I have had many recent breakthroughs, one truly bizarre one.I have known for a long time that my 5th great grandmother, Barbara Culp, was scalped by Indians in South Carolina in 1761. She lived to have the child she was pregnant with and two more, including my 4th great grandmother.My husband and I have been married for 36 years. He was raised in Illinois and Wisconsin. I grew up in the Southwest. We met when we were both in our late twenties. He came to my home town as a stranger who happened t
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Have set up a website with information relating to the 1790 Census: Slave Holders, Other Free Persons and Slaves.The 1790 census consists of Connecticut, Maine (part of Massachusetts in 1790), Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont.Right now the site is for the state of New Hampshire and lists Slave Holders, Other Free Persons (OFPs) and Slaves listed in that census.All counties in the State of New Hampshire have
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