FamilySearch has digitized one microfilm of Miscellaneous Records of Slaves and Freemen (Onslow County, North Carolina), 1763-1912. The microfilm may be accessed via the FamilySearch catalog here.
Contents of the microfilm include:
- Bills of sale of Negroes, 1763-1795, 1802-1803, 1808-1869;
- Declaration of the freedom of Nancy Dove, 1860;
- Names of Negroes, Hire of slaves, 1779-1868;
- Personal account of Alexander Fuller, a mulatto carpenter, 1763;
- Medical of negro, 1777;
- Criminal actions concerning slaves, 1765-1858;
- Criminal action concerning the 1831 insurrection of slaves;
- Civil action concerning slaves 1787-1864;
- Concerning runaways, 1779-1828;
- Freedom of slaves, 1809-1816;
- Petition for division of slaves, 1861-1862;
- Petition for sale of slaves, 1845;
- Assignees, 1847-1900;
- Receivers, 1887-1908;
- Trustees, 1846-1848, 1882, 1893, 1912
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