Found on FamilySearch: Records of Slavery and Free Persons of Color (Wayne County, North Carolina), 1783-1869

FamilySearch has digitized Records of Slavery and Free Persons of Color (Wayne County, North Carolina), 1783-1869. The microfilm, a compendium of records concerning enslaved and free African Americans in Wayne County, may be accessed via the FamilySearch catalog here. 

Contents of the microfilm include:

• Affidavits testifying to freedom of Phereby Simmons, 1853;
• Affidavit testifying to freedom of Elich James of Halifax County, 1832;
• Bill of sale for negroes, John Everett to Levi D. Howell, 1859;
• Civil actions concerning slaves and free person of color, 1789-1790, 1799, 1813;
• Jones vs. Jernigan, 1813;
• Civil actions concerning slaves and free persons of color, 1820-1827;
• Civil actions, Trustees of the Association of Friends vs. Dickinson and Simms, 1827;
• Civil actions, Biell vs. Massey, 1822;
• Civil action, Barden Toler vs. Nehemiah Toler, 1830;
• Civil actions, 1831-1838;
• Civil actions, Peacock v. Thomas, 1830;
• Civil actions, Jones vs. Sasser, 1835;
• Civil actions, Pope vs. Martin, 1847;
• Civil actions, Mayo vs. Pike, 1848.

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Documents vary within this collection. There are other records on the microfilm. These records are the fourth record set on the microfilm and begin on frame 712.  

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