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Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated","Many of the business volumes are fragile and should not be handled,  please check alternative formats for volumes that have been microfilmed. Please use microfilm if available .\n","Please see  Albemarle County Microfilm   index in the Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm available on the Library of Virginia website for full listing.","A. P. Bibb and Company Ledger A, 1871-1872 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228","A. P. Bibb and Company Ledger B, 1874 is available as mircofilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228","Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 229","John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234","William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","William T. 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McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877\n Series VII: Price, Phares, and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated\n Series VIII: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890)\n Series IX: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836\n Series X: Woods and Company Records, 1897-1898\n Series XI: A. P. Bibb and Company Ledgers, 1871-1872, 1874\n Series XII: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871\n Series XIII: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855\n Series XIV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859\n Series XV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860\n Series XVI: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861\n","Context for Record Type:  Business Records, both volumes and loose records, are in some cases transferred to the Library of Virginia as components of court record transfers. These business records in some cases were simply stored in the local court building for safe keeping by business owners. In other cases, business records (particularly ledgers, account books, etc.) may have been filed in a court case as an exhibit. These business record exhibits appeared both in chancery causes and in judgments, these records serving as exhibits for business dissolution cases, debt suits, and contract disputes.\n","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville. Area: 722.6 square miles. Population: 94,186 (2000), 90,400 (2005 estimate)  \n","Lost Records Locality:  Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Created in 1744. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n","Prior to 2024, the various business records in this collection were originally described as individual records, but they have been consolidated into one large business record for the locality. Additional records for this locality were also found in Fluvanna County."," In 2024 Local Records staff made the decision to include the Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875 in the Albemarle Business Records descriptive guide as the sphere of activity is more central to Albemarle than to Fluvanna County despite being transfered by the Circuit of Fluvanna County.","Encoded by C. Freed, July 2024\n","Additional Albemarle County (Va.) records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory.","Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated are comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Albemarle County (Va.) Represented records consist of bound volumes such as a subscriber list, account books, ledgers, daybooks, real estate listings and an order book.\n","Scope and Content: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868, lists subscribers by town and lists various accounts with other businesses.\n","Historical Information: John S. Crawford was an enslaver and owned extensive real estate in Bath County, Virginia in the 19th century.\n","Scope and Content: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869, records the accounts of individuals, including enslaved Black and Multiracial people, who purchased goods from Crawford. Information found in the accounts include name of individual, date of transaction, goods purchased, service rendered, form of payment, amount owed, and amount paid. Goods sold include tobacco, corn, whiskey, coffee, meal, and bacon. Services rendered include pasturing livestock, renting out wagons, Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor, and barter of goods including chickens, iron kettles, and flour. Includes index.\n","Scope and Content: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904, records produce bought by various individuals.\n","Historical Information: C. Ross Mann owned a mercantile business called C.R. Mann located in the town of Batesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ledger was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Wingo, Ellett, and Crump, etc., versus Mann and Wood heard in the Albemarle County Circuit Court. The dispute centered over money owed Wingo, Ellett, and Crump by C. Ross Mann and his business partner William L. Wood. According to Mann, all the business' financial records were held by Wood which Wood denied.   \n","Scope and Content: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880, is a ledger that records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased, and amount owed or paid, and form of payment. Items sold include tobacco, food (bacon, beef, eggs, sugar), tools, farm implements, nails, tools, and cloth. forms of payment include cash, credit, and barter of items such as wheat, cherries, and chickens. \n","Also see:  Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Cause, Wingo, Ellett, and Crump], etc. versus Mann and Wood, 1890-022 .","Scope and Content: Mason, Walker and Richardson Daybooks, July 1860-July 1861 and 1873-1875, record the transactions as they occurred daily. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold include beef, soap, whiskey, bed steads, cabbage, potatoes, sugar, and coffee. Entries in one of the daybooks include page numbers that correspond with page numbers found in the ledger. Both daybooks include additional miscellaneous information. \n","Mason, Walker and Richardson Ledger A, 1860-1861, records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in the accounts includes items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Payments made by cash, barter including eggs and vegetables, or labor. Ledger also includes a list of horses and mules worked at Shadwell. The list includes name of horse or mule, age, and value.\n","Scope and Content: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877, records accounts of individuals for purchases made within the tavern. Information includes name of account holder, quantity of purchases, and total of accounts.