Has there been a search through the town's/county's survey plats?

I ask because here in Norfolk we found an early (1700s to about 1840s) "Negro burial ground" in the northern section of Downtown Norfolk.   It was on a copy of a survey filed with Norfolk City.  The survey was done in 1902, but it is based off an earlier survey.   https://cdm15987.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15987coll17/id/14/rec/10

Does the town's code or ordianances mention negro burial grounds or burial of slaves/free blacks?

Something to consider...

Sincerely,

Troy


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Although I’d long supposed that someplace on W&M’s original 330 acres is a burial ground for those the College enslaved over some 170 years, I’m now of a mind that we more likely  buried our enslaved at a largely forgotten potter’s field of some sort near the Williamsburg Inn, as I explore in

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I know of no such “tradition."

If there was a farm there, the place might be a family burial plot.   It not a farm, it might conceivably be a burial ground for enslaved.

Is it possible to determine whether a farm was there from before 1693 or not?

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