His parents were Winborne ODOM and Mary Boykin Spaniels' eyes shine in different hues of brown, amber or yellow and are oval or almond in shape. He was the son of a Confederate soldier and the descendant of slave owners. The Addie/Adaline. Silas and Ella had 12 children and 2 A Warner Bros. Brother of Zilpha Boykin; William Boykin; Abraham Boykin . Perhaps to raise cash for a loan, in 1839, James deeded his Stewart County, Ga., plantation including enslaved people and livestock to the Western Insurance and Trust Company of Columbus headed by his friend Mark Anthony Cooper, with his brother Samuel Boykin on the board of directors, as well as other friends. Which would agree with other research documentingstatements in the Will of William 15 leaves, photocopies. Traditional information says that the slave "Sham" was subsequently lynched by family members. They had sold fellow human beings to fund their own educations, ensuring they qualified for important jobs. He was the son of Winborne ODOM b. Northampton Co., NC and Mary BENNETT.Mary was the daughter of Bowen BENNETT b. Amazed, Cooper told Gates that he had little sympathy for his slave-owning relative. During his time as state senator, Rembert would go on to become the chair of the Finance Committee in 1972 and president pro tempore in 1984. So you may not know you have Virginia ancestors, but you could.. I give and bequeath to my son Francis E. Boykin and my son in law James R. Jones as trustees for my daughter Mrs. Clara Billups & her heirs the following slaves to wit Chancy a woman about fifty years old Suzan a woman about twenty four or twenty five years old with her child William. kin, Edward Boykin, Mary Boykin, Mary Boykin, Mary Boykin, Mary Boykin, Jesse Boykin, Jesse Boykin, Jesse Boykin, Jesse Boykin, Jesse Boy n, William Boykin, Zilphia Boykin, Abraham Boykin, John Boykin, James Alexander Sr Boykin, Susanna Boykin, Francis Frank Boykin, John Boykin, Soloman Boykin, Judey Boykin (born Mooneyham), Edward Boykin, Mary Boykin, Jesse Boykin, William Boykin, Abraham Boykin, Zilpha Boykin, James Alexander Boykin, Susanna Price (born Boykin), Boykin, William Boykin, Abraham Boykin, Zilpha Boykin, John Boykin, James Alexander Boykin, Susanna Boykin, Francis "frank" Boykin, Solomon Boykin, Jr., Delilah Boykin (born Mccann). Scope and Content Southampton County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1754-1864. Mary Boykin Chestnut was the wife of a wealthy South Carolina planter who kept a diary during the Civil War. Its a model and I hope the rest of the states catch up real quickly.. Thomas Boykin. Also, in the same 1850 U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedule, her son William R. There is evidence, though not verified that Ebin had Mary Boykin Miller was born on March 31, 1823, the daughter of Stephen Decatur Miller, an eminent South Carolina politician, who served as governor and in Congress. Shep is related to the Boykin spaniel's namesake. L McCraney 4/01/13. Francis questions whether a desire to end slavery is what motivated Turner to kill. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. . See all of the Charmers' past histories in these throwback pics, below. Caroline was born ca. After fighting for the Confederacy, Samuel McAlister received a position as postmastera prestigious role singling him out as one of the few literate men in his town. Top image: An undated photograph shows a family of unidentified enslaved people working on a plantation in St. Louis. 2. there are to be found in the State records two early grants, each dated CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. It was written after her," Shep shared on the show, adding that his great-grandfather was also a two-time NCAA champion in golf. Her grandfather Rembert C. Dennis served as a legislator in the South Carolina Senate from 1943 until he retired in 1998. They went to live with James' parents at Mulberry, the Chesnut . Magnolia Plantation was passed down through the Drayton family, and the gardens were enhanced by Rev. William Mills - 20 2. Yet, according to Mrs. Chesnut, "Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all Raised in a prominent Southern family. and asked, 'Have you learned your lesson?' Francis says at least 17 of his family . Del, I also believe my GGGG-Grandmother Caroline ODOM was possibly once owned by BOYKIN's (Dr. Samuel BOYKIN)who lived many years at Boykin Hall Plantation in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, he died 1848 in Muscogee County, GA across the river from his plantation in Russell Co., ALSamuel was the son of Francis BOYKIN and Catherine WHITAKERFrancis BOYKIN died 1821 Baldwin County, buried at Samuel BOYKIN Family Burial Ground.. Francis was the brother of Burwell BOYKIN of whose slave inventory you submitted to Afrigeneas.com.