Genealogie Flu (Suriname, Nederland, USA 1750-1950) » George W. Ruffin (± 1800-± 1863)

Persoonlijke gegevens George W. Ruffin 

• De naam is van het type 'naam gegeven bij of rond de geboorte'
• Hij is geboren rond 1800.
• Hij is overleden rond 1863.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 26 december 2021.

Gezin van George W. Ruffin

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Nancy Lewis.

Kind(eren):

1. Marie Louise Ruffin  1854-???? 

Notities over George W. Ruffin

Zie : http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=52&q=&rootcontentid=32101 :" The Heslip-Ruffin Family Papers pertain to several generations of the Ruffin family beginning with Nancy Lewis and George W. Ruffin, who were both ante-bellum free Blacks. The collection includes correspondence between various family members and letters received by members of the Heslip-Ruffin Family, including those by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Legal documents, biographical data, news clippings, printed ephemera, and photographs document the achievements of various family members, as well as various African Americans who achieved prominence in a number of fields.

The earliest correspondence is between Nancy Lewis Ruffin and her husband, George W. Ruffin. The letters of this couple are all holographs, written by Nancy from Boston to her husband in Richmond, Virginia, after Nancy and her children moved to Boston in order that the children might have the advantages of an education, while George W. remained in Virginia and sent funds for the family's support. Other letters in the collection were written to the couple's son, George Lewis Ruffin, who became a judge in the Municipal Court of the Charlestown District. Among his correspondents were Frederick Douglass and George W. Williams. Furthermore, there is a small body of correspondence between members of the family - sisters, brothers, cousins and aunts. On occasion there is a note or telegram announcing the death of a relative.

Biographical data is included in the papers; the most noteworthy being the record of births and deaths in the family Bible. There is a negative photocopy of the sketch of Judge Ruffin in Simmons' Men of Mark; a copy of Massachusetts Women of Vision and Accomplishment, which includes a sketch of Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin; and data on Tobias Gilmore, an 18th century ancestor.

Bills and receipts document transactions of George W. Ruffin for food, furniture, and medical treatments. They are dated predominantly in the 1850s. Representative civic and legal documents are also included. Among this group of items is the marriage license of George Lewis and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, the free papers of the teenage George Lewis Ruffin, and the document issued to him when he received his judicial appointment, which is signed by then Governor Benjamin F. Butler. Other manuscript items include a preface entitled "Other Bostonians", which was written by Florida Ruffin Ridley. Its subject matter is her family and Black residents of Boston."
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"Biographical Note

The Heslip and Ruffin families were active as African American leaders since the time of Nancy and George W. Ruffin, antebellum free Blacks from Virginia. Members of the families were active in the areas of politics, publishing and editing, and law.

Nancy Ruffin (1816-1874) and George W. Ruffin (1800-1863) were free Blacks during the antebellum era residing in Richmond, Virginia. George W. worked as a barber, and both he and Nancy valued education and hired a tutor to teach their children English literature, Latin and the classics. Following the prohibition by the Virginia legislature against African Americans learning to read, Nancy moved to Boston in 1853 along with their eight children, while George W remained in Virginia and sent funds for the family's support. Following the move to Boston, Nancy sold fish and fruit sent by family in the South."

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