\n","Scope and Content: Price, Phares, and Randolph real estate listings, undated, records physical descriptions of 115 properties that have been offered for sale. The properties are primarily large farms with dwelling houses. Other properties have smokehouses, icehouses, or quarters for enslaved individuals available.\n","Historical Information: :John B. Spiece was a lawyer and an enslaver in Albemarle County. \n","Scope and Content: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890), records debits and credits incurred in the administration of his plantation. Accounts include wages for laborers employed in picking fruit, milling, and planting; board for laborers; and supplies such as clothing bought for his enslaved individuals or tools and farm implements. Page 477 records the names of ten enslaved individuals owned by Spiece and their date of death from 1847-1864.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836, records individual accounts of customers. Information found in accounts accounts include name of customer, date of transaction, service rendered, amount owed and paid, and form of payment. Services rendered primarily relate to publishing advertisements for customers such as property sales including enslaved individuals. The account book also includes a list of names of subscribers who lived locally, in-state, and out-of-state. Includes index. \n","Scope and Content: Woods and Company Account Book, 1897-1898, contains accounts of goods bought and sold. Items include produce, eggs, flour, sugar, and coffee. \n","Woods and Company Order Book No. 4, 1897-1898, records name of customer, date of purchase, grocery items (such as coffee, butter, tobacco, and bacon) purchased, and price of purchase.  \n","Scope and Content: A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger A, 1871-1872, records individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes purchases of merchandise and sundries by cash and includes balance due. Am index is found in the front of the volume.  \n","A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger B, 1874, records individual and company accounts by date. However, the purchases notes are more specific--noting specific items such as needles, cotton, socks and fabrics such as linen, muslim and calico.  The volumes contains a loose account and numbers 122 pages. \n","Scope and Content: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871, contains individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes profit and loss, interest on accounts, balance due, a tally of merchandise and whether cash or check is received for payment. The hiring of enslaved individuals is also included.  Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage. Within the same box folder is found an Unidentified Ledger, 1861.\n","Scope and Content: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855, records wages paid to and groceries bought by individuals. Day laborers were employed in farm labor like harvesting, butchering, thrashing, and mowing. Among the items purchased from Samuel Lewis were bacon, butter, flour, corn, and potatoes. This volume also includes an Unidentified Ledger, 1858-1860.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859, records accounts of an unknown nature. Lists payments to and payments received by individuals. Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860, records the sale of clothing, fabric, thread, ribbon, and cloth fringe. This volume also includes the Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861 July 1-5, records individual accounts with a very detailed list of items purchased. Materials bought include lace, cotten, silk, flannel, wool and indigo. Other items procured include staples (sugar and molasses), coats, shoes, buttons, matches, candle sticks, tobacco, wagons, harnesses and hay. Within the same box folder is found Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","State Records Center; Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"collection_title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"collection_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"creator_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These records came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Albemarle County in an undated accession.\n","Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875, came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Fluvanna County in an undated accession.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["20 volumes; 6 microfilm reels"],"extent_tesim":["20 volumes; 6 microfilm reels"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany of the business volumes are fragile and should not be handled, \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eplease check alternative formats for volumes that have been microfilmed. Please use microfilm if available\u003c/emph\u003e.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Many of the business volumes are fragile and should not be handled,  please check alternative formats for volumes that have been microfilmed. Please use microfilm if available .\n"],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePlease see \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA003\"\u003eAlbemarle County Microfilm \u003c/extref\u003e index in the Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm available on the Library of Virginia website for full listing.\u003c/emph\u003e \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. P. Bibb and Company Ledger A, 1871-1872 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. P. Bibb and Company Ledger B, 1874 is available as mircofilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 229\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice, Phares and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890) is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 232\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoods and Company Order Book and Account Book No. 4, 1897-1898 are available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 231\u003c/p\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Alternative Form Available\n"],"altformavail_tesim":["Please see  Albemarle County Microfilm   index in the Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm available on the Library of Virginia website for full listing.","A. P. Bibb and Company Ledger A, 1871-1872 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228","A. P. Bibb and Company Ledger B, 1874 is available as mircofilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228","Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 229","John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234","William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","Price, Phares