Many found work at Stafford Countys Aquia Landing on the Potomac River, loading and unloading the supply ships that docked there. . Richmond became the largest slave-trading center in the Upper South, and the slave trade was Virginias largest industry. Spotsylvania County/Caroline County Z-149 Z-156 (0) Hunter's Iron Works E-116 (0) Historic Falmouth E-47 (0) [24] Spotsylvania County Public Schools works with the area Parks and Recreation Department to help maintain the area around the Schools (athletic facilities, etc.). A letter from a slaveowner was necessary to permit enslaved African Americans to be baptized at Upper Goose Creek Church in Fauquier County. Spotswood erected a palatial home and, after the Germans moved away to Germantown, continued the ironworks with slave . As of the July 2021 estimate, the population was 143,676. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Virginia, Slave Owners]] . One woman and child, 5 or 6 years old, brought $1,350. Isle of Wight County Virginia Deed Book 16, 1786 . Twenty-seven so- called black conspirators were also arrested. ** Spotsylvania County Court Order Book, April 4, 1864, Library of Virginia. Sharing my adventures. Fredericksburg, VA 22407. Benjamin Ballard 25 Nov 1768 Spotsylvania, Virginia - abt 1864. Directory. Touch for map. Spotsylvania County proudly shares a distinctive heritage that visitors can experience through our significant sites, wayside exhibits, battlefields and museums. Birth index of slaves, 1853-1866, volumes 9-12. Enslaved African Americans continued a rich tradition of African parables, proverbs, and legends. Ablinia 3 p.324 Richmond City. At some point in time, however, he moved into Halifax County, Virginia. The George Boxley Cabin has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. If you look carefully [at the original], you can discern Tinpot Run entering the river. This was the last time a government of a slave state considered ending slavery until the Civil War. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, National Register of Historic Places listings in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, "Clan Spottiswood - ScotClans - Scottish Clans", "Surname Database: Spens Last Name Origin", "Family relationship of General Robert e. Lee and Alexander Spotswood via Alexander Spotswood", "Spotsylvania County Home: Departments: Board of Supervisors", "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections", "lections prsidentielles aux tats-Unis 1788-2004", "Census of Population and Housing from 1790-2000", "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990", "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. A Guide to Manuscripts, African American Research at the Library of Virginia to 1870, Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Federal Records that Help Identify Former Slaves and Slave Owners, Restrictions for Viewing Images in FamilySearch Historical Record Collections, Birth records (Virginia), 1853-1896; indexes, 1853-1899; delayed birth indexes, 1912-1950. The central figures were cunning tricksters, often represented as tortoises, spiders, or rabbits, who defeated more powerful enemies through wit and guile, not power and authority. Because his is one of just two accounts from a slaves hand that narrates this passage (see the other here), his assumes immense historical significance. . Spotsylvania residents are represented by either Abigail Spanberger (D-7th District) or Rob Wittman (R-1st District) in the House of Representatives. Linkpendium! Local river connectionsPotomac as well as Rappahannockbrought vulnerability as well as economic opportunity. I spoke, as did the indomitable Bud Hall, and Dr. Dianne Swann-Wright (she was the keynote, and rightly so). Born at Eliam Farm Spotsylvania, Virginia, adjoining Pine Forest. on the Internet. An early Fredericksburg historian, who doubtless had neighbors and acquaintances possessing memories of the Napoleonic period, wrote that bitter feeling over foreign policy and other political issues increased locally through the 1790s, even boiling over at times. In 1796, Fredericksburgers learned that one of their fellow townsmen, William MCoy, was among the American sailors impressed by the British Navy. Language, music, cuisine, and architecture in the United States are all heavily influenced by African traditions and are part of a uniquely American culture. Become a member! That part of the register relating to couples is entitled: Register of Colored Persons of Caroline County, State of Virginia, cohabitating together and husband and wife on 27th February, 1866. I will come right back directly, he said, and then walked out the door never to return as a slave. Was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1693, 1696, 1699, and one of the committee in 1700 reporting a revision of the laws which were approved by the General Assembly in 1705. The river curls around to thesouth from there. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Our friend Clark B. General Jackson died a few days later from pneumonia at nearby Guinea Station. He arrived in Indiana as a fugitive from justice and was the first settler in Adams Township, Hamilton County, Indiana. This program is being sponsored by Eastern National. The room he describes is likely that directly over the side entrancethe third window from the left. Of the 1,756 names reviewed, only 27 or 1.5% are the same as the final master. Also, Stafford County Will Book M: pp.309-311 It also gave enslaved men and women the idea that he could be counted on to help them if needed. Sophia Street from Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) to the middle crossing site below city dock, where hundreds, perhaps thousands of slaves crossed in 1862. Some, like Chatham and Brompton, are surely more famous. 1955. John Chappell left Southampton, England, in 1635 for Warwick County, and was the sixth great-grandfather of Jacob Chappell, son of Job . Travelers to Virginia were appalled by the system of slavery they saw practiced there. Our great thanks to Bud Hall for passing this image along. 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William Lewis Herndon, commander of the doomed steamer Central America, spent part of his childhood living in the Bank building. