Enslaved Ancestor File

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Surname	First Name	Plantation	Owner Last Name	Owner First Name	Date of Record	More Info
ADAMS	HENRY	STURGEON POINT	MINGE	WILLIAM H.	1841	+
First Name HENRY Plantation STURGEON POINT Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1841 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1841 Info & Sources Henry Adams served in Co. H. 37th U.S. Colored Infantry at the age of 22. His service records are inconsistent showing place of birth both as Wilson's Wharf and Sussex County. The pension application of his widow Nancy Adams gives his place of birth as Sturgeon Point. The Sturgeon Point Plantation belonged to William Hunt Minge who died very near the time of Henry's birth.
ALLEN	SAMUEL	CREWSVILLE	BRADLEY	ALLEN	2002	+
First Name SAMUEL Plantation CREWSVILLE Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name ALLEN Date of Record 2002 Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name ALLEN Date of Record 2002 Info & Sources Lutisha was a slave owned by Allen Bradley. Her first three children were fathered by Allen Bradley. According to family oral tradition, Allen Bradley objected to the children being called by the name Bradley. Instead they were given the name Allen. These children were named Mary Liza, Samuel and James. During her enslavement she also had children by Henry Crew, who may or may not have been a slave owned by Allen Bradley. Her children, however, would have been Bradley slaves. The children by Henry Crew were John Henry, Maria Ann, Peter, Cornelius, Benjamin F. and Letitia. Family History written by Lillian Robb Jones, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. Lutishia also had a son who died at birth or soon after whose death was reported by Allen Bradley. Lutisha was born ca 1813 and died 20 FEB 1896. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896. According to Samuel's marriage license he was born ca 1836. Charles City County Marriage Book 2, 33, 2.
ALLEN	JAMES	CREWSVILLE	BRADLEY	ALLEN	2002	+
First Name JAMES Plantation CREWSVILLE Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name ALLEN Date of Record 2002 Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name ALLEN Date of Record 2002 Info & Sources Lutisha was a slave owned by Allen Bradley. Her first three children were fathered by Allen Bradley. According to family oral tradition, Allen Bradley objected to the children being called by the name Bradley. Instead they were given the name Allen. These children were named Mary Liza, Samuel and James. During her enslavement she also had children by Henry Crew, who may or may not have been a slave owned by Allen Bradley. Her children, however, would have been Bradley slaves. The children by Henry Crew were John Henry, Maria Ann, Peter, Cornelius, Benjamin F. and Letitia. Family History written by Lillian Robb Jones, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. Lutishia also had a son who died at birth or soon after whose death was reported by Allen Bradley. Lutisha was born ca 1813 and died 20 FEB 1896. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896.
ALLEN	JAMES	POPLAR SPRINGS	VAIDEN	JOSEPH		+
First Name JAMES Plantation POPLAR SPRINGS Owner Last Name VAIDEN Owner First Name JOSEPH Date of Record Owner Last Name VAIDEN Owner First Name JOSEPH Date of Record Info & Sources Listed in Joseph Vaiden's will as a specific bequest to his son Jacob, "a negro boy James Allen." Charles City County Will Book No. 2, pp 29-31.
ALLEN	MARY LIZA	CREWSVILLE	BRADLEY	ALLEN	2002	+
First Name MARY LIZA Plantation CREWSVILLE Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name ALLEN Date of Record 2002 Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name ALLEN Date of Record 2002 Info & Sources Lutisha was a slave owned by Allen Bradley. Her first three children were fathered by Allen Bradley. According to family oral tradition, Allen Bradley objected to the children being called by the name Bradley. Instead they were given the name Allen. These children were named Mary Liza, Samuel and James. During her enslavement she also had children by Henry Crew, who may or may not have been a slave owned by Allen Bradley. Her children, however, would have been Bradley slaves. The children by Henry Crew were John Henry, Maria Ann, Peter, Cornelius, Benjamin F. and Letitia. Family History written by Lillian Robb Jones, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. Lutishia also had a son who died at birth or soon after whose death was reported by Allen Bradley. Lutisha was born ca 1813 and died 20 FEB 1896. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896.
ALLEN	BETTY	GREENWAY	CHRISTIAN	ROBERT	1865	+
First Name BETTY Plantation GREENWAY Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
ALLEN	JESSE	GREENWAY	CHRISTIAN	ROBERT	1865	+
First Name JESSE Plantation GREENWAY Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
ANDERSON	JAMES	WESTOVER	SELDEN	JOHN	1864	+
First Name JAMES Plantation WESTOVER Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources Named as a slave taken to Amelia Springs who ran away. John A. Selden Diary in Selden Family Papers 1811-1868, Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
ANDERSON	SAMUEL	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1813	+
First Name SAMUEL Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1813 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1813 Info & Sources Member of Charles City Baptist Church baptised before the Association of 1813. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun the First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jaquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
APPERSON	CARTER	TEDDINGTON	BAYLOR	RICHARD	1862	+
First Name CARTER Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 22 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 17, 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
APPERSON	NANCY	TEDDINGTON	BAYLOR	RICHARD	1862	+
First Name NANCY Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway female slave age 25 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 17, 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
ARMISTEAD	CORNELIA	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name CORNELIA Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
ARMISTEAD	HENRY	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name HENRY Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
ARMISTEAD	KITTY	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name KITTY Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
ARMISTEAD	ALICE	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name ALICE Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
ARMISTEAD	BURWELL/BURRELL, JR.	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1864	+
First Name BURWELL/BURRELL, JR. Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources A "young" Buwell was placed in charge at Sherwood Fores by Brig. Gen. Edward Augustus Wild. W.H. Clopton to Julia G. Tyler, 04 AUG 1864, Tyler Family Papers, Swem Library, College of William & Mary. Burwell Armistead is the younger of two Burwells listed in the 1870 Census of Charles City, Va. At the time of the census he was 34, born about 1836. At the time of his marriage in 1876 his parents were listed as Burwell and Maria Armistead. Charles City County Marriage Book No. 2,, pg. 20/32.
ARMISTEAD	BURWELL/BURRELL, SR.	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1876	+
First Name BURWELL/BURRELL, SR. Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1876 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1876 Info & Sources Burwell appears to be the enslaved coachman and gardner mentioned in several letters and who was retired as coachman in 1855. He is identified by the marriage record of Burwell Jr. Charles City County Marriage Book No. 2, pg. 20/32.
ARMISTEAD	MARIA	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1876	+
First Name MARIA Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1876 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1876 Info & Sources Wife of Burwell Sr. and mother of Burwell Jr. identified by the marriage record of her son. Charles City County Marriage Book No. 2, pg. 20/32
ARRINGTON	LUCY	MULBERRY SPRINGS	WALKER	WILLIAM F.	1843	+
First Name LUCY Plantation MULBERRY SPRINGS Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name WILLIAM F. Date of Record 1843 Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name WILLIAM F. Date of Record 1843 Info & Sources Listed in an inventory of William F. Walker taken in 1843. Charles City County Will Book 4, pg. 489. Lucy was valued at $350.00.
ASHBY	SALLY	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1813	+
First Name SALLY Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1813 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1813 Info & Sources Member of Charles City Baptist Church baptised before the Association of 1813. Also listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun the First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jaquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
ASHBY	CHARLES	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1820	+
First Name CHARLES Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. One of the slaves named in litigation turning over the Berkeley estate to its creditors. Sold to Dr. Edward Willcox for $00 (likely a take care arrangement for a superannuated slave). Bill of sale, Mc Guire, et al v. Harrison, et al.
ATKINS	CHRISTIAN		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name CHRISTIAN Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
AVERY	LUCY	SUMMER HILL	WALKER	J. L.	1855	+
First Name LUCY Plantation SUMMER HILL Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name J. L. Date of Record 1855 Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name J. L. Date of Record 1855 Info & Sources Slave belonging to J.L Walker of Summer Hill died of an unknown cause 15 MAR 1855 at the age of 2 years 1 month. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896.
BAILEY	MINOR	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1844	+
First Name MINOR Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1844 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1844 Info & Sources Baptised by Rev. William T. Leavell, Rector of Westover Parish 14 JUL 1844. William T. Leavell Diary and Private Register, Library of Virginia Archives, Accession. No. 21352.