and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890) is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 232","Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234","Woods and Company Order Book and Account Book No. 4, 1897-1898 are available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 231"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged\u003clist type=\"simple\"\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries I: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868\n \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries II: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869\n \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries III: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904\n \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries IV: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries V: Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries VI: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries VII: Price, Phares, and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries VIII: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890)\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries IX: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries X: Woods and Company Records, 1897-1898\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XI: A. P. Bibb and Company Ledgers, 1871-1872, 1874\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XII: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XIII: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XIV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XVI: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged Series I: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868\n  Series II: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869\n  Series III: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904\n  Series IV: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880\n Series V: Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875\n Series VI: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877\n Series VII: Price, Phares, and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated\n Series VIII: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890)\n Series IX: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836\n Series X: Woods and Company Records, 1897-1898\n Series XI: A. P. Bibb and Company Ledgers, 1871-1872, 1874\n Series XII: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871\n Series XIII: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855\n Series XIV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859\n Series XV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860\n Series XVI: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eContext for Record Type:\u003c/emph\u003e Business Records, both volumes and loose records, are in some cases transferred to the Library of Virginia as components of court record transfers. These business records in some cases were simply stored in the local court building for safe keeping by business owners. In other cases, business records (particularly ledgers, account books, etc.) may have been filed in a court case as an exhibit. These business record exhibits appeared both in chancery causes and in judgments, these records serving as exhibits for business dissolution cases, debt suits, and contract disputes.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville. Area: 722.6 square miles. Population: 94,186 (2000), 90,400 (2005 estimate)  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLost Records Locality: \u003c/emph\u003eAlbemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Created in 1744. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Context for Record Type:  Business Records, both volumes and loose records, are in some cases transferred to the Library of Virginia as components of court record transfers. These business records in some cases were simply stored in the local court building for safe keeping by business owners. In other cases, business records (particularly ledgers, account books, etc.) may have been filed in a court case as an exhibit. These business record exhibits appeared both in chancery causes and in judgments, these records serving as exhibits for business dissolution cases, debt suits, and contract disputes.\n","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville. Area: 722.6 square miles. Population: 94,186 (2000), 90,400 (2005 estimate)  \n","Lost Records Locality:  Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Created in 1744. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePrior to 2024, the various business records in this collection were originally described as individual records, but they have been consolidated into one large business record for the locality. Additional records for this locality were also found in Fluvanna County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e In 2024 Local Records staff made the decision to include the Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875 in the Albemarle Business Records descriptive guide as the sphere of activity is more central to Albemarle than to Fluvanna County despite being transfered by the Circuit of Fluvanna County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncoded by C. Freed, July 2024\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information\n"],"processinfo_tesim":["Prior to 2024, the various business records in this collection were originally described as individual records, but they have been consolidated into one large business record for the locality. Additional records for this locality were also found in Fluvanna County."," In 2024 Local Records staff made the decision to include the Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875 in the Albemarle Business Records descriptive guide as the sphere of activity is more central to Albemarle than to Fluvanna County despite being transfered by the Circuit of Fluvanna County.","Encoded by C. Freed, July 2024\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional Albemarle County (Va.) records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA003\"\u003e\"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e available at Virginia Memory.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Albemarle County (Va.) records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated are comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Albemarle County (Va.) Represented records consist of bound volumes such as a subscriber list, account books, ledgers, daybooks, real estate listings and an order book.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eCharlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868, lists subscribers by town and lists various accounts with other businesses.