Servitude and Emancipation Records
This database includes names found in governmental records involving the
servitude and emancipation of Africans and, occasionally, Indians in the
French and English eras of colonial Illinois (1722–1790) and
African-Americans in the American period of Illinois (1790–1863). The
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MORRISS, JANE ("A WIDOW")
FINNEY, JAMES
WILCOX, ISAAC D.
CHERRY, WM.
BROWN, ARON B.
LITTLETON, JACOB
COPELAND, JOHN
BROWN, AARON B.
WILLCOX, ISAAC D.
COPLAND, JOHN
HAWKINS, JAMES
FINNEY, JAMES
JOHNSON, JOHN
Extracted names 07 Oct 2016 from the llinois Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722–1863) at the Illinois State Archives website.
In Gallatin County Court
p. 175.
Circuit Court, Johnson County, Illinois, November term 1834. William
BANYARD, a man of color, produced a certificate of sheriff of Johnson
County, Illinois showing said William BANYARD had been kept as a runaway
slave for one year according to law, and no claim had been made in response
to advertisements. So, according to 2nd section regarding free negroes and
Mulattoes Act as of January 19, 1829, William BANYARD is a free man unless
claimed at a later date by a legal proper owner. Certified December 9, 1834
by John McINTIRE, Clerk. Certified by Thomas C. BROWN, Justice of Supreme
Court of Illinois that John McINTIRE was clerk of said court and forms are
by him.
pp. 187-8-9.
State of Illinois, Johnson County, January 19, 1833. William STAFFORD, late
of Jackson County, Tennessee and now of Johnson County, Illinois, frees TOM,
age about 35 years, whom he purchased from William WILSON of Jackson County,
Tennessee. Certification, etc. recorded in Gallatin County, Illinois October
27, 1836.
pp. 189-191.
Johnson Co., IL, Jan. 19, 1833. William STAFFORD (as above) frees JENNY, age
about 36 years and the wife of TOM, whom I purchased in the state of
Tennessee, certified by John McINTIRE April 29, 1833. Recorded in Gallatin
Co., IL Oct. 27, 1836.
Contributed 11 May 2017 by Anita Boyd from ISGS Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 3, p. 127-135, Fall 1978, Register of Slaves (Indentures) and Emancipation of Slaves in Gallatin County