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. Spotsylvania County records, 1721-1800; being transcriptions, from the original files at the County Court House, of wills, deeds, administrators' and guardians' bonds, marriage licenses, and lists of Revolutionary pensioners. A group of Confederate soldiers from North Carolina were in the woods and heard General Jackson's party returning from reconnoitering the Union lines. In this photo taken July 1862, Fredericksburg is visible across the Rappahannock River. Both the Miller brothers and their assailants exited the door at the far right and crossed Liberty Street. Its likely that since the war, not a hundred people have been to the site for historical purposesand maybe not a dozen with knowledge of the sites association with the famous photograph. 1810 Census Stoner, Bourbon Co, KY 1 Slave. From Hennessy: Update, February 10, 2015: On November 21, 2014, PNC Bank ceased operations in the former Farmers Bank building, bringing its continuous use as a bank to a close after 194 years. Easy to do? [23] The Spotsylvania County School division also has a Career and Technical Center and participates with other local school systems to offer the Commonwealth Governor's School. Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. GEORGE BOXLEY: SLAVE SYMPATHIZER Herndon was hailed a hero for helping to save more than 150 souls. The median age was 34 years. 1676. Beaumont, Spotsylvania County. The alley in the modern photo passes through what was once the center of the c. 1757 building. Spotsylvania County is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. In 1842, the English novelist Charles Dickens wrote of the gloom and dejection and ruin and decay that he attributed to this horrible institution.. This page has been accessed 1,457 times. Imagine troop concentrations in southern Stafford County and on the heights just west of Fredericksburgand military movements from one towards the other. Ultimately, 15,000 Black people emigrated andin some wayspatterned their society after the American South. The building is now on the market. It also reflects what has over the decades been our traditional understanding of the event hereabouts. It has become ubiquitous, even a bit of a cliche, largely because no other image comes close to matching its power. Gov. Boxley could not produce a bill of sale for two missing horses and was arrested for assisting slaves to escape. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. The growing number of free Black individuals in Virginiamore than 30,000 in 1810challenged the assumption that black skin equaled enslavement. While hunting the bird he spots slave hunters, runs back to his village and tells the inhabitants what he has seen. Published here for the first time through the courtesy of business- and civic leader Joe Wilson, who commissioned the painting for his familys collection in 2006, Fredericksburg Landing shows the towns Rappahannock wharves in 1816. Acom, Solomon 3 p.2 . Anthony Armistead. On May 9, 1861, at 23 years of age, Alfred volunteered for service in the Greenbrier Rifles, which would become part of the 27th Virginia Infantry, a regiment in the famous Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate Army. 69 occurrences of free *slave* records Administrative Information. The racial makeup of the county was: 7.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The State of Ohio filed charges against the bounty hunters for kidnapping and awarded George $10 in damages. The Fredericksburg City Architectural Review Board (ARB) will hold a. supplementary meeting on Monday, September 26, 2022. Spotsylvania County. His will is recorded there in the Halifax County courthouse dated 14 June 1810. 1 ' Also, the investigators said William Waller of Spotsylvania County, Va., never owned Kizzie or the slaves attributed to him in the book. The County Court (the modern equivalent to the Board of Supervisors), sought exemption from the requisition. Bud Hall, an indefatigable and unconquerable preservationist and maven of all things Civil War Culpeper (he is the only one of the Virginia crowd of preservationists to have his picture on the front of a national magazine, so far as I know), recently managed to visit the site and kindly share with us this image of the site today. He helped runaway slaves, taught school, and supported abolitionism. Susanna Michele Lee, now at North Carolina State University, examined and recorded these and . Abigale F. Negroe 4 p.343 Fauquier County. Some did. In less time than it takes me to write these lines, every White man was out the house. The Tubal Furnace site contains the remains of the earliest archaeologically identified iron furnace in Virginia. 1. Prices of enslaved people varied widely over time. WARNING: Graphic language from original documentation used in this post. 4 (1896/1897):104-106, 292-299. Chances are, if you have spent much time here or on Fredericksburg Remembered, you have heard a bit about John Washington (see here). The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover: Narratives of a Colonial Virginian. This page has been accessed 4,773 times. Then, at 7:30, we will present 10,000 Lights to Freedom, an interpretive program of music, the words of those who were there, readings, and of course, the illumination of 10,000 lights on the Stafford shore. Lucys mistress, Ptolemy Powell, reported the rumblings of a slave insurrection to the Magistrate on February 22, 1816, who arranged for an investigation. The blacks who were arrested were either hung or sold south. On a winter evening in March 1814, two run-away slaves arrived unannounced and unexpectedly at the Spotsylvania County home of George Boxley. In the Caribbean, the French seized in 1795 the Fredericksburg-based sloop Martha, and in 1797 the Tappahannock-based sloop Prudent, also voyaging from Fredericksburg and also carrying barrels of flour. Marker is located along Lee Drive in the Fredericksburg-Spotyslvania Military Park. While the Hart family lived in Halifax County, our John E. Hart married . Elijah Estes was born 1751 in Spotsylvania Co VA and died 16 Feb 1821 in Spotsylvania Co VA. [7], As the colonial population increased, Spotsylvania County was established in 1721 from parts of Essex, King and Queen, and King William counties. This interaction developed into a working relationship that most certainly left impressions upon the soldiers. Free persons of color also presented what enslavers feared was a dangerous example. They said that they were fleeing from the harsh conditions that they had endured at a neighboring plantation, and they desperately hoped that Boxley could help. