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Archer-Heinegg extraction
Genealogy Report
Information from Paul Heinegg's site:
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com
extracted by: Jen
ARCHER FAMILY
1.
John1 Archer, born say 1647, was one of the first Africans freed in
Northampton County, Virginia. He was in the List of Tithables: "John Archer
negro" in Mrs. Grace Robins' household with her white servants in 1665,
1666, 1671, 1675, and 1677 [Orders 1664-74, fol.14, 29, fol. 114; 1674-79, 74,
190]. Perhaps he was the "Jno" who was listed among the slaves of
Major John Robins in the 1664 List of Tithables [Orders 1657-64, 198]. On 28
February 1697 he bound his son Thomas Archer as an apprentice in Northampton
County court:
Thomas Archer the
son of John Archer voluntarily and of his own free will and with his said
Fathers consent was bound by this court to Major John Robins till twenty one
years of age he being eleven years of age the 20 day of this Instant month of
February ...[Orders 1689-98, 461].
On 30 May 1699 William
Ronan sued him in court for a ten-foot horse-mill wheel he had failed to deliver
[Orders 1698-1710, 9]. John's son was
2
i. Thomas1, born 20 February 1686/7.
2.
Thomas1 Archer, born 20 February 1686/7, was taxable in the Great
Bridge District of Norfolk County, Virginia, more than forty years later in
1730:
1730 Thomas Archey
-1
1731 Thomas Archey
& his son
1732 Thomas Archer
& John, his son & Wm. Weaver -3
1733 Thomas Archer
& John, his son & Wm. Weaver -3
1734 Duglis Grimes
& Ann Archey, a mulato -2
Thos: Archer &
his wife & John Archer -3
1735 Thos. Archer,
Son Jno., wife Mary & Daughter Ann
[Wingo, Norfolk
County Tithables 1730-50, 2, 29, 55, 78, 127, 159, 168, 172].
Thomas
and his family moved to Bertie County, North Carolina, where he signed as
witness to a February 1741 deed to William Weaver, a tithable in his 1735
Norfolk household [DB F:319]. On 1 May 1744 he was called Thomas Archer,
labourer, when he bought 200 acres near Chinkapin Neck for "the sum of one
whole years work already paid" [DB F:526], and on 6 July 1750 he paid 100
pounds for a further 340 acres adjoining Thomas Johnson [DB G:395]. This land
was located in the southeast corner of present-day Hertford County near the
Bertie County line. He was taxable as a "free Mulatto" with his wife
Mary and children in the 1751 Bertie Tax List [CCR 190] and the lists from 1753
until 1759 when Hertford County was formed from Bertie [CR 10.702.1]. In 1758 he
was taxable in the list of John Brickell with his wife Mary, but in 1759 he was
taxable in the list of Henry Hill with his wife Nancy. Perhaps she was related
to Thomas Harrell who was listed in his household that year. We lose
track of most of the family at this point because the early records for Hertford
County were burned in a court house fire. However, Hertford County probate
returns filed with the State Government have survived, and there we find a
return for Thomas Archer in October 1761 [SS 883, Returns of Probates of Wills,
by NCGSJ XIV:102]. The administratrix of his estate was Elizabeth Archer
who was probably the wife of one of his three sons who were all married to
an Elizabeth: Thomas2, William, and Baker
Archer. We can identify his children from the Norfolk and Bertie County tax
lists:
3
i. ?Mary, born say 1712.
4
ii. John2, born before 1715.
iii.
Ann, born before 1719 since she was taxable in Norfolk County in 1734. She was
probably the Ann Archer who was taxable in the 1751 Bertie County household of
Abel Manly, called his wife Ann in the 1757 tax list of William Wynns.
iv.
Thomas2 Jr., born say 1730, head of his own household of two tithes
in 1754. He was taxable with his wife Eliza. in the 1759 list of John Brickell
in the constable's list of Edward Williams. He was taxable in Hertford County on
four persons in 1768, on five persons in 1770 [Fouts, Tax Receipt Book,
58], and on 200 acres, 5 cattle, and 2 horses in District 5 of Hertford County
in 1779 [GA 30.1]. He was head of a Hertford County household of 5 "other
free" in 1790 [NC:26] and 8 in 1800.
v.
