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William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [4] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [5] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [2] [4] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [2]
William held two black indentured servants, Isabell and Anthoney, who were among the first Africans in Virginia, arriving between 1619 and 1624, when their son William Tucker was born. He was the first African American child to be born in the Thirteen Colonies. [9] He had 17 servants. [9] In 1625, he owned three African slaves.
Historian Vincent Tucker, president of the William Tucker 1624 Society, learned about his ancestors' history prior to being enslaved in the United States during a trip to Angola.
William Taler, Labourer; Master Daniel Tucker, gentleman, cape merchant (treasurer), and store clerk [41] ... Servant living with William Peirce in 1624 [69]
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Wanda Tucker’s youngest brother is president of the William Tucker 1624 Society, a nonprofit set up to educate people about the family's history. He had visited Angola eight times since his ...
[8] [13] William Tucker, born in 1624, was the first person of African descent born in the Thirteen Colonies. [14] There were 906 Europeans and 21 Africans in the 1624 muster. By 1625, the Africans lived on plantations; [8] many of them were baptized as Christians and took Christian names. In 1628, a slave ship carried 100 people from Angola to ...
After being sold off the White Lion, two of the indentured servants, [14] Isabella and Anthony, married and had a child in 1624. William Tucker, named after a Virginian planter, was the first recorded person of African ancestry born in English America. [15]