In a Virginia Independent Chronicle abstract of May 13, 1789, Judy's daughter Mary, about 23 years old, claimed to be free born in Essex County, Virginia, and the daughter of a "free yellow woman named Judy whose mother was Peggy Black and whose grandmother was an Indian"[2][1]
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↑ 1.01.11.21.3 Heinegg, Paul. 2009. Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820. Fifth Edition. 2 vols. xiv 1355 pp. ISBN: 9780806352800. Black Family, transcribed at http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Beverly_Brogdon.htm
↑ 2.02.1 Virginia Independent Chronicle, May 13 1789, transcribed from Headley Jr., Robert K. 2007. Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-century Virginia Newspapers. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland. p 28. Reprint from 1897 edition.
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