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|  | | Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color
Author Anita Wills chronicle of Virginia's own Creole Population. The story is a chronicle of the extraordinary lives of a group labled, Free Persons of Color.
In this book Ms. Wills chronicles the extraordinary achievements of her maternal ancestors. The chronicles include the life of Mary Bowden (born 1730), who was the Granddaughter of William Monroe, President James Monroes' Grandfather. As a Mulatto, born in Westmoreland County Virginia, she was sentenced to an indenture of thirty years.
The person receiving her indenture, was the father of George Washington, Augustine Washington Senior. Mary would serve almost forty years, because of her frequent attempts to run away.
Another chronicle is of the Lewis brothers, Charles and A | |  | | Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family
A chronicle of the lives of Free Blacks, as written by Author Anita Wills. Meet the family whose lines touch every aspect of Colonial American History.
Press Release – Feb 01, 2009 – Author Anita Wills, has been researching and documenting her family history since 1978. "I had little information to go on and no idea what was out there the project started", the Author states. br />
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Author Anita Wills, research has connected her African American family to Liberia. In her first book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color:Four Hundred Years of An African American Family's History, she wrote about the Free Persons of Color, in her family, who resided in Colonial Virginia. Now there is a second book, |
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