Friend of Friends Friday~Releasing Pomphrey

On October 13, 1787, in Monk's Corner, St. John's Parish, South Carolina, John Ryan sold a slave named Pomphrey to Lawrence Campbell, Archibald Campbell, and David Benson of Charleston.

South Carolina Department of Archives and History, “Bills Of Sale, 1773-1843” database, Fold3 (http://Fold3.com accessed 05 Dec. 2018), entry for John Ryan, volume 2Q, pg. 590 (1778)

May Pomphrey be found and connected with his descendants.

Have you discovered the records of the enslaved while researching?
Please consider sharing the documents and transcribing their names so they may be remembered.

This post will be shared with the Slave Name Roll Project. 

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Friend of Friends Friday~Releasing the Names from John Milton Dargan's Estate

Friend of Friends Friday is a blog prompt found on GeneabloggersTribe.com that encourages extracting the names of the enslaved found in documents while researching. 

By extracting and sharing the names we hope to enable their descendants to find them. 

The probate packet of John  Milton Dargan (1799-1847) of Sumter District, South Carolina names those who were enslaved on his property.

Will of John Milton Dargan pg. 1

On the first page, John wills that his slaves are to be kept together and worked on his plantation for the use and support of his wife and children. He also states his wishes that they then be divided among his children upon the death of his wife,
 One "negro girl Betty" is mentioned as already being in the possession of his daughter Leonora.

Will of John Milton Dargan, pg. 2

Again on the second page, John refers to his "slaves" and says they are not to be sold to pay for any debts. No others are mentioned by name.

Inventory of the Estate of John Milton Dargan

The names of the enslaved do appear in the inventory of his estate. They are:
Gilbert
Claiborn
Peggy 
Dinah
Mariah
Bob
May
Legrande
Jesse

May they be remembered and reuinited with their family's.
This post will be added to the Slave Name Roll Project.


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Friends of Friends Friday~Hall Hudson's Will-Releasing Gray

Friends of Friends Friday is a blogging prompt from Geneabloggers Tribe to give the community an opportunity to transcribe the names of the enslaved as they come across them while researching and put them online.

When my 5th great grandfather Hall Hudson  (Abt. 1708-1778) from Amelia County, Virginia wrote his will on 13 March 1778 he left to his son Peter Hudson "one negro man named Gray".
Interestingly, the two signatures at the bottom are people with the surname Gray. A coincidence? Probably not.

Henry's will can be found on pages 10 and 11 of the Amelia County, Virginia Will Book, 1780-86.

Hall Hudson 

Will

pg. 10

Amelia Virginia, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1963”, database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 26 January 2017), image for Hall Hudson, 13 March 17, 1778, will, Amelia County Will Book no. 3, 1780-86, pg. 10-11, citing “Will Books, Vol 2-3, 1771-1786”

Hall Hudson

Will

pg. 11

Amelia Virginia, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1963”, database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 26 January 2017), image for Hall Hudson, 13 March 17, 1778, will, Amelia County Will Book no. 3, 1780-86, pg. 10-11, citing “Will Books, Vol 2-3, 1771-1786”

This post will be added to The Slave Name Roll Project in hopes Gray's family will be able to find him and connect him with his family.

Have you located the names of the enslaved in your family's records? Please consider releasing their names by either writing a post about them and placing the link on the Slave Name Roll Project website or leaving a comment on their blog. Please include the enslaved person(s) names, the name of the owner with the source information for the document including date and location.
Their descendants are looking and they want to be found. Together we can help them reunite.

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