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHistorical Information:\u003c/emph\u003eJohn S. Crawford was an enslaver and owned extensive real estate in Bath County, Virginia in the 19th century.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eJohn S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869, records the accounts of individuals, including enslaved Black and Multiracial people, who purchased goods from Crawford. Information found in the accounts include name of individual, date of transaction, goods purchased, service rendered, form of payment, amount owed, and amount paid. Goods sold include tobacco, corn, whiskey, coffee, meal, and bacon. Services rendered include pasturing livestock, renting out wagons, Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor, and barter of goods including chickens, iron kettles, and flour. Includes index.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eWilliam J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904, records produce bought by various individuals.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHistorical Information:\u003c/emph\u003eC. Ross Mann owned a mercantile business called C.R. Mann located in the town of Batesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ledger was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Wingo, Ellett, and Crump, etc., versus Mann and Wood heard in the Albemarle County Circuit Court. The dispute centered over money owed Wingo, Ellett, and Crump by C. Ross Mann and his business partner William L. Wood. According to Mann, all the business' financial records were held by Wood which Wood denied.   \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eC. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880, is a ledger that records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased, and amount owed or paid, and form of payment. Items sold include tobacco, food (bacon, beef, eggs, sugar), tools, farm implements, nails, tools, and cloth. forms of payment include cash, credit, and barter of items such as wheat, cherries, and chickens. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso see: \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=003-1890-022\"\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Chancery Cause, Wingo, Ellett, and Crump], etc. versus Mann and Wood, 1890-022\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eMason, Walker and Richardson Daybooks, July 1860-July 1861 and 1873-1875, record the transactions as they occurred daily. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold include beef, soap, whiskey, bed steads, cabbage, potatoes, sugar, and coffee. Entries in one of the daybooks include page numbers that correspond with page numbers found in the ledger. Both daybooks include additional miscellaneous information. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMason, Walker and Richardson Ledger A, 1860-1861, records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in the accounts includes items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Payments made by cash, barter including eggs and vegetables, or labor. Ledger also includes a list of horses and mules worked at Shadwell. The list includes name of horse or mule, age, and value.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eWilliam T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877, records accounts of individuals for purchases made within the tavern. Information includes name of account holder, quantity of purchases, and total of accounts.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003ePrice, Phares, and Randolph real estate listings, undated, records physical descriptions of 115 properties that have been offered for sale. The properties are primarily large farms with dwelling houses. Other properties have smokehouses, icehouses, or quarters for enslaved individuals available.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHistorical Information:\u003c/emph\u003e:John B. Spiece was a lawyer and an enslaver in Albemarle County. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eJohn B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890), records debits and credits incurred in the administration of his plantation. Accounts include wages for laborers employed in picking fruit, milling, and planting; board for laborers; and supplies such as clothing bought for his enslaved individuals or tools and farm implements. Page 477 records the names of ten enslaved individuals owned by Spiece and their date of death from 1847-1864.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836, records individual accounts of customers. Information found in accounts accounts include name of customer, date of transaction, service rendered, amount owed and paid, and form of payment. Services rendered primarily relate to publishing advertisements for customers such as property sales including enslaved individuals. The account book also includes a list of names of subscribers who lived locally, in-state, and out-of-state. Includes index. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eWoods and Company Account Book, 1897-1898, contains accounts of goods bought and sold. Items include produce, eggs, flour, sugar, and coffee. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoods and Company Order Book No. 4, 1897-1898, records name of customer, date of purchase, grocery items (such as coffee, butter, tobacco, and bacon) purchased, and price of purchase.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eA. P. and Bibb Company Ledger A, 1871-1872, records individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes purchases of merchandise and sundries by cash and includes balance due. Am index is found in the front of the volume.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. P. and Bibb Company Ledger B, 1874, records individual and company accounts by date. However, the purchases notes are more specific--noting specific items such as needles, cotton, socks and fabrics such as linen, muslim and calico.  The volumes contains a loose account and numbers 122 pages. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eMrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871, contains individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes profit and loss, interest on accounts, balance due, a tally of merchandise and whether cash or check is received for payment. The hiring of enslaved individuals is also included.  Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage. Within the same box folder is found an Unidentified Ledger, 1861.