Source: FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, and SOUTH CAROLINA, from the colonial period to about 1820, Volume 1

BLANGO FAMILY
1. Thomas1 Blangoe was a servant belonging to Captain Thomas Jones/ Nicholas Thomas Jones of James City County, Virginia, on 28 November 1701 when his attorney made an agreement with William Tomson, bricklayer, and his wife Ann to oversee his four servants in Beaufort County, North Carolina [DB 1:12, 33]. He may have been the father or grandfather of Thomas, Rachel, and Sarah Blango who
were taxables in Beaufort County in 1755 [SS 837]:

2 i. Thomas2, born say 1710.
3 ii. Rachel, born say 1720.
4 iii. Sarah1, born say 1730.

2. Thomas2 Blango, born say 1710, was a "free Negro" head of a Beaufort County household with Sarah and Betty Blango in 1755:

Blango, Tom Sar. Blango Betty Blango (Free Negroes) 3 [SS 837].

He was called "Thomas Blango free negro" in June 1757 Beaufort County court when he was a defendant in a case brought by Thomas Pearce [Minutes 1756-61, 1:32a (docket no.22)]. He was one of the superannuated and invalid members of the Beaufort County Militia under the command of Colonel William Brown prior to 1765 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 781].
His children may have been
5 i. Thomas3, born say 1730.
ii. Betty, born say 1735, taxable in Tom Blango's Beaufort County household in 1755 [SS 837].

3. Rachel Blango, born say 1720, was a "free Negro" head of a Beaufort County household in 1755:
Rachel Blango Sus. Blango Sarah Blango Junr
Dinah Blango (Free Negroes) 4 [T&C, Box 1].

In June 1758 the Beaufort County court ordered that:
a free Negroe Woman named Rachel Blango, another named Sarah Blango the younger, another named Dinah Blango and a Man named Gabe, and another Negroe Woman named Bett Moore, another Mary Moore ____, and Keziah Moore be Summoned to appear at next court to produce a Master for their Children in order they may be bound out as the law directs [Minutes 1756-61, 2:46c].

Perhaps she was the Rachel who was a "Free Negro" taxable in the household of John, "Free Negro," (no family name mentioned) in the Beaufort County Tax List in 1764 [SS 837, Box 1]. John may have been John Punch Moore, and she may have been the Rachel Moore who was head of a Beaufort County household of 2 "other free" in 1800 [NC:15].

Rachel's children may have been
6 i. Sarah2, Jr., born say 1738.
7 ii. Dinah1, born say 1740.

4. Sarah1 Blango, born say 1730, was taxable in Rachel Blango's Beaufort County household in 1755 [T&C, Box 1]. She was sued for debt by James Calef in the June 1756 session of the Beaufort County court, and the June 1761 session ordered her to pay him £16 [Minutes 1756-61, 1:9c (Docket no.23); 2:41d].
She was a "Free Negro" taxable on 2 Black tithes in 1764 [SS 837, Box 1] and taxable in Beaufort County on an assessment of £240 in 1779 [G.A. 30, Box 1]. She purchased 200 acres on the east side of Nevill's Creek from Thomas Blango (Jr.?) on 9 June 1789 [DB 6:125] and swapped 100 acres of this land with John Gray Blount for land nearby by deed of 4 March 1801 [DB 1:457, 459].
She was head of a Beaufort County household of 5 "other free" in 1790 [NC:125].

She may have been the mother of
i. Benjamin, born say 1758, enlisted in Hogg's Company for 9 months on 20 July 1778 and received a total of £25 specie for service in the Continental Line [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1018; N.C. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782,

Moses Blango, http://familysearch.org/search/collection/1498361]. He was a deceased soldier of Beaufort County whose estate was administered before June 1792 by Sarah Blango [NCGSJ XVIII:72].
ii. Moses1, born say 1760, enlisted in Hogg's Company on 20 July 1778 and received a total of £25 specie for service in the Continental Line [Clark, The State Records of North Carolina, XVI:1018; N.C. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, Moses Blango, http://familysearch.org/search/collection/1498361].
He was a deceased soldier of Beaufort County whose estate was administered before June 1792 by Sarah Blango [NCGSJ XVIII:72].

