The Granville Project


About The Granville Project

This project is in service and dedication to my ancestors who braved the most horrific experience of slavery, yet survived. Their labor is the foundation of the wealth of the United States and must be recognized as such. May this website honor them and their legacy.


This database features the names of free and enslaved Black people found in six family and individual papers currently housed at Wilson Special Collections Library at UNC Chapel Hill and Marriages of Granville County, North Carolina, 1753-1868 by Brent H. Holcomb.



You can view the finding aids and select digital content for each collection here:

Burwell Family Papers, 1745-1997

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00112/

William Hargrove Family Papers, 1793-1930

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00310/

Bullock and Hamilton Family Papers, 1757-1971

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00101/

William C. Russell Papers, 1813-1935

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03622/

Person Family Papers, 1728-1907

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00590/

Shanks Family Papers, 1801-1923

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02090/

Marriages of Granville County, North Carolina, 1753 - 1868 by Brent Holcomb

https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb1774416


To contact us, email thegranvilleproject@gmail.com