Homer was an African American man residing in Chowan County, North Carolina who, in 1772, was enslaved by Samuel Johnston. Homer was likely a resident of Hayes Plantation. Johnston depended on Homer to carry a letter from Hayes to Johnston's father-in-law William Cathcart in Northampton County.

Homer may have been the same individual who was listed on Samuel Johnston's uncle Gabriel's estate inventory in 1756 as a boy named Homer. Samuel Johnston later became the administrator of his uncle's will, and therefore would have inherited many of the men and women his uncle had enslaved.

Any further information regarding this individual has not been located.