(check out gedcom submitted to World Connect Project by David WOOTEN) I then believe she was then owned by Boykin Bennet ODOM b. . The advanced search fields include the slaves first name or last name; gender; occupation; owners last name; date range; and record type. Depends on whose descendants you ask. Her father, Stephen Decatur Miller, was a politician who promoted states' rights and argued in favor of the position - held by other southerners such as John Calhoun - that slavery was a "positive good." . He is memorialized in a life-size statue at the Hollings Judicial Center in . Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hes hoping his 12 grandchildren can benefit from his work. She is a direct descendant of John C. Calhoun (pictured above) on her mother's side, the seventh vice president of the United States under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Collection is open for research. The mom of two is keeping her family's legacy alive by passing along the family name to her and Thomas Ravenel's 4-year-old daughter, Kensington Calhoun Ravenel, and 2-year-old son, St. Julien Rembert Ravenel. of Caroline ODOM. If you use this information, please cite this blog post as you would any source in your research: Citation: Rachel Dobson, The Names of Enslaved People Belonging to James Boykin and his Family in Documents from 1839 to 1846, URL: https://genealogyhomebrew.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/enslaved-people-of-james-boykin-1839-1846, accessed [date]. He was listed as the only ODOM (or variant) slave owner on the 1850 and 1860 Georgia Slave Schedule in Putnam County. With her former slave, she eked out a small income$140 a yearwith which she supported her husband and various relatives who returned to Camden, South Carolina, and the Mulberry plantation. Burwell locked him in a shed. The slave owners from 1800 to 1820 were among the first settlers into Henderson County. children died before 1880. family partly resemble the white children," Mary Boykin Chesnut confided to her journal. My email is [emailprotected] Vera Moore. Rick Francis, county Clerk of Southhampton County, is a descendant of a white slave-owning family that sustained significant losses in Turner's revolt. Flake, daughter of Robert Flake and Margaret Marriott, granddaughter of Youre bound to hear about at least a few of them on your trip to the Holy City and now youll know exactly who they are. He was born into slavery in nearby Beaufort in 1839. He owned land in Randolph/Stewart County and in Muscogee County, GA, as well as Russell, Barbour, Macon, and Lee counties in Alabama. Elsewhere in the database is a stark description of the sale of slaves and goods in a February 11, 1858, typed letter from slaveholder William Daniel Cabell of Benvenue in Nelson County, Virginia, to his wife, Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell. ODOM was a slave owner in Putnam County from The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding 3,950,546 unnamed slaves, or an average of about ten slaves per holder. For enslaved women in particular, slave narratives speak to the ubiquity and constant threat of sexual violence at the hands of enslavers, their family members, overseers, and others. Number of slaves - ? Her cast of characters includes slaves and brown half brothers, poor whites and sandhillers, overseers and drivers, common soldiers and solid yeomen, as . Madison County Alabama Slave Owners. Information about Boykin Plantation, including its location, history, land, crops, owners, slaves, buildings, and current status. Noah Davis, a Colored Man (1859) Francis Fedric (b. ca. Documents citing slaves go back to the 1690s: Thats when slavery starts to grow fast in Virginia and other English colonies, Levengood said. visit to the slave pens in Richmond. We all have heroes and villains in our family tree.. When he opened the shed The home has defied fixed description for generations, blending, as it does . He is listed in Carson's Regiment, Mississippi Territory Militia 1814-1815. . In 1862, 22-year-old Smalls commandeered and steered a first-class steamer to a Union-controlled port, freeing himself and his family. Gee's Bend Quilt Mural Trail Known officially since 1949 as the town of Boykin, the community of Gee's Bend is situated in Wilcox County in the west Alabama Black Belt.Today, mostly descendants of enslaved African Americans live in the community on the banks of the Alabama River.Although beset by the same poverty and economic underdevelopment that characterize other sections of west Alabama . Eyes. "She's a champion golfer, so I've got golf in my blood.". Kathryn's family has also been extremely political on her father's side. An 1840 promissory note for a loan of $9,340.00 by James Boykin to his son-in-law James R. Jones, Muscogee County Deed Book B, page 101, included the following individuals with their ages: Gustus age 14, could be the same as Augustus, age 12 in the 1839 document. William McInnis: COURT RECORDS; Herringdine, Thomas 1787-1789: