Re: AFRICAN-AMERICAN BRADDOCKS

Hi Bonnie,

This info may be not be in the time frame you're looking for, but I'm posting my Braddock notes that include any references to African-American Braddocks.I can't tell you which of the slaves from the early records may have kept the Braddock name, but it's a lead.

Tippah County Heritage v.2.comp. and ed. by Tommy Covington
This book has an extraordinary section on African-American Braddocks and descendants to the 1960s or 70s, most are articles on the descendants of slave Joseph Braddock.I read it in the library there and regret terribly that I didn't copy it; it was very descriptive and insightful about their ancestor's experiences.Absolutely worth writing for xeroxes.The librarian
was very nice and I imagine will send copies. There are side mentions of Braddocks in other articles.

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My research shows [comments of mine in straight brackets like these]:

1850 Slave Schedule of Tippah co MS.Tommy Lockhart 1976
[39fb=female black age 39, 2 mm=male mulatto age 2, etc.]
Adam Braddock 39fb, 35fb, 71fb, 9mm, 2mm, 9/12mm
[see below, these would be Rebecca, Nan, ??, Susan, Sambo, Daniel]
John Braddock 23mb
Mary Braddock 60mb, 60fb, 27mb, 27fb, 9fb, 7mb, 5fb
Mary A. Braddock 75mb, 65fb, 26mb, 26fb, 12fb, 10fb, 6fb
no Hooker listed [see next for the relevance of this]
[I'm pretty sure I confirmed these from the original archive films.]

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LDS film #1036922Miscellaneous Court Records Tippah co MS
1849 - 1880 misc
p. 402Estate of Margaret Hooker [film very bad]
[Margaret Hooker was the mother-in-law of Adam Braddock.Her maiden name was probably Young, she married George Leak who died in SC Laurens, then married Edwin Hooker who also died.She came to Tippah and lived with her daughter Elzire (often written Eliza) and her husband Adam Braddock.He is listed as the owner of Margaret Hooker's slaves in 1850 schedules above.This estate identifies them and the purchasers.I have not tracked them further]:

19 Oct 1857 Petition for Sale of Slaves:
"...that said deceased left the following slaves to wit Rebecca a woman aged about 48 years, Nani [sic] near the same age, Susan aged about 19 years, Her child about 18 months named Old Jack, Sambo about 16, Daniel 9 years, Seth about 7...That said slaves cannot be divided in kind among said heirs..." request for sale...by Adam Braddock (administrator)

The return of the sale was April 1858 and says the sale was on 23 January 1858 as follows:
Sambo to M. Blake for $1330
Susan and child Jack to Eliza Braddock for $1315
Daniel to Isaac Cox for $700
Seth to W. C. Carter for $535
Nan to Eliza Braddock for $500
Beck to Eliza Braddock for $100

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1860 Slave Schedule of Tippah co MS [originals on federal archive films]
Mary Braddock mb39 fb38 mb16 fb19 fb14 fb9 fb6 mb5 mb1 mb7/12
John Braddock mb33 fb28 mb1
next Adam Braddock fb50 fb21 mb5
[these would be Nan or Beck (Rebecca), Susan and Jack from the sale above]
G. W. Braddock fb28 mb26 mb5 mb7/12

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1866 State Census MS Tippah co [in Tippah library]
film page 17
Rebecca Braddock f30-40
Minny Braddock f20-30
Peter Braddock M0-10
Isaac Braddock M0-10
Tucker Braddock m0-10
Lenord Cox m10-20 [maybe in same household?]
[re above household, these names are not in the fairly well researched descendants of the Braddocks who came to MS, I had a feeling I didn't mark down their race, so they may be relevant, especially based on the 1878-88 tax lists below.There are marriages for Peter, Isaac and Minnie (USGenWeb shows them).This is definitely not Rebecca Braddock, wife of Jeremiah S., they are listed below with correct ages and children.This whole source needs to be extracted again, my notes are just not descriptive enough.]
*film page 18
Winston Braddock B [black, no numbers]
Mose Braddock B
Richard Braddock B
[again, I'm pretty sure this is one household, but I can't say definitively, sorry.But now that I look over how I did my notes, the family on p. 17 above would be white probably.]
film page 110 [page 109 not shown]
Mary Braddock f40-50, f80-90
J.S. Braddock1m0-10, 1m10-20, 1m40-50, 4f0-10, 2f10-20, 1f30-40
[Only the last two of these, Mary and J.S. are listed on the GenWeb Tippah county pages that have this census, if they only listed the whites, then the family on p. 17 could be black - am I confused enough now!]

