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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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this could be Mend's beginnings.
this could be Mend's beginnings.
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Named Negroes were imported into Carolina
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: Black Majority (ID 127)
Author: Wood, Peter (ID 93)
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A few of the Negroes arriving that winter are recorded explicitly. --In February a man named Yackae was imported by Capt. John Robinson, later a member of the council, and a woman named Grace was brought by Mrs. Jane Robinson (presumabley the captain's wife). --John Norton, another man with the title of Captain although a "joyner" or simple carpenter by trade, imported a Negro called Emmanuell. They lived on Oyster Point, the wooded peninsula whic lay across the Ashley from the initial settlement at Albemarle Point and which would become the colony's center and the enduring site of Charltown by 1680. In less than two years they had cleared enough land so that Norton could identify himself as a "Planter," but he was so heavily in debt that both Emanuell and the wold-be "plantacon" were destined to be seized by officials. AN178 --A similar fate must have befallen Crow, a slave who came from Barbados in the same month. His owner, Surveyor General John Culpepper, became engaged in some disorders along with John Robinson and Yeamans' overseer, Thomas Gray, and the three fled the colony so hastily in 1673 that each probably left slaves behind. --Several weeks after the arrival of Crow, a captain bringing provisions from Jamaica via Bermuda is known to have brought "Richard Hanke (a Quaker) his wife, 9 children & one negro man." (Source Peter Wood 22)