Dec 2007: Kermit Smith: LAND & DEEDS RECORDS; Adams & Parker, Et Al - Montgomery, David March 1, 1827 . . If they lived to see the Emancipation Proclamation, Hannah would have been 38 and George would have been 36. land owner in Isle of Wight County in 1678 for on July 3, 1678, Boykin Spaniels have adorably floppy, feathery, long, flat ears. 2003 - John P. and Elizabeth H. Fort received the plantation from Mary Boykin DuVal Myers in a family transfer ( 5 ). Abstract Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin's cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century. They hanged Sandy him after they found him. Gwaltney: "I give my Grandson, Edward Boykin one cow". While reporting in Virginia, Cooper posed those questions to two men, Bruce Turner and Rick Francis, whose ancestors were on opposite sides of the 1831 rebellion. Arthur Ravenel Jr., a descendant was a South Carolina congressman. Shep Rose is also related to the Boykin family through his paternal grandmother, he told The Post and Courier in January 2016. But unlike its sister shows about real estate deals and restaurateurs, "Southern Charm" has a very big history problem. / CBS News. 3. both lived in Jasper County in 1870 Gooslby All Rights Reserved. the only ODOM (or variant) slave owner on the Historic Resources Survey of Kershaw County - PDF - see document pages 25, 118, 166. upon the Creek within old Richard Walls line to him and his heirs. Ellas Grandmother Caroline ODOM was living He is the son of Arthur Ravenel Jr., who served in the South Carolina Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. and was bought for Miss Perking of Buckingham.. He was also a congressman in 1791. By hoarding jobs and educational resources over centuries, white U.S. families remain richer on average than black families. land in the Quit Rents of 1704. Often there was a human connection, and they grew up with these people, and they recorded their birth dates and deaths. His second son, James Boykin, born in 1792 in Kershaw County, SC, was my four-greats grandfather. Mary Boykin Chestnut was a famous Confederate author, whose diary encapsulated life in the upper-class society during the Civil War. White supremacists and Confederate apologists want other white people to join them in their half-baked fantasies of the antebellum Southplantations with white columns, dirt roads framed with Spanish moss, hoop skirts and mint juleps. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. When he opened the shed For her, her mother, and other young siblings, Enoch ordered the sale of any enslaved people he had not specifically bequeathed. TheSouthern Charm gent later shared on Twitter that his great aunt, Edith Cummings, was friendly with Fitzgerald, and she was quite the trailblazer for women in sports as the first female athlete to be featured on the cover ofTIME magazine in 1924. He is believed to have owned my ancestors, London, Serena, and London, Jr. My cousin wrote a 400 plus page genealogy book. The 1850 U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules report that Hollie owned six enslaved people. Get to know more about some of the Southern Charm cast's famous family tree below, and you're sure to recognize many of these names. Discovery Company. Bob age 25 in 1839 could be the same as Bobb age 26 here. The corn we sold yesterday brought 3.15$ per barrel. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. Dah. Please enter valid email address to continue. Sometimes its a real detective work. Got me excited. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material They had already lost their families and would have had no money or education. Subscribe to The Daily Dish podcast, join our Facebook group, and follow us on Instagramfor the latest news hot off the presses. (Hicholans) line, with all the remaining part of my lands on the Creek It reaches across all of the slave South, Levengood said. Mss1Ad198a. Caroline died Thanks for any help!! Kathryn is a direct descendant of the seventh vice president of the United States, John C. Calhoun. and asked, 'Have you learned your lesson?' I suspect Ebin Georgia. The name Burwell is derived from that of a well-known Virginia family, with which some early Boykin intermarried. He was also related to James Bond creator Ian Fleming (pictured above), as we've learned on Southern Charm. Boykin Family. Eben and He was listed as The private, nonprofit historical society, the fourth-oldest in the nation, is assembling a growing roster of slaves names and other information, such as the slaves occupations, locations and plantation owners names, said Levengood. James was a cousin of Mary Boykin Chestnut. Adams family papers, 1698-1792. Although listed with no names, they include a black male, 26; mulatto female, 25; black male, 14; black male, 4; mulatto male, 3; and a mulatto male, 1. MOORE. Both Turner and Francis are avid students of history, who have researched their own families as well as the historical record of the rebellion. last child was born in 1873, he was named James. Rutledge Avenue runs from the northern edge of Downton, all the way to the southern tip of the peninsula. An entry in the Virginia Slave Births Index uncovered this month by Luck-Brimmer shows that a boy named Samuel was born to Violet in Pittsylvania County on May 9, 1864. From the 1870 census (in which all persons were named), proceed backwards to the 1860 and 1850 slave schedules that list, under the name of the owner, each slave only by sex, specific age, and color. 