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April 24, 2006 - New Records Added to the Africana Heritage Database!

New Records Added to the Africana Heritage Database!


The following records have been added to the Africana Heritage database since 3/19/06:

Court Records, Post #4. Jessamine County, KY

Post #5. Will of Jane Anderson Meaux. Jessamine County, KY

Many thanks to Mary Alice Farrell for the above records!


Duke University Special Collections has kindly shared the following records, transcribed by Alana Thevenet:

SYKES, John. Freedmen's Contracts. Clark County, GA

Runaway Negroes. Cornhill Plantation, Sumter, SC

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. List of Slaves.

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. Negroes Marriages.

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. Births, Deaths, Marriages.

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. Blanket List. 1850

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. Negroes Purchased 1827.

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. List of Rules for Negroes.

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. Negroes Rules for Government.

CORNHILL PLANTATION, Sumter, SC. Freedmen.

KEE, CT. Account with Freedmen, 1866.

Ball, John Sr. and John Jr., Berkeley District, SC, "A Fair List of Negroes that is gone from Kensington to the British Army 1780"

We thank Duke University Special Collections for their kind support.


The following records were transcribed inhouse:

Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Records of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, Charleston, SC, Part 2

GEDDIS, Sander. Family Group Sheet, 1880, Charleston Co., SC

JENKINS, Pompy. Family Group Sheet, 1880, Charleston Co, SC

SIMONS, Ned. Family Group Sheet, 1880, Charleston Co, SC

VANDERHORST, Sam. Family Group Sheet, 1880, Charleston Co, SC

WATSON, Friday. Family Group Sheet, 1880, Charleston Co, SC

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