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Originally Posted by residinghere2007
I am a black American but have some European genealogy. I have some paternal Irish ancestors who came to America in the early 1800s. I have yet to trace any of my black ancestors to a particular record of importation or immigration but have traced them back to the mid 1700s in Maryland and Pennsylvania. My southern, enslaved ancestors, I have not been able to trace very far just to the 1870 census, but a couple of those ancestors were born in the late 1700s approximately. Also, I have relatives who were from Henry County, VA and who were owned by the Hairston Family, who were a family who owned the largest amount of slaves in the US for a while. In VA and NC they kept very good records, including genealogies of their slaves and so I have records of that line back to 1805, which is earlier than records I have about my Irish ancestors.
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Wanted to note that I started researching on my paternal great grandmother's family this past summer and traced her Scottish ancestry to the 14th century via a very distant cousin who is also into genealogy that a 2nd cousin referred me to. This great grandmother's father's line is Scottish.
Her mother's line was English and I found another cousin who provided information on my great grandmother's maternal line back to the 1700s in England.
On my black American ancestors of this line, they hailed from Virginia and I found one of my great grandmother's ancestors was a "mullatto" who fought in the Revolution. He was born in approximately 1750. I found out this information due to a referral to a website about free black people in America prior to the Civil War. I confirmed this information with his Revolutionary pension application where he gave his approximate birth date/year, where he was born and a brief description of his service.
The Revolutionary soldier's son married a woman who was also a free person of color and her family was also from Virginia. They were listed as negro/black and I have information on them back to the mid 1700s.
I also recently started researching my maternal grandfather's family. His mother's family also descended of free people of color from North Carolina by way of Virginia. I have information on them from the mid 1700s as well. One of these ancestor's married a woman with the surname Bass in the early 1800s, who was a free woman of color. The Bass surname has a lot of documented ancestry for those of black and native ancestry, of which this woman was described to having been but I have not confirmed her parentage yet.
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