BAILEY	DIANA	BERKELEY	ORGAIN	MARTHA A.	1865	+
First Name DIANA Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name ORGAIN Owner First Name MARTHA A. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name ORGAIN Owner First Name MARTHA A. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BAILY	THOMAS	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1866	+
First Name THOMAS Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1866 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1866 Info & Sources Articles of Agreement for the sharecropping of Weyanoke Farm were executed between seven freedmen and Fielding Douthat 07 MAR 1866, and approved by the local agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. Among the freedmen were Thomas Baily and his wife Lucinda. Original, National Archives, photocopy Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BAILY	LUCINDA	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1866	+
First Name LUCINDA Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1866 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1866 Info & Sources Articles of Agreement for the sharecropping of Weyanoke Farm were executed between seven freedmen and Fielding Douthat 07 MAR 1866, and approved by the local agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. Among the freedmen were Thomas Baily and his wife Lucinda. Original, National Archives, photocopy Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BAKER	EDMOND	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1820	+
First Name EDMOND Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BAKER	TOM		PARKER	BENJAMIN	1827	+
First Name TOM Plantation Owner Last Name PARKER Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name PARKER Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Tom Baker is listed in an Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of Benjamin Parker, taken on 26 NOV 1827. Charles City County Will Book 3, p. 251. Baker was valued at $300.
BANKS	WILL		SKELTON	BATHURST	1771	+
First Name WILL Plantation Owner Last Name SKELTON Owner First Name BATHURST Date of Record 1771 Owner Last Name SKELTON Owner First Name BATHURST Date of Record 1771 Info & Sources Slave listed in an Inventory of Bathurst Skelton taken 07 OCT 1771 and recorded 01 DEC 1773. Note -- this property is listed as being at Elk Island in Goochland County, so it is possible the slave was never a resident of Charles City County. Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, ed. & comp., Charles City County, Virginia Records 1737-1774, With Several 17th Century Fragments (1986), p. 61.
BAPTIST	BILLY		TYLER	LEWIS	1820	+
First Name BILLY Plantation Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name LEWIS Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name LEWIS Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BARBER	JOHN	HARDENS	CARTER	CHARLES	1807	+
First Name JOHN Plantation HARDENS Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Info & Sources Inventory and Appraisement of the slaves of Charles Carter at Shirley taken 07 MAR 1807. Charles City County Will Book 1, p. 724. John Barber was valued at $200.
BASHOP	HARRY		DANCY	EDWARD	1796	+
First Name HARRY Plantation Owner Last Name DANCY Owner First Name EDWARD Date of Record 1796 Owner Last Name DANCY Owner First Name EDWARD Date of Record 1796 Info & Sources Listed in an Inventory and Appraisement of the estate of Edward Dancy recorded 07 MAY 1796. Charles City County Will Book No. 1, p. 385.
BASHOP	BILLY	NORTH BEND	WILLCOX	THOMAS H.	1858	+
First Name BILLY Plantation NORTH BEND Owner Last Name WILLCOX Owner First Name THOMAS H. Date of Record 1858 Owner Last Name WILLCOX Owner First Name THOMAS H. Date of Record 1858 Info & Sources Died in 1858 at the age of 88. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896. Judge George L. Christia n, in a lecture given at Charles City Courthouse, reminisced about Revolutionary War characters and mentioned "Uncle Billy Bashops" who belonged to Willcox. Lecture, Charles city: Some of its Noted Places and People and Personal Recollecitons of Some of These, delivered at Charles City Courthouse, June 24, 1910, by Hon. Goerge L. Christian, of Richmond, a native of Charles City, p.21. Christian stated that Bashop used to say that he remembered Gen. Washington well and that he was either Gen. Washington's or some other general's body servant. If the death register is correct Bashop would not have been old enough to serve in the war. Possibly Christian confused Bashop with William Thomas
BASSETT	ELSEY	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1844	+
First Name ELSEY Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1844 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1844 Info & Sources Baptised by Rev. William T. Leavell, Rector of Westover Parish, 14 JULY 1844, William T. Leavell Diary and Private Register, Library of Virginia Archives, Accession No. 21352.
BASSETT	BURWELL	COLESVILLE	CLARK	JOHN	1826	+
First Name BURWELL Plantation COLESVILLE Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1826 Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1826 Info & Sources Burwell Bassett is listed in an Inventory and Appraisement of the estate of John Clark, taken on 16 DEC 1826. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 199-200. Bassett was valued at $300.
BASSETT	PATSY	COLESVILLE	CLARK	JOHN	1827	+
First Name PATSY Plantation COLESVILLE Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources John Clark emancipated a number of his slaves under his will and made provision for others to be set free upon attaining the age of 21. In doing so Clark expressly observed that the laws of Virginia could make these emancipations difficult because it required every emancipated slave to leave the state within a year or risk being sold back into slavery. Emancipated slaves could petition the General Assembly for permission to stay, but such permission was rarely granted. Several of the slaves emancipated under Clark's will were sold back into slavery when they failed to leave the state. Clark emanicpated outright 5 slaves: Amy, Patty (Patsy), Betty, Frank alias Harrison, and Arthur. Peter Fountain was to be free after the death of Clark's wife. Seven children were to be set free on their 21st birthdays: Watt on 24 DEC 1842
BASSETT	BETTIE	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ROBERT	1870	+
First Name BETTIE Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Info & Sources Daughter of Burwell and Harriet Roy Bassett listed in household in 1870 census. Bettie was born ca 1852, and her mother was a slave owned by Robert Douthat. 1870 U.S. Census of Charles City County.
BASSETT	JULIA	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ROBERT	1870	+
First Name JULIA Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Info & Sources Daughter of Burwell and Harriet Roy Bassett listed in household in 1870 census and birth recorded in Charles City Co., Birth register 25 APR 1856.
BASSETT	JOB	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ROBERT	1870	+
First Name JOB Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Info & Sources Son of Burwell and Harriet Roy Bassett listed in household in 1870 census. Job was born ca 1854 and his mother was a slave owned by Robert Douthat. 1870 U.S. 1870 Census of Charles City County.
BASSETT	SUSAN	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ROBERT	1870	+
First Name SUSAN Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Info & Sources Daughter of Burwell and Harriet Roy Bassett listed in household in 1870 census. Susan was born ca 1859, and her mother was a slave owned by Robert Douthat. 1870 U.S. Census of Charles City County.
BASSETT	BURWELL	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ROBERT	1870	+
First Name BURWELL Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1870 Info & Sources Son of Burwell and Harriet Roy Bassett listed in household in 1870 census. Burwell was born ca 1861, and his mother was a slave owned by Robert Douthat. 1870 U.S. Census of Charles City County.
BASSETT	BURRELL	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1812 ca	+
First Name BURRELL Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1812 ca Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1812 ca Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church enrolled before 1812. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BATES	WILLIAM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1863	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 22 and a house servant who left with the gun boats in July 1863. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives. Bates enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a 1st Class Boy and served on the USS Wabash. African Americn Sailors in the Union Navy NPS database.
BATES	PHILLIS	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1842	+
First Name PHILLIS Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1842 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1842 Info & Sources Births of children recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Mother of Stephen and Nancy. Wife of Napolean.
BATES	STEPHEN	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1842	+
First Name STEPHEN Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1842 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1842 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Phillis.
BATES	NANCY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1845	+
First Name NANCY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1845 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1845 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Phillis. 14 MAY 1864 Letter of Fannie Nelson Carter to her sister states,"While Judy was sick one of the best servants Nancy, Wm. Bates sister, came in and offered to take charge of Mary for me as all work on the farm was suspended and she was so kind to her that I was sorry when Judy got well enough to come back into the house. Charles City County Historical Society Newsletter, No. 2 (MAR 1995). Nancy was a daughter of Napolean and Phylis Bates and a wife of Claiborn Carter. She gave and affidavit in the Widows Pension appication of Phoebe Ann Harris. U.S. Navy Widows #17389.
BATES	NAPOLEON	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1864	+
First Name NAPOLEON Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources Husband of Philis and father of Nancy J. There were several Napolean Bates at Shirley Plantation. This one was a dining room servant who was elderly at the time of the Civil War and afflicted with consumption. Letter of 8 MAY 1864 from Fannie Nelson Carter to sister Lucy, states, "So Papa called up poor (Napolean) he is in the last stages of consumption though he is a most excellent dining room wervant and a great loss to us, and told him that this gentleman (Union officer) wanted him to go with him. Nat begged hard, but the Yankee was ___able and promised us his work of honor that he would return." Charles City County Historical Society Newsletter No. 2 (MAR 1995).
