How nice of you to send out an email re: activities of blacks after the
Civil War.

I have not heard from the Curry with whom I have been working.... for
awhile.  I may have pushed him to hard, too fast and he has backed off.
(That pretty much explains who I am.)  The bottom line:  I'm coasting on
this subject now.  Plan to take the info I have to local historical society
for their files.

I will not lose interest in the subject, will check out your suggestions.
Thanks for taking the time to send the info and, for all of us bound to our
homes now for one reason or another, thanks for your volunteer work.

BTW an interesting part of this saga, the town of Port Republic developed
because it is the site of the merging of several rivers.  At one time it
was a busy port sending gundalows down river from Port to Harper's Ferry
through 351 dams.  (This is not a typo.)  There is an excellent small book
"Port Republic, the History of a Shenandoah Valley River Town" by George
May that you may enjoy reading.

Keep up the good work.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Janice <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The LVA has been processing a collection of papers relating to slavery and
> ownership.  Those few that I worked on (as a volunteer transcriptionist)
> included a couple of account books of traders' routes, giving travel route,
> names of the slaves and family members (if sold together), former owners
> and purchases/expenses per slave by name, incurred by the trader during the
> trip. They may yet have materials untranscribed but available to the
> volunteers online as photocopies of the originals. The collection is worth
> checking out.
>
> Janice Armstrong
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Quan Arnett-Pruitt <[log in to unmask]>
> To: VA-ROOTS <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 12:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Mack Curry
>
> I'm assuming that this is a family member you are searching for.  I always
> follow the money.
>  Maybe this will help.  Slavery ended in 1865.  Former slaves will show up
> in the 1870 or 1880 census for the first time.  If you could not find him
> in the 1860 or earlier census or city directories with him or her listed as
> a FPOC (free person of color) then most likely he was not.
>
> As an African American research genealogy you will hit a brick wall at
> some point usually 1870.  We don’t just run a family tree on our family but
> also on the possible or last owner to find information.  So there is the
> possibility you might run a lot on just one family alone.  Some last names
> where given by the military or they just picked a last name based on
> anything.  Some took the last owners name or the name of some past owner.
>   Now you have to find who the last owner was for clues to more information.
>
> To get pass the brick wall you will have to:
> 1 take clues in your oral history
> 2 Eliminate the obvious last name.  Curry by running a family tree on the
> family to see what slaves they owned, wills and etc.
> 3 check the freeman bank for clues
> 4 USCT
> 5 court records- Deeds, wills, sales, mortgages, dowers, partitions and
> etc.
> 6 change your thinking to the 1800's
> 7 Find his death record.  Sometimes it will list his parents name but most
> just have unknow.
>
> Slaves are value/money.  You will have to follow the money trail.
> You will have to always think of where is the money and how do I hide the
> money and how to make and keep the money.
>
> I check some things on Ancestry and found that they are not listed before
> 1870.  Also you might want to check  a couple areas in your search Mongolia
> VA and Washington PA.  It would seem as if they or the children moved
> there.  Also someone has started a tree on this family and they might be
> able to help you and each other on this search.  Maybe a new cousin.
>
> Good Luck
> Quan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Madaline Preston
> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 8:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Mack Curry
>
> Exactly, now did Mack become a free black?  I haven't found anything on
> Ancestry prior to the 1870 census for Mack and wife, Miranda.
> m. preston
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Selma Stewart < 0000000da5e72097-dmarc-
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > The question is have you located Mack Curry in any of the census
> > records prior to 1870 such as 1860 and 1850..identified by name..this
> > would mean he would have been classified as a "Free Black".  At that
> > point you would have to determine how he became Free..either by birth
> > (meaning his mother was
> > Free) or emancipated by Will or Deed.
> >
> >
> > Have you found him identified by name on a census or any other records
> > prior to 1865.
> >
> >
> > Selma Stewart
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: VA-ROOTS <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Fri, Nov 4, 2016 3:59 pm
> > Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Mack Curry
> >
> > By the 1870 and 1880 censuses, all African Americans were free.
> >
> >
> >  My email address has changed to [ [log in to unmask] ](
> mailto:
> > [log in to unmask] ).  Please update your records accordingly.
> > Thank you! Leslie Anderson, MSLSReference LibrarianAlexandria
> > LibrarySpecial Collections Branch717 Queen StreetAlexandria, VA
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> Alexandria’s public library since 1937.
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> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Madaline Preston" <[log in to unmask]>
> >  Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 1:31pmTo: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> > Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Mack CurryMack Curry, born 1824, and wife Miranda
> > are listed on the 1870 census forPort Republic, Virginia.
> > Blacks....living between mostly white familieson a street.By 1880 he
> > was a land owner in Ashby District, Rockingham County.Mr. Curry must
> have been a free black.
> > Any info on his heritage would bewonderful.M. PrestonTo subscribe,
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