Frances Driggus

Biography

Francis (Bnu) Driggus. married Emanuel Driggus. Together they had the following children: Thomas Driggers, Elizabeth Driggers (adopted), Frances Driggers, Jane Driggers,, Ann Driggers, Edward Driggers and Mary Driggers

She died in Pendleton, Northampton County, Virginia, British Colonial America and was buried in Virginia, Colonial America.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Driggers-126 cites

Oh Susannah Blogspot (2015):

"Emmanuel had ten children (3 adopted, 5 by Francis and two by Elizabeth a white woman he married in 1661.) He purchased the freedom of his wife Francis and son James' and at least that of his adopted daughters, but not his son Thomas nor his eldest born daughter Ann who Pott sold to a white planter Pannell "to have and to hould the same with all her increase forever." There was also a son Edward who was sold away while at the age of three, I believe.

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“During this period the Portuguese were well known as slave traders who captured “Atlantic Creoles,” or inhabitants of Angola, and sold them to planters in Virginia.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Driggus Emanuel Driggus (surname was possibly derived from Rodriguez) (b. c. 1620s-d. 1673) and his wife Frances were Atlantic Creole slaves in the mid-seventeenth century in Virginia, of the Chesapeake Bay Colony.

Myths: The Royal connection is a theory yet to be proven. The other is that this was a Caribbean Indian which could well be true due to the Portuguese frequenting the Islands. The only thing that is plausible is that Emmanuel was a relative of this person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Driggus

Emanuel Driggus (surname was possibly derived from Rodriguez) (b. c. 1620s-d. 1673) and his wife Frances were Atlantic Creole slaves in the mid-seventeenth century in Virginia, of the Chesapeake Bay Colony. They first appear in a record of sale in 1640 to Captain Francis Potts; at the time they arranged for a contract of limited indenture for their two children in service.[1] The Driggus couple had other children, who were born into slavery. In 1657, Captain Potts sold two of their children, Thomas and Ann Driggus, to pay off some personal debt.[1]

Driggus was freed after the death of Potts in 1658. By then he was a widower and had remarried, but he continued to provide for the enslaved children from his first marriage. He bequeathed a horse to his daughters Francy and Jane before his death in 1673.[2]

His son Thomas Driggus eventually married a free black woman; because she was free, their children were born free.[1] According to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, adopted into Virginia law in 1662, children born in the colony took the status of their mother. This principle, which contributed to the expansion of chattel slavery, was widely adopted by other colonies and incorporated into state laws after the American Revolutionary War.

References

• http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Driggers_Dutchfield.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Driggus
• https://docplayer.net/75435801-African-american-origins-for-sandra-...
• Its an internet myth that Emanuel Filibert of Savoy, viceroy of Sicily married Enslaved African and were the parents of Emmanuel Rodriguez, later Driggers
• http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Driggers_Dutchfield.htm “ DRIGGERS FAMILY” *Emmanuel had eight children: Elizabeth, Frances, Jane, THOMAS, Ann, Edward, William, Mary, and Devorick. We think Frances was mother to most of his natural children, Elizabeth most certainly was mother to Devorick. Also, the younger Elizabeth may not have been their natural daughter, her indenture stated that she was “given to my negro (Emmanuel Driggers) by one who brought her up by ye space of 8 years.”
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Emmanuel_Driggus/Driggers_Family

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• Reference: Emmanuel Driggus in EncyclopediaVirginia.org