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. (LogOut/ General Stonewall Jackson was shot and mortally wounded by friendly fire in Spotsylvania County during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Sparacio. Haki Kweli Shakur August Third Collective NAPLA NAIM 3-6-52ADM. While slaveholders asserted that their workforce was loyal, they also lived in constant fear of a revolt. Lawson Barnett 15 Feb 1791 Fauquier, Virginia, United States - 12 Jul 1864. on the "Add your favorite Website(s) to this page" link. Children of Abraham Estes and Anne Clark - known enslavers: Richard Estes was born about 1741 in Spotsylvania County VA and died 5 Aug 1832 in Spotsylvania Co VA. Still others received employment as drivers for artillery forges and transportation wagons. 1867 map of spotsylvania co. by michler. Musings on genealogy and family history. Meet at Market Square. Chancery Records Index: Hanover County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1831-001-1913-041 Library of Virginia The Library of Virginia . Also, on Sunday at 1:30, I will be tracing a tour along the Trail to Freedom, from the Rappahannock to Aquia Landingincluding the site of John Washingtons crossing, described below. The first to live here was Dabney Herndon, whose offspring were several and famous. Categories: Virginia, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. He married Mary T. Terrill on 23 December 1856, in Orange, Virginia, United States. Washington is the classic example of a slave who humored those in authority, always taking care that they thought him willing and compliant. Learn how your comment data is processed. [First, a prelude: In light of the topic of this post, a couple of reminders about this weekends To Freedom event. Fielding Estes was born 1744 in Spotsylvania County, VA and died 1826 in Henry County, KY. The war resulted in widespread disruption and opportunity: some 10,000 African-American slaves left area plantations and city households to cross the Rappahannock River, reaching the Union lines and gaining freedom. Kunte Kinte's grave is located at what is now Loriella Park in Spotsylvania Virginia. Will probated Oct 1826 Henry Co, KY. . His will was probated there on 25 July 1810. A cousin of the English Civil War parliamentarians William and Hardress Waller, Waller had a brother called William who became a Church of England clergyman and another brother, . Barcode numbers: 1171306, 1171308, 1171309 Library of Virginia The Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000 . We spent a fair amount of time at the Farmers Bank Building at the corner of Princess Anne and George Streets. Smithfield in Va-ditto-frees slave called Peggy a girl abt 14-7 Oct 1805 . I will return to this scene on August 19 and take the picture on or about the same day it was taken 150 years ago. . CALL or TEXT 24-7. In response, white Virginians arrested and prosecuted more than seventy men for insurrection and conspiracy. A broadside printed in 1831 to report the Nat Turner revolt, with the headline: HORRID MASSACRE IN VIRGINIA . Accomack County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 42, 0), Albemarle County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 83, 8), Alexandria, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 2), Amelia County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 26, 0), Amherst County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 48, 2), Appomattox County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Arlington County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 18, 3), Augusta County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 24, 0), Barbour County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bath County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 6, 2), Bedford County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 46, 6), Berkeley County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Botetourt County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 12, 2), Brooke County, Virginia Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Brunswick County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 53, 4), Buckingham County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 17, 3), Campbell County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 10, 0), Caroline County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 486, 87), Carroll County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Charles City County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 22, 9), Charlotte County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 10, 2), Charlottesville, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 0, 1), Chesterfield County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 14, 1), Clarke County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 1), Culpeper County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 26, 3), Cumberland County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 19, 3), Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 15, 1), Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 17, 1), Essex County, Virginia, Slave Owners (2, 42, 2), Fairfax County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 43, 8), Fauquier County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 42, 1), Fayette County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Floyd County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 0, 1), Fluvanna County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 10, 1), Franklin County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 38, 2), Frederick County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 13, 0), Fredericksburg, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 1), Giles County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Gloucester County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 6, 0), Goochland County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 31, 7), Greenbrier County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 17, 1), Greene County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 1), Greensville County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 33, 5), Halifax County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 42, 3), Hampshire County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 42, 7), Hanover