Terry--I stumbled on to this yesterday while looking for something else in the York Co Judgments and Orders No. 8, 1803-1814: on page 147, 16 June 1806 John Wallace DeRozario a free black man resident of this county liscenced to keep a firelock, powder and shot during his good behaviour agreeable to an act of assembly of 4 Feb 1806
p. 331--17 April 09--ordered that John W. Derozario be summoned to appear here on the 3rd monday next month to shew cause of any he can why the order heretofore granted to him by this court giving him leave to carry one firelock, powder and lead shoudl not be rescinded and the arms aforesaid taken from him.
p. 337--15 May 09--It appearing to the court that John W. Derozario a free Negro to whom leave was heretofore been given by this ct to keep a firelock etc has been guilty of improper conduct and misapplied the same and the said Derozario having appeared and shewing no cause to the contrary It is ordered that the said Firelock be taken from him.
This is not literal. Enjoy--Mick
Michael L. Nicholls
Professor of History, Emeritus
Dept. of History
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-0710
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On Aug 13, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Terry Meyers wrote:
> Slightly tangential, but still of interest perhaps in terms of blacks and college education in VA is this letter in 1807 concerning a free black who sought permission to sit in on lectures in science at William and Mary:
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> https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/handle/10288/16301/MadisonRozarro.pdf?sequence=4
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> Somewhat related is the story of George Greenhow, a free black who was the janitor at William and Mary in antebellum days. Greenhow liked to boast (with a fine sense of irony, obviously) that he was “the only negro ever educated at William & Mary”— he had been taught to read and write by one of the students in return for Mrs. Greenhow’s doing the student's laundry (see a letter discovered by my colleague Louise Kale: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Archives, Records of the Research Department, Folder Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, 1933:35-39: n.d., W. T. Greenhow to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., July 9, 1928. A transcript is at the Rockefeller Library).
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> Also somewhat related: the Colonial Williamsburg and William and Mary Field Schools this summer have finished; analysis of the artifacts at the presumed site of the Bray School, a school associated with the College from 1760 for the religious education of black children (free and enslaved), is proceeding. Nothing definitive can yet be said, but the slate pencils, clay marbles, and a tiny doll are at least compatible with a school's being sited where the documents suggest it was--not finding such things would have complicated that argument.
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> http://www.history.com/news/archaeologists-seek-evidence-of-oldest-black-school
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> All of this related to the College's Lemon Project:
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> http://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/?svr=web
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