There was a slave owning family in North Carolina named Ivey during Colonial America.
Either the Thomas or Adam.
Joseph Ivey Senior was a descendent from that family.
Joseph Ivey Senior (1736-1800) + Unknown
Children : James Ivey (1740-1840), Amos Ivey (Before 1775), and Joseph Ivey (1775-1840)
Joseph Ivey first appeared on the Bladen County tax records with the following information:
1768 Bladen County tax list:
Benjamin Ivey – 1 white tithable [consecutive with next entry]
Simon Cox & Adam Ivey – 2 mulatto tithables
Thomas Ivey – 1 white tithable
Joseph Ivey – 1 mulatto tithable
Some districts are missing from this tax list. We know Francis Ivey was there at
this time, as well as James Ivey and probably Isham Ivey.
1770 Bladen County tax list:
Barnes’ Dist: Adam Ivey 1 mulatto tithable
Benjamin Ivey (1 white) & John Phillips (1 mulatto)
[these entries consecutive]
McKissack’s Dist: Thomas Ivey 1 white tithable
James Ivey 1 white tithable
Joseph Ivey 1 white tithable
[these last two entries consecutive]
Several districts are missing this year.
1772 Bladen County tax list:
McKissack’s Dist: Adam Ivey 1 white tithable
Thomas Ivey 1 white tithable
Isom Ivey 1 white tithable
[Thomas & Isom consecutive]
James Ivey & Gideon Grant 2 mulatto tithables
Joseph Ivey 1 mulatto tithable
[one name between James & Joseph]
Benjamin Ivey 1 white tithable
Once again, several districts are missing this year.
Joseph Ivey Jr. (1775-1840) + Elizabeth (???)
Children : Elijah Ivey (1812-1860) , Eliza Ivey(1813-1880) , James Ivey (1814-1886), Mary Polly Ivey (????), Lucinda Ivey(1826-1861)
Joseph Ivey Jr. married a woman named Elizabeth and she is thought to be from the Lumbee Tribe. Not much is known about Elizabeth. We know her name is Elizabeth because she’s mentioned when Joseph sold his land in Illinois. From the census’ you can see that Joseph’s family had been living with and around Lumbee Tribes people his entire life. Eventually Joseph moved him and his family to Illinois along with other Lumbee tribes people like Major (Elijah) Locklear. While living in Illinois the Ivey family married into the Lumbee tribe again : Eliza Ivey Married John Locklear (Major Elijah Locklear‘s son).
In Illinois, Union County commissioners awarded “Joseph IVY” a contract to building a bridge across Running Lake which was near where he and his family lived towards the western part of the County near the Mississippi River. On December 1834 the bridge passed inspection and Joseph was paid $368.00 for labors and other expenses.**Information is from Paul Heingg’s
Lucinda Ivey (1826-1861) + James Augustus Sessions (1820-1858)
Lucinda was born in Franklin Illinois in 1826. She married James in about 1848 (there are rumors that they were married in Mountain Township according to Robert Sessions Biography). She appears on one census as Lucinda Sessions in 1850 marked as mulatto along with her children.
James August Sessions : He was fluent in 3 Native languages : Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw. In 1838 he was paid as an interpreter for the Indian Affairs commission at the age of 17. He later moved from Alabama to Arkansas and worked as a teacher and merchant at Fort Smith.
This photo is Lucinda Ivey and it’s marked sister sessions but I believe it’s her daughter Patience Sessions and the photo was taken around 1858 which would make Lucinda 32 years old and Patience 10 years old.
