Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Slavery in the Valley
Date: Friday 15 October 2010. 4:05 pm.
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From: Jim Glanville <[log in to unmask]>

Ms. Vines Little, Mr. Scott Smith:

In the spirit of Mr. Crews original posting here that "…at this juncture 
I'll take most anything," I'll note that James Patton's will mentioned 
his five slaves. Patton was killed at Draper's Meadows in the summer of 
1755 at the time he was the "big man" of Augusta County. So that's at 
least one legitimate primary source. The will is in the Lyman Draper 
Virginia papers, Chalkley's "Chronicles," and probably other places.

I am on the road right now and do not have access to my library. 
However, three secondary sources that come to mind are:
McCleskey, Turk. "The Price of Conformity: Class, Ethnicity, and Local 
Authority on the Colonial Virginia Frontier." Pp. 213-226 in Michael J. 
Puglisi, ed. "Diversity and Accommodation: Essays on the Cultural 
Composition of the Virginia Frontier." Knoxville: The University of 
Tennessee Press: 1997.

McCleskey, Nathaniel Turk. "Across the first divide: Frontiers of 
settlement and culture in Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770. " Ph.D. 
Thesis. College of William and Mary, 1990,

Kegley, Mary B. Free People of Colour: Free Negroes, Indians, 
Portuguese, and Freed Slaves. Wytheville: Kegley Books, 2003.

Jim Glanville

W. Scott Smith wrote:
> Barbara,
>
> You may very well be correct. I can't remember if quit rent rolls contained
> information on slaves, but Frederick County was included in the Fairfax
> Proprietary at that time, I think, so there might be something there.
>
>   

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