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KERSEY FAMILY

Two members of the Kersey family, perhaps brother and sister, were called "Negroes" in seventeenth-century Virginia county court records. They were

1 i. Susannah, born say 1640.

2 ii. Peter, born say 1648.

1. Susannah Carsey, born say 1640, was called "Susannah a free Negro woman" in Charles City County court on 15 September 1677 when the court rejected her petition to be exempt from paying taxes. And she was called "Negro Sue" in December 1687 when the court confirmed the indenture of her orphan-son John to Daniel Massingal. Captain Richard Nyatt certified that she had approved the indenture. In August 1689 she was called "Susan Carsey" when Massingal's executor, John Harrison, agreed in Charles City County court to assume the remainder of the indenture that she had agreed to on behalf of her son John [Orders 1677-79, 216; 1687-95, 90, 223]. Her son was

i. John2, born say 1670.

2. Peter1 Kersey, born say 1645, was apparently the husband of Ann Kersey (a white woman?) who bound her son John Kersey as an apprentice to Richard Parker, brassier, in Surry County, Virginia, until the age of twenty-one on 26 January 1675/6 with her son's approval. Ann was about 30 years old on 15 June 1677 when she made a deposition in Surry County court regarding what she had heard Robert Austin say while she had been at Mr. Tompson's house [Deeds, Wills, Etc. 2, 1671-84, 102, 129]. Peter was "a Negroe" living in Surry County, Virginia, on 4 March 1678 when the court ordered him to return his son John Kersy to the estate of Judith Parker, deceased. The following year on 5 May 1679 his son John was apprenticed to William Hunt who was ordered by the court to find John Kersy sufficient apparel or return him to his father Peter Kersy [Haun, Surry County Court Records, III:240, 250]. He was called "Peter a Negro" when he was taxable in Thomas Sidway's household in 1683, called Peter Kersey in 1684 and 1685 when he was a taxable in Mrs. Sidway's household in Upper Sunken Marsh, and called Peter Kersey in 1686 when his son John was a taxable with him in Mrs. Sidway's household [Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol.22, no.1, 40, 46-7; vol. 23, no.2, 60]. He owed 16 pounds of tobacco to the 30 June 1694 Surry County estate of Thomas Jordan, deceased [DW 5:11]. His children were

3 i. ?Thomas1, born about 1665.

4 ii. John1, born say 1668.

iii. ?Peter2, born about 1685, about seven years old in 1692 when he was bound an apprentice to William Hunt [Haun, Surry County Court Records, V:55]. In 1703 he was a "Negroe" tithable in William Hunt's household in the Upper Southwark Parish [DW 5:288]. He and "Betty a Malatto" were ordered to be added to the list of tithables by the petition of Jones Williams in the May 1712 session of the Surry County court [Orders 1701-13, 398]. He may have been the Peter Hersey, "an ancient free Negro," who successfully petitioned the 5 December 1753 Granville County court that he be recommended to the General Assembly as a person to be exempt from taxes [Owen, Granville County Notes, vol. I].

3. Thomas1 Kersey, born say 1665, was a taxable in Benjamin Harrison's Surry County household in 1681 [Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol.22, 4:50] and appeared in Surry County court in March 1700/1 on the suit of Nathaniel Harrison who failed to appear [Haun, Surry County Court Records, VI:4]. He was a Chowan County taxable in 1720 in Captain Patterson's Company from Meherrin Creek to Meherrin River in the northeast corner of present-day Northampton County, North Carolina. On 2 May 1726 he purchased 200 acres on the south side of the river in what was then Bertie County [DB B:171]. His 28 October 1730 Bertie County will, proved August court 1731 by Arthur Williams, named his wife and executrix, Susanna; children; and grandchildren William Kersey and James Reynolds [SS Wills 1730-33, Thomas Ceorsie, North Carolina Archives]. His children were

5 i. John4, born say 1705.

ii. Mary Pohagon.

iii. Margaret Reynolds, born say 1710, bound her "bastard Mulatto" son, James Reynolds, to her father, but after the death of her father the court ordered him bound to John Boude on 16 November 1732 [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, I:79].

6 iv. Thomas2, born say 1712.

v. William1, born say 1715, who was to receive 100 acres by his father's will after his mother's death.

vi. James1, born say 1715-20, received a young mare by his father's will.

7 vii. Peter3, born say 1720.

