Free Blacks And Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census

Description

Blacks Found in  the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC: 1785-1827
Listed in Deeds of  Gift, Deeds of Sale, Mortgages, Born Free and Freed. Abstracted from Laurens  County, SC Deed Books A-L and Newberry County, SC Deed Books A-G
Softbound    volume  totaling
204
pages. Book  is in excellent condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This is the second book in      which Mrs. Motes makes the genealogical records of South Carolina's      ante-bellum African-American population more accessible to researchers. On      the heels of her Free Blacks and Mulattos in the South Carolina 1850 Census,      she has now abstracted all references to African Americans that could be      found in the Deed Books for Laurens and Newberry counties, South Carolina,      between 1780 and 1827. Both of these counties in northwest central South      Carolina were formed from the Ninety-Six District in 1785, so some of the      record abstracts actually pre-date the existence of the counties by five      years, when deeds were first recorded in Charleston.
Based on Laurens County Deed Books A-L and Newberry County      Deed Books A-G,
Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties,      SC
covers Deeds of Gift, Deeds of Sale, Mortgages, and references to      manumission found in deeds, among twenty-six different kinds of deeds found      in the Deed Books. Each abstract gives the date the deed was filed; the      names and counties of residence of all parties to the transaction; the      amount of the transaction, if any; the names of the African Americans      mentioned in the sources, along with any identifying comments (age, height,      children, etc.); the names of witnesses and the justice of the peace; and      the date the deed was recorded. In some cases, the abstracts list the      surnames of free blacks, their dates of birth, or an occupation. In all,      more than several thousand African-American slaves and freed men and women      living in South Carolina between 1780 and 1827 have been rescued from the      obscurity of South Carolina's deed books, and each of them is easily found      in the index to Mrs. Motes' carefully transcribed volume.
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