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Grace Newman

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  • 1799 - Birth -
  • Death - Y
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Grace Newman
1799 -
  
 
  
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Barbara Newman
1774 -
  
  
  
Joan Gumby
1738 -
 
Family Group Sheet - Child
PARENT (U) ?
Birth
Death
Father?
Mother?
PARENT (F) Barbara Newman
Birth1774
Death
Marriageto ?
Father?
MotherJoan Gumby
CHILDREN
FGrace Newman
Birth1799
Death
MJacob Newman
BirthAbt 1800Virginia
Death
MJames Newman
Birth1791Virginia
Death

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News & Announcements

  • NHSL featured in CNN article
  • NHSL Invited to UN Film Night celebrating Human Rights Day and 2015 – 2024 International Decade for People of African Descent
  • NHSL mentioned in Daily Kos
  • NHSL featured in the Maryland Masonic Family Newsletter
  • NHSL in the Westmoreland News

African American Genealogy Resources

  • Afrigeneas- African American & African Ancestored Genealogy
  • Black Past- African American Genealogy
  • Christine's Genealogy Website
  • Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware
  • Roots Web Guide to Tracing Family Trees
  • Virginia Foundation for the Humanities- African American Historic Sites database
  • Virginia Historical Society-Genealogy

Carter Related Websites

  • 'He had a heart for mankind'
  • American Scholar: The Anti-Jefferson by Andrew Levy
  • Corotoman Slave Histories
  • Diary and Letters of Robert "King Carter"
  • Freedom Stories- Robert Carter III
  • Historic Christ Church
  • Jamestowne Society
  • Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old- Nomini Hall Tutor
  • NPR – Interview with Andrew Levy- author of Robert Carter III The Abolitionist That Time Forgot
  • Swedenborgian Church
  • The Carter Society
  • Warren Throckmorton on Robert Carter III

NHSL Descendant Websites

  • A Living Legacy of “Councillor” Carter’s Deed of Gift: Nimrod Burke, 23rd USCT
  • Links to the Past – Henry Burke
  • REFLECTION ON MENOKIN SLEEPOVER CONFERENCE BY DESCENDANT OF NORTHERN NECK ENSLAVED
  • Slaves left their mark on Clarke County
  • Story of Gumby
  • The Friends of Freedom Society Ohio Underground Railroad Association

Nomini Hall & Nothern Neck Community

  • 2014 Nomini Hall Fire
  • An Analysis of Primary Resources Used as Tools for Discovery and Research at Archaeological Sites: Nomini Hall Case Study
  • FORM AND FUNCTION OF THE COLONIAL PLANTATION: RECREATING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF NOMINI HALL
  • Historic Christ Church
  • Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library
  • Nomini Hall Plantation
  • Northern Neck Tourism Commission
  • Northumberland County Historical Society
  • The Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society
  • Westmoreland County African American History
  • Westmoreland County Courthouse and Museum

Related Articles

  • 'He had a heart for mankind'
  • Book Discussion on The First Emancipator
  • Robert Carter III—American History’s Forgotten Liberator- Daily Kos
  • Washington Post: The Day History Bowed to Conscience

Sites Once Owned by the Carter Family

  • Ben Lomand House- RCIII Former Cancer Plantation
  • Ben Lomond Manor House
  • Broad Run Tract- Buckland, VA
  • Carter's Grove
  • Dodona Manor
  • Historic Whitehall Manor
  • Liberia Plantation
  • Liberia Plantation- Lower Bull Run tract
  • Manassas National Battlefield- Bull Run
  • Oatlands
  • Paper: The Sycolin Road Pottery
  • Sabine Hall
  • Shirley Plantation
  • The Winery at La Grange

Slavery and The Middle Passage

  • African Nation Founders- Course
  • Anti-Slavery
  • Black Laws of Virginia
  • CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery
  • Coming to the Table
  • Library of Congress: African American Odyssey
  • Library of Congress: Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
  • Modern Day Slavery: How many slaves work for you?
  • New Findings about the Virginia Slave Trade
  • North American Slave Narratives
  • Runaway Slaves and Servants in Colonial Virginia
  • Slave Gardens and Poultry Yards
  • Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
  • Slavery and the Making of America
  • Slavery by Another Name
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
  • The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
  • US Slave
  • Voyages Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

Contact Information

LaTonya Lawson-Jones, Project Director
Phone: 433-826-9474

Email: latonya@nominihallslavelegacy.com

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