William, born say 1732, taxable in the 1757 list of John Brickell on himself,
his wife Eliza, and James Weaver. He was head of a Hertford County
household of 5 "other free" and a white woman in 1790 [NC:26] and 6
"other free" in 1800.
vi.
Baker, born say 1734, taxable in 1751 in his father's Bertie County household [CCR
190]. He was married to Elizabeth by 1757 when he was taxed with her in John
Brickell's list. He was taxable in Hertford on 3 persons in 1770 [Fouts, Tax
Receipt Book,11] and taxable on a horse and 3 cattle in District 3 of
Hertford County in 1779 [GA 30.1].
vii.
Abel, born say 1735, taxable in 1751 in his father's Bertie County household [CCR
190]. He was taxable on a married poll in District 3 of Hertford County in 1779
[GA 30.1].
viii.
?Armstrong, born say 1736, listed in his own Bertie County household in the 1756
constable's list of Edward Williams and an insolvent taxpayer in 1757. He
mustered with Captain Benjamin Lane's Edgecombe County Militia in the 1750's
[Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 674]. He was taxable in Norfolk
County from 1782 to 1788 and from 1807 to 1811: taxable on his son Thomas in
1786 [PPTL, 1782-91, frames 392, 412, 447, 546, 587, 601, 621, 637, 675;
1791-1812, frames 641, 683, 737]. He was head of a Hertford County household of
4 "other free" in 1790 [NC:25], 3 "other free" and a white
woman in 1800, 6 "other free" in 1810 [NC:105], and 9 "free
colored" in 1820 [NC:186].
ix.
Hancock, born say 1738, taxable in his father's household in the 1757 list of
John Brickell. His father made a deed of gift to him of 340 acres in Bertie
County on 29 March 1755 [DB H:157].
5
x. Jacob2, born say 1745.
3.
Mary Archer, born say 1712, was taxable in Norfolk County in 1735 in the
district above Great Bridge (the same district as Thomas Archer) in John
Pinkerton's household, perhaps the same Mary Archer who was counted in James
Wilson, Jr.'s household that same year [Wingo, Norfolk County Tithables
1730-50, 167, 168]. She may have been identical to Mary Archer who was
taxable on two persons in Hertford County in 1770 [Fouts, Tax Receipt Book,
67], and she may have been the mother of
6
i. Jacob1, born say 1732.
4.
John2 Archer was born before 1715 since he was taxable in 1730 in
Norfolk County, Virginia. On 6 March 1741/2 he paid 40 pounds for 200 acres in
Bertie County near "Hot House" on Edward Carter's line [DB
F:352]. In 1751 he and his wife Frances were "free Mulatto" taxables
in Bertie County [CCR 190], and in 1757 he was in the Bertie County List of John
Brickell with his wife and two children, Ann and Jeremiah [CR 10.702.1, box 1].
He was still listed in the Bertie Tax Lists after 1759 when Hertford County was
separated from Bertie, so his land was probably on the Bertie side of the
Hertford County line. He and his wife Frances and their son Jeremiah were
taxables in the 1775 list of Thomas Ward [CR 10.702.1]. He purchased 100 acres
in Bertie County near Luson Swamp on 2 October 1777 [DB M:381] and was taxable
on this land and 7 cattle in 1779 in Wynn's and King's district. The February
1787 Bertie court exempted him from paying poll tax, probably because of his old
age [Haun, Bertie County Court Minutes, V:635]. His children were
i.
Ann, born circa 1744 since she was taxable in her father's household in the 1757
list of John Brickell.
ii.
Jeremiah, born circa 1745 since he was taxable in his father's household in
1757.
iii.
?Ezekiel, born say 1747, not taxed in Bertie County, taxable in Hertford County
in District 5 on 3 cattle and 2 horses [GA 30.1]. He was head of a Hertford
County household of 7 "other free" and 3 slaves in 1800.
iv.