BATES	PHILLIS	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL		+
First Name PHILLIS Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record Info & Sources Wife of Napoleon Bates and mother of Nancy J. Carter.
BATES	LUCY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1849	+
First Name LUCY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1849 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1849 Info & Sources A cholera epidemic hit Shirley in the summer of 1849 and claimed the lives of thirty-one or thirty-two slaves (records differ) in the course of three terrifying weeks. The deaths were recorded in the 1850 Census of Mortality and in plantation records. Shirley Plantation Collection, container 11, folder 5, J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg. Lucy Bates died 01 JUL 1849. She was the one-year-old daughter of Phillis.
BATES	MARY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1856	+
First Name MARY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1856 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1856 Info & Sources Birth of daughter recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Mother of Susan.
BATES	SUSAN	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1856	+
First Name SUSAN Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1856 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1856 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Mary.
BATES	MARY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1862	+
First Name MARY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Death of son at 16 months recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Mother of Napoleon.
BATES	NAPOLEON	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1862	+
First Name NAPOLEON Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Death at 16 months recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Mary.
BATES	MILDRED	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1850s	+
First Name MILDRED Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1850s Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1850s Info & Sources Name included in a list of slaves in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm.
BAYLOR	NANCY	TEDDINGTON	BAYLOR	RICHARD	1862	+
First Name NANCY Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway female slave age 28 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 17, 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
BAYLOR	LUCY	TEDDINGTON	BAYLOR	RICHARD	1862	+
First Name LUCY Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway female slave age 21 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 17, 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
BELL	JACOB	COURTHOUSE PLANTATION	CHRISTIAN	ROBERT W.	1896	+
First Name JACOB Plantation COURTHOUSE PLANTATION Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name ROBERT W. Date of Record 1896 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name ROBERT W. Date of Record 1896 Info & Sources Jacob gave a deposition in the widow's pension application of Jenny Crawley Gardner in which he stated that he and Richard Gardner were raised together. U.S. Army Widow's # 459964
BERFORT	PETER		CHRISTIAN	COL.	1820	+
First Name PETER Plantation Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name COL. Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name COL. Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BINFORD	DANIEL		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name DANIEL Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
BINFORD	ANN		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name ANN Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
BINFORD	SILVIA		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name SILVIA Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Wife of Nathaniel. Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
BINFORD	EVANS		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name EVANS Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Could be the same person as Evans Carter. Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
BINFORD	CATHERINE		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name CATHERINE Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Wife of Evans. Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
BINFORD	ABRAHAM	WEST GARDEN	HARGRAVE	SAMUEL	1795	+
First Name ABRAHAM Plantation WEST GARDEN Owner Last Name HARGRAVE Owner First Name SAMUEL Date of Record 1795 Owner Last Name HARGRAVE Owner First Name SAMUEL Date of Record 1795 Info & Sources Quaker Samuel Hargrave emancipated 5 slaves in a deed of 15 JAN 1795, including Abraham, age 28, Edward, age 20, Sampson, age 11, and Lucy age 4. Charles City County Deed Book 4, p. 211. The "Abraham" listed in this deed is believed to be Abrahm Binford who is listed as a free black head of household in the 1810 Census of Charles City County.
BINFORD	AMEY		EVANS	ROBERT	1806	+
First Name AMEY Plantation Owner Last Name EVANS Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1806 Owner Last Name EVANS Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1806 Info & Sources Quaker Robert Evans emancipated 5 slaves by deed of 07 APR 1806. The slaves were described as Amey, age 45, her son Seth, age 17, Nelly, age 26 and Nelly's 2 children, who are not otherwise described. Charles City County Deed Book 5, p. 120. "Amey" is believed to be Amey Binford who was a free black head of household, with 4 tithables in her household, in the 1810 Census of Charles City County.
BINFORD	NATHANIEL		BINFORD	THOMAS	1816	+
First Name NATHANIEL Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre.
BINFORD	ALLY		BINFORD	THOMAS	1816	+
First Name ALLY Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre.
BINNS	WILL		BINNS	CHARLES	1793	+
First Name WILL Plantation Owner Last Name BINNS Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1793 Owner Last Name BINNS Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1793 Info & Sources Charles Binns emancipated his 35 year-old slave "Will" by deed of 19 DEC 1793. Charles City County Deed Book 4, p. 150. Will Binns is listed as a free black head of household in the 1810 Census of Charles City County.
BIRD	BETTY	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1820	+
First Name BETTY Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BLACK	ELIZA	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1865	+
First Name ELIZA Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. Mother of Ellen, Joseph, Mary and Thadious. Eliza was the personal maid and seamstress for Julia Gardner Tyler. Her escape during the war with five children is detailed in an undated letter to the Commanding Officer of U.S. Forces at Jamestown Island that was never sent. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BLACK	THADIOUS	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1865	+
First Name THADIOUS Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Son of Eliza. Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BLACK	ELLEN	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1865	+
First Name ELLEN Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Daughter of Eliza. Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BLACK	MARY	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1865	+
First Name MARY Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Daughter of Eliza. Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BLACK	JOSEPH	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1865	+
First Name JOSEPH Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Son of Eliza. Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BLACK	JOE	UPPER WEYANOKE	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name JOE Plantation UPPER WEYANOKE Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Slave listed in the Inventory and appraisement of the slaves belonging to John Minge taken 05 DEC 1827. Joe Black was valued at $400. Charles City County Will Book No. 3, pp 341-44.
BLACK	ISAAC	KENNONS	WILSON	JOSIAH	1862	+
First Name ISAAC Plantation KENNONS Owner Last Name WILSON Owner First Name JOSIAH Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name WILSON Owner First Name JOSIAH Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Slave listed in the Inventory and appraisement of the slaves belonging to Josiah C. Wilson taken 21 DEC 1862. Charles City County Chancery Case 1900-0293. Isaac Black was valued at $800. A Little Isaac is listed beneath Isaac and valued at $300. Also listed in a Statement of Allotments of J.C. Wilson's negroes dated 21 FEB 1863 in lot #4 drawn by Mary E. Johnson. Charles City County Chancery Case 1868-0080. In this list Black was valued at $1,000.
BLACK	KITTY	RURAL SHADES	LAMB	LYCURGUS	1853	+
First Name KITTY Plantation RURAL SHADES Owner Last Name LAMB Owner First Name LYCURGUS Date of Record 1853 Owner Last Name LAMB Owner First Name LYCURGUS Date of Record 1853 Info & Sources Female slave owned by Lycurgus Anthony Lamb of Rural Shades died in childbirth at the age of 21, 05 JAN 1853. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896.
BLACK	MARTHA	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1847	+
First Name MARTHA Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1847 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1847 Info & Sources Baptised by Rev. William T. Leavell, Rector of Westover Parish, 9 MAY 1847, William T. Leavell, Diary and Private Register, Library of Virginia Archives, Accession No. 21352. Martha was the daughter of Peter and Nancy Black whose marriage was earlier officiated by Rev. Leavell.
BLACK	RANDAL	UPPER WEYANOKE	MINGE	JOHN	1950	+
First Name RANDAL Plantation UPPER WEYANOKE Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1950 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1950 Info & Sources Randal Black was one of the slaves taken to Marengo County, AL by George W.H. Minge, son of John Minge, who talked about "helping to shoe horses at Weyanoke in Virginia." John Henry Minge, Genealogy and Some History of the Minge-Harrison Families of Colonial Tidewater Virginia, pg. 209, manuscript, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BLACK	DOUGLASS	CREEK PLANTATION	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name DOUGLASS Plantation CREEK PLANTATION Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Douglass was the husband of Patience and the father of Nancy and Randolph. He, Patience and Nancy are mentioned in the Will of John Minge as slaves at his Creek Plantation in connection with a bequest of Nancy to his daugher Sarah. Charles City County Will Book 3, pg. 225. Family surname revealed by the death record of son Randolph.
