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Hi everyone!
I ran across this on genealogy.com…..and it reads;
The following is a list of people who signed a Petition in 1771 to repeal an act passed by the North Carolina Assembly making all free Negroes and Mulatto women and all wives of free Negroes and Mulattoes declared Tythables. These people were more than likely Free colored Persons, or married to a free colored person. This list might be helpful to some who are trying to locate the whereabouts of their ancestors in 1771. By the way, the Petition was rejected by the Assembly.
John Smith
John Wilkerson
Charles Moore
James Norris
Christopher Thomas
Thomas Head
William __ingson
John Head
James Caudill
Isom Caudill
Carter Hedgebeth
Martha Knight
Frances Davenport
Nathan Chiles
Benjamin Hendrick
Cutbird Hudson
Willis Roberts
Isaac Head
James Williamson
Joseph Hill
William Thomas
William Cawthorn
Thos. Lowe
William Wallis
Isham Johnson
Isaac White
John Tudor
John Badget
William Head
Groves Howard
George Fagans
Charles Spaulding
Henry Spaulding
Gibby Chavis
William Matthews
Benjamin Bass
James Downey
Richard Burton
Benjamin Glaze
John Davis
Lewis Anderson
Davie Mitchell
William Chavis
Samuel Huckaby
Lewis Collins
Thomas Butler
John Gwin
George Whitlock
Humphrey Davis
Josiah Stovall
Ben Bearden
Lovet Gates
Shadrack Roberts
Thomas Whittington
Willliam Whorton
John Harris
Robert Downey
John Hart
Edward Bass
Aguila Snelling
Rubin Bass
Lawrence Pettiford
🙂 🙂 Sue J
For a rather similar list (free persons of color protesting a poll tax) from South Carolina, dated 1794, see
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23157
(cited from Jack Goins’ Melungeon research site)
What does it mean to declare someone tythable, anyway? They’re taxed? Who pays the tax? They have to pay it for themselves?
Yes, it was a tax that they would be required to pay.
White males above the age of 16 were taxed but white females were not.
I have an Oxendine married into my Williams ancestor. And, recently, my Williams DNA was included on the Malungeon Core DNA table as it is only one marker off which indicates a direct relationship to another known Malungeon family.
“free persons of color” were often children of NA & White parents. “Mulatto” was first used for the children of NA/White parents. “Mulatto” was later used for children of African American/White parents.
And, I’m searching for Hardy Williams who was granted land by Lord Granville on the s. side of what is now the Tar River in 1761. Does anyone have Williams in that area?
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