The Westover Manuscripts: containing the history of the dividing line betwixt
Author: Byrd, William, 1674-1744; Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865, [from old catalog] ed
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Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 10064383
Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation
Book contributor: The Library of Congress
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Notes: pages in the book are discolored
Scanfactors: 2
'Twas the night before Christmas & out on the ranch
The pond was froze over & so was the branch.
The snow was piled up belly-deep to a mule.
The kids were all home on vacation from school,
And happier young folks you never did see-
Just all sprawled around a-watchin' TV.
Then suddenly, some time around 8 o'clock,
There came a surprise that gave them a shock!
The power went off, the TV went dead!
When Grandpa came in from out in the shed
With an armload of wood, the house was all dark.
"Just what I expected," they heard him remark.
"Them power line wires must be down from the snow.
Seems sorter like times on the ranch long ago."
"I'll hunt up some candles," said Mom. "With their light,
And the fireplace, I reckon we'll make out all right."
The teen-agers all seemed enveloped in gloom.
Then Grandpa came back from a trip to his room,
Uncased his old fiddle & started to play
That old Christmas song about bells on a sleigh.
Mom started to sing, & 1st thing they knew
Both Pop & the kids were all singing it, too.
They sang Christmas carols, they sang "Holy Night,"
Their eyes all a-shine in the ruddy firelight.
They played some charades Mom recalled from her youth,
And Pop read a passage from God's Book of Truth.
They stayed up till midnight-and, would you believe,
The youngsters agreed 'twas a fine Christmas Eve.
Grandpa rose early, some time before dawn;
And when the kids wakened, the power was on.
"The power company sure got the line repaired quick,"
Said Grandpa - & no one suspected his trick.
Last night, for the sake of some old-fashioned fun,
He had pulled the main switch - the old Son-of-a-Gun!
-anonymous
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Court document regarding Anthony Johnson
By virtue of a writt granted to me from [names listed here, which are illegible] John Stringer Escheator for the countys of Northhampton and Accomack to enquire what lands Anthonio Johnson late of Accomack County either in his life tyme. . . a jury of free. . . in the said Accomack County to enquire. . . doth declare that the said Anthony Johnson lately deceased in his life tyme was seized of fifty acres of land now in the possession of Rich. Johnson in the County of Accomack aforesaid and further that the said Anthony Johnson was a negro and by consequence an alien and for that cause the said land doth escheat to this . . . .
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In August of 1670, several months after Anthony Johnson's death, a jury in a Virginia court decided that, because "he was a Negro and by consequence an alien," ownership of the 250 acres Johnson once owned should be escheated, or reverted, to England.
Anthony and Mary Johnson had sold 200 acres of this land to two white settlers; the other 50 they gave to their son, Richard, who soon thereafter sold the land to another white settler.
The powerful Indian nations entrenched on the ridge of the Appalachian Mountains held the balance among the colonial powers on the North American continent. The Six Nations of the Iroquois are best known, but the great tribes southward along the ridge were almost as influential-the Cherokees, the Choctaws, and the Chickasaws.
The Cherokees were generally more friendly with the English, but the other two Indian nations were dominated by the Spanish and French.
Governor Glen of South Carolina recognized the role of the Indian nations in the contest among the outposts of Spanish, French, and English dominions. He believed that a strong English alliance with the Cherokees in this instance would insure tranquility for Carolina.