BLACK	PATIENCE	CREEK PLANTATION	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name PATIENCE Plantation CREEK PLANTATION Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Patience was the wife of Douglass and the mother of Nancy and Randolph. She, Douglass and Nancy are mentioned in the Will of John Minge as slaves at his Creek Plantation in connection with a bequest of Nancy to his daugher Sarah. Charles City County Will Book 3, pg. 225. Family surname revealed by the death record of son Randolph.
BLACK	NANCY	CREEK PLANTATION	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name NANCY Plantation CREEK PLANTATION Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Nancy was the daughter of Douglass and Patience. She, Douglass and Patience are mentioned in the Will of John Minge as slaves at his Creek Plantation in connection with a bequest of Nancy to his daugher Sarah. Charles City County Will Book 3, pg. 225. Family surname revealed by the death record of son Randolph.
BLACK	RANDOLPH/ RANDAL	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1875	+
First Name RANDOLPH/ RANDAL Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1875 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1875 Info & Sources Randolph was the husband of Lucy and the father of William and Randolph, Jr.. Randolph Black died at Sherwood Forest and his death was reported by D. Gardner Tyler. The death register identifies him as a son of Douglass Black. Charles City County Death Register APR 1875. He appears to be the slave named Randolph in the inventory ofJohn Minge for slaves at Creek Plantation which Tyler purchased from Collier Minge and which became a part of Sherwood Forest. In the inventory Randolph is listed as a blacksmith and valued at $650. Charles City Will Book no. 3, pg.341. He also appears to John Tyler's miller Randal who is named in a Grand Jury Presentment charging free Negro James Brown from illegally purchasing three bushels of Indian corn from him. Commonwealth v. Brown, Grand Jury Presentment November 1859, Charles City County Records, Library of Virginia Archives, Ended Causes, Box 13, BC#1044799.
BLACK	LUCY	CREEK PLANTATION	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name LUCY Plantation CREEK PLANTATION Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Wife of Randolph and mother of William and Randolph, Jr.. Lucy is the inferred wife of Randolph Black in the 1870 Census of Charles City County. She appears to be the slave named Lucy in the Inventory of slaves belonging to John Minge at Creek Plantation. She and two children are valued at $400. Charles City Will Book 3, pg. 341.
BLACK	WILLIAM	CREEK PLANTATION	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation CREEK PLANTATION Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources William was the son of Randolph and Lucy. He appears to be the slave listed in the Inventory of slaves belonging to John Minge at Creek Plantation, described as Lucy's son and valued at $125. Charles City County Will Book 3, pg.341. In the 1870 Census of Charles City County he is listed with inferred children named Douglass and Patience.
BLACK	RANDOLPH, JR.	CREEK PLANTATION	MINGE	JOHN	1827	+
First Name RANDOLPH, JR. Plantation CREEK PLANTATION Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Randolph, Jr. was the son of Randolph and Lucy. He appears to the slave listed in the Inventory of slaves belonging to John Minge at Creek Plantation, listed as Lucy's son and valued at $100. Charles City Will Book no. 3, pg. 341.
BLACK	HENRY	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1870	+
First Name HENRY Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1870 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1870 Info & Sources Henry Black appears to be one of two males slaves whose escape from Sherwood is described in a letter written, but never sent, to the Commanding Officer U.S. Forces at Jamestown. The escape took place before DEC 1863 when Henry enlisted at Norfolk, Va. in the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry. (See our data base of Union Servicemembers.) Henry apparently was a house servant as his occupation was listed as waiter. In the 1870 Census of Elizabeth City, Va. He was living in the household of Eliza Black and his occupation was listed as a servant.
BLACK	ALLEN	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1856	+
First Name ALLEN Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1856 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1856 Info & Sources Allen was a son of Eliza. His birth (without given name) is listed 10 Sept 1856 in the Charles City County Birth Register. In the 1870 census of Elizabeth City, Va. He is listed in the household of Eliza and described as 14 years old.
BLACK	SCOTT	KENNONS	WILSON	JOHN C.	1866	+
First Name SCOTT Plantation KENNONS Owner Last Name WILSON Owner First Name JOHN C. Date of Record 1866 Owner Last Name WILSON Owner First Name JOHN C. Date of Record 1866 Info & Sources Articles of Agreement for share cropping of land were executed between John C. Wilson and Scott Black and John C. Wilson on 04 AUG 1866 and approved by the local representative of the Freedmen's Bureau. Original, National Archives, photocopy Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. Scott is listed in lot # 1 which was drawn by John C. Wilson of slaves belonging to Josiah C. Wilson dated 21 FEB 1863. In the listing Scott is valued at $900. Charles City County Chancery Case 1868-0080. The notation "Scott Black wants Lease to the freedman" is written on a document in the Freedmen's Bureau local records in which John C. Wilson "loaned to the freedmen of the lower end of the county the land on which "Mt. Zion formerly stood" for the purposes of building a church." Original National Archives
BLACK	PETER	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1845	+
First Name PETER Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1845 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1845 Info & Sources Peter and Nancy Black were married at Mrs. Douthat's by Rev. Leavell JULY 1845. The minister's fee was paid by the servants and Mrs. Douthat and "the whole family" were witnesses. William T. Leavell
BLACK	NANCY	WEYANOKE	DOUTHAT	ELEANOR	1845	+
First Name NANCY Plantation WEYANOKE Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1845 Owner Last Name DOUTHAT Owner First Name ELEANOR Date of Record 1845 Info & Sources Peter and Nancy Black were married at Mrs. Douthat's by Rev. Leavell JULY 1845. The minister's fee was paid by the servants and Mrs. Douthat and "the whole family" were witnesses. William T. Leavell
BLACK	BILLY	KITTIEWAN	SELDEN	WILLIAM A., Dr.	1838	+
First Name BILLY Plantation KITTIEWAN Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name WILLIAM A., Dr. Date of Record 1838 Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name WILLIAM A., Dr. Date of Record 1838 Info & Sources Slave valued at $700 and alotted to William A. Selden in Surry County Chancery case 1838-012 John A. Selden, Jr. v. Griffin Orgain & wife.
BLACK	CATY	KITTIEWAN	SELDEN	WILLIAM A., Dr.	1838	+
First Name CATY Plantation KITTIEWAN Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name WILLIAM A., Dr. Date of Record 1838 Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name WILLIAM A., Dr. Date of Record 1838 Info & Sources Slave valued at $150 and alotted to William A. Selden in Surry County Chancery case 1838-012 John A. Selden, Jr. v. Griffin Orgain & wife.
BLACK	BILLY	BELLE AIR	WILLCOX	HAMLIN	1857	+
First Name BILLY Plantation BELLE AIR Owner Last Name WILLCOX Owner First Name HAMLIN Date of Record 1857 Owner Last Name WILLCOX Owner First Name HAMLIN Date of Record 1857 Info & Sources Slave valued at $350 in inventory of slaves belonging to Hamlin Willcox estate at Belle Air. Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pg. 261.
BLACK	ALEXANDER	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1846	+
First Name ALEXANDER Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1846 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1846 Info & Sources His marriage to an enslaved woman named Eliza and the "great frolic" it entailed in related in a letter of Julia G. Tyler to her mother 10 FEB 1846, Tyler Family Papers, Swem Library College of William & Mary.
BLACK	JESSE	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1872	+
First Name JESSE Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1872 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1872 Info & Sources Jesse Black was the father of Thadious Black, son of Eliza. He is identified by his marriage record 22 APR 1872 in Hampton, Elizabeth City. Virginia Marriages, Family Search.org. Thadious also reported the death of Jesse 24 DEC 1893, Charles City County Death Register 1853 - 1895. Jesse appears to be the slave named Jesse listed in the 1827 inventory of John Minge's slaves at Creek Plantation and valued at $400. +
BOB	SPENCER	TEDDINGTON	BAYLOR	RICHARD	1862	+
First Name SPENCER Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 28 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 17, 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
BOLLING	ROBERT		ADAMS	DANIEL	1853	+
First Name ROBERT Plantation Owner Last Name ADAMS Owner First Name DANIEL Date of Record 1853 Owner Last Name ADAMS Owner First Name DANIEL Date of Record 1853 Info & Sources Charles City County Register of Births 1853-1895, male slave born alive 14 NOV 1853, birth reported by owner Danl. J. Adams.
