Here is an African American genealogy that needed a lot of supposition and 
luck. In 1894 when North Carolina listed the parents of the bride and groom 
on marriage licenses, James Kee happened to remarry at the age of 56 and 
named his parents Tissie Kee and Madison Tann.

Tissie was the slave of William Kea who made an 1816 will which was proved 
in 1819. Affidavits by his heirs in 1831 affirm that Tissie was born to his 
slave Hannah after the will was written but before it was proved.

Hannah is taxed in William Kea's household in the Personal Property tax 
lists for Surry County, Virginia, as a slave under the age of 16 in 1787 and 
1794. She was apparently the daughter of another Hannah who was the only 
female slave taxable in Kea's household in 1782 when the younger Hannah was 
born. And Hannah was apparently the daughter of Judy who was the only other 
female slave in Kea's list of taxables.

In 1735 James Bruton left a "negro girl called Judy" to his grandson Bruton 
Kea who left "all my Negroes arising from the estate of my grandfather 
Bruton's estate" to his son William Kea. Judy was probably the daughter of 
"old Jenny" who was listed in James Bruton's estate in 1735 and in his wife 
Sarah's estate in 1745.

Jenny was most likely the daughter of Judith, the only female slave listed 
in James Bruton's Surry County tax list from 1692 to 1703. Judith came to 
James Bruton's wife Mary Seward Bruton from her uncle Robert Caulfield by 
his 1691 Surry County will. Judith appears in Caulfield's list of taxables 
for the first time in 1690, so she was probably the daughter of slave Mary 
who was taxable in his list from 1677 to 1691.

Caulfield did not claim head rights for Mary, so perhaps she was born in 
Virginia. William Pierce, a Lawnes Creek Parish, Surry County resident in 
1661, had "Angelo a Negro woman" who arrived aboard the Treasurer in his 
muster roll in 1623. Caulfield was taxed on slave Nandoe in 1675.

Paul