1838), "Interview with Baily Cunningham" (1938) Noah Davis (1804-1867), A Narrative of the Life of Rev. That means many American families with slave ancestors could have roots in Virginia, Levengood said. African American Genealogy online research is much more difficult due to the scant nature of record keeping for African American's prior to the Civil War. After the war, he returned to Beaufort and purchased the house where he was born (previously owned by his former master) and opened a school for African Americans. We sold all the negros 43 in number at astonishingly large prices the whole amounting to $32016. Waring is another name you might hear in Chucktown though you may not hear this one as often as some of the others on this list. Boykin Plantation - Sumter County South Carolina SC: Boykin Plantation - - Sumter County. Women's History Month. The Southern Charm crew is made up of the who's who of Charleston, South Carolina, and they definitely have a way of always being the talk of the town. : S.C. Watkins, 2001. Arthur Allen He does not appear to have been a slaveowner, but his father, also named Stephen Boykin (1797-1864), was. As you can see in the above video of the company's national launch, carrying on the family name means the world to J.D. Mrs. Clara (Boykin) Billups was James Boykins daughter and the wife of John R. Billups. ODOM was the only ODOM slave owner in Putnam County in 1860 and all 5 black ODOM families including Caroline ODOM lived close to Boykin Bennett ODOM in Eatonton,PO in 1870. . Written in 1831 when he was about 76, it reads: I give to my Son William my negro [woman] Lucy and her six children now in his possession. To his grandsons, Enoch bequeathed four enslaved people, including my negro girl Hannah 6 years of age and my negro boy George 4 years of age, and stipulated that if his grandsons died before turning 21 and marrying, the negro or negroes so given to him or them shall go to and belong to the survivours or survivour of them my said three grandchild, to them and their heirs forever.". Talk about a family of achievers. What I Learned from My Slaveholding Ancestors, How to Help After Earthquake Hits Turkey, Syria, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Whats more, one of Boykins slaves murdered him with a farm tool. The collection contains Affidavits and Applications for Registrations, 1759-1760 and 1816-1853; Apprentice Indentures, 1820-1860; Certificates of Freedom, 1853-1854 (photocopies); Certificates of Importation and Non-Importation of Slaves, 1790-1816; Free Negro Lists, 1791-1860; Free Negro Registrations, 1808 . Parrish Family Cemetery : Brenda: Great Pee Dee Presbyterian Church Cemetery: 1998: Susan Turpin . . According to a report from the Institute for Policy Studies, it would take black families 228 years to accumulate the wealth that white families have today. Women were slave owners. are conflicting dates and records for Edward Boykin, In either case I am having a hard time locating a will of Dr. Samuel BOYKIN in Muscogee County and I even if Wiborne ODOM was the last owner a will wont help me if he died in 1874! Silory (a girl) b. Amateur genealogist Crasty Johnson of Richmond said she hopes the sites will help her trace her roots back to the 1800s. He is memorialized in a life-size statue at the Hollings Judicial Center in Downtown. 1650, d. May 27, 1728; m. . Most of the individuals listed in the 1839 document above are old enough to have come with James when he moved to the Chattahoochee Valley in 1829. Cites: Wills of Isle of Wight Co., VA, Book 3, p . Speaking of Thomas, he also comes from a highly influential family in the South Carolina political scene. So using a $100,000 corporate grant from Dominion, one of the nations largest producers and transporters of energy, society researchers began examining some of its 8 million manuscripts that Virginia residents have been giving to the historical society since its founding in 1831. Young Hannah and George were taken from their parents to live and die in labor to a stranger. Its a database for the ones that are coming up. Enoch's grandson, Enoch Lot, mostly disappears from government records, taking the fates of Hannah and George with him. Mr. Crawford 3-Martha Boykin mar. Transcriptions of both free and slave schedules. The first Middleton to emigrate to