BOOKER	SYLVIA	BERKELEY	ORGAIN	MRS.	1852	+
First Name SYLVIA Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name ORGAIN Owner First Name MRS. Date of Record 1852 Owner Last Name ORGAIN Owner First Name MRS. Date of Record 1852 Info & Sources Baptised by Rev. William T. Leavell, Rector of Westover Parish, 30 MAY 1852, William T. Leavell, Diary and Private Register, Library of Virginia Archives, Accession No. 21352.
BOOKER	ARCHIE	THE GLEBE	CRENSHAW	AUGUSTUS	1930 ca	+
First Name ARCHIE Plantation THE GLEBE Owner Last Name CRENSHAW Owner First Name AUGUSTUS Date of Record 1930 ca Owner Last Name CRENSHAW Owner First Name AUGUSTUS Date of Record 1930 ca Info & Sources Archie Booker was one of two Charles City ex-slaves interviewed by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's. His interview is published in Charles L. Perdue
BOTTOM	HARRY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1807	+
First Name HARRY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Info & Sources Inventory and Appraisement of the slaves of Charles Carter at Shirley taken 07 MAR 1807. Charles City County Will Book 1, p. 720. Harry Bottom was valued at $0.
BOTTOMS	SAMUEL		BRADLEY	P.	1815	+
First Name SAMUEL Plantation Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name P. Date of Record 1815 Owner Last Name BRADLEY Owner First Name P. Date of Record 1815 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church enrolled Association 1815. Also listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BOUNCING	BETTY	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BWNJAMIN	1828	+
First Name BETTY Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BWNJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BWNJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Info & Sources Mother of Mary and one of the slaves mentioned in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley. Deed of 13 MAY 1828, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 295. Deed of
BOWMAN	CORNELIUS		WARREN	ELIZABETH	1864	+
First Name CORNELIUS Plantation Owner Last Name WARREN Owner First Name ELIZABETH Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name WARREN Owner First Name ELIZABETH Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources Enlisted in U.S. Navy. Widow #10902 includes affidavits of brothers named William and Malachi Warren who attested sailor used name of his father while they went by the name of their owner. Elizabeth Warren (of James City) had one slave listed in 1860 slave census. Sailor listed his place of birth as Charles City.
BOWRY	BILLY	BELLE AIR	WILLCOX	HAMLIN	1857	+
First Name BILLY Plantation BELLE AIR Owner Last Name WILLCOX Owner First Name HAMLIN Date of Record 1857 Owner Last Name WILLCOX Owner First Name HAMLIN Date of Record 1857 Info & Sources Slave valued at $450 in inventory of slaves belonging to Hamlin Willcox estate at Belle Air, Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pg. 261.
BRADLEY	RACHEL	OAK HILL	MAJOR	GEORGE B.	1865	+
First Name RACHEL Plantation OAK HILL Owner Last Name MAJOR Owner First Name GEORGE B. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name MAJOR Owner First Name GEORGE B. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BRADLEY	EDMUND		PEARMAN	WILLIAM A.	1925	+
First Name EDMUND Plantation Owner Last Name PEARMAN Owner First Name WILLIAM A. Date of Record 1925 Owner Last Name PEARMAN Owner First Name WILLIAM A. Date of Record 1925 Info & Sources Edmund Bradley, age 82, filed an application for a Confederate Pension for service as a body servant, etc. 21 AUG 1925. In his application Bradley stated that his former master was Dr. William A. Pearman and that he entered the Confederate service in August 1861 when he was sent to work on the breastworks at Fort MacGruder near Williamsburg and thereafter cutting poles for wagons. Confederaet Pensions, Body Servants, Library of Virginia.
BRANCH	NEPTUNE		WATKINS		1820	+
First Name NEPTUNE Plantation Owner Last Name WATKINS Owner First Name Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name WATKINS Owner First Name Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. (May be Henrico County.)
BRAXTIN	FANNY	LOCUST HILL	CHRISTIAN	BENJAMIN	1865	+
First Name FANNY Plantation LOCUST HILL Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BRAXTIN	CHARLOTTE	LOCUST HILL	CHRISTIAN	BENJAMIN	1865	+
First Name CHARLOTTE Plantation LOCUST HILL Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BRAXTIN	ROBERT	LOCUST HILL	CHRISTIAN	BENJAMIN	1865	+
First Name ROBERT Plantation LOCUST HILL Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
BROOKS	HANNAH	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1781	+
First Name HANNAH Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1781 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1781 Info & Sources Slave listed in an appraisement of the Estate of Benjamin Harrison, V, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, taken JULY 1781 and recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 1, p 408. Hannah Brooks is listed as 20 years old and valued at 30 pounds sterling.
BROOKS	WILLIAM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1849	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1849 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1849 Info & Sources A cholera epidemic hit Shirley in the summer of 1849 and claimed the lives of thirty-one or thirty-two slaves (records differ) in the course of three terrifying weeks. The deaths were recorded in the 1850 Census of Mortality and in plantation records. Shirley Plantation Collection, container 11, folder 5, J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg. William Brooks was the two year old son of Mary Washington. He died 01 JUL 1849.
BROWN	WEBSTER	MULBERRY SPRINGS	WALKER	WILLIAM F.	1868	+
First Name WEBSTER Plantation MULBERRY SPRINGS Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name WILLIAM F. Date of Record 1868 Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name WILLIAM F. Date of Record 1868 Info & Sources Marriage license lists place of birth as Mulberry Springs. Online Marriage Data Base. Also listed (without surname) in an inventory of William F. Walker taken in 1843. Charles City County Will Book 4, pg. 489. Webster was valued at $125.00.
BROWN	CHRISTIANNA	MULBERRY SPRINGS	WALKER	WILLIAM F.	1868	+
First Name CHRISTIANNA Plantation MULBERRY SPRINGS Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name WILLIAM F. Date of Record 1868 Owner Last Name WALKER Owner First Name WILLIAM F. Date of Record 1868 Info & Sources Mother of Webster Brown whose marriage license gave his place of birth as Mulberry Springs. Also listed (without surname) in an inventory of William F. Walker taken in 1843. Charles City County Will Book 4, pg. 489. Christianna and an unnamed child were valued at $300.00.
BROWN	SARY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1813	+
First Name SARY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1813 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1813 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church enrolled between Association of 1813 and Association of 1819. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BROWN	ANSY		WATKINS		1800 ca	+
First Name ANSY Plantation Owner Last Name WATKINS Owner First Name Date of Record 1800 ca Owner Last Name WATKINS Owner First Name Date of Record 1800 ca Info & Sources Member of Charles City Baptist Church enrolled before 1810 and removed. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. (May be Henrico County.)
BROWN	JOE	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1842	+
First Name JOE Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1842 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1842 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Betsy Buck. Listed as died 23 MAY 1869 at 17 of brain affliction.
BROWN	JOSH	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1820	+
First Name JOSH Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BROWN	NELLEY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1820	+
First Name NELLEY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives.
BROWN	GEORGIANA	OAK HILL	MAJOR	GEORGE B.	1864	+
First Name GEORGIANA Plantation OAK HILL Owner Last Name MAJOR Owner First Name GEORGE B. Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name MAJOR Owner First Name GEORGE B. Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources Georgiana Brown was born a slave at Oak Hill Plantation 12 MAY 1864. List of slave birth dates, Major-Marable Family Papers, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg, box 7 folder 1.
BROWN	WILL	INDIAN FIELDS	HILL	WILLIAM E.	1826	+
First Name WILL Plantation INDIAN FIELDS Owner Last Name HILL Owner First Name WILLIAM E. Date of Record 1826 Owner Last Name HILL Owner First Name WILLIAM E. Date of Record 1826 Info & Sources Will Brown is listed in the Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of William E. Hill, taken on 22 APR 1826. Charles City County Will Book 3, p. 198. Brown was valued at $300.