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eSamuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855, records wages paid to and groceries bought by individuals. Day laborers were employed in farm labor like harvesting, butchering, thrashing, and mowing. Among the items purchased from Samuel Lewis were bacon, butter, flour, corn, and potatoes. This volume also includes an Unidentified Ledger, 1858-1860.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859, records accounts of an unknown nature. Lists payments to and payments received by individuals. Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860, records the sale of clothing, fabric, thread, ribbon, and cloth fringe. This volume also includes the Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Business Ledger, 1861 July 1-5, records individual accounts with a very detailed list of items purchased. Materials bought include lace, cotten, silk, flannel, wool and indigo. Other items procured include staples (sugar and molasses), coats, shoes, buttons, matches, candle sticks, tobacco, wagons, harnesses and hay. Within the same box folder is found Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated are comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Albemarle County (Va.) Represented records consist of bound volumes such as a subscriber list, account books, ledgers, daybooks, real estate listings and an order book.\n","Scope and Content: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868, lists subscribers by town and lists various accounts with other businesses.\n","Historical Information: John S. Crawford was an enslaver and owned extensive real estate in Bath County, Virginia in the 19th century.\n","Scope and Content: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869, records the accounts of individuals, including enslaved Black and Multiracial people, who purchased goods from Crawford. Information found in the accounts include name of individual, date of transaction, goods purchased, service rendered, form of payment, amount owed, and amount paid. Goods sold include tobacco, corn, whiskey, coffee, meal, and bacon. Services rendered include pasturing livestock, renting out wagons, Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor, and barter of goods including chickens, iron kettles, and flour. Includes index.\n","Scope and Content: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904, records produce bought by various individuals.\n","Historical Information: C. Ross Mann owned a mercantile business called C.R. Mann located in the town of Batesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ledger was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Wingo, Ellett, and Crump, etc., versus Mann and Wood heard in the Albemarle County Circuit Court. The dispute centered over money owed Wingo, Ellett, and Crump by C. Ross Mann and his business partner William L. Wood. According to Mann, all the business' financial records were held by Wood which Wood denied.   \n","Scope and Content: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880, is a ledger that records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased, and amount owed or paid, and form of payment. Items sold include tobacco, food (bacon, beef, eggs, sugar), tools, farm implements, nails, tools, and cloth. forms of payment include cash, credit, and barter of items such as wheat, cherries, and chickens. \n","Also see:  Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Cause, Wingo, Ellett, and Crump], etc. versus Mann and Wood, 1890-022 .","Scope and Content: Mason, Walker and Richardson Daybooks, July 1860-July 1861 and 1873-1875, record the transactions as they occurred daily. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold include beef, soap, whiskey, bed steads, cabbage, potatoes, sugar, and coffee. Entries in one of the daybooks include page numbers that correspond with page numbers found in the ledger. Both daybooks include additional miscellaneous information. \n","Mason, Walker and Richardson Ledger A, 1860-1861, records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in the accounts includes items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Payments made by cash, barter including eggs and vegetables, or labor. Ledger also includes a list of horses and mules worked at Shadwell. The list includes name of horse or mule, age, and value.\n","Scope and Content: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877, records accounts of individuals for purchases made within the tavern. Information includes name of account holder, quantity of purchases, and total of accounts.\n","Scope and Content: Price, Phares, and Randolph real estate listings, undated, records physical descriptions of 115 properties that have been offered for sale. The properties are primarily large farms with dwelling houses. Other properties have smokehouses, icehouses, or quarters for enslaved individuals available.\n","Historical Information: :John B. Spiece was a lawyer and an enslaver in Albemarle County. \n","Scope and Content: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890), records debits and credits incurred in the administration of his plantation. Accounts include wages for laborers employed in picking fruit, milling, and planting; board for laborers; and supplies such as clothing bought for his enslaved individuals or tools and farm implements. Page 477 records the names of ten enslaved individuals owned by Spiece and their date of death from 1847-1864.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836, records individual accounts of customers. Information found in accounts accounts include name of customer, date of transaction, service rendered, amount owed and paid, and form of payment. Services rendered primarily relate to publishing advertisements for customers such as property sales including enslaved individuals. The account book also includes a list of names of subscribers who lived locally, in-state, and out-of-state. Includes index. \n","Scope and Content: Woods and Company Account Book, 1897-1898, contains accounts of goods bought and sold. Items include produce, eggs, flour, sugar, and coffee. \n","Woods and Company Order Book No. 4, 1897-1898, records name of customer, date of purchase, grocery items (such as coffee, butter, tobacco, and bacon) purchased, and price of purchase.  \n","Scope and Content: A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger A, 1871-1872, records individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes purchases of merchandise and sundries by cash and includes balance due. Am index is found in the front of the volume.  \n","A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger B, 1874, records individual and company accounts by date. However, the purchases notes are more specific--noting specific items such as needles, cotton, socks and fabrics such as linen, muslim and calico.  