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- According to historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom, Rose was the quadroon slave (and daughter) of Moses Nunes, a Jewish back-country trader among the Creeks. "The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families", Frontline, Public Broadcast System. Bryan v. Walton, 33 Ga.Supp. 11, 1864 WL 1124 (Ga. 1864), on the other hand, says:
"What was Moses Nunez? Probably a Portuguese, as his name imports, from a left hand marriage with a mulatto by the name of Rose; that from this connection sprang James Nunez, Alexander Nunez, and Fannie Nunez, who afterwards intermarried with George Galphin...."
Given the placement of the semicolons, the sense of this sentence is that the metis George Galphin II (son of George Galphin and Metawney) married Frances Nunes, (which was, in fact, the case), not that George I was married to this Rose. Bryan makes clear that Moses was married to "Mulatto Rose;" indeed, the point of introducing such evidence was to prove that Joseph Nunez (grandson of Moses) was not white. Other litigation that arose over the Galphin estate did identify Barbara Galphin Holmes' mother as Rose and confirmed their status as slaves; however, the available evidence strongly suggests that these are different Roses and that Valdes y Cocom is mistaken as to the particulars.
- Woodward's claim notwithstanding, George Galphin's will specifically mentions Rose as the mother of Barbara. Bowers v. Newman, 2 McMul. 472, 27 S.C.L. 472, 1842 WL 2403 (S.C.Err., 1842).
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