Henry Evans

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1. 1822 Fanny Evans, a free woman of color, receives a town lot by the Eno A land record gave Fanny Evans and her children Henry and Jane lot 135, a town lot running down to the Eno River. She also owned three lots at West Margaret Lane and Occoneechee Street. Her sons Henry and Wilson Bruce Evans became cabinetmakers in town. People: Henry Evans Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Fanny Evans, Wilson Bruce Evans · Also mentions: Eno RiverBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 37
2. 1840 Henry Evans, a free cabinetmaker of color, buys a shop lot on Churton Street Evans paid $265 for old lot 6 on Churton Street, across from the courthouse then being built, and made furniture there, including chancel pieces for St. Matthew's, where he was baptized in 1842. The Bailey map marks his workshop. People: Henry Evans Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: St. Matthew's, Churton StreetBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 37
3. May Term 1843 The court binds William Mayho, a boy of color, to Henry Evans to learn cabinetmaking A year after ordering the sheriff to bring him in, the court bound William Mayho, a boy of color about eight, son of Malinda Mayho, to Henry Evans to learn the cabinetmaker's trade, with James Palmer as security for producing the boy. People: Henry Evans Place: Orange County · Also named: William Mayho, Malinda Mayho, James PalmerSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
4. March Term 1851 The court binds William Mitchell, son of Adaline Mitchell, a free woman of color, to cabinetmaker Henry Evans The court bound William Mitchell, nearly fourteen, son of Adaline Mitchell, a free woman of color, to Henry Evans to learn cabinetmaking; if he served out his time he was to receive a set of bench tools and a good suit of clothes. People: Henry Evans Place: Orange County · Also named: William Mitchell, Adaline MitchellSearch the index · Mark Chilton, Freedom Bound: Apprenticeship, Racism & Liberation in Orange County, North Carolina 1777 to 1868 (Wandering through the NC Piedmont)
5. 1854 The Evans families leave Hillsborough for Oberlin, Ohio Squeezed by laws that stripped free people of color of the vote, the right to preach and schooling, the cabinetmakers Henry and Wilson Bruce Evans took their families to Oberlin, where their sister Delilah Copeland had settled in 1843. Both brothers were jailed there for their part in the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington rescue of a man taken as a fugitive. People: Henry Evans Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Wilson Bruce EvansBurwell School Historic Site Task Force: Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 (2019), p. 37-38