Sarah (King) Driggers

Not the daughter of John Dawson King, Treaty Signer

"Sarah was the daughter of "Kinge Toney Negro" who named her in his Northampton County, VA will (28 February 1677). [Orders 10:247]. All the evidence seems to prove that she was a free Black woman!

Because Sarah was free (her husband, Thomas was not), their children were free. They were: Sarah, Frances, John, William, and our JOHNSON."[1]

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

"Emmanuel's son Thomas married Sarah King (1645-1701), daughter of another of the earliest slaves known in the colonies, King Tony Negro. She was proven to be free and was in and out of the courts with charging others of theft and sometimes charged herself and lashed. Thomas was a violent and abusive man. The line continues as Thomas' son Johnson (1716) who served in the French and Indian Wars in 1754, marries a Mary Johnson and has a son William Driggers (1730-1822) who served in the Revolutionary War under General Marion, who marries Sarah Futch (1731) who has a son Jonas 1755-1822) who served in the Revolutionary War under General Marion who marries an Eleanor Lastinger (1756-1860), who has a daughter...

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/King-16267
• http://tinaannsfamilytree.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/9/5/31951819/famil...
• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3HQH-X2Q
• See also: http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Driggers_Dutchfield.htm ↑ Notes and Biographical Information on the Driggers Family Tree, by Richard "Rick" Crews pp. 16 - 17. richard_crews#@#comcast.net Used with permission. http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Driggers_Dutchfield.htm
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flbakehs/DriggersFamilyResearch.pdf
• https://familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=75&query=%2Bgive...