Zachariah, born say 1750, taxed in Jonathan Stanley's 1766 Bertie Tax List. In
1772 he was head of a household with Sarah Archer, possibly his wife, in the
list of Thomas Ward adjacent to John Archer. Zachariah was one of the
freeholders ordered to work on a road over Loosing Swamp, and he was a juror in
the 22 September 1772 term of the Bertie County court [Haun, Bertie County
Court Minutes, IV:15, 30]. By 1779 he was in Martin County with a tax
assessed on 456 pounds in the Tax List filed with the State Government [GA
30.1]. He was granted 150 acres on the Cypress Swamp in Martin County on 1 March
1780 [Grant Book 36:40; N.C. Archives, SS call no. S.108.824, location 1-5]. In
the 1787 State Census for Martin County he had 8 persons in his District 7
household. He was head of a Martin County household of 6 "other free"
and a white woman in 1790 [NC:68], 1 "other free" and a white woman in
1800 [NC:383], and 2 "other free" in Edgecombe County in 1810
[NC:771]. By his 14 December 1817 Edgecombe County will, proved February 1818,
he left land and his "mansion" to his wife Joanna and mentioned his
brothers John and Jeremiah.
7
v. John3, born say 1753.
vi.
?Caleb, born after 1747 since he was not taxed in Bertie County in 1759. He was
head of a Hertford County household of 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:26]
and 9 in 1800 in Captain Lewis' District. He was allowed 26 pounds pay for
service in the Revolution from 10 November 1777 to 10 August 1778 [Haun, Revolutionary
Army Accounts, vol.II, Book 2, 280]. On 7 June 1792 he appointed James
Carraway of Cumberland County his attorney to receive his payment for services
in the Continental line in 1778 and 1779 [NCGSJ VIII:98].
5.
Jacob2 Archer, born say 1745, was taxable in 1758 in his father's
household in the Bertie County list of John Brickell, taxable on two tithes in
Hertford County in 1770 [Fouts, Tax Receipt Book, 42] and taxable on 125
acres in District 2 of Hertford County in 1779 [GA 30.1, p.19]. He was head of a
Hertford County household of 8 "other free" in 1790 [NC:26] and 7 in
Captain Langston's district in 1800. He later moved to Sumner County, Tennessee,
where his undated will was recorded about 1807. He left land in Hertford County,
North Carolina, to his son Jacob and $40 each to oldest son, Josiah, and second
son, Hezekiah. The will also mentioned his wife Sarah and other unnamed children
[WB 1:121]. His three children named in his will were
i.
Josiah, head of a Hertford County household of 2 "other free" in 1800.
ii.
Hezekiah, head of a Hertford County household of 4 "other free" in
1800.
iii.
Jacob3.
6.
Jacob1 Archer, born say 1730, was taxable in his own household in the
Western Branch District of Norfolk County from 1750 to 1778 [Wingo, Norfolk
County Tithables, 1730-50, 202; 1751-65, 43, 61, 86, 105, 136, 168]
and taxable on 5 cattle in Norfolk County in 1782 [PPTL, 1782-91, frame 394].
His children may have been
i.
John, born say 1750, taxable in John Lelloe's Norfolk County household in 1766
and in the household of (his father?) Jacob Archer in 1771. His Norfolk County
tax was charged to Lucy Shoecraft in 1770 [Wingo, Norfolk County
Tithables 1766-80, 46, 132, 151, 263].
8
ii. Evans, born about 1754.
9
iii. Thomas3, born say 1758.
iv.
Oliff, head of a Norfolk County household of 3 "other free" in 1810
[VA:794].
7. John3 Archer, born say 1753, was a
"free Mulatto" taxable in the household of John Sholer, Jr., in an
untitled Bertie tax list for 1765. In 1766 he was taxable in William Whealer's
household, and in 1767 he was in Henry Bunch's household in Jonathan
Standley's list [CR 10.702.1]. By 1779 he was in Martin County where he was
taxable as a married man [GA 30.1]. He may have been the John Archer who sold 50
acres in Halifax, North Carolina, joining Reedy Branch on 16 December 1783 [DB
15:206]. He was head of a Halifax County household of 9 "other free"
in 1790 [NC:63], and 5 "other free" and a white woman in 1810 [NC:3].
He was probably deceased by 4 December 1817 when his children (unnamed) were
mentioned in the will of his brother Zachariah. Prudence Archy, eighty-eight
years old in 1850, a "Mulatto" born in North Carolina and living with
Polly Murray in the Wilson County, Tennessee, census, may have been his
widow or sister. The Murray family lived in both Martin and Halifax
counties about 1790. His children were
i.
?Polly, charged Jesse Brooks in Halifax County court on 20 February 1800
with begetting her bastard child [Minutes 1799-1802, 96].
ii.
