Mr. Seagrave:
Thank you kindly. I have not only the web site showing emigrants and
emancipators, but the actual copies from the *African Repository*
listing them and other articles about their journey and the ship
*Elvira Owen*. These are housed at the Library of Virginia, Special
Collections.
The whole impetus for this article came from doing the abstracts of
Lancaster County Estates from 1835-1865. That was partially funded
by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, who put me in touch
with Marie Tyler-McGraw, author of "An African Republic" and who,
with others, is kindly assisting me with the nagging details like
the ones I asked about.
My issue now is in just one small footnote about the Secessionist
Convention and John R. Kilby's role in it.
I do thank you for your reply.
Craig Kilby
On Sep 6, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Ronald Seagrave wrote:
> You may have already have this, but just in case you don't here's a
> listing of those slaves emancipated...
> http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/liberia/index.php?
> page=Resources§ion=Search%20Emigrants&result=yes
>
> Sincerely
> Ronald R. Seagrave, PhD
> 10860 Quaker Road
> Dinwiddie, VA 23841
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Kilby"
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> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:47 PM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Help with a footnote, Virginia Secession
> Conventions
>
>
>> Friends,
>>
>> I need help with a minor detail in a footnote to the article I am
>> writing on the Kelley brothers emancipation of their 44 slaves in
>> Northumberland County, and their subsequent journey to Liberia.
>> This footnote deals with letters from one Randal Kilby to
>> attorney John Richardson Kilby of Suffolk, Nansemond County,
>> Virginia. Here is how I have it written, but there is a nagging
>> detail, the answer to which I cannot find by simply using the
>> internet:
>>
>> 60 Kilby Family Papers, Library of Virginia Archives Collections,
>> Correspondence 1856-1859, Box 5, Folder 13. Kilby was also a
>> delegate from Nansemond County to the 1861 Virginia Secessionist
>> Convention, where he voted with the majority in opposing secession
>> on April 4, 1861.
>>
>> I find conflicting information on whether Kilby was present at the
>> convention of 17 April 1861 which voted to seceed, in response to
>> Lincoln's call for 8,000 troops to surpress the rebellion. One
>> source says he was absent, another says he voted in favor. Kilby
>> (no relation) was an attorney in Suffolk with close ties to the
>> American Colonization Society.
>>
>> Any help on this specific footnote would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Craig Kilby
>> Lancaster, VA
>>
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