In Black and White: Cross-Cultural Genealogy

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Saturday, April 6, 2024

Private Martin Black: Revolutionary War Pension File (S41441), Part 2

In March, I shared the transcription of Private Martin Black's Revolutionary War Pension File , in which he described his service in mo...

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Private Aaron Spelmore (Spellman): Rev War Pension File (S42023), Part 2

In the first post in this series, Private Aaron Spelmore (Spellman), Part 1 , I focused on two things: determining the commander of Captain...

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Private Aaron Spelmore (Spellman): Rev War Pension File (S42023), Part 1

Image 6 of 8 Aaron Spelmore's Declaration claims that he enlisted on May 5, 1781 in the state of North Carolina in the company commanded...

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Private John Carter (Caster): Verifying Claims in a Rejected Pension File (R1749)

Maria Williams-Cole, SAR Grave Memorial Service, 2014 In 2014, at the culmination of my research for the North Carolina Society Sons of the ...

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Private Martin Black: Revolutionary War Pension File (S41441), Part 1

Transcription 3749 Image 2 of 12 North Carolina Martin Black, Private, North Carolina line In the army of the United States during the Rev...

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Debra Newton-Carter: My passion is telling the stories of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Since 2003 I have been researching and writing about the lives of Forgotten Patriots of the Revolutionary War and their descendants from Craven and Carteret Counties, North Carolina. In 2013 I established the genealogy database used for the creation of the North Carolina Society Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Isaac Carter Chapter--the only SAR Chapter dedicated to a free soldier of color--one of the 14 Free Patriots of Color known as the Harlowe Patriots. Since then I've been co-authoring a series of books dedicated to the stories of Black, Indigenous, and Female Forgotten Patriots for The Society of the First African Families of English America, and am currently in the early stages of writing a book about the three sisters of one of those patriots.

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