BROWN	CHARLES		BOWERY	THOMAS	1855	+
First Name CHARLES Plantation Owner Last Name BOWERY Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1855 Owner Last Name BOWERY Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1855 Info & Sources Advertised as a runaway 19 or 20 years old 5' 6 to 8" tall, thin visaged with high cheek bones, thick lips,has been hostler at Davis' livery stable
BROWN	BETSY	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1825	+
First Name BETSY Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1825 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1825 Info & Sources Mother of Joe, William, Robert (Bob), Peter, Nelson and Richard. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley and in litigation turning the estate over to creditors. Deed of 17 AUG 1825, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 99; Deed of 13 MAY 1828, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 295. In his 1843 depostion Mathew Hargrave testified that Mrs. McGuire took Betsy to Richmond with her. McGuire, et. Al. v. Harrison, et al. ccc 1900
BROWN	JOE	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1830	+
First Name JOE Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Info & Sources Son of Betsy Brown and brother of William, Robert, Peter, Nelson and Richard. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley and in litigation turning the estate over to creditors. Deed of 27 JAN 1830, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 438; Order enjoinging sale 24 SEP 1842, MCGuire, et al. v. Harrison, et.al.
BROWN	WILLIAM	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1830	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Info & Sources Son of Betsy Brown and brother of Joe, Robert, Peter, Nelson and Richard. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley. Deed of 27 JAN 1830, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 438.
BROWN	ROBERT(BOB)	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1830	+
First Name ROBERT(BOB) Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Info & Sources Son of Betsy Brown and brother of Joe, William, Peter, Nelson and Richard. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley and in litigation turning over the estate to its creditors. Deed of 27 JAN 1830, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 438; Advertised for sale 24 SEP 1842, Mc Guire, et al. v. Harrison, et al.
BROWN	PETER	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1825	+
First Name PETER Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1825 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1825 Info & Sources Son of Betsy Brown and brother of Joe, William, Nelson and Richard. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley. Deed of 17 AUG 1825, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 99.
BROWN	NELSON	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1828	+
First Name NELSON Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Info & Sources Son of Betsy Brown and brother of Joe, William, Peter, and Richard. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkleley. Deed of 13 MAY 1828, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 295/
BROWN	RICHARD	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1828	+
First Name RICHARD Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Info & Sources Son of Betsy Brown and brother of Joe, William, Peter and Nelson. One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley. Deed of 13 MAY 1828, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 295.
BROWN	TOM	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1830	+
First Name TOM Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1830 Info & Sources One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley and in litigation in which the estate was turned over to its creditors. Deed of 27 JAN 1830, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 438. Advertised for sale 24 SEP 1842; Sold to Ann R. Nelson for $425, Trustees' Report, McGuire, et al. v. Harrison, et. Al. Tom Brown appears in the 1870 Census of Millwood, Clarke County. His descendants recognized a family connection with the Quivers family.
BROWN	BETTY	THE FOREST	WAYLES	JOHN	1780 ca	+
First Name BETTY Plantation THE FOREST Owner Last Name WAYLES Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1780 ca Owner Last Name WAYLES Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1780 ca Info & Sources Daughter of Betty Hemings born in 1759. For sources concerning these children and their birth dates see Cynthia H. Burton, Jefferson Vindicated, Fallacies, Omissions,and Contradictions in the Hemings Genealogical Search (2005).
BROWN	ALBERT	BERKELEY	ORGAIN	MARY M.	1848	+
First Name ALBERT Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name ORGAIN Owner First Name MARY M. Date of Record 1848 Owner Last Name ORGAIN Owner First Name MARY M. Date of Record 1848 Info & Sources Slave valued at $500 and alotted to Mary M. Orgain who lived at Berkeley in Surry County Chancery case William 1848-002 Allen, etc. vs. Mary M. Orgain, etc.
BUCK	BETSY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1824	+
First Name BETSY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1824 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1824 Info & Sources Births of children recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Mother of Charles, Fibby, John, Joe Brown, Lilly, Ann, Phillis, Elijah, Celia and Jack. 14 MAY 1864 letter of Fannie Nelson Carter to her sister states, "We are in great straights every day. Besty Buck's family and the girls who waited in the dining room, Phyllis daughter are all among the missing today." Charles City County Historical Society Newsletter No. 2 (MAR 1995).
BUCK	FIBBY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1837	+
First Name FIBBY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1837 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1837 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Betsy.
BUCK	PHILLIS	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1855	+
First Name PHILLIS Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1855 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1855 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Betsy.
BUCK	ELIJAH	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1858	+
First Name ELIJAH Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1858 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1858 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Betsy.
BUCK	CELIA	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1845	+
First Name CELIA Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1845 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1845 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Betsy.
BUCK	LILLIE ANN	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1853	+
First Name LILLIE ANN Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1853 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1853 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Betsy.
BUCK	JOHN	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1862	+
First Name JOHN Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 23 and a cook who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives. Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Born 1839, son of Betsy.
BUCK	CHARLES	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1862	+
First Name CHARLES Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 27 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives. Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Born 1835, son of Betsy.
BUCK	WILLIAM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1863	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 35 and a cook who left with the gun boats in July 1863. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives. A few years earlier, this William Buck or the elder one was one of three slaves convicted of conspiracy to make an insurrection 03 JUN 1861. Buck was charged, along with two slaves belonging to Dr. Richard Epps, of conspiring "to rebel or make insurrection by conversing together about the Northern Army & their expectations of being set free & having arms put in their hands & their readyness to rebel against their masters." Thirty nine lashes was the sentence imposed on each slave. Charles City County Records, Library of Virginia Archives, Ended Causes, Box 33, BC#1044799. Edmund Ruffin wrote about this conspiracy in his diary on May 26th. Ruffin stated that the conspiracy involved slaves on both sides of the river and had been in progress for six to eight months. The conspirators allegedly made their plans under the cover of night meetings for pretended religious worship. At the time of the diary entry the responsible slaves had not been apprehended, but Ruffin wrote that slaves at Eppes Island and at Shirley were thought to be the most guilty. William Kauffman Scarborough, The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, (Louisiana State Univ. Press: Baton Rouge: 1976) vol II, p. 35.
BUCK	JIM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	SHIRLEY	1863	+
First Name JIM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name SHIRLEY Date of Record 1863 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name SHIRLEY Date of Record 1863 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 37 who left with the gun boats in July 1863. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
BUCK	JACK	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1863	+
First Name JACK Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 1 who left with the gun boats in July 1863. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives. Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Born 1848, son of Betsy.
BUCK	BILLY	WESTOVER	BYRD	WILLIAM	1772	+
First Name BILLY Plantation WESTOVER Owner Last Name BYRD Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1772 Owner Last Name BYRD Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1772 Info & Sources Listed in a schedule of slaves dated 9 DEC 1772 and filed with the Court 7 JULY 1773. Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, ed. & comp., Charles City County, Virginia Records 1737-1774, With Several 17th Century Fragments (1986), p. 52.
BUCK	BILLY	COLESVILLE	CLARK	JOHN	1826	+
First Name BILLY Plantation COLESVILLE Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1826 Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1826 Info & Sources Billy Buck is listed in an Inventory and appraisement of the estate of John Clark, taken on 16 DEC 1826. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 199-200. Buck was valued at $300.
BUCK	BILLY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1807	+
First Name BILLY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Info & Sources Inventory and Appraisement of the slaves of Charles Carter at Shirley taken 07 MAR 1807. Charles City County Will Book 1, p. 720. Billy Buck was valued at $200. This could be "Old Buck" who died 11 JUL 1849 at the age of 100. His death occurred during an epidemic. A cholera epidemic hit Shirley in the summer of 1849 and claimed the lives of thirty-one or thirty-two slaves (records differ) in the course of three terrifying weeks. The deaths were recorded in the 1850 Census of Mortality and in plantation records. Shirley Plantation Collection, container 11, folder 5, J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg.
BUCK	WILLIAM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1853	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1853 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1853 Info & Sources Advertised as a run away and described as a 45 or 50 year old tawny mulatto, rather grunt looking, teeth defective in front, about a medium size in height, dressed in drab cloth coat and linen pants with black hat. 24 JUL 1855 Richmond Enquirer.
BUCK	HENRY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1860	+
First Name HENRY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1860 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1860 Info & Sources Death of whooping cough recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Listed as son of Joe.
BUCK	JOE	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1850s	+
First Name JOE Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1850s Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1850s Info & Sources Name included in a list of slaves in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Could be the same person as Jack Buck or Jim Buck.
BUCK	IRIS	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1850s	+
First Name IRIS Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1850s Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1850s Info & Sources Name included in a list of slaves in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Probably the same person as Iris Howard.
