[8] Colonial Entry Book, No. lxxxii, p. 129. (Quoted by Doyle, I, 386.)
[9] Bassett, Op. Cit., p. 20.
[10] N. C. Col. Records, II, 17.
[11] Ibid., V, 320.
[12] Ibid., VII, 5391.
[13] Hale, W. J., and Merritt, D. L., History of Tennessee, II, 292.
[14] “A bill of sale from Micajah to Andrew Jackson, Esquire, for a negro woman named Nancy about eighteen or twenty years of age was proven in open court by the oath of David Allison, a subscribing witness, and ordered to be recorded.” Record of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Jonesboro, Tennessee, for November Term, 1788.
[15] Haywood, John, The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, 406.
[16] (He) “was a very prominent negro. He had a garden, and supplied a great many people with vegetables. His oldest daughter married Graham, a barber. She had a big wedding and invited all the prominent white people in town, and they all went. He was a very respectable, upright, humble negro. General Andrew Jackson attended the wedding, and Dr. McNairy danced the reel with the bride.” Hale and Merritt, II, 293.
[17] Ramsey, J. G. M., The Annals of Tennessee, 648.