Listers:
I ran across this while perusing the papers of Orange County:
"We promise to pay to William Graves Senr . . . nine hundred Dollars
Currant [sic] money of Virginia, it being for the hire of nine negroes
for the year 1851 at $100 each to work on the plank road from
Chancellorsville to Orange Court house . . . said negroes not to be
worked with Irishmen nor foreigners . . ."
The interpretations are myriad and interesting. Enjoy.
The citation: Graves's admr. V. Ellis etc., Orange County, (VA), Circuit
Court Judgments, Oct 1853.
Pardon the x-post.
Jim Watkinson
James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.
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