A Tale of Four Families Part 2: Sources

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[1]Werner, Alex. “Museums and history [archived].” Making history: The changing face of the profession in Britain, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2008, https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/museums_and_history.html. Rodini, Elizabeth. “A brief history of the art museum.” Khan Academy, (n.d.), https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/approaches-to-art-history/tools-for-understanding-museums/museums-in-history/a/a-brief-history-of-the-art-museum-edit. Accessed 7/1/2021.

[2] Tenement Museum, https://www.tenement.org/. Accessed 6/14/2021; “Slavery at Monticello,”  https://www.monticello.org/slavery/?ref=homeblock, Accessed 6/14/2021; “The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook,” https://inclusivehistorian.com/about/. Accessed 6/14/2021.

[3] Fisher, Donald W. “The Delaware-to-Michigan/Ontario migration of 1855-1875.” Geneaology.com, 2004, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/i/s/Donald--W-Fisher/BOOK-0001/0000-0001.html, Accessed 4/7/2021 Fisher, Donald W. “Records of the migration of some Native American-Descended inhabitants of Delaware to Michigan: Correspondence & selected vital statistics records of Wayne & Washtenaw Counties”. Mitsawokett: The history and genealogy of the Native American Isolate Communities of Kent County, Delaware, and surrounding areas on the Delmarva Peninsula and southern New Jersey. http://nativeamericansofdelawarestate.com/MigrationMichigan/Index.html. Accessed 4/7/2021.

[4] Lewis, Kenneth. West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860. Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2002.

[5] For instance, a significant community of African American, Indigenous, and European ancestry developed in Appalachia and are known as the Melungeon people. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Melungeons., Accessed 6/30/2021.

[6]“Free Blacks, 1619-1860.”Encyclopedia.com, https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/free-blacks-1619-1860. Accessed 6/28/2021.

[7]ProQuest African American Slave and Free(d) Persons of Color Registers, ProQuest LibGuides, https://proquest.libguides.com/africanamericanheritage. Accessed 6/28/2021.

[8]Censuses of American Indians, United States Census, https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/censuses_of_american_indians.html. Accessed 6/28/2021.

[9]Forbes, Jack D. Africans and Native Americans: The language of race and the evolution of red-black peoples. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/forbes_2-africans_and_native_americans.pdf; Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2002.

[10]In the Delaware and southern New Jersey area, bi-and tri-racial Colonial ancestry of Indigenous Lenni Lenape and Nanticoke tribes, African Americans and possibly Spanish or French resulted in a group that self-identify as Delaware Moors.  http://nativeamericansofdelawarestate.com/MoorsOfDelaware/trirace3.html

[11]“Free people of color,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_people_of_color. Accessed 6/28/2021.

[12]“Measuring Race and Ethnicity Across the Decades: 1790-2010.” United States Census Bureau, https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/race/MREAD_1790_2010.html.  

[13] 1820 United States Federal Census, Dagsboro Hundred, Sussex, Delaware. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, Page: 372; NARA Roll: M33_4; [Ancestry.com, Image: 298].

[14]1830 United States Federal Census, Little Creek, Kent, Delaware; Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration, Series: M19; Roll: 12; Page: 243, Family History Library Film: 0006414, Ancestry.com; 1840 United States Federal Census, Little Creek, Kent, Delaware; Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration, Roll: 33; Page: 35; Family History Library Film: 0006434, Ancestry.com; 1850 United States Federal Census, Duck Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware. Washington, D.C., National Archives and Records Administration, Roll: 52; Page: 23b, Ancestry.com.  

[15]Fisher, Donald W. “The Delaware to Michigan/Ontario Migration of 1855-1875.” Mitsakowett, http://nativeamericansofdelawarestate.com/MigrationMichigan/Index.html. Accessed 3/21/2021. Wayne County, Michigan, Margaret Durham to Joseph Farmer, 5 Dec 1858, Michigan, U.S., Compiled Marriages for Select Counties, 1851-1875. Ancestry.com. Wayne County, Michigan, Nancy Palmer [Farmer] to William H. Dean, 6 Apr 1860, Michigan, U.S., Compiled Marriages for Select Counties, 1851-1875. Ancestry.com.

[17]“Interrelated Tribes,” Nanticoke and Lenape Confederation, Learning Center and Museum, https://nanticokelenapemuseum.org/confederation/. Accessed 6/29/2021.”True Story of the Delaware Moors,” (reprinted from the papers of Wilson s. Davis), Mitsawokett, http://nativeamericansofdelawarestate.com/MoorsOfDelaware/moor2.html. Accessed 6/29/2021.

[18] “The Moors,” Genealogy and History, State of Delaware, http://genealogytrails.com/del/moors.html. Accessed 6/29/2021.

[19] “Interrelated Tribes,” https://nanticokelenapemuseum.org/confederation/. Accessed 6/29/2021.

[20] Farmer, John. Map of Wayne County, Michigan, Exhibiting the names of the original purchases and number of acres in each tract…(1855), Library of Congress,  https://www.loc.gov/item/2012593158/  Accessed 6/29/2021.

[21] Fisher, Donald W. “The Delaware-to-Michigan/Ontario migration of 1855-1875.” Geneaology.com, 2004, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/f/i/s/Donald--W-Fisher/BOOK-0001/0000-0001.html, Accessed 4/7/2021

[22] Jackson-Flagg Family Tree, Ancestry.com.

[23] Jackson-Flagg Family Tree, “Abbie and Abe’s Wedding Invitation,”Ancestry.com; Oakland County, Michigan, Abigail Farmer to Abraham Harris, 30 Nov 1893. Michigan, U.S., Compiled Marriages for Select Counties, 1851-1875; 1900 United States Federal Census, Bloomfield, Oakland, Michigan, p 20; Enumeration District: 0082; FHL microfilm: 124073, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, [Ancestry.com}.

[24] 1900 United States Federal Census,  Nankin, Wayne, Michigan, p. 20; Enumeration District: 0194; FHL microfilm: 1240754,

Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, [Ancestry.com]; .1910 United States Federal Census, Canton, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T624_678; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0002; FHL microfilm: 1374691, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, [Ancestry.com];“Margaret E. Farmer,” 175: Washtenaw-Wexford, Wayne (Detroit), 1912. Death Records, Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, Michigan.