| 1 Plymouth Colony Records, ix, p. 71; Connecticut Colonial Records, i, p. 532. 2 Moore’s article in Historical Magazine, x, p. 189. 3 The Statutes at Large of South Carolina, vii, p. 352. 4 Ibid., vii, p. 371. |
and 1735,1 declared that, with the exception of certain individuals freed by the government, “all negroes, mulattoes, mustizoes, or Indians which at any time heretofore have been sold, or now are held or taken to be, or hereafter shall be bought and sold as slaves, are hereby declared slaves; and they and their children, are hereby made and declared slaves to all intents and purposes.” Another act of 1740, though worded differently, decreed a similar condition for the children of negro, mulatto, mustee and Indian slave mothers.2 In 1705, Virginia similarly declared all children bond or free according to the condition of their mothers;3 and, in 1723, decreed that children of female mulattoes or Indians obliged by law to serve till the age of thirty or thirty-one should serve the master or mistress of such mulatto or Indian until they should attain the same age as that up to which the mother was obliged by law to serve.4
A Maryland act of 1663 differs from the acts just mentioned by stating that “all children born of any negro or other slave, shall be slaves as their fathers were for the term of their lives.” Another section of this same act provides that “whatsoever freeborn woman shall intermarry with any slave, from and after the last day of the present assembly, shall serve the master of such slave during the life of her husband; and that all the issue of such freeborn woman, so married, shall be slaves as their fathers
| 1 The Statutes at Large of South Carolina, vii, p. 385. 2 Ibid., vii, p. 397, The act decreed that “all negroes and Indians (free Indians in amity with this government, and negroes, mulattoes, mustizoes, who are now free, excepted), mulattoes or mustizoes who now are or shall hereafter be, in this Province, and all their issue and offspring, born or to be born, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, and remain forever hereafter, absolute slaves and shall follow the condition of the mother.” 3 Hening, op. cit., iii, p. 460. 4 Ibid., iv, p. 133. |
were.”1 Though the law was of brief duration, persons born of the union between slaves and free white women, and the descendants of such persons, were held in slavery down to 1791, when the highest court of the state decided that for want of proof concerning the white woman who originally married a slave, her descendants were not slaves, and could not be legally held as such.2 A later Maryland act, June 2, 1692, provided that all children born or thereafter to be born of slaves within the province were to be slaves for the term of their natural lives.3 Nothing is said in the act of children one of whose parents was free. The act was repealed in 1715.4 New York, on its own part, in 1706, decreed that any negro, Indian, mulatto or mustee child should follow the condition of the mother and be esteemed a slave “to all intents and purposes whatsoever.”5 Frequent incidental mention, also, is found in the documents of the time and in newspaper advertisements to slaves “born in the house”.6
| 1 Stroud, A Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery, etc., p. 2. 2 Ibid. 3 Archives of Maryland, xiii, p. 546. 4 Maxcy, The Laws of Maryland, etc., i, p. 115; Bacon, Laws of Maryland. 5 Colonial Laws of New York, edition of 1894, i, p. 598; Trott, Laws of the British Plantations in America, etc., p. 273. 6 Moore, in Historical Magazine, x, p. 189. The Reverend John Davenport, in a letter to the younger Winthrop, June, 1666, spoke of the baptism of slaves “born in the house.” Historical Magazine, x, p. 59. The instance of Mr. Maverick of Noddle’s Island attempting to breed slaves is another example of the general custom of the time of holding the children of slave women as slaves. Littleton v. Tuttle, in Massachusetts Reports, iv, p. 128; Cushing, Reports, x, p. 410. Felt, in Statistical Association Collections, i, p. 586. Palfrey, History of New England, ii, p. 30, states that no person was ever born into legal slavery in Massachusetts. See also Moore, Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts, pp. 24-25, and Steiner, op. cit., pp. 18-19. |
Certain judicial decisions rendered in the trial of cases in federal and state courts, finally, offer clear indication as to the legality of holding in slavery the children of Indian slave mothers.1 Of these decisions the one rendered by the Virginia court of appeals in 1831 is particularly instructive. In part it runs as follows: “I cannot for a moment doubt the propriety of the former decisions of this court, and of the instructions under consideration, that proof that a party is descended in the female line from an Indian woman, and especially a native American, without anything more is prima facie proof of his right of freedom liable to be repelled by proof that his race as been immemorially held in slavery; which may be in turn rebutted by the consideration of the ignorance and helpless condition of persons in that situation, aided by other circumstances, such as that many such were bound by law to a service equivalent, in all respects, to a state of temporary slavery, until they attained the age of thirty-one years; and in many cases (according to circumstances existing in almost every case) for an uncertain term beyond that age.”2
1 Pirate v. Dalby, 1786 (Pennsylvania), in 1 Dallas, second edition, p. 167; Wilson et al. v. Hinkley et al., 1787 (Connecticut), in Kirby, p. 202; The State v. Van Waggoner, 1797 (New Jersey), in 1 Halstead, p. 374; Jenkins v. Tom, 1792 (Virginia), in 1 Washington, p. 123; Coleman v. Dick, 1793 (Virginia), in 1 Washington, p. 233; Hudgins v. Wright, 1806 (Virginia), in 1 Hening and Munford, second edition, p. 134; Pallas et al. v. Hill et al., 1807 (Virginia), in 2 Hening and Munford, second edition, p. 149; Gregory v. Baugh, 1831 (Virginia), in 2 Leigh, p. 665. 2 Wheeler, op. cit., p. 20; 2 Leigh, p. 665.
