Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of an American Family's History by Anita Wills

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Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of An American Families History, is Non Fiction, African American History, 292 pages, with Table of Contents, Appendix, Bibliography, Endnotes, and Index. The book chronicles the lives of a group labled, "fpc", or Free Persons of Color, by the Virginia Free Negro Registry, in Colonial Virginia. They were Virginia's own Creole Population.

MEDIA COVERAGE AND REVIEWS
Henry Weincek, author of The Hairstons, and, An Imperfect God, gives this book an excellent review. Patrick Walters of the, Reading Eagle Times (Reading PA), also gave it an excellent review, as did Bryan Robinson of the Downingtown Ledger, and Art Thomas I reviewer, and moderator for the Afrigeneas Website.

Newspapers, such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fredericksburg Freelance Star, Richmond Times Dispatch, Oakland Tribune, Henrico Citizen, and Monterey Herald, have written articles about Ms. Wills and her project. She has made Television appearances, coordinated events at George Washington Birthplace Virginia, and Colonial Yorktown, and held numerous book signings. Some of the libraries that hold, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color; Pennsylvania State Library, California State Library, Cornell University Library, Virginia State Library, University of Virginia, Central Rapphannock Library, Lancaster County Historical Society, Octorara High School Library PA, and Virginia Historical Society.

AUTHOR BIO
Ms. Wills, is a published author, lecturer, and genealogy researcher. She was born in Coatesville Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Northern California. She is the mother of four children, and the grandmother of four. Her writing career began with the gathering of documentation for her maternal line. The documents and records contain information, which are of historical interest. This includes information on George Washington, and Indentured Servitude.

AUTHORS COMMENTS
Although Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color began as a Family history project, it has become much more. The book is a narrative, and contains historical documents, Military Rosters, transcriptions of Deeds, and much more. It is the true story of Virginia's Creole population.

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