tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post3862372049033494717..comments2023-04-03T08:07:44.584-04:00Comments on Welcome to Genealogy By Ginger!: Enoch Godwin of Sampson County, North CarolinaGinger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-73601704380831680682016-04-29T23:18:29.386-04:002016-04-29T23:18:29.386-04:00I've been trying to find history of my ggrand...I've been trying to find history of my ggrandparents Mayberry and Line godwin Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450817552943314369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-75852450507620771992016-04-29T23:17:45.462-04:002016-04-29T23:17:45.462-04:00Hi I'm looking for history on my ggparents May...Hi I'm looking for history on my ggparents Mayberry and Line Godwin from the NC area whitesville hallsboro any information will help thanks.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450817552943314369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-88748598231241374262016-04-29T23:13:41.166-04:002016-04-29T23:13:41.166-04:00I've been trying to find history of my ggrand...I've been trying to find history of my ggrandparents Mayberry and Line godwin Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450817552943314369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-85390615332333877852015-10-10T18:43:15.759-04:002015-10-10T18:43:15.759-04:00In one of your other posts you mention Phereby and...In one of your other posts you mention Phereby and not knowing her last name. Enoch Godwin was my great, great grandfather on my mothers side. His daughter Frances was my great grandmother. She was married to George Moore Lee and his father was Martin or Thomas Martin Lee. Martin had a sister named Phereby and in some records it is spelled fereby.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618849262423960948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-63646338922674093202014-11-26T09:27:39.493-05:002014-11-26T09:27:39.493-05:00Negro was a term also used for any slave whether t...Negro was a term also used for any slave whether they were of Indian or Afrikan or mixed blood origin. Indians were not allowed to Identify as such...as in 1790 Indian slavery was abolished...and all of those who were Indian that were enslaved were labeled Negro...Black... Mullato or Colored...depending on the year...different labels were given. Never will you see on a census that they were Indians. Their identity was wiped out. Like paper genocide. That is why "Free People of Color" communities was invented. Hiding them from being Indigenous was what was done. A good majority of those "Free People of Color" community peoples of that area...are the descendants of Tuscarora people that lived there and were colonized...enslaved and then given free colored peoples status. Through oral history...Silas West was an Indian man/negro slave was his status. Purita Féhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046271287399430752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-49064116885890619912014-11-07T15:11:21.333-05:002014-11-07T15:11:21.333-05:00Thanks for sharing your story Pura! It really help...Thanks for sharing your story Pura! It really helps to put the families and the history into context! <br />Ginger Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-1044542709843526412014-10-30T11:58:23.856-04:002014-10-30T11:58:23.856-04:00Yes...Silas was a Tuscarora. His name is among man...Yes...Silas was a Tuscarora. His name is among many in my families oral history. His native origin comes from the same people that lived on the Bentonville Battle ground 4 Oaks/Willis Coles plantation area. That place is on the Johnston/Sampson county line. Today part of their old homeland is a boyscout camp called Camp Tuscarora. Next to the camp the Bentonville Battle Ground has a museum with the first floor dedicated to the Tuscarora Indian people that lived there. On the census if you look at Free Peoples and head of house holds from 1820 right until the end of the Civil War is a family by the name of Blackwell. They predate the Civil War and 4 Oaks. Just about any "Free Colored" in Johnston co...will have a connection to this family that lived on the Nuese. Some of them were slaves. Some of the women married into or had children by white plantation owners...like John Smith...some Sanders and Monks from Newton Grove. Many of the Cole slaves were from the Blackwell family. Hinton Cole...Marinda and Martha Cole were slaves that came from the Blackwells. Emma Sanders and Indian slave in Smithfield also was from the Blackwells. Brian Smith of Smithfield, is the son of John Smith plantation owner and an Indian woman who came from the Blackwells. This was once a community that got absorbed into many families white and black. My mothers family comes from this connection and we are still very much Tuscarora. The oral history that has been passed down from my Blackwells is that we were from that place and are the descendants that fought in the big Indian War on the Nuese. They are refering to the Tuscarora War. I am not sure if there is any connection to the Sampson County Indians or not. Although I know many of them...I have met a few that have some common kin that tie back to Newton Grove. The Blackwells were removed from their land, right before the Civil war ended. Nobody knows what happened to the adults...but the children were all split apart and placed in homes of mostly white families in Newton Grove. Barefoots, Godwins, Westbrooms, Hudson's, House, McLambs and more.... Some of the Blackwell families have kin that were on the Sanders...Smith....Coles....Whitley and Monk plantations working as slaves. This is what I can share with you without having paper in front of me. Hope this helps....Purita Féhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046271287399430752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-58136622771944892422013-12-17T16:14:15.761-05:002013-12-17T16:14:15.761-05:00I thought that Silas West was an Indian. I have se...I thought that Silas West was an Indian. I have seen his name many times among Indian genealogy... some of these free people and slaves are Indians...a lot of them are or mixed. Even some of the early settlers...had Indian mothers and european fathers. Especially in Sampson...Johnston county area...many!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-73538514753066194542009-04-30T19:01:00.000-04:002009-04-30T19:01:00.000-04:00I wonder if Ezra D. Godwin, mention as a child in ...I wonder if Ezra D. Godwin, mention as a child in the 1880 Census you mention, could be the wife of Donna (or Donnie?)Catherine West, with a son, Paul Troy Godwin (21 Feb 1910-May 1973). Hmmm, a possibility. I'm looking at RootsWed WorldConnect, and the above Paul Troy Godwin married Pearl Elizabeth Manning, who fits into my Tart line.Lesley Looperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03764967611620715096noreply@blogger.com