SACRED GROUNDS, A collections of Robeson County Indian Cemeteries
This website has some of the cemetery listings in Jane Blanks Barnhill’s book,
Here is a sample on the website from her book.
(Located 5 miles South of
DIAL, Coolidge – July 9, 1925
DIAL, Delphie B. “Honey” – June 2, 1928 – Jan. 28, 2000
DIAL, Jonathan – 1987 – Funeral Marker
DIAL, Tony Dewayne – May 15, 1977 – Aug. 27, 1978
SMITH, Archie H. – July 22, 1935 – Nov. 6, 1975
CHAVIS, Shoney – June 19, 1919 – Dec. 2, 1973
CHAVIS, Mezinnie – Aug. 15, 1923
CHAVIS, Ethan – Sept. 9, 1923 – Feb. 10, 1987 –
CHAVIS, Elease S. – May 15, 1924 – Mar. 20, 1987
JACOBS, Mary A. – Aug. 11, 1945 – May 2, 1990
SMILING, Liza Locklear – Sept. 12, 1936 – Oct. 17, 2001
LOCKLEAR, Robert – Apr. 7, 1928 – Feb. 6, 2001
LOCKLEAR, Essie – Oct. 28, 1927
LOCKLEAR, Teresa G. – Feb. 6, 1968 – May 8, 2000
GOINS, Jimmie – Jan. 7, 1873 – Apr. 8, 1953
GOINS, Gulia – Aug. 29, 1889 – Mar. 22, 1953
Concrete Block – No Name
SMILING, Lester D. – Aug. 22, 1924 – Dec. 7, 1997
SMILING, Bertha L. – Sept. 23, 1929
SMILING,
SMILING, Christopher W. – May 10, 1967 – Sept. 11, 1994 – Son
SMILING, Jane B. – Mar. 7, 1949
OXENDINE, Howard Jr. – Jan. 23, 1943 – Jan. 25, 1943
SMILING, Margie – June 22, 1900 – Sept. 24, 1983
SMILING, D.S. – June 28, 1893 – Jan. 9, 1956
SMILING, Eddie Thomas – July 15, 1932 – Sept. 30, 1951 – s/o D.S. & Margie Smiling
LEMONS, Ralph Eddie – Oct. 22, 1936 – Jan. 18, 1937
SMILING, Lesil – Oct. 3, 1949 – Infant son of Mr. & Mrs. Clinton Smiling
SMILING,
SMILING, Velma M. – Aug. 30, 1927
MILLER, Leroy Baxter – Mar. 11, 1920 – June 15, 1982 – PFC
SMILING, Leon L. – Feb. 14, 1918 – Apr. 7, 1980 – SP4
SMILING, Eula Mae B. – May 6, 1928 – Oct. 21, 1987
SMILING, Leon Jr. – Aug. 24, 1953 – Mar. 29, 1955
LOCKLEAR, Rachael S. – Feb. 23, 1912 – Jan. 18, 1948
SMILING, Ida Harven – 1867 – 1945 – w/o H.F. Smiling
SWEATT, Ida Henrietta – Nov. 9, 1890 – July 27, 1964
EPPS, Adeline – Dec. 1852 – June 16, 1935
SMILING, Bessie Lee – Oct. 21, 1921 – Jan. 21, 1938 – d/o J.E. & Ethel Smiling
SMILING, James Edward – Mar. 13, 1895 – June 27, 1964
SMILING, Mary Ethel – June 15, 1901 – May 25, 1981
SMILING, Lois Richmond – Jan. 10, 1954 – Feb. 26, 1956 – d/o Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smiling