?Reddick, head of Halifax County household of 3 "other free" in 1800
[NC:286] and 6 in Edgecombe County in 1810 [NC:726].
iii.
?Jonathan, head of an Edgecombe County household of 4 "other free" in
1810 [NC:768].
iv.
Norfleet, born about 1785, the sixteen-year-old son of John Archer ordered bound
to Elijah Wilkins to be an apprentice blacksmith by the Halifax County court on
16 February 1801. He was head of a Halifax County household of 2 "other
free" in 1810 [NC:4] and 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:138].
v.
?Penny, head of a Halifax County household of 2 "other free" in 1810
[NC:4] and 6 "free colored" in Hertford County in 1820 [NC:186].
vi.
?David, head of a Halifax County household of 4 "free colored" in 1820
[NC:138].
8.
Evans Archer, born about 1754, was taxable in Norfolk County, Virginia, in 1786
and 1787 [PPTL, 1782-91, frames 525, 558]. He was head of a Hertford County
household of 3 "other free" in 1790 [NC:25], 3 in 1800, and 3
"free colored" in 1820 [NC:186]. He was sixty-nine years old on 27
September 1823 when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension in Hertford
County court, stating that he enlisted in Portsmouth, Virginia, for eighteen
months until January 1782. He lived with his daughter Margaret, a single woman
with a four-year-old child. Martin Bizzell testified for him [M805-25,
frames 0113-8]. In 1835 he was listed as a Revolutionary War pensioner in a
report to Congress [Clark, State Records of North Carolina, XXII:571].
One of his children was
i.
Margaret, counted in a list of "free Negroes and Mulattoes" in St.
Brides Parish, Norfolk County, in 1814, a "free Negro" taxable on a
free male tithable in 1816 [PPTL, 1813-24, frames 67, 167].
9.
Thomas3 Archer, born say 1758, purchased 25 acres at the head of the
Western Branch of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk County for 50 pounds on 10 May
1780 [DB 30:64]. He was taxable in Norfolk County in 1776 [Wingo, Norfolk
County Tithables 1766-80, 203], head of a household of 7 persons in 1785
[VA:93], taxable on a horse in Portsmouth and Elizabeth River Parishes from 1783
to 1817: taxable on 2 free males in 1791, 1792, and 1794, a planter on Western
Branch in 1801 when he was counted in a list of "free Negroes and
Mulattoes," called a "M"(ulatto) in 1802 and 1803, charged with
Thomas Archer, Jr.'s tithe in 1805, a "B.M" (Black Man) taxable on a
horse and 6 cattle in Portsmouth from 1815 to 1817 [PPTL, 1782-1791, frames 430,
466, 525, 637; 1791-1812, frames 17, 77, 383, 426, 554, 641, 720; 1813-24,
frames 94, 121, 271]. He was head of a Norfolk County household of 6 "other
free" in 1810 [VA:819]. Perhaps his wife was Eunice Archer, born about
1756, who registered in Norfolk County on 20 August 1810: 4 feet 11 Inc., 54
Years, of age Yellow Complexion [A Register of Free Negros & Mulattos in
the County of Norfolk, #32]. He sold 4 acres at the head of Western Branch to
Jesse Weaver on 5 March 1817, and on 20 October 1812 he made a Norfolk
County deed of gift of all his personal estate to his daughter Elizabeth Weaver
[DB 47:163; 48:85]. His children were
i.
Elizabeth, married Weaver.
ii.
?Sally Weaver, sold for $200 her inheritance from (her father?) Thomas
Archer, consisting of a tract of land at the head of the Western Branch
adjoining Adam Perkins, by deed proved in Norfolk County in 1819 [DB
48:107-8].
Another member of the
Archer family was
10
i. Thomas4, born before 1776.
10.
Thomas4 Archer, born before 1776, was head of an Orange County, North
Carolina household of 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:352]. He was
identified as a Revolutionary War soldier and father of Nancy, wife of Elias Roberts,
in Elias' Chatham County free papers. The papers stated that Thomas Archie
had resided in Chatham County for twenty-three years but was living in Orange
County, North Carolina, when the papers were issued on 10 February 1823 [Orange
County, Indiana DB D:432]. He was the father of
i.
