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JUMPER FAMILY

The Jumper family was apparently related to Tom Jumper, one of six Tuscarora Indians accused by five other Tuscarora Indians of murdering Jeremiah Pate of New Kent County on 14 October 1707. Tom and another of the Indians poisoned themselves before they were brought to trial [McIlwaine, Journals of the Council, II:158, 173].

1. Hagar Jumper, born about 1750, obtained her freedom from Stephen Dance of Dinwiddie County in a court case based on her descent from an Indian woman. She registered in Petersburg on 14 August 1800: a dark brown Mulatto or Indian woman, five feet two inches high, fifty years old, short bushy hair, obtained her freedom from Stephen Dance of the County of Dinwiddie as being a descendant of an Indian. Renewed 1805, 1810, 1813, 1817 [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 159]. She was probably the mother of

i. Rochester, born about 1764, registered in Petersburg on 4 August 1803: a dark brown Mulatto man, five feet seven and a half inches high, thirty nine years old, born free & raised in Dinwiddie County [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 257]. He was a "free Negro" taxable who lived with Daniel Pegram and kept his still in Dinwiddie County in 1802 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-9, list B, p.20].

ii. Samuel, born say 1766, taxable in Dinwiddie County in 1787, 1788, 1790, 1795 and 1797, listed as a "free Negro" who followed "cropping" and lived near Joseph Thweatt in 1801 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-90 (1787 B, p.7), (1788 A, p. Cool

, (1790 B, p.17), (1795 B, p.10), (1797 B, p.10); 1800-9, list B, p.25].

2 iii. Altha, born say 1767.

iv. Philip, born say 1774, taxable in Dinwiddie County in 1795 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-90 (1795 B, p.10)].

v. Hannah, born about 1778, "daughter of C. Jumper," married Littleberry Lawrence, 7 March 1796 Charlotte County bond, John Williamson surety. She and her husband Berry registered in Pittsylvania County in 1816: a fifty-year-old black man with "mulatto" wife Hannah (aged thirty-five) and four daughters.

2. Altha Jumper, born say 1767, was called Otha Jumper on 26 April 1785 when her suit against Isham Lawrence and his wife for trespass, assault and battery was dismissed by the Brunswick County, Virginia court at the defendants' costs [Orders 1784-8, 78, 125]. She was apparently identical to Altha Rouse, a "free negroe" planter counted with her children William, Priscilla and Jency and taxable on a horse in Stephen Bedford's Charlotte County tax list for 1802. She was called Altha Jumper in his list from 1803 to 1813: a "fm" weaver with a male and 2 female children and taxable on 2 horses in 1803, taxable on a free male tithable in 1809, listed as a planter from 1807 to 1810, a spinner from 1811 to 1813 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-1813, frames 539, 542, 574, 580, 608, 642, 648, 675, 682, 711, 717, 751, 783, 808, 841, 841, 846, 877, 886]. She was a "F.N." head of a Charlotte County household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:54]. She was the mother of

i. Priscilla, born say 1791.

ii. William, born say 1793, a "fm" taxable in Charlotte County with a male and female in his household in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-1813, frame 877].

iii. Jency, born say 1795.