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Identifier
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JML.MS1793.Box1.Folder3
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JML Manuscript 1793, Box 1, Folder 3
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Title
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Blackford Family Collection: Miscellaneous Notes
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Description
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Digital images of pages from the Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1793: Blackford Family Collection, Box 1, Folder 3.
Digital scan of document entitled "Registry of Negroes, Ages-Births-Sales as December 12th, 1858". The two-page typewritten document is held at Jones Memorial Library in manuscript collection 1793, the Blackford Family Collection, in Box 1, Folder 2.
The document names and enumerates 21 enslaved persons from the Blackford estate in 1858. First names are listed; no surnames are listed.
Although the list is titled as of December 12, 1858, it includes the names of enslaved persons born and deceased after that point in time and therefore appears to be a list of persons enslaved by Blackford until their emancipation at the end of the Civil War.
Named enslaved persons include: William (Big Bill), Gabe, Alley, William, Jack, Thomas, Maria, Jane, Jenney, Ellen, Mary, Dick, Henry, William, Fanny, Caroline, Becky, Henry, Beverly, Caleb, and Charles.
Of the 21 enslaved persons on the list, three are named William (ages 37 years, 25 years, and 4 years) and two are named Henry (one aged 6 years and one born March 1858).
In addition to the names of the enslaved persons the list includes two typed notes, with one note mentioning a colt.
The materials in this folder include typed transcriptions and photostatic copies of newspaper obituaries and primarily photocopies of handwritten information entered in family bibles.
There is one handwritten two page list with names and birthdates of persons titled "Ages of Negro Children Belonging." The birthdates for these enslaved persons span from 1815 to 1836. It is presumed that these persons were enslaved by the Blackford family
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Digital Format
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jpeg
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Language
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English
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Repository
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George M. Jones Library Association
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Transcription
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PAGE ONE
[stamped] JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY LYNCHBURG, VA.
Registry of Negroes, Ages - Births - Sales
As December 12th, 1858
William - (Big Bill) about 37 years of age.
Sold March 1860.
Gabe - about 35 years old, married at Christmas
1857 to Mr. Kean’s Indiana.
Alley - about 60 years old.
William - about 25 years old.
Jack - (blacksmith) about 30 years of age.
Died during the war while acting as a wagoner.
Thomas - about 19 years of age; purchased of James Strother, January 1858. Sold in January 1859 to R.I. Davis for $1050.
Maria - about 35 years of age; purchased Fayette Lambeth, executor of his mother In November 1857.
Jane - child of Maria’s; purchased at same
time of same person about 5 years of age.
Jenney - about 40 years of age.
Ellen - Jenney’s oldest child; 14 years old.
Mary - Jenney’s 2nd child; 12 years old.
Dick - Jenney’s 3rd child; 8 years old.
Henry - Jenney’s 4th child; 6 years old.
William - Jenney’s 5th child; 4 years old.
Fanny - about 20 years old.
Caroline - Fanny’s 1st child; 5 years old;
burned to death in fall of 1859.
Becky - Fanny’s 2nd child; 3 years old.
PAGE TWO
Henry - Fanny’s 3rd child; born March 1858.
Beverly - son of Maria; born November 14, 1858;
died 1859.
Caleb - son of Maria; born 1860.
Charles - son of Maria; born 1861.
All became free and were reduced to beggary by
Gen. Lee’s surrender.
The colt of the gray mare by “Red Eye”
was born September 23rd, 1860. She is named
“Lucy” after my little girl and Gen. Lee.
PAGE TEN
[stamped] JONESMEMORIAL LIBRARY
[ALBEMARLE, VA]
[illegible] Blackford
1867
CHAS. M. BLACKFORD.
“In 1829-30 the city of Richmond was represented in the Convention by John Marshall, Jno Tyler
Phil B Nicholas & Jno B Clopton In 1867 by Hunnicott-Underwood& some negroes - !! - O Tempera O Mores!
Copied from the front pages of
ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF A GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VA. Assembled in Richmond on Monday the 5th day of
October 1829.
In 1829-30 the city of Richmond was represented in the Convention by John Marshall Jno Tyler
Phil B Nicholas & Jno B Clopton
In 1867 by Hunnicot-Underwood & some negroes - !!
O Tempera O Mores
PAGE TWENTY SEVEN
Ages of negroe Children belonging [illegible]
Maria, Children ages
Charlotte Born 14th Feby 1815
Lucy - Born 8th May 1816
Tom - Born 16th Dec 1818
Abraham Born 2nd May 1820
Betty, Children ages
[B-----] 23rd Jun 1817 Born [sold?]
Caroline - Born 6th Feby 1819 [sold?]
George - Born __ May 1820
Jane - Born [illegible] 1822 Dead
Jackson Born Feby 10 1826
An Died [B_____ey] 1827 dead
Abraham B[illegible] 1825 dead
Alexandra Born
Sally Born dead
Philip Born
Cloe, children ages
[Da--------] 7th October 1818
Mary An 4th May 1820
[--then] - 1st May 1822
Harriet - 22nd May 1824
William - 8th May 1826
[illegible]
June 7th 1828 - 1828
Eliza, Children ages
Mary} twins Born Born
Margaretia }July 4, 1824
Harrison - Born 1st Mar 1826
Wm Henry Born 4 Bebr 1829
Sold to William [El----]
& three Children
one of the living died
PAGE TWENTY EIGHT
The property of Mary
M. [La-----]
[<8528]
[3185585]
Age of Lucy Children
Ann was Born Decb. 4th. 1831
Fielding was Born Jany 1st. 1834
[----- Craig] was Born 13th Feby 1836
Age of Charlolly Children
Frances was 4th. Aug. 1834
[Ma----] was Born 20th
Feby 1836
PAGE SIXTY SIX
Peggy,
[illegible] of slave from 1st jany to 11th march
at 30$ per annum is…
$312.50
5.75
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318.25
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Know all men by these presents that I Henry W. [W–ll]
thro Thomas B. Barlow my attorney in fact have this day sold
to William M Blackford a negro slave named Peggy
for the sum of three hundred and twelve and a half [illegible]
and fifty cents; and I hereby thro my said Attorney
promise & agree and bind myself & my heirs to warrant
& defend by these presents the said slave Peggy to the
said Wm M Blackford and his assigns against the
claim & demand of all persons whatsoever as witness
my hand & seal this 11th day of march 1846
Henry W [W–ll] seal
by
TB Barlow his attorney
in fact
BILL OF SALE OF PEGGY DEAN
FAITHFUL SLAVE AND SERVANT IN THE BLACKFORD FAMILY
AT LYNCHBURG AND ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. “MAM PEGGY” DIED IN 1910, AGED ABOUT 98
YEARS. SHE LEFT HER ENTIRE SAVINGS TO DR. L. M. BLACKFORD FOR THE HIGHER
EDUCATION OF HIS SONS, AMBLER AND RANDOLPH. HER LIFE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO MANY.
PAGE SIXTY SEVEN
Peggy Dean left her savings to be divided
equally between families Minor Blackford
and her sister, Mary Isabella. Mrs. J Churchill
Cooke. L. M. B. did apply his share to the education
of his sons Ambler Mason & Randolph
Fairfax — but there was no word in the will
(on file in Fairfax Court House) telling him
how to spend the money. Ma’am Peggy
was too much a lady to tie any strings to
her gift!
L. Minor Blackford –
23 June, 1947 -
Peggy had been hired by the
Blackfords some ten years before
she was purchased. Her
body is housed in Dr. Blackford’s
lot in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Alexandria.
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Rights
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Blackford Family Collection
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Rights Holder
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George M. Jones Library Association
