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Seeking pre-Fauquier County history and ancestry of Freeman and Arnold families of Fauquier and their relationship to each other. Interested particularly in John H. Freeman/John Hoomes Freeman line of early 1800's. The Freeman ford on the Rappahannock River linked Faquier to Culpeper, and Freeman records are found in both. An attorney Ashby presented the case for Revolutionary War bounties for Pamunkey Reservation Indians, including Arnold and Hoomes families, who claimed descent from brothers John and Stephen Freeman who were Rev. War Soldiers, and Robert Mush, the Pamunkey who moved to the Catawba after the war.
James Nickens
George Hall - Indian - Norfolk County, Virginia 1833
October 26, 1833
The Court doth certify upon satisfactory evidence of white persons produced before it that Geo: Hall is not a free negro or mulatto but of Indian descent...
George may be related to the Halls found in Bedford County, TN with James Bass family after 1820.
In summer of 1833 14 members of Bass family received Indian certificates in Norfolk County, including brothers of the James Bass who went to Tennessee.
Jacque,
Yours is an interesting post, in that it mentions both the Hall and Freeman families. This may be coincidence, but both the Hall and Freeman families of Virginia and North Carolina are among "the descendants of Indians". This is a class of people who can present a considerable genealogical challenge when they emigrate from an Indian community and then become a white family with a proud but vague tradition of a "Cherokee princess" in the family tree.
The Halls "of Indian descent" are associated with the Northern Algonquin of the Northern Neck of Virginia, the Nansemond Algonquin (Powhatan ?) of Virginia, the Iroquois Meherrin of North Carolina, the Chowanoake Algonquin of North Carolina, and the people of Fauquier's Broken Hills.
The Freeman are associated with the Pamunkey (Powhatan) Reservation of Virginia, the Chowanoake of North Carolina, and the people of Fauquier's Broken Hills . A Freeman, descended from John Freeman the Indian trader married Tabitha, the daughter of Thomas Hiter, King of the Chowanoakes in Chowan, NC. Not surprisingly, both the Hall and Freeman family names are found among the Tennessee Melungeons.
As I stated previously, this may be coincidence, but perhaps it may provide useful clues.
James Nickens
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