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976.2923 R4t Tippah Co MS Tax Lists 1878-1887
Sand Hill, Distr 1 -        
Braddock, Joe (colored)
Braddock I. S. (colored)
Falkner Distr 2 -        
Braddock B. F.
Braddock Squire (colored)
Peter (colored)
Moores Mill Distr 5 -        
Braddock Mrs. J. A.
Braddock Sam S.
[I don't have a note for the specific year of the above!]

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1880 census of Tippah co MS, book form
These are the e.d. and house #s:
1-503, 2-336, 2-341, 2-330, 5-53, 5-107, 5-22, 5-24, 5-7, 2-100, 5-142, 2-327, 5-23, 5-136, 1-133, 2-63, 1-351, 1-358, 1-239
I scanned these, but didn't extract, mine are gone by now.Several of these are black, some living in another’s household.I include this for you as many will not be on the soundex.

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976.2923 P2mTippah Co MS Circuit Court Records
p. 30 Case #3615State v. Abe, a slave, property of Geo. W. Braddock, Sep 1851, that he did on Aug 1 1851 assault, wound, and attempt to ravish Mary Harris, a white woman.indicted Sep 1851 [names jury].found guilty and sentenced to be hung between the hours of noon and 6 p.m. on Oct 17 1851.To be carried to jail at Holly Springs “there being no sufficient jail in Tippah Co.”
p. 58 Sep 1854#887 that John F. Stark sold liquor to Junior, slave of John Braddock
p. 196 #1811 Nov 1870State v. John Braddock Jr., et al, indicted for shooting with intent to kill.John Braddock and Dan Braddock (col) default as witnesses
p. 198 #1811 Sep 1871State v. John Bradock et al, witnesses Dan Braddock and others
p. 201 #1811 State v. William Braddock, Nathan Braddock, John Braddock, James Braddock, Bose Smith, and James Medford.Indicted for assault with intent to kill L. P. Wright, Thomas Bobbit, A. H. Luker, J. R. Luker, William Shelton, and Charlie Bell.Found guilty by a jury composed of M. C. Selph et al.Sureties: John Braddock, William Reed, Adam Braddock.Defts. sentenced to 5 years in prison, Oct 19, 1872.application for Writ of Error allowed, William Braddock defaults recognizance.Witnesses - L. P. Wright, John Braddock (col.), Dan Braddock (col.), R. M. Nance, D. M. Pollock, F. M. Rainer, William Shelton, James Braddock, Charles Bell, Robert Luker, John Bell.
[Nathan Braddock in the above indictment must be the son of John W. Braddock and Ruthie Nabors.Bobbie McDowell, the Braddock pro of Tippah, has noted on her records that "Nathan was shot by Allen Luker as he came out of church at Pisgah Methodist Esp.[sic].South-old Ruckersbille, Tippah Co. MS"]

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You can get birth dates, 1874-1900 for Braddocks, of Tippah residents (extracted from draft registration in 1917) on the USGenWeb Archives.These indicate race.There are lots of other records for Tippah on this site, marriages and tons of the cemeteries.

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I can give you the locations of the lands of Stephen and Adam Braddock where some of the above would have lived. I also know there is still a gentleman living on that old Braddock property there, descended from African-American Braddocks; the people at the courthouse knew of him, but I couldn't find him at home when I visited and researched there a few years ago.Anyway, Stephen's lands were in Sections 21 and 28 of Township 3 Range 4 East, purchased 1848 and sold in 1871.Adam's were in Section 17 of same township and range, purchased 1845-1848 and sold 1869 through 1875.I can give you further specifications on the land locations if you want.I cannot find my map of the county, but Section 17 is around the county road 506 where 509 & 507 are, and Sections 21 and 28 are where county roads 515 and 556 are.

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Good luck in your research!
Pam in CA
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(My line is from Adam and his father Stephen Braddock.)