Njila

Maternal lines through Dorothy Burgess Jackson Haynes, Lena Kelly, Rev. Isaac Kelly, Susie Lee, Willie Burgess, and Louisa Winfry. Paternal through Samuel Smith, Silas Smith, Scott Smith Sr., Gatsie Augustus, and the Johnson families. The shallowest of the six trees, and the one where the next research push matters most. 6 generations deep, back to 1758.

The Acadian and Creole line: Richard from Pierre Richard (Beaubassin, 1730) through Lufroy, Valery Senegal, and Joseph Adolph Richard, with Sonnier (Saulnier), Comeaux, Judice, Dugas, Gathe and Bonin beside it, back to the Acadian generation of Nova Scotia and the deportation. 10 generations deep, back to 1684.

Descendancy from John Allen Dougherty (1809, New York) and Lucy Russell Stewart (1827, Mississippi) through Katherine Eleanor "Nellie" Dougherty Prescott and the Prescott children. Held in a separate Ancestry tree, and the one page that runs forward through descendants rather than back through ancestors. 3 generations deep, back to 1809.

The deepest tree in the archive. Tilley from Duncan Alvis Tilley (1869, North Carolina), Prince and Reels out of Oklahoma and Mississippi, and on the maternal side the whole of the Richard, Sonnier, Wilderson, Johnson, Jackson, Smith, Burgess and Kelly lines. 12 generations deep, back to 1647.

Thompson and Statham out of Campbell County, Virginia. Callaham, Cheatham and Marshall out of Appomattox and Bedford County; Rose and Scott out of Amherst. This export opened the Ferguson line — Alexander Ferguson and the Statham-Hill-Hubbard connections around Lynchburg. 8 generations deep, back to 1800.

Both parental lines at once: the Richard/Sonnier/Judice/Gathe Creole lineage, the Johnson and Wilderson line through Joseph Wilderson Johnson, and the Jackson/Smith/Burgess/Kelly lines. 11 generations deep, back to 1647.

The stories of 314 relatives drawn from the records: who they were, where they lived, worked, died and were buried, with the source for every fact, including uncles, aunts and cousins who are not drawn on the trees.

A map of the places where 3706 ancestors and kin were born, baptised, married, lived, died and were buried, filterable by tree and by era, with the 16 Njila family places moved here from the Black Heritage Map. Living family is never shown.

Col. Joseph S. Williams and Samuel S. Williams, who held the people of Carolina (now Port Allen) and the Woodfield Place, and sold Carolina with 80 named people to John A. Dougherty in 1859. Shown as context for the Kelly and Williams lines, not as kin. 3 people, 2 generations.

Dr. John B. Hereford (1794–1852), whose 1852 inventory names Berrum, Harriett, Louisa, Jefferson, Jim, Washington and Grace, B's Williams line; his wife Catherine Stirling Hereford; and his brother Dr. F. M. Hereford, who sold Belair to James McCalop. Shown as context, not as kin. 56 people, 4 generations, back to 1769.

The families who owned Arbroth beside Walls, the Stewart and Williams home ground: Lewis Stirling (founder), W. D. Winter, and Major Martin Glynn, whose 1880 store stands at the West Baton Rouge Museum. Shown as context, not as kin. 24 people, 5 generations, back to 1786.

The white Statham family of Campbell County and Lynchburg: Richmond Statham (d. 1839), whose people were divided among his heirs in 1840, and his son Charles Wesley Statham, whom an online tree had made Robert Statham's father until Kerwin's Y-DNA ruled him out. Robert carried the Statham name, but no record names his parents. Shown as context, not as kin. 3 people, 3 generations, back to 1769.

John W. Isbell of Appomattox County, recorded as the owner when Bettie Isbell's daughters Laura (1859) and Minnie Jane (1861) were born. The family tree records him as Minnie Jane's father, so on this site he is shown as her father and her mother's enslaver. For Bettie, her mother Nancy and the rest of the family he is context, not kin. 1 people, 1 generations.

Edmund Tilley, a white farmer of Mangum Township, Orange (later Durham) County, North Carolina, who held 10 people in 1850 and 19 in 1860 and lived next door to Daniel and Charlotte Tilley in 1880. That he held Daniel and Charlotte is a lead; no record yet names them as his. Shown as context, not as kin. 1 people, 1 generations, back to 1794.

The white McHugh households near Port Hudson and Zachary in East Baton Rouge Parish. Phillip McHugh held 23 people in 1860; his widow Keziah married George W. Burgess in 1867; and in 1880 Willie Burgess's mother Martha Porter shared a household with a Black widow, Viney McHugh. Whether Martha came from the McHugh place is a lead. Shown as context, not as kin. 4 people, 2 generations, back to 1821.

The white Garland family of Amherst and Nelson Counties and Elias Wills, to whom "Jenny & 2 children Clifton & William" were assigned in the 1825 division of the late James Garland's people. William Garland (b. about 1819–21), Sarah Garland's father, gave his parents as "Dick & Jennie"; whether he is the boy William of 1825 is a lead. Shown as context, not as kin. 5 people, 3 generations.

The Houmas sugar plantations in Ascension Parish, sold in 1858 by John S. Preston, for Mrs. Caroline M. Preston, to John Burnside with the people held there. The sale lists Joe and Louisa Griffin and their children, among them Henrietta, aged about four, the mother of Joseph Wilderson Jr. Shown as context, not as kin. 4 people, 2 generations.

The slaveholders of the Chickasaw Nation whom the 1898 Dawes Commission cards name as the former owners of Richmond Prince's parents, Russell and Resa Franklin and their parents, Lowvina Gaines's parents and Jennie Walker's family: Benjamin Love, David Burney, Becky McAlester, Amanda McLaughlin, James Gaines, Lucy Hawkins and the Keel and Newberry households. Shown as context, not as kin. 11 people, 2 generations.

Abraham Lobdell, a slaveholder of West Baton Rouge Parish, whose enslaved children were baptized at St. John the Baptist, Brusly, in the 1840s and 1850s, among them a girl Marthe, born 4 Jan 1859 to Antoinette. Willie Burgess's mother Martha Porter was born about May 1859 and died at Lobdell; that she is this Marthe is only a lead. Shown as context, not as kin. 1 people, 1 generations.

The white Kent family of Lower Marlboro and Timberwell on the Patuxent, Calvert County, Maryland. Miss Kate B. Kent, daughter of the late Thomas H. Kent, owned Nathaniel Smith when he enlisted in the 30th U.S. Colored Infantry in 1864, and his wife Catharine named Yates Kent as her master in 1867. Catharine was very probably the great-grandmother of Marie E. Smith Tilley on Brandice's father's side. Daniel Kent of Timberwell held 21 people in 1782. Shown as context, not as kin. 8 people, 3 generations, back to 1779.