time, and were therefore possible places of relocation for colored persons from Henry County, Campbell County Virginia: Home of Revolutionary firebrand Patrick Henry: 66000849 Bacon's Castle: . "John born 1757 at "Pine Slash," died ca. is beyond the scope of this transcription. slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may have still been living in the same State or Click on the county or independent city below for a list of historic sites in the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places in each jurisdiction. The racial makeup of the county was 89.47% White, 10% Black or African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.39% from other races, and 0.92% from two or more races. And the timing has never been more urgent for all of us to educate ourselves about this part of our nations history. He was also one of the first sheriffs of Henry County being appointed in January of 1782. Pre-1820 Virginia Manumissions. Despite its proximity to historic Williamsburg and to Richmond, the capital of Virginia, Charles City has remained a rural oasis. Bertie County, established in 1722 from a section of the Chowan precinct, is located in the northeastern part of North Carolina. Tavner Hailey (b.1793) of Martinsville became an early pioneer in Tennessee and served in the War of 1812. 200 or more slaves, while constituting less than 1 % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 rubber stamped in the upper right corner of every other page of the census, with the intervening Surname matching of It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The new county was initially named Patrick Henry County in honor of Patrick Henry, who was then serving as the first Governor of Virginia, and some of whose relatives had settled in the area. Following the State Heading - If your plantation page is complete with all the information that is available to us at this time (ie: names, profiles, and/or census data only because that is all there is) please place it in alphabetical order directly under the state name. Infant daughter of S. S. and M. M. Hairston Died Oct. 6, 1854 She exchanged the joys of earth for the joys of heaven.". slaves, or an average of about ten slaves per holder. [1] Several of his children were born there during his residency. After Patrick Henry completed his first term as the first elected governor of Virginia in 1776, he moved to a brick home on Leatherwood plantation. Henry Counter Chamber of Commerce. The ledger records the accounts of individuals, estates, and businesses that Holloway managed or with whom he conducted business. Of course, we didnt and that often meant digging deeper for the facts. If an African American ancestor with one of these surnames is found on the 1870 census, then Numerous owners built or inherited more than one plantation over the course of their lives, particularly among those considered Virginia royalty such as the Carters, Berkeleys, and Tayloes. The walnut corner cupboard was put together with wooden pegs and is a collectors item. Sr., 114 slaves, page 504B, HAIRSTON, Saml. On June 7, 1975, at Petersburg, West Virginia, he was . 1791 at age 34 at "Leatherwood," Revolutionary War soldier, buried in unmarked grave at "Leatherwood," Henry Co., VA, married Susannah Walker (she remarried 1798 to Richard White and died in Abingdon, VA)." modify the information in this transcription for their own purposes. There are only eleven graves in this small burying ground. When the families returned after the war, they often found that their homes had been virtually destroyed. Henry Holloway Plantation Ledger, 1796-1810, records the business activities of the Holloway family's plantation and the personal financial activities of Henry Holloway. obtained using Heritage Quests CD African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census, George Hairston (17501827) was a son of Robert Hairston and his wife, Ruth Stovall.Many papers relating to the Hairston family are kept at the Manuscripts . Top photo: Tuckahoe Plantation, Plantations of Virginia Theres even a bed and breakfast featured in the book- The Inn at Meander where you can stay. What is involved in restoring these homes and grounds? J: Realizing that intersectionality is a necessity for progression to occur in a country that so many people from all walks of life call home. Though the census schedules speak in terms of slave owners, the Henry's daughter, Martha, lived and administered the plantation. Jai: Ive lived in Virginia for quite awhile now and you are subconsciously immersed in history wherever you go. What often happened was that the family would flee, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. At one point the enslaved blacks of Beaver Creek were tending a thousand yam plants; in one day they made 660 candles. Known plantations include Cooleemee Hill in Davie County, N.C.; Shoe Buckle, Home House, and Old Town in Stokes county, N.C.; Oak Hill, Berry Hill, and Misher Place in Pittsylvania County, Va.; Morgan, Horse Pasture, and Shawnee in Henry County, Va.; and Columbus in Lowndes County, Miss. Governor Henry also had a 10,000-acre (40km2) plantation called "Leatherwood plantation" (for Leatherwood Creek) in the newly named county (where he ended up spending 5 years between his third and fourth gubernatorial terms).