4. John1 Kersey, born say 1668, was an apprentice to William Hunt in 1679 and was a taxable in Mrs. Sidway's Surry County household with his father Peter Kersey in Sunken Marsh in 1686. He was head of his own household in 1694 [Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol.23, 1:60; 4:69]. He and Howell Edmunds proved George Briggs' will in March 1698/9 court [Haun, Surry County Court Records, V:217]. He purchased 70 acres in Surry County in Southwarke Parish adjoining Richard Washington and Abraham Evans on 6 March 1693/4, and he and his wife Mary Kersey were residents of the adjoining county of Prince George on 25 April 1718 when they sold this land for 1 shilling to Richard Shock by deeds acknowledged by John Kersey in Surry County court [DW 4:353; DW&c 7:120; Orders 1713-18, 139]. John may have been the ancestor of

i. John3 Carsey, born say 1696, purchased 80 acres in Surry County on 6 August 1750 [DB 6:116]. He was exempted from paying taxes in Surry County on 16 March 1756 (most likely because of old age) [Orders 1753-57, 367].

ii. Hannah, whose Surry County will was recorded November 1761. She named her sister Mary Kersey executor. The estate was settled by William Kersey on 19 October 1762 [WB 10:286, 306].

iii. George1, born say 1720, a defendant in a 20 October 1743 Surry County suit for debt [Orders 1741-44, 83] and an insolvent Sussex County taxpayer in 1754 [Southside Virginian 6:48]. He, John, and Thomas Kersey were sued for debt in Sussex County in 1755 [Haun, Sussex County Court Records, I:248, 264, 309, 462, 500, 528]. He was listed in Captain Hardy Cone's Company of Edgecombe County Militia in the 1750s adjacent to Thomas Kersey [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 667].

8 iv. Thomas3, born say 1735.

5. John4 Kersey, born say 1705, was sued for trespass by Richard Sanderson in the March 1729 General Court of North Carolina [Saunders, Colonial Records of North Carolina VI:563]. He received 100 acres near Cashie Swamp in Bertie County by his father's 28 October 1730 will. He entered 100 acres including his improvements on Bear Swamp in Bladen County on 20 February 1754, entered 100 acres on the east side of Drowning Creek on Bear Swamp on 3 May 1760 [Philbeck, Bladen County Land Entries, nos. 976, 1159], and received a patent for 100 acres on the east side of Bear Swamp in Bladen County on 18 November 1760 [Hoffman, Land Patents, I:395]. He purchased another 200 acres in Bladen County on the south side of Drowning Creek on 9 November 1773 [DB 23:444]. He was taxable on one white poll and one black poll in Bladen County in 1763 and a "Mulato" taxable with his son Jacob and a slave named Brunswick in 1776 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, II:62, 95; Bladen County Tax List (1763)]. He was the father of

i. Jacob, taxable in his father's Bladen County household in 1776. He was apparently a loyalist since all the land which he owned in Bladen County before 4 July 1776 was confiscated [DB 1:424, 433, 436].

6. Thomas2 Kersey, born say 1712, received a patent for 400 acres in Edgecombe County on 1 March 1743/4 [Saunders, Colonial Records of North Carolina, IV:677]. He sold the 100 acres of land which he inherited from his father on the south side of the Meherrin River in Northampton County on 29 December 1748 [DB 1:392]. He purchased 120 acres in Edgecombe County on Sapony Creek adjacent to Samuel Cannady on 12 February 1755 and an additional 307 acres near the Sapony Creek on 4 August 1761 [DB OO:95, 354]. On 9 November 1764 he received a patent for 100 acres in Bladen County on the east side of Drowning Creek, and while a resident of Bladen on 16 January 1765 he sold 400 acres of his land in Edgecombe which he received by patent on 1 March 1743/4 [Hoffman, Land Patents, II:521; DB C:318]. By 25 July 1774 he had acquired a total of 900 acres of land in Bladen near Drowning Creek by patents of 26 October 1767 and 25 July 1774 [Hoffman, Land Patents, II:167, 450, 599, 600, 666] and deed of 22 March 1770 [DB 23:67]. While a resident of Bladen on 5 October 1774 he sold another 120 acres of his land in Edgecombe County [DB 2:181]. He was witness to a 1769 Bladen County deed from James Oberry for land which was part of 640 acres that had belonged to Henry Oberry [DB 23:503]. He was a "Molato" taxable with Jesse Moss in Bladen County in 1768 and a white taxable with slaves Dick and Quac(?) in 1772. He was taxable on two "Molatoes" (himself and William Horn) and two slaves (Dick and Quash) in 1776 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:9, 71, 83, 124, 135; II:66, 76]. He died before May court 1778 when administration on his Bladen County estate was granted William Truman and Benjamin Odom [NCGSJ XIII:224]. Perhaps his wife was Mary Kersey who received a Bladen County grant for 200 acres on the west side of Drowning Creek south of Ash Pole Swamp on 12 November 1779 [DB 37:287] and was taxable on 400 acres in Bladen County in 1784. She sold 200 acres of this land to America Kersey on 10 May 1788 [DB C:370]. She was head of a Bladen County household of one white male under 21 or over 60 and two white females in 1786 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, II:184]. Administration on her estate was granted David Braswell in Robeson County court on 3 July 1799 on a bond of 100 pounds [Minutes I:78]. Thomas' children may have been

