Died after after about age 43
in Bertie, North Carolina, United States
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Biography
Serenah was born about 1745. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Abel. She passed away after 1788.
Serenah was the mother of Betty, James, Hardy, Jacob, Huel, and Sall.
She was living in Bertie County on 30 Mar 1767 when her "mulatto" children James and Hardy were bound out. In May of 1788 she was complaining to the court about the indenture of her daughter Sall to John Bosman.
Sources
Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to about 1820. 5th Edition. Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield Company, 2005. Volume 1, page 31.
Haun, Weynette Parks. Bertie County North Carolina County Court Minutes, Durham, NC. Book III, page 765; Book IV, pages 225, 274; Book VI, pages 225, 721, 733.
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