[3][4][5][6]. searchable and highly recommended database that can found at We applaud the many dedicated professionals who are working so hard to preserve these buildings and their stories. Coordinates: 3640N 7953W / 36.67N 79.88W / 36.67; -79.88. Harden built a new home, a plantation, for Alcey in Henry County and while she waited for it to be completed she read Ainsworth's novel. The plantation is probably named after Leatherwood Creek, a tributary to the Smith River (Virginia), which ran through the property. C: Theres so much to focus on with these three plantations. We never found a query that stumped one of these guides. Agriculturist Edmund Ruffin, who fired the first shot of the Civil War, practiced his innovative techniques on Charles City soil. ". The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. He was the originator of the Smith River Navigation Company and the Union Iron Works. Living through the Civil War was horrific. J: With the exception of a few plantations such as Montpellier, Mount Vernon, etc., photographing each plantation was therapeutic. Profiles Needed - If the plantation has names but the profiles are not yet completed then place it under this heading. Martha, widowed at 37, managed Leatherwood plantation, administered the will of her husband and of her brother William; Martha and John buried at Leatherwood, Henry Co., VA."[2] His son, John, also lived there. Freed (Replaced Enslaved at Red Hill with new page), Bellevue Plantation, Essex County, Virginia, Highland Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia, Monticello Plantation, Albemarle, Virginia, Mount Vernon Plantation, Fairfax County, Virginia, Roanoke Plantation, Charlotte County, Virginia, Shirley Plantation, Charles City, Virginia, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia, White House plantation, New Kent County, Virginia, Beaver Creek Plantation, Henry County, Virginia, Ben Lomond Plantation, Prince William County, Virginia, Corotoman Estate, Lancaster County, Virginia, Red Hill Plantation, Charlotte County, Virginia, Slaves of Robert "Councillor" Carter, III, USBH Heritage Exchange, Needs Slave Profiles. by Carolyn Henderson, Libba Johnson and Robert E. Hairston, Jr. - hairston.org. Leatherwood Plantation of 10,000 acres (40 km2) was located in Henry County, Virginia, where American Founding Father Patrick Henry lived from 1779 until 1784. More importantly, to the public institutions and private families who make a conscientious decision to keep Virginias rich history available to all. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2017 Woman Around Town. acres. 1860, with about half of those living in the southern States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. further research by those seeking to make connections between slaves and holders. 3 Virginia (Henry County), Fieldale A-109 Waller's Ford . Ball, Colonel Joseph Tuley, Jr., Colonel Upton L. Boyce, William Fairfax, Bryan Fairfax, George Washington, William Byrd Harrison, George Harrison Byrd, Francis Otway Byrd, Harry C. Thompson, Fred E. Watkins, Jim Justice. Robert Hairston owned Leatherwood Plantation in Henry County, and after marrying Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson, he managed her plantations including Berry Hill in Pittsylvania County, Va. Around 1837, he moved to Mississippi to manage the following plantations that he owned: Bend, Black Flat, Choctaw Springs, Moore's Bluff, Nashville Place, and His daughters, Sarah (Sallie) Butler, was born at Leatherwood on January 4, 1780, as was her sister, Martha Catharine (Kitty), born November 3, 1781. Fresh ideas are how I stay young. When Patricia Field convinced Darren Star to let her introduce Carrie Bradshaw in a tulle skirt and. After that, we broadened our search to every corner of the state and were rewarded with some amazing finds, including some plantations that are now mere shells but being renovated in order to preserve their history. They formed three terraces, which were filled with flowers and bordered with boxwood. Leatherwood Plantation of 10,000 acres (40 km2) was located in Henry County, Virginia, where American Founding Father Patrick Henry lived from 1779 until 1784. lots of duplication of plantation names. And of course John Hemings who was an excellent carpenter. Billings, A. Surry, VA, United States. Two Virginia Counties that showed a significant increase in colored population 1, January 1903, Washington, D.C. Lord Dunmore's Little War of 1774, Warren Skidmore, Donna Kaminsky, Heritage Books, 2002, Henry County, The Carolina Road, virginia.org, Thomas Hord, Gentleman, Arnold Harris Hord, Thomas Hord, Philadelphia, 1903, https://books.google.com/books?id=fJJLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA599&lpg=PA599&dq=john+w.