i. Ester Cairsey who was listed as a harborer of the "free Negors and Mullatus" who were living in what was then Bladen County on 13 October 1773 [G.A. 1773, Box 7].

ii. Sarah/Sally, born say 1750, supposed to have married Thomas Lowry in Franklin County before 1769 when Lowry moved to Robeson County. She was said to have been a "half-breed Tuscarora Indian woman" [Blu, The Lowrie History, 5].

iii. Thomas4, a taxable "Molato" in Bladen County from 1768 to 1774 (called Thomas Cairsey, Junr.) [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:4, 61, 81, 135].

iv. William2, born say 1760, head of a Robeson County household of 4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50]. He entered 50 acres on the west side of Peter's Swamp in Robeson County on 28 October 1789 [Pruitt, Land Entries: Robeson County, I:29] and purchased land in Robeson by deed proved on 6 January 1806 [Minutes I:348].

v. George2, born before 1776, head of a Robeson County household of 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:310].

vi. Elizabeth, head of a Robeson County household of 3 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50] and 3 in 1800 [NC:388].

vii. James2, born about 1764 according to the 1782 Militia Returns for Bladen County [The North Carolinian VI:751]. He entered 100 acres in Robeson County including his spring on 20 April 1787 [Pruitt, Land Entries: Robeson County, I:3]. On 11 September 1792 while a resident of Robeson County he sold 200 acres of land on the south side of Sapony Creek which had been owned by Thomas Kersey [Nash DB 6:118]. He was living alone in Robeson County, counted as white in 1790 [NC:48] and "other free" in 1800 [NC:388]. He purchased land in Robeson by deed proved 8 January 1799 and 26 February 1810 [Minutes I:58, 192]. He sold 108 acres in Robeson on the southeast side of the head of Jacob Swamp to Ninty Kersey on 21 August 1818 [DB S:38]. On 24 February 1834 he made a declaration in Robeson County court to obtain a pension for his services in the Revolution. He stated that he was born in 1762, volunteered in a company of militia on 1 August 1782 in what was then Bladen County in the town of Elizabeth. He marched to Charleston, South Carolina, to James Island, and received his discharge in Wilmington on 1 August 1783. He was never in any engagement "but once which was with a body of negroes above Charleston at a place called as he thinks the Quarter House." He was inscribed in the Roll of North Carolina on 4 March 1831 [M804-1477, S-8788].

viii. Solomon, who purchased 200 acres in Bladen County adjoining John Rowland on 29 March 1785 [DB 25:240 & 1:299]. He was living alone in Robeson County, counted as white in 1790 [NC:49] and "other free" in 1800 [NC:388]. He sold land in Robeson by deed proved on 9 January 1799 [Minutes I:61].

ix. Job, head of a Robeson County household of 4 "other free" and one white woman in Bladen County in 1800 and 5 "free colored" and one white woman in 1820 [NC:154].

x. Abraham, head of a Liberty County, South Carolina household of 7 "other free" in 1800 [SC:785].

