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 > > 804-896-4171 > Email: [log in to unmask] > Please see my Blog: http://dinwiddiecountyhistory.blogspot.com > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Kilby" > <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > 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 >> >> ______________________________________ >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the >> instructions at >> http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> >> >> >> >> E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (5.5.1.322) >> Database version: 5.10640e >> http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor/ > > > > > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (5.5.1.322) > Database version: 5.10640e > http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor/ > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the > instructions at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html