Someone lead me to this site to help me research my North Carolina ancestors in Craven County. On the site, I found an abstract of apprentice and bond records for Craven dating before 1768 to 1910. There are references to free people or color and free negroes in the records up to the 1860s. If someone has free ancestors in Craven County, North Carolina, This is proberly help. The link is

http://newbern.cpclib.org/research/apprentice/index.html