by Toni Carrier
FamilySearch has digitized Records of Slavery and Free Persons of Color (Wayne County, North Carolina), 1783-1869. The microfilm, a compendium of records concerning enslaved and free African Americans in Wayne County, may be accessed via the FamilySearch catalog here.
Contents of the microfilm include:
- Affidavits testifying to freedom of Phereby Simmons, 1853;
- Affidavit testifying to freedom of Elich James of Halifax County, 1832;
- Bill of sale for negroes, John Everett to Levi D. Howell, 1859;
- Civil actions concerning slaves and free person of color, 1789-1790, 1799, 1813;
- Jones vs. Jernigan, 1813;
- Civil actions concerning slaves and free persons of color, 1820-1827;
- Civil actions, Trustees of the Association of Friends vs. Dickinson and Simms, 1827;
- Civil actions, Biell vs. Massey, 1822;
- Civil action, Barden Toler vs. Nehemiah Toler, 1830;
- Civil actions, 1831-1838;
- Civil actions, Peacock v. Thomas, 1830;
- Civil actions, Jones vs. Sasser, 1835;
- Civil actions, Pope vs. Martin, 1847;
- Civil actions, Mayo vs. Pike, 1848.
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Documents vary within this collection. There are other records on the microfilm. These records are the fourth record set on the microfilm and begin on frame 712.
![Catalog Record Item Number Film/Digital Note Record of elections (Wayne County, North Carolina),1792-1964 Item 1 Election records, 1793, 1803, 1810, 1813-1814, 1824, 1834-1835, 1838-1844, 1846-1849 Record of elections (Wayne County, North Carolina),1792-1964 Item 2 Election returns, 1850-1852, 1855-1856, 1859, 1865, no dates; Certificaton of election of John A. Green as clerk of court of pleas and quarter sessions, no date; Civil action, Burn vs. McKinnie, Blackman, Bradberry, and Wood, election irregularities, 1792; Civil action, Joseph Edwards vs. John McKinnie and the justices of Wayne Co., qualifying of justices, 1808-1816; Civil action, Calvin R. Blackman vs. William Thompson and the justices of Wayne Co., re. office of sheriff, 1833; Civil action, State of N.C. use of Richard Raynor vs. H.H. West, re: appointment of West as constable, 1859; Civil action, Edward Griswold vs. John Lynch, re: election fraud, 1874; Civil action, Byrd vs. Cox, Hudson, [et al.] re: election fraud for the office of tax collector, 1893; Grand jury invocation re: their condemnation of the use of ardent spirits at elections, 1850; Petitions for elections for issuing bonds for railroads and road improvement, 1913. Records of slavery and free persons of color (Wayne County, North Carolina), 1783-1869](https://cfh.iaamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Example-Wayne-County-SC.jpg)
Records of slavery and free persons of color (Wayne County, North Carolina), 1783-1869
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