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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Elisabeth Thornton: Birth: 1831/32 in Virginia.

  2. Sarah Thornton: Birth: 1834/35 in Virginia.

  3. Margaret Thornton: Birth: 1836/37 in Virginia.

  4. Celia or Selia Thornton: Birth: 1839/40 in Virginia.

  5. Samuel Thornton: Birth: 1840/41 in Virginia.

  6. Abram Thornton: Birth: 1843/44 in Virginia.

  7. Eliza F. + Thornton: Birth: MAY 1848 in Flushing, Ohio.

  8. John Thornton: Birth: 1851/52 in Ohio.

  9. Joseph Thornton: Birth: 1853/54 in Ohio.

  10. Lycurgis Thornton: Birth: 1855/56 in Wisconsin.


Sources
1. Title:   census

Notes
a. Note:   In 1840 all the Thorntons listed in Loudoun County were Free Coloreds Abam Thornton Jonah Hood, Loudoun, Virginia
 Charles Thornton District 1, Loudoun, Virginia
 Charles Thornton Jonah Hood, Loudoun, Virginia
 Jaret Thornton District 1, Loudoun, Virginia
 Lavena Thornton District 1, Loudoun, Virginia
  In the 1830 United States Federal Census for Virginia in Loudoun County, town of Union, Ann Thornton age 55-100 is listed as a Free Colored (Fn) with 4 males under 10, and a female age 24-36.
  Ann might not be related, but she was the only Thornton in Loudoun County.
  In 1820 Chas Thornton was the only Thornton living in Loudoun County. He lived in the town of Aldie and had numerous family members and 14 slaves.
  <b>History of Loudoun County
 </b>More indicative of the softening of attitudes, however, was the removal of the legal provisions requiring those who freed slaves to send them outside the state. Thus, from 1782 until 1806 a window of opportunity was opened that allowed slaveholders to free their slaves without providing for their resettlement elsewhere.
  <b>1831</b>: In late weeks of the year, following Nat Turner�s slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, patrols again set out. They check slaves for passes and free blacks for identification papers. �Run Negro, run, or the Pa-trr-oll will get you,� blacks told their naughty children�well into the postwar years.
 <b>December 1831</b>: Loudouners petition the state legislature to gradually emancipate slaves. Five petitioners own some 120 slaves. The legislature does not act.
 <b>1831-1832</b>: The insurrection prompts the Virginia legislature to pass acts forbidding slaves and free Negroes to assemble for the purpose of reading, writing, or listening to a black preacher. However, slaves of one master can meet for prayer.
 Is this why Abraham was a "Free Colored"?

b. Note:   Listed as Thorton
c. Note:   Listed as Abam Thornton


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