Migration Between Maryland and Other colonies

A member of the Hubbard family, a descendant of a whifft woman who had a mixed-race child in Westmoreland County in 1705, married sister of Benjamin Banneker in Baltimore County about 1760 Their children obtained certificates of freedom in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1795. Families who originated in Maryland but were counted in the 1810 census for Virginia included: Bates, Chambers, Dawson, Day, Dutton, Easter, Fortune. Grace, Graham. Grimes, Grinnage, Lamb, Lett, Nelson, Nichols, Norman, Osborne. Pickett, Ridgeway, Strickland, Trout, Walker, Webster, and Welch.

Bryan Family

Alice Bryan, born circa 1681, confessed in Kent County, Delaware Court in September 1699 that she had a "bastard Molattoe Child” by "William Trippits Negro man, called Jack" and admitted that it was due to "her owne wicked inclinations." She received thirty-nine lashes and was ordered to serve her master, Daniel Rutty, an additional two years. The court bound her "molattoe" son. Peter, to Rutty for thirty-one years. Later that year in December she came into court and bound her four-year-old illegitimate daughter Elizabeth (no race indicated) to Rutty, for eighteen years [Court Records 1699-1703, 4b, 10b]. Her Children were

Elizabeth, born April 1696.

Peter, born in 1699.

?Sarah, born circa 1701, "a mulatto woman begotten on a white woman, convicted by the Westmoreland County, Virginia Court on 26 January 1708/9 of "haveing a Mulatto bastard Child by a while man" while serving her indenture to a Mr. Westcomb [Orders 1705-21. 108a]

The Hall / Hale family of Prince George's County moved there from King George County, Virginia, about 1800 according to the "free Negro" registration of Nathan D. Hale [Provine, Registrations of Free Negroes, 14]. They were probably related to William, Elijah, and James Hall (born about 1769-1781), alias Deen, who registered as "free Negroes” in King George County in 1800 [Register of Free Persons, nos. 11, 15, 19]. They may have descended from Abraham Hall, a "free Molatio" who appeared in adjoining Westmoreland County, Virginia Court between 1744 and 1750.

Abraham Hall, born circa 1720, was sued in Westmoreland County, Virginia Court on February 28, 1743/4. He appeared in Westmoreland County Court a number of times as plaintiff and defendant between 1744 and 1750. He was identified as a 'free Molatto^” on February 24, 1747/8 in his suit against John Crabb for which he was awarded 15 pounds damages by a jury and on November 30, 1749 when he sued William Cox [Orders 1743-7, 14a, 23a, 66a, 67; 1747-50, 57, 95a, 113a, 133, 174a, 198; 1750-2, 8a]. He may have been the father of John, born circa 1755.