County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 40, 13), Hardy County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 1), Harrison County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 22, 0), Henrico County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 33, 1), Henry County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 411, 6), Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 14, 0), James City County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Jefferson County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Kanawha County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), King George County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 32, 3), King William County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 17, 1), King and Queen County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 15, 0), Lancaster County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 21, 4), Lewis County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 0, 1), Loudoun County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 24, 4), Louisa County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 45, 8), Lunenburg County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 19, 0), Lynchburg, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Madison County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 15, 3), Mason County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Mathews County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Mecklenburg County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 34, 1), Mercer County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 2), Middlesex County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 10, 0), Monongalia County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 12, 0), Monroe County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 67, 4), Montgomery County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 8, 1), Mount Vernon, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 1), Nansemond County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 6, 1), Nelson County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 76, 6), New Kent County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 11, 5), Norfolk County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 36, 1), Norfolk, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 36, 3), Northampton County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Northumberland County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Nottoway County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Orange County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 33, 0), Page County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 1), Patrick County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 9, 0), Pendleton County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 4, 2), Petersburg, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 7, 1), Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 46, 1), Pocahontas County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 51, 2), Powhatan County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Prince Edward County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 16, 0), Prince George County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 9, 2), Prince William County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 12, 4), Princess Anne County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 9, 1), Pulaski County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Rappahannock County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 16, 1), Richmond County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 12, 0), Richmond, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 15, 0), Roanoke County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 7, 2), Rockbridge County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Rockingham County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Russell County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 6, 0), Scott County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 4, 0), Shenandoah County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Smyth County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Southampton County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 26, 1), Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 65, 4), Stafford County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 19, 2), Surry County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 22, 0), Sussex County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 21, 0), Tazewell County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 7, 1), Tyler County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Warwick County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 8, 0), Washington County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 9, 0), Westmoreland County, Virginia, Slave Owners (1, 164, 6), Williamsburg, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Wood County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Wythe County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 29, 7), York County, Virginia, Slave Owners (0, 28, 3). See A Guide to Virginia City and County Records on Microfilm for available indexes. Even though Boxley was imprisoned and awaiting trial, Virginia law did not allow blacks to testify against whites. He built a cabin in 1830, the first in Adams Township. The local-regional category of military history includes everything from a battle near Potomac Creek between resident Potowomekes and Indian outsiders in the 1610s to the launching of a raid into Maryland by the Stafford Troop of Horse in 1675 to the numerous clashes of the Civil War in 1861-1865. A commonly held belief, one that has been challenged recently, is that newly freed slaves, having no surnames of their own, adopted the surnames of their final master. Through their families, religion, folklore, and music, as well as more direct forms of resistance, African Americans resisted the debilitating effects of slavery and created a vital culture supportive of human dignity. An educated man, George Boxley read and spoke often of the contradictions of the American constitution versus its use of slaves. wrote about Fannys decision over at Fredericksburg Remembered. 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