Enter text in the name of servant, slave or free black, name of other party and date fields or choose a term from the drop-down menus in the county, sex, race and document fields to restrict the search to only those records which CONTAIN your search terms in these fields. Searches are not case sensitive: you may use any combination of upper and lower case letters. Click the "Search" button after you have typed your search term.
Searches may be conducted on any single field or any single field in combination with the county. Valid search criteria include:
In many of these early records, slaves, servants, and even free blacks are identified only by a Christian name or sometimes by no name at all. The name of a master or other party to the transaction may be the only evidence of the identity of such poorly identified individuals. To search the database for a slave, servant, free black or master, witness, or other related party enter in the search field a surname or given name or the surname followed by a comma and the given name. (For example: type PITMAN or JOHN or PITMAN, JOHN.) To find all records in which the slave, servant, or free black is not identified by any name, enter in the search field [NO NAME LISTED.].
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