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Bookmark or Share- The William Tucker 1624 SocietyThe William Tucker 1624 Society conducts research into the life of William Tucker and that of his descendants. As we gain insight into the strength and resilience of the Africans who built and populated the United States of America, we document, preserve, and share their narratives.
- The Tuckers: Meet the descendants of what may be America's first ...Carolita Jones Cope said oral history connects her family to Captain William Tucker, whose plantation was a quarter mile from where the Tucker family cemetery lies today. "Captain William...
- A family that believes it descends from the first African American ...Based on what remains of census records, William Tucker was the first African American born in the Colonies. Nobody knows when he died.
- William Tucker (1624- ?) • - BlackpastWilliam Tucker was the first person of African ancestry born in the 13 British Colonies. His birth symbolized the beginnings of a distinct African American identity along the eastern coast of what would eventually become the United States.
- DNA tests, black history: Tucker family ties to 1619 Virginia slavesAn African Ancestry DNA test for a family elder, Floyd Tucker, showed that his DNA coincided with that found in a tribe in what is today Ghana – not Angola, from where William’s parents came.
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