The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832

Appendix 2 Lunenburg County Court, 1770–1815

Appendix 2 Lunenburg County Court 1770­1815 Lunenburg County Court, 1770 Total Years Land in No. of Slaves Name of Service Acres Owned* Religious Service Lydall Bacon Elisha Belts Christopher Billups Henry Blagrave Thomas Chambers Richard Claiborne Everand Dowsing Lodowick Farmer David Garland Charles Hamlin Abraham Maury Jonathan Pattison Thomas Pettus John Ragscale Thomas Tabb Joseph Williams Thomas Winn 23 10 26 13 17 9 11 9 10 20 10 18 6 21 23 16 16 1,060 815 412 2,170 949 505 462 1,325 3,190 1,116 535 1,069 330 625 1,600 535 501 8 5 6 12 10 11 8 13 12 11 6 5 5 2 11 5 8 Anglican vestry (30 years) Anglican vestry (3 years) Anglican vestry (10 years) Anglican vestryb (11 years) Anglican vestry (11 years) Anglican vestry (5 years) Anglican Anglican vestry (4 years) Anglican vestry (15 years) Anglican Anglican Anglican vestry Anglican vestry (20 years) Anglican vestry (47 years)c Anglican vestry (21 years) Unknown Anglican vestry (14 years) SOURCE: Landon C. Bell, The Old Free State: A Contribution to the History of Lunenburg County and Southside Virginia, 2 vols. (Richmond, Va., 1927), 1:326—34; Landon C. Bell, Sunlight on the Southside: Lists of Tithes, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1748—1783 (Philadelphia, 1931), pp. 212­85; Landon C. Bell, Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746­1816: Vestry Book (Richmond, Va., 1930), pp. 26­31 and pas­ sim; Real and Personal Property Tax Lists, Lunenburg County, 1782, 1795, 1815, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va. "Includes only "tithable slaves" sixteen years and older. b Blagrave left the Anglican church in 1768. "This may represent the combined service of two men of the same name. This category includes all slaves. 'Includes slaves twelve years and older. Includes slaves nine years and older. Appendix 2 235 Lunenburg County Court, 1782 Total Years Land in No .of Slaves Name of Service Acres Owned6 Religious Service John Ballard Christopher Billups Robert Blackwell Edward Brodnax Thomas Chambers Francis DeGraffenreid Tscharner DeGraffenreid Robert Dixon John Glenn Charles Hamlin Nicholas Hobson James Johnson John Powell John Ragsdale Christopher Robertson Henry Stokes Anthony Street 5 26 11 8 17 17 5 2 9 20 2 3 3 21 18 17 12 1,398 810 327 Unknown 1,614 1,043 435 636 600 1,560 Unknown 140 350 625 680 1,172 300 25 18 13 40 43 24 28 9 10 19 16 7 6 13 11 20 14 Episcopal vestry (4 years) Episcopal vestry (10 years) Episcopal Episcopal vestry (1 year) Episcopal vestry (11 years) Unknown Episcopal Episcopal vestry (3 years) Episcopal Episcopal Episcopal vestry (2 years) Unknown Unknown Episcopal vestry (47 years)0 Episcopal vestry (18 years) Episcopal vestry (21 years) Episcopal vestry (6 years) Lunenburg County Court, 1795 Total Years Land in No. of Slaves Name of Service Acres Owned' Religious Service Edmund Bacon John Billups Field Clarke William Craghead Francis DeGraffenreid William Fisher Edward Jordan Peter Lampkin Frederick Nance, Jr. John Pettus, Jr. Edward Ragsdale Christopher Robertson James Scott Abner Wells Joseph Yarbrough 21 16 21 19 17 11 18 17 4 5 12 17 16 16 20 Unknown 887 703 563 1,122 1,061 1,154 829 349 1,025 360 600 1,084 220 240 Unknown 11 5 13 17 13 17 12 13 9 10 9 22 2 7 Episcopal vestry (26 years) Episcopal vestry (8 years) Baptist Unknown Presbyterian Unknown Episcopal vestry (7 years) Episcopal vestry (4 years) Episcopal Episcopal vestry (1 year) Episcopal vestry (4 years) Episcopal vestry (19 years) Baptist Episcopal Baptist 236 Appendix 2 Lunenburg County Court, 1815 Name Thomas Adams Charles Belts Joel Blackwell John Blackwell Thomas Blackwell Field Clarke William Ellis Jesse Hamlett Meriwether Hurt James Jeffress Lewis Jones Peter Jones John Knight James Smith William Stokes David Street Edmund Winn Joseph Yarbrough Total Years of Service 14 8 14 6 21 21 15 17 10 18 21 4 7 19 10 21 26 20 Land in Acres 415 284 671 613 1,616 537 382 396 554 1,167 1,399 2,172 554 1,843 2,063 1,831 1,100 608 No. of Slaves Owned 11 17 13 14 28 10 19 9 12 17 18 40 8 36 31 19 20 28 Religious Affiliation Episcopalian Episcopalian Unknown Unknown Unknown Baptist Baptist Unknown Unknown Baptist Unknown Unknown Unknown Episcopalian Episcopalian Episcopalian Unknown Baptist ...