7. Peter3 Kersey, born say 1720, received a mare by the 28 October 1730 Bertie County will of his father Thomas1 Kersey. He was taxable on one "white" tithe in Bladen County in 1763 and a "Molato taxable with his son David from 1768 to 1772 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:8, 44, 79]. He received a patent for 100 acres on the northwest side of Drowning Creek on 16 December 1769 and sold this land on 19 November 1779 for 500 pounds [Hoffman, Land Patents, II:167; DB 37:185]. He was taxable on 150 acres and one poll in Captain Regan's district of Bladen County in 1784 and was head of a Robeson County household of 7 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50]. He was the father of

i. David, born say 1750, a "Molato" taxable in Bladen County from 1768 to 1772.

ii. ?Redding, a "Mix Blood" taxable in Jacob Locklear's Bladen County household in 1774 [Byrd, Bladen County Tax Lists, I:135]. He entered 50 acres between Drowning Creek and Gum Swamp in Bladen County on 20 January 1789 [Pruitt, Robeson County Land Entries, 1787-1795, 21]. He was head of a Robeson County household of one white man in 1790 [NC:48].

8. Thomas3 Kersey, born say 1735, received a patent for 104 acres in Sussex County on the southside of the Nottoway River and the fork of Ploughman Swamp on 16 August 1756 [Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 32:178 (Patents 33:302)] and sold this land on 6 January 1759 [DB A:349]. He purchased 175 acres in Southampton County on the north side of Three Creeks adjoining Thomas Wiggins and McLemore on 13 April 1760 [DB 2:357-8] and sold property by deed proved in Southampton County court on 12 April 1781 [Orders 1778-84, 149]. He may have been the father of

9 i. William3, born about 1761.

10 ii. Agatha, born say 1762.

iii. Thomas5, born before 1767, taxable in Southampton County from 1787 to 1790, taxable in 1807 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-1792, frames 641, 664, 713, 763; 1807-21, frame 70] and head of a Southampton County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [VA:71].

iv. Walden, born before 1767, taxable in St. Luke's Parish, Southampton County, from 1787 to 1795 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-92, frames 641, 664, 713, 763, 878; 1792-1806, frames 56, 84, 164]. The Southampton County court fined him 500 pounds of tobacco on 14 August 1789 [Minutes 1786-90]. His house in Southampton County was mentioned in the 3 April 1793 Southampton County will of John Claud [WB 4:608]. He was taxable in Smith Creek District, Warren County, North Carolina, in 1801 [Tax List 1781-1801, 419], taxable in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, in 1806 and 1807, and a "Mulatto" taxable in Mecklenburg County in 1818 and 1820 [Personal Property Tax List 1806-28, 39, 66, 167, 656, 705]. He married Betsey Hawley, 1817 Granville County, North Carolina bond.

v. Willis, taxable in Southampton County in 1792, taxable in James Caulthorpe's household in 1793, taxable in his own household on a horse in 1794 and 1795 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-92, frames 878; 1792-1806, frames 49, 84, 164].

vi. Delilah, born say 1778, married Cordall Reed, 19 November 1798 Southampton County bond, James Sweat surety.

vii. Loudoun, taxable in St. Luke's Parish, Southampton County, from 1801 to 1811, called a "M"(ulatto) in 1806 [Personal Property Tax List 1792-1806, frames 512, 550, 688, 839; 1807-21, frames 47, 70, 189].

9. William3 Kersey, born about 1761, was presented by the Southampton County court on 11 May 1780 for concealing a tithable [Orders 1778-84, 111]. He was taxable in Southampton County on a horse in 1782, taxable in John Claud's household in 1784, taxable from 1787 to 1792, charged with Willis Kersey's tithe in 1790 and 1791 but not listed as a tithable himself in 1791, taxable on his own tithe and a horse from 1793 to 1797, a "M"(ulatto) taxable in 1806 and 1807 [Personal Property Tax List 1782-92, frames 504, 545, 641, 664, 713, 763, 820, 878; 1792-1806, frames 56, 84, 164, 194, 267]. He was taxable in the Mecklenburg County, Virginia household of John Chavis Walden in 1786 [Personal Tax List, frame 149]. He married Polly Evans, 23 December 1786 Mecklenburg County bond, Kinchen Chavous surety. She was mentioned in the 22 May 1787 Mecklenburg County, Virginia will of her father Thomas Evans, Senior [WB 2:250]. He purchased 150 acres in Mecklenburg County on the Warren County line in 1804 and was taxable on 184 acres in 1813 and 274 acres in 1820 with the initials "C.S." after his name [Land Tax List 1782-1811A, 1811B-1824A]. He was head of a Warren County household of a white male over 16, two under 16, and three white females in 1790 (called William Corsey) [NC:76], 10 "other free" in 1800 [NC:814], 11 in 1810 [NC:765], and 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:798]. His 26 June 1829 Warren County will was proved in August 1836 (called William Cursey). He was called William Carsey in his pension application in which he stated that he was born in Southampton County in 1761, lived there and in Bute County, North Carolina, during the war, and married Polly Evans in Mecklenburg County in 1786. He died 26 June 1836 and his widow Mary died 14 September 1840. His children were named in his will, pension file, and in a Mecklenburg County chancery case [M804-481; Chancery suit 1841-010, LVA; Estate file CR 100.508.30, N.C. Archives]. He was the father of