+carter+virginia&source=bl&ots=342eZu58AP&sig=5AjxMIZ7TW0UbjPU4isytcI-s2o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj87eyPwM7RAhXps1QKHTzqAt44ChDoAQguMAg#v=onepage&q=john%20w.%20carter%20virginia&f=false, Acts and Joint Resolutions , Passed by the General Assembly, of the State of Virginia, During the Session of 19012, J. H. O'Hannon, Superintendent of Public Printing, Richmond, 1902, "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990", "Census of Population and Housing from 1790-2000", "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990", "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the Violet Bank is a historic plantation house and museum in Colonial Heights, Virginia. Virginia original warrants and plats, 1774-1791 [for land now located in Kentucky] Family History Library. He was one of the three sons of Peter, the first Hairston to come to America. He resigned 13 September 1861. Furthermore, shooting towards the end of the year (autumn/winter) removed, in my opinion, the lightheartedness sometimes conveyed when these same places are shot during the (spring/summer). 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J: Colonial Williamsburg is often used as a standard for checking information, dating objects, etc. Counties, VA after 1688, Compiled from Original Public Records. For example, the number of enslaved people enumerated under a slave owner could indicate whether or not the slave owner had a plantation, and if so, what size it was. slaveholders with 1870 African Americans is intended merely as suggesting another possibility for Can you explain? slightly lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and would have Alabama Plantations; Georgia Plantations; Lousiana Plantations; Mississippi Plantations; Slave "Martha (Patsey) born 1755 at "Pine Slash," died 1818, age 63 at "Leatherwood" in 1818, married 2 Oct 1773 to John Fontaine born 1750 at Beaverdam, VA, died at "Leatherwood" in 1792 of malaria. GRAVELY (See also Martin, Gravely & Martin), HAIRSTON, Geo. Census data for 1860 was Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000", "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Henry County, Virginia", "P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - Henry County, Virginia", "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections", Patrick Henry Monument, Henry County, Virginia, virginia.org, Henry County The Carolina Road, Wilderness Road, virginia.org, Architectural Survey of Henry County/Martinsville, Virginia, Martinsville-Henry County Historical Society, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_County,_Virginia&oldid=1134823089, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Blackberry District: Jimmie L. "Jim" Adams (I), Horsepasture District: Debra Parsons Buchanan (I), Reed Creek District: T.J. "Tommy" Slaughter (I), Clerk of the Circuit Court: Jennifer Ashworth (I), Commissioner of the Revenue: Linda N. Love (I), Commonwealth's Attorney: Andrew Nester (I), This page was last edited on 20 January 2023, at 21:51. Today the home is a superb example of Federal design and American interior decorative arts. I felt that those stories needed to be told, even if briefly to include all persons involved in plantation life. Plan to spend a full day at each. When Marion died, her heirs transferred ownership to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, an organization that vowed to return Montpelier to what it had been during Madisons lifetime. He was 1st Cpl. The plantation was given to Henry's son-in-law and daughter upon their marriage. The county's six districts are as follows, in alphabetical order: Axton, Bassett, Collinsville, Horsepasture, Reed Creek, and Ridgeway. This fort would become Middle Plantation and later Williamsburg, Virginia. J: Virginia is thriving with plantations both publicly and/or privately owned. He served as a member of the Virginia Legislature longer than any member before or since. Jai Williams and Charlene Giannetti spent six months visiting 40 plantations in Virginia, taking tours and talking with the families and the professionals tasked with caring for these historic properties. the Virginia colored population declined by about 36,000, to approximately 513,000, a 6.5% Henry County Public Service Authority, 0.13 acres, $500; 0.14 acres, $2,000; and 1.24 acres, $4,965; obtained from the Historical United States Census Data Browser, which is a very detailed, It then descended from father to son to the fifth generation of George Hairstons. Virginia Slaves Freed after 1782. Others listed in text were either no longer standing or unavailable to contact, although the information stated as such. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ . LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. The plaque reads: "This boulder marks the landed estate of Patrick Henry where he lived from 1778 to 1784. Plantations of Virginia $ 21.95 By Jai Williams and Charlene C. Giannetti. Hanover County razed it on May 5, 2016. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. not realize that ancestor was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave schedules, because published ). publication of slaveholder names beginning with the largest holders will enable naming of the Birth of Benjamin Rogers. National Register of Historic Places listings in Henry County, Virginia. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.87. Douthat, James L. 1840 Mountain Empire of Virginia Census.Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 2001. Posted on February 1, 2017 by Woman Around Town in Reading Around. Ferry Plantation House: Virginia Beach: Independent city: 75002030 Flowerdew Hundred Plantation: Garysville: Prince George: For every 100 females, there were 95.10 males. C: After reading about the history of these 40 plantations, we hope that people will be inspired to visit many of them. Regardless of how each story was told by the docents, capturing the house, its interior, and grounds, my goal was to provide each reader with an opportunity to draw their own inference based on the text. Our country continues to grapple with slaverys legacy and that issue certainly played out in the states plantations. In Princess Anne County, Virginia, in 1705, Grace Sherwood was tried at the Court-house on "The Ferry" plantation for witchcraft. No local disttricts were shown on this enumeration. There he grew tobacco and practiced law. I was most affected by the people stories. making the link to finding that ancestor as a slave requires advanced research techniques involving County population included 6,773 whites, 314 free colored and 5,018 slaves. J: A few such as Patrick Henry who lovingly dealt with a wife who was mentally ill. Or William Berkeley who was exceptionally cruel to his slaves. And his wife, Dolley Madison, was a huge celebrity in her time and the first Presidents wife to be called the First Lady. A slave owner and Confederate supporter, Tyler would never be recognized for any of his contributions to the nation until 1915 when Congress build a monument in the cemetery where he and Julia are buried. The guest quarters contained the sleigh bed belonging to George. Unger, Harlow Giles. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. A Guide to the Henry County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1796-1868 A Collection in the Library of Virginia Barcode numbers: 1138024, 1138044 Library of Virginia The Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-8000 USA Phone: (804) 692-3888 (Archives Reference) Fax: (804) 692-3556 (Archives Reference) Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. Because of this, a list was compiled and we reached out to each plantation individually to ask their permission to come and tour, photograph, and write about their history. Their new book, Plantations of Virginia, has just been published by Globe Pequot Press. Contact the Profile Managers privately: Public Comments: Beaver Creek Plantation, Henry County, Virginia Ben Lomond Plantation, Prince William County, Virginia owned by Benjamin Tasker Chinn Corotoman Estate, Lancaster County, Virginia owned by the large Robert "King" Carter family Muddy Hole Farm, Fairfax County, VA Owner: President George Washington Needs Category Do Not Count Overseer, 75 slaves, page 496, PRESTON, Wm. Mount Vernon was the plantation of George Washington, the first President of the United States, which was situated in the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County. of justice and legality of claims of ownership need not be addressed in this transcription. Peter Hairston and his three sons Robert,Andrew and Samuel arrived in Virginia about 1740. Patrick Henry 1736 - 1799 (63 years) Set As Default Person . Gainesville. Jai, You took the photos for the book. Due to variable film quality, handwriting the number of slaves they held in the County and the first page number on which they were listed. . In 1832, Robert Hairston arranged for six slaves to be sent from the plantation to freedom in Liberia. Marrowbone was builtby Robert Hairston (c.1717-c.1791). Slaves were enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind Slaves 100 years of age or older were Some of these former slaves may have been using the surname of their 1860 Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. TheMarrowbone home is a frame house and is believed to be the oldest frame house in the county. Virginia. Loudoun County, Virginia Marriages After 1850 Volume I 1851-1880. Jai and Charlene talk about what became for them a transformative journey, researching and writing Plantations of Virginia. J: Two things: First, that many tours would either omit or gloss over the slavery aspect. It is located near Stanleytown on the old Carolina Post Road between Bassett and Fieldale and is a copy of a house George had seen in Richmond. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title.
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