Posted on: Alamance County, NC Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/NC/Alamance/658 Surname: SHOECRAFT ------------------------- Searching for any information whatsoever on Abraham Shoecraft, s/o Silas Shoecraft (1781-1865) and his wife Mary Tester (c1783-1870), who migrated from Hertford Co., NC, to what was then Orange Co. in the 1810s. The Shoecrafts were mixed-race but consistently claimed no African ancestry. Most of them moved to Indiana in the 1840s. In 1908, Silas's son Jeremiah testified (in attempt to have the federal government recognize the family's claims to Indian descent) that "One of my own brothers, Abraham Shocraft was a slave holder. He married a white woman who owned slaves and she died and he married another white woman who was also a slave holder." I've located no such marriages in Orange, Alamance, or Guilford. However, "Abram" Shoecraft is listed in the northern portion of Alamance in 1850: b. c1813 in Hertford Co., with wife Nancy (c1820) and children Nancy (c1838), Mary (c1841), Betsy (c1845), Cary (c1847), and Eliza (c1849), all listed as white. No sign of the family in 1860 or ff., either in NC or IN. Can anyone locate any evidence for Abraham's marriages? What became of this family??? Any help greatly appreciated.