South Carolina was Edward Middleton in 1768. Return to Slave Manifests main page Click on each Slave name to view information on that voyage. This dog was originally bred by South Carolina hunters, according to the American Kennel Club's website. Edward Jr. and Edward III, as well as multiplelinks and references to the, " Sign up to become a Bravo Insider and be the first to get exclusive extras. The deed is dated Nov. 16, 1839. The home is now a museum currently operated by the Historic Charleston Foundation. These kinds of conversations are good ones to have, says Cooper, citing his own willingness to explore the darker chapters of the Cooper family past when he was featured on the PBS show Finding Your Roots hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. With cameras rolling, Gates broke the news to Cooper that his fourth great grandfather on his fathers side of the family, Burwell Boykin, owned 12 enslaved people. Mr. Thornton 4-Elizabeth Boykin mar. B.B. The Burwell Boykin series consists of Burwells correspondence and other papers, mostly business related. County. Thats when you have to be creative.. of "Lawnes Creek Parish, Surry Co.,", on Feb. 5, 1702, sold to Edward It's no wonder this Southern Charm gent has many artistic endeavors of his own. Other than the four names, the differences between the two documents are negligible. But Anderson Cooper and producer Keith Sharman didnt want their 60 Minutes story to focus solely on the troubles of the movies director. About Family Bible Records: The . Slavery in Virginia is not just a Virginia story. Not one but two plantations were owned by the Drayton family of South Carolina: Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Mary Boykin Chestnut was the wife of a wealthy South Carolina planter who kept a diary during the Civil War. 2016 - The plantation was for sale with an asking price of $3.5 million. It's no wonder he whips out his French skills any chance he gets on Southern Charm. 1800 Slave Owners 1. War Rec. He would go on to serve as secretary of state and spend the rest of his life representing South Carolina in the United States Senate. As diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut recalled of the enslavers around her, "Like the patriarchs of old our men live all in one house with their wives and their . Chesnut and her husband built two houses in Camden in the 1840s and 50s--Frogvale, built in 1846, then Kamschatka, a house later owned by the Buckley family. As I looked through census records and other documents, I found a transcript of his will. Slave owners in 1850 and 1860 also include people from the low country of South Carolina who had summer estates in Flat Rock. One of his stepdads, Edward Stitt Fleming, was a Washington, D.C.-based psychiatrist who founded the Psychiatric Institute of Washington and the Psychiatric Institutes of America in the late 1960s, according to his 1997 obituary in The Washington Post. . This series contains correspondence, records for medical expenses for his household and plantation, domestic and business expenditures, and records of cotton sales. Prior to the insurrection, slave owners actually believed that the slaves were happy in their condition, he says. B.B. Other papers include sales receipts for slaves, foodstuffs, tools, and other hardware, as well as papers regarding James Boykins cavalry unit during the Civil War. He was the son of a Confederate soldier and the descendant of slave owners. Great-Great-Great Grandparents Ebin (Edwin on Caroline a girl sixteen or seventeen Green a man twenty one or twenty two Peter a man about seventeen and Wilson and their increase from this date in ti[me] to & for the sale and separate use and benefit of my daughter Mrs Clara Billups and her heirs. MOORE) b. While the online website is intuitive on how to use, the workshops are being held for users who need more guidance, Levengood said. He would later go on to play a major role in the desegregation of the South while presiding over the school segregation case, Briggs v. Elliott. There are also papers related to real estate and some correspondence from the early twentieth century. It was built for her sister-in . The papers are divided into three series:James Boykin materials; Burwell Boykin materials; and other Boykin family members' materials. He is a DAR-recognized Revolutionary War veteran who used the land he received for his service to grow rich off the backs of black men, women and children. The notebook contains records of accounts and supplies for a plank fence on his plantation "to be made by the M & C R. Road Co. and Thomas Fearn"; information on cotton crops, supplies at home and at his plantation, and . The remarkable joint interview is featured on this weeks 60 Minutes Overtime web show (watch in the player above). Murphy, History and Genealogy of the Boykin Family, Mrs. Robert Neal Murphy and Bernard Carter Boykin, Richmond, VA, 1964.