SLAVE COLONY
(Generously
Transcribed
from the Barton Papers, Microfilm Roll #258 by Sherida Dougherty, thanks
Sherida!)
[The
following was labeled Slave Colony in The Barton Papers.]
I N Walker
P Cir Ct. Pkg 246
vs} Petn.
filed Mch 21, 71
Ireland & Deaderick
Harrison Miller (colored)
2 Notes $212.50 & 212.50.
Aug 1868 to plff –
3&4 (last) paymt on land
On waters of Clays Branch, near So Frk Lkg
R.
Beg. at stu in [?] Clay’s Branch, Frank
Coleman’s upper cor., on sd br., th w/ mean. of sd br. 63 p to sm elm, R
Stower’s ln., th w/ sd ln S 45W 12 p to stu. & Hwy on N. edge of the
Riddle R., h w/ mean. Of sd Rd. 30 p to stu. & lrg WO, Frank Coleman’s NW
Cor., th w/ his ln N 58 E 91 p to beg. cont.
25 ˝ A – seed deed – has lien.
Cmrs Sale June 5, 71 to deft. Harrison
Miller for $394.93 for entire tr. of 52 ˝ A.
J B Rankins, Surety
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[The following was labeled “Slaves – Colony of,
after freed.” with a notation of
“By Otis Allender 1936.]
The farm of Otis Allender, on Fal. & Concord
Road, was settled by a colony of ex-slave negroes.
Cabins were there when Otis got the farm. Otis bought part of the farm from Frank Allender, and part
from John and Geo. Houston, two brothers. Geo.
Houston was father of Leslie Houston. John Houston was Ed Houston’s father.
John Houston bought some of the land from
Tom Johnson, (cold[?]). Otis bought
ab. 6 a from Newt Stenson (cold[?]) and Mariah, his mother. The colored colony had a church, or school house – used for
both, had a cemetery of ab. 1 a, and was called “Evergreen Cemetery”.
In 1935 a colored man was bur. there – Fount Ashbrook.
Aaron Broadus is bur. there.
Daniel Rush’s father owned the land
before the Civil War, and think he alloted the tracts to the several ex-slaves
who settled there. Don’t know if
it was a gift or sale.
Note Bk. 10