I wrote a book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color (see link 
at bottom of message). Many of the libraries in Virginia now carry my 
book, including the University of Virginia, and the Library of 
Virgina. You can purchase a copy or do an inter library loan. The book 
is a chronicle of the lives of my ancestors, who were Free Persons of 
Color in Colonial Virginia. The fpc designation, was a nice way of 
saying they were Tri racial, white/African/Native. 

My Pinn ancestors moved from Lancaster to Amherst County just prior to 
the Revolutionary War. I believe they were moving to avoid the laws 
that the Virginia legislature, and churches were passing. In 1710, my 
ancestors are living in Northumberland County, and members of Wicomico 
Parish Church. However, Rawley Pinn, my direct ancestor, founded a 
Baptist Church in Lexington Parish (Amherst County). In 1783, he was 
designated white, and in 1785 Mulatto. We know that Rawley was Native 
(Yeocomico), and not Mulatto or white. Until 1835, Rawley's 
descendants were listed as Mulatto. In 1834 the descendants were 
required to register as Free Negroes. That is around the time that my 
ancestor left and settled in Fredericksburg. 

Anita   


Order Sites for Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color - Barnes 
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-- Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
(Sorry--the link to the publisher's description of the Rothman book
that I just sent was incomplete; it should be
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2002007568.html  ).


On Sep 5, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Jurretta Heckscher wrote:

> The best place to start is Joshua D. Rothman, Notorious in the
> Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia,
> 1787-1861 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003;
> Library of Congress call number  HQ1031 .R695 2003).  The publisher's
> description is here:
> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2002007568.htm  --and an
> H-Net review is here:   http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d1n8-aa
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
>
>
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Sally Phillips wrote:
>
>> Would it be fair to say that residents of Cumberland County, 
Virginia,
>> and
>> other counties well west of the fall line, in the 50 or so years
>> following
>> the Revolution, would be more independent-minded, more free-
spirited,
>> less
>> bound to the 100-year-old traditions of the more easterly 
counties?  I
>> am
>> trying not to use the word "liberal" as it is used today, because I
>> don't
>> know what "liberal" meant in 1800.  But that is what I'm getting at.
>> I am
>> researching an inter-racial family where the father/owner and the
>> mother/slave and the offspring lived publicly as a family.  As well 
as
>> I
>> can tell from the records, they seem to have been at least 
tolerated.
>> They appear to have functioned well in the community.  Although
>> Cumberland
>> County was far from the frontier in 1800-1825, had it been settled 
by
>> frontier-seekers who simply didn't care that much about traditions?
>> Is
>> there a book that deals with this subject?
>>

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