" under which they would $ mother of Sarah who married Thomas Davidson traced the development of the free African Americans Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. In their habits, manner, and dress, the free negroes still resemble,