BUCKLAND	JOHN	WESTOVER	BYRD	WILLIAM	1814	+
First Name JOHN Plantation WESTOVER Owner Last Name BYRD Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1814 Owner Last Name BYRD Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1814 Info & Sources Listed in an Appraisement of slaves belonging to Col. Byrd's Estates at Westover taken in DEC 1814. Charles City County Will Book No. 2, pp 367-68. Buckland is valued at $350.
BURCH	WILLIAM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1820	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. Name could be William Buck.
BURGES	MOLLY	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1781	+
First Name MOLLY Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1781 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1781 Info & Sources Slave listed in an appraisement of the Estate of Benjamin Harrison, V, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, taken JULY 1781 and recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 1, p 408. Molly Burges is listed as 60 years old valued at 15 pounds sterling.
BURGES	MOLLY, Jr.	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1781	+
First Name MOLLY, Jr. Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1781 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1781 Info & Sources Slave listed in an appraisement of the Estate of Benjamin Harrison, V, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, taken JULY 1781 and recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 1, p 408. Molly Burgess, Jr. is listed as age 26 and valued at 40 pounds sterling.
BURNWELL?	PHILLIS	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1855	+
First Name PHILLIS Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1855 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1855 Info & Sources Death of son Robert recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm.
BURNWELL?	ROBERT	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1855	+
First Name ROBERT Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1855 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1855 Info & Sources Death recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Phillis.
BURNWELL?	WILLIAM	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1862	+
First Name WILLIAM Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Death of camp feaver recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Phillis.
BURR	BUTSY/BETSY	UPPER WEYANOKE	MINGE	DR.	1840	+
First Name BUTSY/BETSY Plantation UPPER WEYANOKE Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name DR. Date of Record 1840 Owner Last Name MINGE Owner First Name DR. Date of Record 1840 Info & Sources Baptised by Rev. William T. Leavell, Rector of Westover Parish, AUG 1840, William T. Leavell, Diary and Private Register, Library of Virginia Archives, Accession No. 21352.
BURWELL	JOE	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1863	+
First Name JOE Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1863 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 28 who left with the gun boats in July 1863. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives. Enlisted in U.S. Navy as a 1st Class Boy and werved on the USS Wabash, St. Lawrence, Potomac and Tallapoosa. African American Sailors in the Union Navy NPS database.
BUSH	DAN	TEDDINGTON	BAYLOR	RICHARD	1862	+
First Name DAN Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name BAYLOR Owner First Name RICHARD Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 33 who left with McClellan's army when it retreated from Berkeley about August 17, 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
CAIN	JIM	HARDENS	CARTER	CHARLES	1807	+
First Name JIM Plantation HARDENS Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Info & Sources Inventory and Appraisement of the slaves of Charles Carter at Shirley taken 07 MAR 1807. Charles City County Will Book 1, p. 724. Jim Cain was valued at $335.
CAMEL	JACK	WESTOVER	SELDEN	JOHN	1864	+
First Name JACK Plantation WESTOVER Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources Mentioned in Selden's Diary as remaining at Westover after the Yankees had departed. John A. Selden Diary in Selden Family Papers 1811-1868, Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
CAMEL	JOHN	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1820	+
First Name JOHN Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1820 Info & Sources Member Charles City Baptist Church listed in roll begun ca 1820. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun The First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jacquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. May be the same slave named in other documents as John Campbell.
CAMEL	TOM	TEDDINGTON	LIGHTFOOT	WILLIAM H.	1837	+
First Name TOM Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Info & Sources Inventory and appraisement of the estate of William H. Lightfoot of Sandy Point, taken on 15 DEC 1837, recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pp 281-84. (Name could be CARNEL). Tom Camel was valued at $350.
CAMPBELL	JOHN	BERKELEY	HARRISON	BENJAMIN	1828	+
First Name JOHN Plantation BERKELEY Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name BENJAMIN Date of Record 1828 Info & Sources One of the slaves named in various deeds mortgaging all of the slaves and property at Berkeley. Deed of 13 MAY 1828, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 295; Deed of 27 JAN 1830, Charles City Deed Book No. 7, pg. 434. May be the same slave listed in other records as John Camel.
CARTER	LEVI		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name LEVI Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
CARTER	ELIZABETH		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name ELIZABETH Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Wife of Levi. Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
CARTER	ABRIE		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name ABRIE Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Wife of Page. Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
CARTER	PATIENCE	WESTOVER	SELDEN	JOHN	1865	+
First Name PATIENCE Plantation WESTOVER Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a person dependent on government rations at Fort Monroe, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	ELIZA	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name ELIZA Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	LOUISA	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name LOUISA Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	MARION	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name MARION Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	MARY	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.		+
First Name MARY Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	MOSES	RIVERSIDE	HARRISON	WILLIAM M.	1865	+
First Name MOSES Plantation RIVERSIDE Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name HARRISON Owner First Name WILLIAM M. Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as an indigent freedman at Downey Farm, Va. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	ANDERSON	MT. STERLING	JERDONE	WILLIAM	1876	+
First Name ANDERSON Plantation MT. STERLING Owner Last Name JERDONE Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1876 Owner Last Name JERDONE Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1876 Info & Sources Anderson Carter died JAN 1876 of pleurisy at the age of 70. The report of his death states that he was born at Mt. Sterling. Charles City County Register of Deaths 1853-1896. Also, a slave by the name of "Anderson" appears in several records of Mt. Sterling Plantation. Jerdone Family Papers, 1736-1918, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
CARTER	BEN	SUMMERFIELD	EPPES	ROBERT P.	1862	+
First Name BEN Plantation SUMMERFIELD Owner Last Name EPPES Owner First Name ROBERT P. Date of Record 1862 Owner Last Name EPPES Owner First Name ROBERT P. Date of Record 1862 Info & Sources Listed as a runaway male slave age 22 who left in June 1862. Undated report filed pursuant to Act of March 28, 1863 by Francis W. Ware, Charles City Commissioner of Revenue, Auditor of Public Accounts: Runaway and Escaped Slaves, Receipts and Reports, 1863, Library of Virginia Archives.
CARTER	NELSON	MT. STERLING	JERDONE	WILLIAM	1866	+
First Name NELSON Plantation MT. STERLING Owner Last Name JERDONE Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1866 Owner Last Name JERDONE Owner First Name WILLIAM Date of Record 1866 Info & Sources Articles of Agreement concerning farm labor were executed between Nelson "Carder" and William M. Jerdone 08 MAR 1866 and approved by the local agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. Original National Archives, photocopy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. One or more "Nelson's" appear in the records of Mt. Sterling Plantation. Jerdone Family Papers
CARTER	EVANS		BINFORD	THOMAS	1816	+
First Name EVANS Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre.
CARTER	PAGE		BINFORD	THOMAS	1816	+
First Name PAGE Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1816 Info & Sources Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre.
CARTER	MARY	RIVERVIEW - DOGHAM	ROYAL	JOHN	1865	+
First Name MARY Plantation RIVERVIEW - DOGHAM Owner Last Name ROYAL Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Owner Last Name ROYAL Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1865 Info & Sources Listed as a destitute freedman at Fort Monroe. For records on indigent freedmen see Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, comp. & ed., The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia (Heritage Books:Bowie, MD: 1997); Carolyn Hardin Goudie, "Downey Farm List of Indigent Freedmen," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, vol. 35, no. 1, pg. 13 (winter: 1997).
CARTER	JIMMY	WESTOVER	SELDEN	JOHN A., Jr.	1838	+
First Name JIMMY Plantation WESTOVER Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN A., Jr. Date of Record 1838 Owner Last Name SELDEN Owner First Name JOHN A., Jr. Date of Record 1838 Info & Sources Slave valued at $500 and alotted to John A. Selden, Jr. In Surry County Chancery case 1838-012 John A. Selden, Jr. v. Griffin Orgain & wife.
