Mecklenburg County, Virginia Free Negroes, or People of Color

(under construction)

Organized by earliest date, then alphabetical for that year

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1800 James Soward, property taxes

1805 Jesse Lee, property property taxes

1841 Ferry Baskerville, order book 2, pg 465

1841 Joseph Dyson, order book 2, pg 464

1841 Thomas Harris, order book 2, pg 464

1852 Simon Garnes, order book 5, pg 203. Simon was born a free negro to a free woman in Mecklenburg. Registered as free according to law June 1852.

1850 John Stewart’s estate, will book 18, pg 6

1861 John Baley, order book 7, pg 269, arrested for not paying to live in the county. Fined and discharged.