i. Thomas6, born about 1785, married Sally Kersey, 22 December 1813 Mecklenburg County bond, surety Hardaway Drew. He was sixty-five years old and Sally was fifty-five when they were counted in the 1850 Mecklenburg County census [VA:90].

ii. Elizabeth Carsey, born say 1787, married John Chavous, 6 July 1803 Warren County bond, Hutchings Mayo bondsman. John was head of a Carroll County, Tennessee household of 14 "free colored" in 1830. Elizabeth received land in Carroll County by her father's will.

iii. Peggy, born say 1790.

iv. Sally, born about 1798, married John Stewart.

v. Nancy, born say 1799, married Anderson Drew.

vi. Babby, married Martin Anderson.

vii. William H., born say 1800, married Margaret Ivey, 5 December 1822 Mecklenburg County bond. He was probably the Hill Kearsey who married Martha Stewart, 20 December 1821 Warren County bond, William Kearsey bondsman.

viii. Edmund, born say 1805.

10. Agatha Kersey, born say 1762, received a plantation of 150 acres by the 31 January 1791 Southampton County will of James Calthorpe, proved 12 December the same year and witnessed by John Claud. The land and money from the sale of his four slaves were to be used to raise and school three children: Mary Black, Agatha's son Joshua Cursey, and the child Agatha was pregnant with. If Agatha died or married, Mary Black was to have the land and Agatha's children were to have the plantation utilities [WB 4:600]. Agatha was taxable in St. Luke's Parish, Southampton County, on 3 free male tithables and a horse in 1794, 2 male tithables in 1796, taxable on a horse in 1803 and 1804, a free male tithable from 1807 to 1811, was a "M"(ulatto) taxable on a horse in 1813, and was living with her son Miles in 1814 [Personal Property Tax List 1792-1806, frames 84, 196, 321, 384, 619, 688; 1807-21, frames 70, 167, 189, 321, 415]. She was head of a Southampton County, Virginia household of 6 "other free" in 1810 [VA:71]. She was the mother of

i. Joshua, born say 1784, named in the 31 January 1791 Southampton County will of James Calthorpe. The court appointed Joel McClemonds as his guardian on 12 July 1800 [Minutes 1799-1803, 103]. He was a "M"(ulatto) taxable in Southampton County from 1812 to 1814 [Personal Property Tax List 1807-21, frames 288, 321, 415].

ii. Miles, born say 1791, married Nancy Bass, 12 November 1810 Southampton County bond, Cordall Reed surety. He was taxable in Southampton County from 1802 to 1815: called a "Mulatto" from 1801 to 1806, taxable with his wife Viney Bass on Littleton Mason's land in 1812, living on land owned by his "Mother Aggy" in 1814 and 1815 [Personal Property Tax List 1792-1806, frames 511, 549, 618, 687, 802, 838; 1807-21, frames 70, 166, 288, 415, 440].

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KEYTON FAMILY

1. William1 Keyton, born say 1716, was a "Mulatto Man" presented by the Westmoreland County, Virginia court on 26 May 1741 for cohabiting with a white woman named Sarah Heath and having several children by her. He was probably the brother of Bridget Keyton who was presented two months later on 29 July for cohabiting with Aaron Rose and having several children by him [Orders 1739-43, 99a, 114a].

KING FAMILY

1. Mary King, born say 1722, was presented by the Prince George's County, Maryland court on 22 March 1742/3 for having an illegitimate child on information of the constable for King George Hundred. She was not found by the sheriff, so the case was struck off the docket on 27 November 1744. She may have been the mother of Margaret King, a four-month-old child who the Prince George's County court sold to William Cheshire on 23 November 1742 until the age of thirty-one. (She was called Mary King in the court record and Margaret King in the index) [Court Record 1742-3, 215, 340, 612]. She may have been the ancestor of members of the King family who were counted in the 1810 census for nearby Prince William County, Virginia:

i. Samuel, head of a Prince William County household of 5 "other free" and 4 slaves in 1810 [VA:513].

ii. Sarah, head of a Prince William County household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:518].

