Nazery Hinton searching for his wife Tecy Rand
The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, NC)
September 24, 1867
INFORMATION WANTED.
Any information of the whereabouts of my
wife, TECY RAND, will be very thankfully receiv-
ed [received], she formerly belonged to Dr. Banks, of Wake
county, N.C., and was sold to Fabius Rand, in
Clefton, Wilcox county, Alabama, about eleven
or twelve years ago.
NAZERY HINTON.
Address Editor Weekly Republican,
Raleigh, N.C.
sept. 24--tf.
Any information of the whereabouts of my
wife, TECY RAND, will be very thankfully receiv-
ed [received], she formerly belonged to Dr. Banks, of Wake
county, N.C., and was sold to Fabius Rand, in
Clefton, Wilcox county, Alabama, about eleven
or twelve years ago.
NAZERY HINTON.
Address Editor Weekly Republican,
Raleigh, N.C.
sept. 24--tf.
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Karim
This ad is eye-catching—Fabius Rand's brother (Walter R. Rand) was the enslaver of my 2nd paternal great-grandfather, Clem Rand, and his brother Calhoun Rand. They resided in Dallas County, Alabama, adjacent to Wilcox Count.
Alan Welsh
Fabius and Walter Rand were both the sons of Nathaniel Green Rand and Pherabe Mial Rand. Their large plantation was in current day Garner, NC, and they also owned Rand(s) Mill. The mill was powered by and their land sat on Swift Creek covering most of the land East of present day Lake Benson (a lake formed by a dam on Swift Creek. In fact, it is the City of Raleigh's backup water supply and a water treatment plant also sits on former Rand property.) The white Rand's family cemetery sits on the corner of Buffalo Road and Highway 50 (AKA Benson Rd.) The plantation house is long gone, but a Rand family home built on the family property shortly after emancipation still stands. I live a short distance from there and have quite a bit of information about most of the enslavers in this area.
Alan Welsh
Fabius Rand was still in his father's household south of Raleigh on the 1850 census and he married Ann Talbert is Wilcox Alabama in 1854. The timeline makes sense. I checked our local "Slave Deeds" and do not see any transactions between Banks and Rand. Nor do I see any name variations of a slave named Tecy who was sold. However, Nazery stated his wife was sold to Rand and it was probably around the time of his departure to Alabama.
I live in the area of the Rand's old plantation in the Raleigh area and am familiar with the history of slaveholders in this area. I had the pleasure of meeting a great granddaughter of one of Rand's former slaves and was able to show her the exact location where her ancestors were one held in bondage. Uplifting and honoring the lives of the formerly enslaved and their families is important and necessary work.