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  • Tags: dowry
  • Dowry identifies ads in which one of the parties was "given" to a bride or her husband as a wedding "gift." A dowry is an amount provided by the bride's family to the groom at the time of marriage; in the American South, these financial transactions often included the transferal of enslaved people as "property."

A. R. Rimawr seeking information about grandparents Randel and Rilda Rankins and extended family

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Mary Delaney looking for information about her mother Sicler Finley and unnamed siblings

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Susan Williamson seeking information about Mary Fellder [Fielder?]

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Mrs. Jane Turner seeking information about father Lathern and siblings Mary Boyd, Mahala Lathern, and an unnamed brother

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A. D. Coleman searching for his brother Anderson Turner and daughter Lucy Turner

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Lucinda Singletery searching for her unnamed mother and several siblings

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Dave Stewart searching for his relatives and his wife's relatives

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Ed Kneeright searching for his grandmother Lucy Walter and her children Rachel, Cherry, and Sam Walter

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Mary Piggue (formerly Mary Kirk) searching for her mother Violet, brothers Thomas and Patrick Henry, and sisters Julia, Hannah and Maria

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Samuel H. Foulks and Mary Elizabeth Foulks searching for Martha Jane Miller

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Alford Woodson searching for his brother Robert Woodson

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Margaret Young reunited with her son Dowen Young

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Clarissa, [last name unknown] searching for her parents and siblings

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Harriet Sherrill (formerly Harriet Clarke) searching for her mother

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Lucinda Pillow (formerly Lucinda Hargrave) searching for her siblings George and Fannie Hargrave

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John A. Brown searching for his parents and siblings George, Mary Jane, Ellen Nora, and Peter Brown

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George Henry Forbes searching for his father George Henry, mother Henrietta Forbes, and siblings James, Margaret, and Area

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Fanny Strong searching for her parents Joe and Sallie and her siblings Sucky, Dollie, Rachel, Joseph, and Green or her former enslaver's family

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Mrs. Amy Frenchy (formerly Amy Morris and Amy Baxter) found her mother Feraby

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Kitty Hanley searching for her children Esther and Sam

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Manervia Carway searching for her daughter Millie Dortha (formerly Millie Carway)

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Rhode Reeves seeking his siblings Nelson, Perrena, Minnie, and Adam Hill

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Sophia Gates seeking her mother Betsy Jones and father Yorkup Staples

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Elmira Kirkwood searching for her mother Jane Harris

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