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Paying slaves
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Eve Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:47:22 -0400
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Surry County, VA, court records indicate that slaves on the Allen plantation at Claremont were sometimes paid for "working over their task". I recall that William Allen bought a seine, and slaves who fished with it on the night tides received half the profit from the sale of the fish. It has been a few years since I worked with these records, but they come from guardians' accounts for William (Orgain) Allen in the 1830s and 1840s.Eve S. Gregory, Web Mistress 
Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society and Museums, Inc. 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ 
Surry County VaGenWeb 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasurry/
Sussex County VaGenWeb 
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vasussex/
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