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Kate Anderson |
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1670 |
Norfolk, Virginia, USA  |
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Female |
| Reference Number |
5186 |
| Person ID |
I5186 |
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- The Anderson family was freed by the 29 October 1712 will of John Fulcher in Norfolk County, Virginia. He appointed Lewis Conner executor and granted his
Negroes men and women and Children there freedom...
And he left them 640 acres of land on Sewall's Point in Norfolk County [WB 9:223]. The freeing of these fifteen slaves prompted the Council on 5 March 1712/3 to recommend that the General Assembly provide by a law against such manumission of slaves, which may in time by their increase and correspondence with other slaves may endanger the peace of this Colony [McIlwaine, Executive Journals of the Council, III:332].
On 20 March 1712/3 the Andersons exchanged with Lewis Conner the 640 acres left to them by Fulcher's will with 300 acres of land by a deed of confirmation which identified them by name:
Robert Richards, Maria Richards, Kate Anderson, Hester Anderson, Betty Anderson, Lewis Anderson, Sarah Anderson...and our Children to witt -Peter Anderson, George Anderson, Dinah Anderson, Nedd Anderson, Rachell Anderson, Mingo: Anderson, Tony Anderson, and Susan Anderson Infants [Norfolk DB 9:240, 249].
In response to Conner's petition of that same day the Norfolk County court ordered him to transport "the negroes lately set free by the said Fulcher's will" out of the colony and ordered the sheriff to assist him.
On 11 August 1714 Robert Richards was called "a free Negro man" when the Norfolk County court ordered him to stand trial at the General Court in Williamsburg for receiving stolen cloth from John Chichester's slave. Kate Anderson, who was not charged, was found making a shirt for Richards from three yards of the material [Orders 1710-17, 90-2].
The Norfolk County grand jury issued a presentment against "the free Negroes," but the case was dismissed on 21 January 1714/5 without explanation [Orders 1711-7, 51, 103, 105].
Probably in an effort to "prevent their correspondence with other slaves" Fulcher's executor, Lewis Conner, by a deed dated 20 October 1715, swapped their land in Norfolk County with 640 acres of land on Welshes Creek in the part of Chowan County, North Carolina, which later became Martin and Washington Counties [Chowan DB B#1:109].
Although the deed of exchange for the land was acknowledged and recorded in Chowan County, North Carolina, in September 1715, it appears that the Andersons never took possession of the land. And there is no record of the Andersons ever selling the land in North Carolina. There was also a Norfolk County deed of 15 July 1715 from James, a free Negro of Princess Ann County, whereby he sold to Lewis Conner for 50 pounds "land lying and being between Tanner's Creek and Sowell's Point in Norfolk County being an equal part and all that share of land which was given the said James by his deceased master Mr. John Fulcher" [Norfolk County DB 9].
On 18 December 1715 Lewis Conner charged George, a slave of Margaret Willoughby, with attacking him when he met Kate Anderson and George on the "King's Road" [Orders 1710-7, 103, 105, 137].
On 20 May 1715 Lewis Conner sued the Anderson family to get the Chowan County deed admitted into the Norfolk County record and thus reclaim his bond as administrator of Fulcher's estate, but the Anderson family refused. The case was postponed, alternately at the request of plaintiff and defendants for two years, until 21 June 1717 when a Norfolk County jury found in favor of the Andersons that Conner had not fulfilled his obligations [Orders 1710-17, 118-9, 134, 137, 138, 141, 145, 150, 155, 158, 171, 191]. Lewis Conner appealed to the court at Williamsburg which ruled in his favor on 22 October 1717 [Orders 1710-17, 119, 191; The Williamsburg court ruling is referred to in Norfolk Orders 1734-36, 1, 10-11].
On 16 May 1718 the Richards and Anderson families brought suit against Lewis Conners for debt, but the case, "not being prosecuted," was dismissed, and on 20 June 1718 the court presented Robin Richards for "harboring negroes." A 19 August 1718 Norfolk County deed referred to land on the east side of the path that leaves the road to Sowell's Point to where Black Robin and the rest of the free Negroes now lives" [DB 10:2a, 42b].
On 20 December 1734 Edward/ Ned Anderson, one of the children freed by Fulcher's will, sued Lewis Conner's heirs over "Whether there be deed or no deed relating to the land in Bath County in Carolina." The court ruled against Edward, referring to the 22 October 1717 suit at Williamsburg [Orders 1734-36, 1, 10-11].
Kate Anderson, born say 1670, may have been the mother of Hester, Betty, Lewis, and Sarah Anderson, the other adults listed after her in the above mentioned Norfolk County deed [Norfolk DB 9:240] since the 17 March 1717/8 Norfolk County court case referred to the family as "Kate Anderson and all the free Negroes" [DB 1710-17, 191]. Her son Edward was called "son Born of the Body of Kate a Negro woman set free by the will of said Fulcher" on 20 December 1734 in Norfolk County court [Orders 1734-36, 10-11].
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