Other members of the King family in Virginia were

1 i. Francis, born say 1752.

2 ii. Samuel, born say 1755.

iii. Ann, born say 1760, a "mulatto" taxable on one free male tithable in Gloucester County in 1803 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

iv. Milly, head of a Petersburg household of 9 "other free" in 1810 [VA:123a].

v. George, head of a Charles City County household of 2 "other free" in 1810 [VA:939]. On 1 June 1808 the Charles City County court bound William King to him as an apprentice cooper [WB 2:27].

vi. Mason, born about 1784, registered in Petersburg on 31 May 1808: a dark brown Negro woman, five feet two inches high, twenty four years old, born free & raised in the County of Prince George [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 422]. She was head of a Petersburg household of 2 "other free" in 1810 [VA:123a].

vii. Susannah, born about 1785, registered in Petersburg on 16 January 1809: a dark brown Negroe woman, five feet five and a half inches high, twenty three, strait made, born free & raised in the County of Prince George [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 454].

viii. Edy, born about 1786, registered in Petersburg on 25 March 1809: a dark brown, near black Negro woman, five feet one and half inches high, twenty three years old, born free & raised in the County of Prince George [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 459].

ix. Anna, born about 1787, registered in Petersburg on 31 May 1808: a very dark brown, near black Negro woman, five feet five inches high, straight made, twenty one years old, born free & raised in the County of Prince George [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 423].

x. Polly, born about 1788, registered in Petersburg on 31 May 1808: a dark brown Negro woman, five feet six inches high, twenty years old, straight made, born free & raised in the County of Prince George [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 424]. She was head of a Petersburg household of 2 "other free" and a slave in 1810 [VA:122b].

1. Francis King, born say 1752, was head of an Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County household of 7 free persons in 1784 [VA:68]. He was taxable in Gloucester County from 1783 to 1812: taxable on a slave, 4 horses and 8 cattle in 1783; taxable in Ware Parish in 1785; taxable on a horse and 5 cattle but his personal tax paid by Thomas Lewis in 1788; taxable on his own tithe and a horse in 1789, taxable on his own tithe in 1799 and 1800, a "mulatto" taxable in 1801 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-1799; 1800-20]. He was the father of

i. John, born about 1771, registered in Petersburg on 11 September 1800: a dark brown Mulatto man, five feet four inches high, twenty nine years old, born free & raised in Gloster County [Register of Free Negroes 1794-1819, no. 206]. He was head of a Gloucester County household of 6 "other free" in 1810 [VA:407A]. He was called the "mulattoe son of Francis King" when he was taxable in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

ii. ?Ellick, a "mulattoe" taxable in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

iii. ?Sally, a "mulo" living at Robert Meggs' in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

iv. ?Ruth, a "mulo" living at Robert Meggs' in Gloucester County 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

2. Samuel King, born say 1755, was head of a Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County household of 1 free person in 1783 [VA:53] and was taxable in Gloucester County from 1785 to 1799: taxable in Petsworth Parish on two head of cattle in 1785, taxable on a horse and 3 cattle in 1786, and taxable on a horse in 1797 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-99]. He was head of a Gloucester County household of 9 "other free" in 1810 [VA:407A]. He and his unnamed wife were "mulattoes" living at Hill Neck in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20]. He may have been the father of

i. Isaac, born say 1777, listed himself as a tithable the same day as Samuel King in Gloucester County in 1798 [Personal Property Tax List, 1782-99].

ii. Lewis, born about 1778, a "mulattoe" bricklayer taxable in Gloucester County from 1804 to 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20]. He obtained free papers in Gloucester County in February 1827 and registered in York County on 6 June 1832: a free tawney coloured man about forty nine years of age, five feet four and a half inches high ... born free ... appears from the above is about fifty four years of age [Free Negroes Register 1831-50, no.338].

iii. Ruth, a "mulo" living at "H.N." in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

iv. Fanny, Sr., a "mulo" living on Matthew Kemp's land in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

v. Catey, a "mulo" living on Matthew Kemp's land in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].

vi. Martha, a "mulo" living on Matthew Kemp's land in Gloucester County in 1813 [Personal Property Tax List, 1800-20].