African American Records
Below are some links for African American records in St. Augustine and in other areas. These links open a new window. The green links take you to other Websites. The "Return to St Augustine Genealogy Homepage" on some of these sites is NOT a link back to our site. Make sure to CLOSE the new browser window when you are through with a record. Our site will still be open in the original window.
- 1720-1721 Matrimonials - Parish of St. Augustine-Has some marriage and baptisms of slaves
- 1827 Ordinance Regarding Freed Persons of Color
- Escape of Andrew "Gue" 1843
- 1860 City Punishments of Slaves and Free Blacks
- Biography of Simon Williams, a St. Augustine soldier in the Civil War
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By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men served as soldiers in the U.S. Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy. Nearly 40,000 black soldiers died over the course of the war—30,000 of infection or disease. Black soldiers served in artillery and infantry and performed all noncombat support functions that sustain an army, as well. Black carpenters, chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, surgeons, and teamsters also contributed to the war cause. There were nearly 80 black commissioned officers. Black women, who could not formally join the Army, nonetheless served as nurses, spies, and scouts. African American Civil War site
African American Civil War Memorial - Freedman's Bureau online
- American Freedman's Union Commission
- American Freedman's Union - Dr. Bronson Link
- St. Johns Freedmens Bureau Teachers Letters
- Gil Wilson's site on the history of St. Augustine.-A must -explore the links on his pages
- 1885 Mortality Schedule - color listed for 1/2 the deaths is Black
- St Johns County African American WWI Veterans A-F
Death records 1890-1920 from county health dept
Click the 'Vital Records' link to the left. Under the section heading 'Link to Records Transcribed from the County Health Dept'. African American deaths in these records are noted with **