{"id":428,"date":"2009-07-24T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T04:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2009-07-26T20:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T01:36:17","slug":"using-colonial-records-to-trace-african-american-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/using-colonial-records-to-trace-african-american-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Colonial Records to Trace African American Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virginia Gazette, <\/em>Williamsburg<\/strong><\/span>,<\/strong> <\/span>December 24, 1772<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Chesterfield<\/span>, <\/span>December 15, 1772<\/span>. Run away from the Subscriber, on Sunday the 22d of November, a new Negro Fellow of small Stature, and pitted with the Smallpox; he calls himself BONNA, and says he came from a Place of that Name in the Ibo Country, in Africa, where he served in the Capacity of a Canoe Man; his Clothing is a new Felt Hat, new Cotton Waistcoat and Breeches, and new Shoes and Stockings; his Stockings were knit, and spotted black and white.\u00a0 <\/span>Whoever secures him so that I get him shall have TWENTY SHILLINGS\u00a0 reward, besides what the Law allows.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A great source of tracing early African and African American ancestors is the Virginia Gazette<\/em>. <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Slave owners ran ads describing in great detail their runaway slaves, apprentices and indentured servants.\u00a0 <\/span>Many of these ads list native Africans, their ethnicities, country of origins, their owners, how long they had been in the colonies, and the ships they came on.\u00a0 <\/span>These records are online at <\/span><\/span>http:\/\/etext.virginia.edu\/subjects\/runaways\/1740s.html<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, December 24, 1772 \u00a0 Chesterfield, December 15, 1772. Run away from the Subscriber, on Sunday the 22d of November, a new Negro Fellow of small Stature, and pitted with the Smallpox; he calls himself BONNA, and says he came from a Place of that Name in the Ibo Country, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,20,22],"tags":[223,227,225,224,221,198,45,40,220,226,228,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}