5. Thomas3 Blango, born say 1730, was called Thomas Blango, Jr., when he was sued for debt by James Calef in the June 1756 Beaufort County court in a case which was declared a non-suit in the June 1761 session [Minutes 1756-61, 1:9c (docket no.23); 2:44a]. He purchased 640 acres in Beaufort on the east side of Nevill's Creek at the mouth of Bridge Branch from John Benston by an unrecorded deed and sold
this land by deeds of 2 April 1774, 10 April 1777, 20 January 1788 by the sheriff for debt, 5 June 1788 by the sheriff for debt, and 9 June 1789 to Sarah Blango [DB 5:20, 307; 6:125, 324, 341].
He was called "Nasowman" in the 10 April 1777 deed, perhaps claiming that his family was from Nassau. He was one of the superannuated and invalid members of the Beaufort County Militia under the command of
Colonel William Brown prior to 1765 and was paid for service in the New Bern District Militia, and was paid ,9 for service in the Continental Army on 15 January 1782 [Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 781; N.C. Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779-1782, Thomas Blango, ttp://familysearch.org/search/collection/1498361]. In 1779 he was taxed in Beaufort County on an assessment of , 320 [LP 30.1, by NCGSJ XV:142]. He was head of a Beaufort County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:125].

His children may have been
8 i. Solomon1, born say 1760.

ii. Isaac, born before 1776, head of a Beaufort County household 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:2], 10 in 1810 [NC:114], and 8 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:7]. He was called Isaac Blango Moore in the March 1814 session of Beaufort County court when Solomon Blango was bound to him as an apprentice cooper [Minutes 1809-14, n.p.]. By his 2 January 1836 Beaufort County will, proved June 1842, he lent his plantation and land to his sister Nancy, then to Patsy Moore, wife of Charles Moore, and lent 20 acres to his brother's child Hannah, wife of John Moore [WB D:281].

9 iii. Margaret, born say 1773.

10 iv. Sarah3, born 1776-94.

v. Patsy Moore.

vi. Nancy.

6. Sarah2 Blango, born say 1738, was a "Free Negro" taxable in Rachel Blango's household in 1755 (called Sarah Blango, Jr.) [T&C, Box 1]. In June 1758 she was called "Sarah Blango the younger" when she was ordered to produce a master for her child to be bound apprentice to [Minutes 1756-61, 1:46d]. She may have been the "Free Sarah" who was added to Colonel Palmer's Beaufort County tax list for 1764 [SS
837, Box 1].
And she may have been the "Sarah Blango Moore (free negro)" whose plight was advertised in the 9 October 1778 issue of the North Carolina Gazette of New Bern: that she was last night robbed of two of her own children, by three men in disguise; one a boy about six years old named Ambrose, the other a girl named Rose, of the same age, they being twins [Fouts, NC Gazette of New Bern, I:80-1].


The Moore family was the largest free African American family in Beaufort and Craven Counties. She may have been the Sall Blango who was head of a Beaufort County household of 11 "other free" in 1800 [NC:2] and 8 in 1810 [NC:115].

She was the mother of
i. ?Dorcas, born about 1757, successfully petitioned the 9 June 1778 Craven County court for freedom from her indenture to Isaac Patridge [Minutes 1772-84, 1:61c].

ii. Ambrose Moore, born 1772, married Polly Carter, 29 December 1804 Craven County bond, Jacob Moore surety. He was head of a Craven County household of 2 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:67]. On 4 November 1821 he and his wife Polly sold land in Craven County which she inherited from her father George Carter [DB 43:82].

iii. Rose, born 1772, perhaps the Rose Carter, born 1776-94, who was head of a Carteret County household of 3 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:123].