SMILING, Baby daug. of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smiling
SMILING, Baby daug. of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smiling
SMILING, Baby son of Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smiling
SMILING, Meddie J. – Mar. 15, 1917 – May 9, 1977
SMILING, Rosa R. – Dec. 23, 1919
SMILING, Margie – Jan. 9, 1951 – Aug. 1, 1957 – d/o Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smiling
SMILING, Flossie Jane – Apr. 24, 1946 – Aug. 31, 1979
HUNT, James Troy – Mar. 31, 1933
HUNT, Virginia M. – July 20, 1926 – July 5, 1998
HUNT, James Troy Jr. – July 7, 1960 – June 11, 1974
BRAYBOY, Larry Dean – Apr. 25, 1950 – May 13, 1977
MENDOZA, Troy Thomas – Mar. 13, 1952 – May 2, 1987
SMILING, James Cody – 1988 – 1989 – Funeral Marker
SMILING, Harry – June 18, 1913 – Oct. 3, 1995
SMILING, Elias – Oct. 1, 1919 – Feb. 15, 1964
SMILING, Luovate G. –
Cross with J _ S
OXENDINE, Retha B. – Luther R. – Beaulah M. – Oxendine Children
GOINS, Jessie Andrew – Oct. 10, 1950 – 1951
GOINS, Hester Pauline – May 8, 1955 – 1956
GOINS, Terry Clayton – June 5, 1958 – May 11, 1960
GOINS, Baby – Funeral Marker – Can’t Read
WARD, Juanita Diane – 1946 – 1967
GOINS, Jessie Lee – June 28, 1920 – Feb. 15, 1973 – PVT
Concrete Block – No Name
Concrete Block – No Name
GOINS, Felicia Ann – Jan. 11, 1975 – July 3, 1997
GIBBS, Archie Lugenia – Feb. 2, 1907 – Sept. 15, 1977
GIBBS, Jimmie M. – July 25, 1892 – Feb. 19, 1962
GOINS, Lillie M. – Apr. 16, 1885 – June 25, 1971
GOINS, Henry – Mar. 27, 1877 – Apr. 12, 1966
GOINS, Adeline – Aug. 9, 1910 – Feb. 8, 1931 – w/o H.H. Smiling
GIBBS, Appelt – 1861 – 1933
LOCKLEAR, Luvetter – 1900 – 1974
LOCKLEAR, Bob – 1887 – 1954
SMILING, Mary Lee – Mar. 7, 1933 – July 11, 1937
SMILING, Joe – June 16, 1862 – Feb. 14, 1943
SMILING,
CHAVIS, Thomas P. – May 5, 1887 – Jan. 14, 1945
CHAVIS, Mattie J.E. – Apr. 16, 1899 – Feb. 3, 1970
CHAVIS, Purdie – Dec. 10, 1932 – Feb. 23, 1953
HUNT, Winford – Nov. 9, 1921 – Jan. 8, 2000
RICHARDSON, Prentis – Sept. 18, 1924
RICHARDSON, Mattie – June 27, 1928 – Aug. 30, 1983
OXENDINE, Billy Ray, Jr. – June 4, 1969 – Aug. 28, 1988
LOCKLEAR, Christian Ray - Dec. 9, 2002 - Infant s/o Fredrick & Lia Locklear