CARTER	CLAIBORNE	SHERWOOD FOREST	TYLER	JOHN	1864	+
First Name CLAIBORNE Plantation SHERWOOD FOREST Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1864 Info & Sources An "old" Claiborne was placed in charge at Sherwood Forest by Brig. Gen. Edward August Wild. W.H. Clopton to Julia G. Tyler, 04 AUG. 1864, Tyler Family Papers, Swem Library, College of William & Mary. The only elderly Claibourne in the 1870 Census of Charles City is Claibourne Carter who was 80 (born about 1790). When he married in 1867, he was listed as a widower, born in New Kent County, Va., the son of Lucy Tyler. The marriage took place at Greenway. Charles City Marriage Book 1&2 - Bk/p-1c, B-24-34..
CARY	JUDY		CHRISTIAN	SUSANNAH	1810 ca	+
First Name JUDY Plantation Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name SUSANNAH Date of Record 1810 ca Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name SUSANNAH Date of Record 1810 ca Info & Sources Member of Charles City Baptist Church enrolled before 1810. Also listed in the roll begun ca 1820 as belonging to Wm. A. Christian. The Book of Ye Records of the Baptist Church in Charles City Begun the First Satureday in September 1792, unpublished typescript Jaquelin G. Pomeroy, Charles City County Richard M. Bowman Center for Local History Archives. Judy may have been a sister of Lott Cary. She is probably the Judy, listed with three children Berkeley, Cooper and Mike, together valued at 120 pounds in the inventory of Gideon Christian taken on 31 JAN 1797. Charles City County Will Book No. 1, p. 393-94.
CARY	DAVID		CARY	ROBERT	1800	+
First Name DAVID Plantation Owner Last Name CARY Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1800 Owner Last Name CARY Owner First Name ROBERT Date of Record 1800 Info & Sources Robert Cary executed a deed of emancipation for Robert Cary, his 40 year-old son, dated 20 FEB 1800. This is probably an example of "protective custody," meaning that Robert Cary had purchased his son's freedom. Charles City County Deed Book 4, p. 500. The deed was executed shortly before Robert Cary executed a will leaving real estate to his son David. David Cary was a brother of Lott Cary, although he may have had a different mother, as he approximately 25 years older than Lott. Charles City County Will Book 1, p.508.
CARY	CHARLES	COLESVILLE	CLARK	JOHN	1826	+
First Name CHARLES Plantation COLESVILLE Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1826 Owner Last Name CLARK Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1826 Info & Sources Charles Cary is listed in an Inventory and appraisement of the estate of John Clark, taken on 16 DEC 1826. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 199-200. Cary is valued at $300.
CARY	EPHRAIM	GREENWAY	TYLER	JOHN	1835	+
First Name EPHRAIM Plantation GREENWAY Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1835 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1835 Info & Sources Ephraim Cary and Betsy his wife were slaves owned by John Tyler, Sr. of Greenway. They were emancipated by John Lewis in 1831 and filed a petition with the General Assembly 21 JAN 1835 for permission to remain in the state, stating that they were over the age of 40, childless and owned property. Legislative Petitions, Library of Virginia Archives. The petition was denied. Ephraim is listed in an Inventory of Tyler's slaves taken in 1813, as is Betsy and another slave named "Cary." Charles City County Will Book 2, p. 261.
CARY	BETSY	GREENWAY	TYLER	JOHN	1835	+
First Name BETSY Plantation GREENWAY Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1835 Owner Last Name TYLER Owner First Name JOHN Date of Record 1835 Info & Sources Ephriam Cary and Betsy his wife were slaves owned by John Tyler, Sr. of Greenway. They were emancipated by John Lewis in 1831 and filed a petition with the General Assembly 21 JAN 1835 for permission to remain in the state, stating that they were over the age of 40, childless and owned property. Legislative Petitions, Library of Virginia Archives. The petition was denied. Betsy is listed in an Inventory of Tyler's slaves taken in 1813, as is Ephraim and another slave named "Cary." Charles City County Will Book 2, pg. 261.
CARY	LOTT		CHRISTIAN	GIDEON	1797	+
First Name LOTT Plantation Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name GIDEON Date of Record 1797 Owner Last Name CHRISTIAN Owner First Name GIDEON Date of Record 1797 Info & Sources Rev. Lott Cary was at one time among the best known figures in African American history. Accounts differ as to whether he was the first American missionary, the first African American missionary or the first African American missionary to volunteer to go abroad. Born a slave in 1783, Cary purchased his own freedom and sailed to Africa on the Brig Nautilus which arrived at Sierra Lione 08 MAR 1821. Cary was instrumental in founding the Colony of Liberia and would have served as the colony's vice-agent had he not been killed in 1828 in a gunpowder explosion. He established Providence Baptist Church in Monrovia and served the colony both as a teacher and as self-taught physician. Lott Cary was the son of Robert Cary, a free man, and a slave mother, possibly named Francis. Lott is listed in an inventory and appraisement of slaves belonging to Gideon Christian taken on 31 JAN 1797 and valued at 50 pounds. Charles Ctiy County Will Book No. 1, pp 393-394. Though a slave, he inherited 10 pounds sterling under the settlement of his father's estate. Charles City county Will Book No. 1
CASEY	DANIEL	SHIRLEY	CARTER	CHARLES	1807	+
First Name DANIEL Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name CHARLES Date of Record 1807 Info & Sources Inventory and Appraisement of the slaves of Charles Carter at Shirley taken 07 MAR 1807. Charles City County Will Book 1, p. 720. Daniel Casey was valued at $250.
CHARITY	ELIZA	TEDDINGTON	LIGHTFOOT	WILLIAM H.	1837	+
First Name ELIZA Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Info & Sources Inventory and appraisement of the estate of William H. Lightfoot of Sandy Point, taken on 15 DEC 1837, recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pp 281-84. Eliza Charity was valued at $500.
CHARITY	JINNY	TEDDINGTON	LIGHTFOOT	WILLIAM H.	1837	+
First Name JINNY Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Info & Sources Inventory and appraisement of the estate of William H. Lightfoot of Sandy Point, taken on 15 DEC 1837, recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pp 281-84. Jinny Charity was valued at $500.
CHARITY	PETER	TEDDINGTON	LIGHTFOOT	WILLIAM H.	1837	+
First Name PETER Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Info & Sources Inventory and appraisement of the estate of William H. Lightfoot of Sandy Point, taken on 15 DEC 1837, recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pp 281-84. Peter Charity was valued at $700.
CHARITY	TOM	TEDDINGTON	LIGHTFOOT	WILLIAM H.	1837	+
First Name TOM Plantation TEDDINGTON Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Owner Last Name LIGHTFOOT Owner First Name WILLIAM H. Date of Record 1837 Info & Sources Inventory and appraisement of the estate of William H. Lightfoot of Sandy Point, taken on 15 DEC 1837, recorded in Charles City County Will Book No. 4, pp 281-84. Tom Charity was valued at $500.
CHRISTIAN	ELIZA		BINFORD	THOMAS	1850	+
First Name ELIZA Plantation Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Owner Last Name BINFORD Owner First Name THOMAS Date of Record 1850 Info & Sources Wife of Collier. Thomas Binford, a lapsed Quaker, emancipated 23 or 24 slaves by the terms of his will which was written 08 JAN 1816 and recorded 20 JAN 1825. His will left all of his property to his slaves and provided that if they were not permitted to remain in the State of Virginia as free persons his executors were to sell his property and purchase land in a free state for them. Charles City County Will Book 3, pp 52-53. The emancipated slaves were transported to Ohio where land was purchased for them near Stuebenville. The community came to be known as Macintyre. This person was identified as Virginia-born and living in the Macintyre community. 1850 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Wayne Township, OH.
CHRISTIAN	MARY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1822	+
First Name MARY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1822 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1822 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Daughter of Mimey.
CHRISTIAN	WINNEY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1824	+
First Name WINNEY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1824 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1824 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Identified as "sold." Daughter of Mimey.
CHRISTIAN	DANIEL/DAVID	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1825	+
First Name DANIEL/DAVID Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1825 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1825 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Mimey. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on the USS Queen and USS Memphis. African American Sailors in the U.S. Navy NPS database.
CHRISTIAN	COY	SHIRLEY	CARTER	HILL	1827	+
First Name COY Plantation SHIRLEY Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1827 Owner Last Name CARTER Owner First Name HILL Date of Record 1827 Info & Sources Birth recorded in Slave Record Book - Births 1822-1864, container 92, Shirley Plantation Collection 1650-1888, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series K, microfilm. Son of Mimey.

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