7. Dinah1 Blango, born say 1743, was a "Free Negro" taxable in Rachel Blango's Beaufort County household in 1755 [SS 837]. The June 1758 Beaufort County court called her a "free Negroe Woman" when it ordered her to produce in court a master to whom her children to be bound. Perhaps she was the wife of Gabe, a "free Negroe Man," who was listed after her in the court order [Minutes 1756-61, 2:46c].
She was head of a Beaufort County household of 6 "other free" in 1790 [NC:125]. One of her children may have been
i. Gabriel, born before 1776, head of a Beaufort County household of 7 "other free" in 1800 [NC:2], 9 in 1810 [NC:113], and 8 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:7].

8. Solomon1 Blango, born say 1760, and Tom Blango were in the list of men in the Beaufort County Regiment of Militia on 20 April 1781 [T. R., Box 7, folder 15, http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll26/id/1107/rec/10]. He was head of a Beaufort County household of 1 "other free" in 1790 [NC:126]. He may have been deceased by March 1814 when the Beaufort County court bound his fourteen-year-old son Moses Blango to Joseph Trippe [Minutes 1809-14, n.p.].

He was the father of
i. Moses2, born about 1800, bound an apprentice cooper to Joseph Trippe in March 1814.

ii. ?Isaac2, born about 1802, a twelve-year-old free Boy of Color, no parent named, bound an apprentice cooper to Nathan Archibell by the March 1814 Beaufort County court.

iii. ?Dinah2, born about 1805, a nine-year-old free girl of Color, no parent named, bound apprentice to Nathan Archibell by the March 1814 Beaufort County court.

iv. ?Solomon2, born about 1806, an eight-year-old free Boy of Color, no parent named, bound as an apprentice cooper to Isaac Blango Moore by the March 1814 Beaufort County court [Minutes 1809-14, n.p.].

9. Margaret Blango, born say 1773, was head of a Beaufort County household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:2]. She was called Margaret M. Blango in the March 1814 session of the Beaufort County court when her son Willie Moore Blango was bound as an apprentice [Minutes 1809-14, n.p.].
She was the mother of
i. Willie Moore Blango, born about 1800, a fourteen-year-old "free person of Color, son of Margaret M. Blango," bound an apprentice shoemaker to William Orell in March 1814.

ii. Winnie M. Blango, born about October 1802, eleven years and six months old in March 1814 when she was bound to William Orell in Beaufort County court.

10. Sarah3 Blango, born 1776-94, was head of a Beaufort County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [NC:114] and 5 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:7].

She was the mother of
i. John/ Jack, born about 1797, the seventeen-year-old son of Sally Blango, bound by the Beaufort County court to James Meredith to be a cooper in March 1814 [Minutes 1809-14, n.p.].

ii. ?Phebe, born about 1801, a thirteen-year-old free girl of Color, no parent named, bound an apprentice housekeeper to Joseph B. Hinton by the March 1814 Beaufort County court.

iii. Patsy July Blount Blango, born about 1802, daughter of Sarah Blango, bound apprentice to Joseph Shute by the March 1814 Beaufort County court.

iv. ?Harman, born about 1804, a ten-year-old free Boy of Color, no parent named, bound an apprentice shoemaker to Isaac Smith [Minutes 1809-14, n.p.].
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Other sources:
People not Property-Slave Deeds - Digital Library American Slavery
https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/deed/NC.BEA.1.12.1/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNObu1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF6S2N6N3JxME5UR1hXVE5tAR7nvAlAgW-8mDHLkq6dD4TM_719NES1hvI2JvvYCCszwDBgTDB7gQNcqcuqiA_aem_2qH4rDRO7Rw37gxsizHLnw

Note: Mr. Thomas Blango, Sr. was a superannuated member of the NC militia, along with his son, Thomas Jr., paid by the governor for their services fighting on behalf of the colonists during and previous to the revolutionary War, circa 1774.

U.S. Dept Of Veterans Affairs: https://www.vlm.cem.va.gov/THOMASBLANGO/46230F6
https://www.vlm.cem.va.gov/THOMASBLANGO/A9B9983

“Colonial Soldiers of the South 1732-1774"
by Murtie June Clark.