Pickaway County in south-central Ohio was formed in 1810 and became a haven for free and runaway blacks who came north from Virginia and other southern states. This volume is a genealogical dictionary of the black families in the county during the nineteenth century as assembled from census data and vital statistics from the court house.
Pickaway County in south-central Ohio was formed in 1810 and became a haven for free and runaway blacks who came north from Virginia and other souther...
This book looks at the Buchanan families of the United States in 1790, when our young nation was taking the first census of its residents. Who were these Buchanans? The official census lists more than 150 families with twenty-one different spelling variations for the name. Among the families were 740 white individuals, four black freedmen and 219 slaves. Most Buchanans were farmers, some were merchants; and later, in the 1800s, one Buchanan became president. Interestingly, one black freedman owned slaves. This book is not intended to be a complete genealogy, but some information is included...
This book looks at the Buchanan families of the United States in 1790, when our young nation was taking the first census of its residents. Who were th...
