MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS JOHN COMPTON.HIS WIFE LUCINDA FULLER WAS MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER. HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1854. SHE WAS BORN ABOUT 1858. I BELIEVE THEY WERE SLAVES. THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN JOHN JR. GREEN, WILLIE, EDDIE,BETTIE AND JAMES WHO WAS MY GREAT GRANDFATHER.AFTER LUCINDA DIED, JOHN MARRIED CAROLINE AND THEY HAD CHILDREN.
Hi Deshun, Just out of curiosity, I looked up Comptons (slave owners) in the 1860 slave schedules for North Carolina. I don't know if you've ever done this, but there are only three Comptons in the whole state in 1860 that owned slaves. Here's the names: Allen Compton Wesley Compton John Compton Interestingly enough, they are all in Orange County. Since your ancestory would have been about 6 that year, I looked at the ages of the male slaves (names aren't given, only ages and sex), Wesley Compton was the only one with a 6 year old male. Allen Compton had a 4, 8 and 10 year old males and older and John Compton only had older teenagers and young men. If you can order these men's wills, you MIGHT find that slaves are named and "left" as property for family members or instructions about giving them their freedom. I wish you well and hope you can order the wills and get lucky with that info! Jenny Barton --- deshun durden <dsd7766@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS JOHN COMPTON.HIS WIFE > LUCINDA FULLER WAS MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER. HE > WAS > BORN ABOUT 1854. SHE WAS BORN ABOUT 1858. I BELIEVE > THEY WERE SLAVES. THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN JOHN JR. > GREEN, WILLIE, EDDIE,BETTIE AND JAMES WHO WAS MY > GREAT > GRANDFATHER.AFTER LUCINDA DIED, JOHN MARRIED > CAROLINE > AND THEY HAD CHILDREN. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NCORANGE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php