?Jesse1, married Pattie Heathcock (Haithcock), 24
October 1807 Orange County bond, Holiday Heathcock bondsman. He was head
of an Orange County household of 5 "free colored" in 1820 [Book A,
420].
ii.
?Moses, married Polley Roberts, 23 April 1813 Orange County bond, Mathias
Milton & Moses Bass bondsmen. Moses Archie was head of a
Chatham County household of 4 "other free" in 1820 [NC:192].
iii.
?Sally, married Benjamin Roberts, 30 June 1817 Orange County bond, Jesse
Archer bondsman.
iv.
Nancy, wife of Elias Roberts.
Southampton County
1.
Luke Archer, born say 1750, was a "Negro" taxable in St. Luke's
Parish, Southampton County, on 2 slaves above 16, 2 slaves 12-16 and 2 horses in
1788, taxable on a slave and 3 horses in 1789, a slave and a horse in 1790, 2
free male tithables in 1792, taxable on 2 slaves over the age of 16 in 1793,
taxable (called Luke Artis) on a horse in 1794, taxable on a slave aged
12-16 in 1797, 2 slaves over 16 in 1798, and taxable on his own tithe and a
horse from 1799 to 1804 [PPTL 1782-92, frames 654, 704, 754, 811, 868;
1792-1806, frames 45, 72, 258, 308, 369, 404, 505, 542, 612, 681, 796, 833]. He
married Honour Artis, daughter of Lewis Artis, 26 January 1792
Southampton County bond. He registered in Southampton County on 1 June 1802: age
55, Mulatto, 5 feet 8-1/4 inches, freed by Joshua Vick Southampton County deed
[Register of Free Negroes 1794-1832, no. 228]. (His widow) Hannah Archer was
taxable on a horse in 1805 and 1806. On 21 April 1807 the Southampton County
court summoned the administrators of his estate George Artis and wife
Hannah to give supplemental security for the administration of the estate
[Minutes 1804-7, 276]. He may have been the father of
i.
Eley, born about 1790, registered in Southampton County on 17 February 1827: age
37, very bright complected, 5 feet 11-1/2 inches, free born [Register of
Free Negroes 1794-1832, no. 1605]. He was a "f.n." taxable in the St.
Luke's Parish, Southampton County household of Thomas Barnes in 1817 [PPTL
1807-21, frame 571].
2
ii. Lemuel1, born say 1795.
iii.
Reuben, born about 1799, registered in Southampton County on 15 March 1827: age
28, rather light complection, 5 feet 11 inches, free born [Register of Free
Negroes 1794-1832, no. 1612]. He was a "f.n." taxable in Evans Pope's
St. Luke's Parish, Southampton County household in 1812 [PPTL 1807-21, frame
297].
iv.
Burwell, born about 1802, registered in Southampton County on 12 April 1827: age
25, light complected, 5 feet 11 1/4 inches, free born [Register of Free
Negroes 1794-1832, no. 1633].
v.
Rebecca, born about 1804, registered in Southampton County on 15 March 1827: age
23, rather light complection, 5 feet 8 inches, free born [Register of Free
Negroes 1794-1832, no. 1613].
2.
Lemuel1 Archer, born say 1795, was a "f.n." taxable in St.
Luke's Parish, Southampton County, in Reuben Haithcock's household in
1814, in the household of Bryant Davis in 1817 [PPTL 1807-21, frames 293, 572]
and head of a Northampton County, North Carolina household of 4 "free
colored" in 1820 [NC:212]. He and his wife Dolly and their six children
obtained free papers in Northampton County on 23 March 1831 and recorded them on
22 October 1838 in Logan County, Ohio [Turpin, Register of Black, Mulatto,
and Poor Persons, 11]. Dolly (Dorothy) was devised land in Logan County,
Ohio, by the 31 July 1835 Northampton County will of her father Nathaniel Newsom
[WB 4:137]. Nathaniel Newsom owned land on the Roanoke River in
Northampton County adjoining Halifax County [Northampton County DB 10:463, 479;
WB 2:297]. Lemuel and Dorothy's children were
i.
Jesse2, born about 1815, counted in the 1860 Logan County census in
Jefferson Township, Zanesfield Post Office, with 7 children born in Ohio
[Census, p.135].
ii.
Tabitha.
iii.
Anny.
iv.
Eady.
v.
Bedfort.
vi.
Lemuel2.
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