Scuffalong: Genealogy is a repository for notes, discoveries and theories related to my family history research. I am descended from slaves, free people of color, Native Americans, yeoman whites, and planters — every strata of colonial American society — primarily in North Carolina and Virginia.

Surnames of interest include ALDRIDGE, ALLEN, ALLISON, ARTIS, BALKCUM, BARNES, BROWN, COLVERT, EATMAN, GRANT, HAGANS, HENDERSON, HOLMES, JERNIGAN, LEWIS, MARTIN, McCOMBS, McCONNAUGHEY, McNEELY, NICHOLSON, PRICE, OBRISSEL, SEABERRY, SELF, SIMONTON, SKIPP, STEVENSON, TAYLOR, and WILLIAMS.

Places of interest include Duplin, Greene, Iredell, Nash, Rowan, Sampson, Wayne, and Wilson Counties, North Carolina, and Amelia, Charles City, Charlotte, Culpeper, and Prince George Counties, Virginia.

I also maintain a blog, Fourth Generation Inclusive, devoted to North Carolina’s free people of color, http://www.ncfpc.net.