Susan Oliver Keaton, Edisto to Cheraw, MS

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Census 1860 residence -- Eight Ward, Washington, Louisiana, USA

[Elizabeth Warren] Grantham Family of Sampson Co, NC. which is discovering their Coharie minority story and Lost Colony connections to Sekakoan and Chowannoke. Would have wanted to exit the Carolinas because of the stricter guns laws for N.A and more requirements on indentureships following the precedent begun by the following act. :

Source: McIlwaine, et al., eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, 3:28, 31.

LAWS OF VIRGINIA, OCTOBER 1705.−4th ANNE. CHAP. IV. An act declaring who shall NOT bear office in this country.

…….. any negro, mulatto or Indian, shall, from and after the publication of this act, bear any office, ecclesiasticall, civill, or military, or be in any place of public trust or power, within this her majestys colony and dominion of Virginia,.......

And for clearing all manner of doubts which hereafter may happen to arise upon the construction of this act, or any other act, who shall be accounted a mulatto, Be it enacted and declared, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the child of an Indian and the child, grand child, or great grand child, of a negro shall be deemed, accounted, held and taken to be a mulatto.

By this act the child of an Indian and a white was accounted a mulatto. By Heite's reconing the child of that Indian-white mulatto and a white reverted to white status. A critical reading of records provided by Paul Heinegg reveals that Heite was correct - partially and conditionally, and largely dependant on socio-economic factors. The Indian-white children of prominent whites, or in the case of the Indian William Taptico are never labeled "mulatto". For all practical purposes they fell into a permanent identity as whites.

A plain reading of lancaster County records reveals that between 1705 and 1781 most Indians, Indian-white mulattoes, and the offspring of whites and Indian-white mulattoes receive no racial designation in court records. In the period between 1781 and the first U.S. Census of 1790 a number are specifically identified as "white" while others are identified by the only other available designation of "black". ~~~~ Dr. Nickens

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Susan Grantham Keaton BIRTH 25 Dec 1805 South Carolina, USA DEATH 9 Jul 1871 (aged 65) Washington Parish, Louisiana, USA BURIAL Pounds Pool Cemetery Washington Parish, Louisiana, USA MEMORIAL ID 6568430 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 3 FLOWERS 1 Wife of Benjamin Warren Keaton

Mother of 1. Sarah Ann Keaton 2. Joseph Keaton 3. Elizabeth Keaton 4. Benjamin Richard Keaton 5. Abby Keaton

Family Members Spouse Photo Benjamin Warren Keaton 1808–1877

Children Photo Sara Ann Keaton Glover 1832–1906

Elizabeth Keaton Whittington 1842–1905

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