Blackford Registry of Enslaved Persons

Item sets: The Blackford Family Collection; Jones Memorial Library Manuscripts Collection; Enslavement Records

1. William
2. Gave
3. Alley
4. William
5. Jack
6. Thomas
7. Maria
8. Jane
9. Jenney
10. Ellen
11. Mary
12. Dick
13. Henry
14. William
15. Fanny
16. Caroline
17. Becky

18. Henry
19. Beverly
20. Caleb
21. Charles

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Identifier: JMLMS1783.1-2.1-2; JML Manuscript 1783, Box 1, Folder 2
Source Identifier: 655
Title: Blackford Registry of Enslaved Persons
Description: 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.
Date: 1865
Creator: Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903
Subject: enslaved persons; Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903
topic: 1858; 1865; Alley; Becky; Beverly; Big Bill; Blackford; Blackford family; Blackford Family Collection; Caleb; Caroline; Charles; Charles Minor Blackford; Dick; Ellen; enslaved labor; enslaved persons; enslaved persons Lynchburg; enslaved persons Virginia; enslavement; enslavers; Fanny; Gabe; Henry; Jack; Jane; Jenney; lists; lists of enslaved persons; Maria; Mary; MS 1793; MS1793; slavery records; Thomas; William
Digital Format: application/pdf
Language: English
Publisher: George M. Jones Library Association
Repository: George M. Jones Library Association
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights Holder: George M. Jones Library Association
Related Materials: JML.MS1793