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While researching the 1850 and 1860 Orange Co NC census I recognized FPOC surnames, and decided to post what I found,I hope it helps someone.
1860 census Chapel Hill
#107 Adam Chavis 28, Jane 29,George 7,Susan Holden 43,Lizzie Archer 7
all enumerated as mulatto
#108 Adeline Mitchel 43,Rebecca 7,David 3,Eliza 1
all enumerated as mulatto
#109 Milly Walker 55, mulatto
#110 Susan Bishop 33,James 13,Martha 9,Albert 8,Emeline 3
all enumerated as mulatto
#204 Judy Bishop 65, white,Sally Bishop 41, mulatto
#206 Polly Chavis 75,Dilly 45,James 24
all enumerated as mulatto
#519 Susan Chaves 12, mulatto…….living in the home of John & Ellen Paul white
Hillsborough
Fanny Chaves 18, John Burnett 16, both mulatto……living in the home of farmer James & Martha Turner, white
James Chavis 22 , white…..living in the household of Elizabeth Reeves, white
James Bishop 13, mulatto….living in the home of William & Sarah Brewer, white
Nancy Chavers 17,Lea 1, Ruffin 15, all enumerated as black….living in the home of HC & Sallie Strowd hotel keepers
Charles Bunch 10 mulatto…..living in the home of farmer Joseph W Latta white
William Bunch 8,Pede Bunch 7……living in the home of John & Elizabeth Strayhorn, white
Lewis Hedgepeth 18,mulatto….living in the home of Benjamin & Rhody Markham, white ( some Hedgepeths were also enumerated as white )
Durhamsville
Ruffin Riggsbee 50, white, Jane Hedgepeth 5,mulatto
William Hedgepeth 75,Mary 75,Lizzie 30,Jane 25,Calvin 17,John 1,Mary 1
all are enumerated as mulatto
Names listed in the 1850 Census as FPOC
Mayo, Umstead, Wilson, Corn, Banks, Evans, Huckabee, Bennett, Bush, Douglas, Chavous, Revells, Burnett, Jeffries, Anderson, Freeman, Burke, Redding, Valentine, Standwich, Burton, Day, Webb, Caudle
If you look at the Northwest Division of the 1860 Orange Co. NC Census, you will also find the HH of Abner Burnett and his wife(common-law) Sally Martin. He is enumerated as “Ind”, she as white, with all the children as white. The enumerator would have you believe that Sally was a “domestic” servant in the hh.
Few individuals get listed in NC as Indian in the census in 1860 outside the Cherokee regions.
Some of the children took the Burnett name, some took the Martin name, all seem to have became part of the Occaneechi community
Hi Forest……..I went back to the census, and could see Abner Burnett’s race as Indian,again could not see the forest for the trees,but what was so crazy to me was that the same enumerator, designated other Burnett family members, living in separate HH as mulatto.
I also wanted to add that family members were scattered all around Hillsboro,and that Sally did appear to be the domestic servant in the hh.
Seems odd that a man who was acknowledged to be Indian would have been allowed to maintain a household with either a common law wife or servant who was white in that place and time. It would imply quite a story line. Are there any descendants of these two?
Linda and all, yes it does seem an odd situation but I would think not that unusual. I have enumerated for 3 census so far and you know the old statement, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ? ” such is much of the information that is written on the census record. This is especially true for the earlier ones that are not more defined and explicit as the ones used today. The questions and options today are spelled out for the enumerator and the household being counted. Remember my ggrandfather was listed as B in the 1900 census and his wife and children W. Then and I have to believe the enumerator was from that local community and possibly a neighbor of the family, went and wrote a W over the B. Now Ggrandfather was supposed to have Native American in his lines as well as Ggrandmother. She was the darker one of the two and the children were all Native American in physical traits. I believe now their marriage union reunited their Native line and genes making for a more native household. Even in the30’s and 40’s I know of a couple livingtogether or married and He would have passed for a black man and she for a white woman. Happened to be in same community my grandmother’s family grew up in. In fact they lived on my uncles farm and worked in the crops with them. My uncle and aunt treated them like part of the family. I don’t know but I wonder now if they were a part of our mixed communities. This was in Mecklenburg County Va. In that day of the 1800’s more depended on the eye of the enumerator and his personal decision. Also it may depend on time of year and how much they had “tanned” in the sun. With her name being Martin is it possible she may have had lines going back into the High Plains community or Martin is one of those surnames that crop up in other isolate Native communities. Strange yes, but still not impossible. Yaw’l have a good day. Ed
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