The volumes contains a loose account and numbers 122 pages. \n","Scope and Content: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871, contains individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes profit and loss, interest on accounts, balance due, a tally of merchandise and whether cash or check is received for payment. The hiring of enslaved individuals is also included.  Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage. Within the same box folder is found an Unidentified Ledger, 1861.\n","Scope and Content: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855, records wages paid to and groceries bought by individuals. Day laborers were employed in farm labor like harvesting, butchering, thrashing, and mowing. Among the items purchased from Samuel Lewis were bacon, butter, flour, corn, and potatoes. This volume also includes an Unidentified Ledger, 1858-1860.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859, records accounts of an unknown nature. Lists payments to and payments received by individuals. Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860, records the sale of clothing, fabric, thread, ribbon, and cloth fringe. This volume also includes the Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861 July 1-5, records individual accounts with a very detailed list of items purchased. Materials bought include lace, cotten, silk, flannel, wool and indigo. Other items procured include staples (sugar and molasses), coats, shoes, buttons, matches, candle sticks, tobacco, wagons, harnesses and hay. Within the same box folder is found Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871.\n"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Location\"\u003eState Records Center; Library of Virginia\n\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["State Records Center; Library of Virginia\n"],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":36,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:40:38.212Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi05387","ead_ssi":"vi_vi05387","_root_":"vi_vi05387","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi05387","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi05387.xml","title_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"text":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated","Many of the business volumes are fragile and should not be handled,  please check alternative formats for volumes that have been microfilmed. Please use microfilm if available .\n","Please see  Albemarle County Microfilm   index in the Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm available on the Library of Virginia website for full listing.","A. P. Bibb and Company Ledger A, 1871-1872 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228","A. P. Bibb and Company Ledger B, 1874 is available as mircofilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 228","Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 229","John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234","William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","Price, Phares and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890) is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 232","Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234","Woods and Company Order Book and Account Book No. 4, 1897-1898 are available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 231","This collection is arranged Series I: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868\n  Series II: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869\n  Series III: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904\n  Series IV: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880\n Series V: Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875\n Series VI: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877\n Series VII: Price, Phares, and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated\n Series VIII: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890)\n Series IX: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836\n Series X: Woods and Company Records, 1897-1898\n Series XI: A. P. Bibb and Company Ledgers, 1871-1872, 1874\n Series XII: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871\n Series XIII: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855\n Series XIV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859\n Series XV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860\n Series XVI: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861\n","Context for Record Type:  Business Records, both volumes and loose records, are in some cases transferred to the Library of Virginia as components of court record transfers. These business records in some cases were simply stored in the local court building for safe keeping by business owners. In other cases, business records (particularly ledgers, account books, etc.) may have been filed in a court case as an exhibit. These business record exhibits appeared both in chancery causes and in judgments, these records serving as exhibits for business dissolution cases, debt suits, and contract disputes.\n","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville. Area: 722.6 square miles. Population: 94,186 (2000), 90,400 (2005 estimate)  \n","Lost Records Locality:  Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Created in 1744. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n","Prior to 2024, the various business records in this collection were originally described as individual records, but they have been consolidated into one large business record for the locality. Additional records for this locality were also found in Fluvanna County."," In 2024 Local Records staff made the decision to include the Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875 in the Albemarle Business Records descriptive guide as the sphere of activity is more central to Albemarle than to Fluvanna County despite being transfered by the Circuit of Fluvanna County.","Encoded by C. Freed, July 2024\n","Additional Albemarle County (Va.) records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory.","Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated are comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Albemarle County (Va.) Represented records consist of bound volumes such as a subscriber list, account books, ledgers, daybooks, real estate listings and an order book.\n","Scope and Content: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868, lists subscribers by town and lists various accounts with other businesses.\n","Historical Information: John S. Crawford was an enslaver and owned extensive real estate in Bath County, Virginia in the 19th century.\n","Scope and Content: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869, records the accounts of individuals, including enslaved Black and Multiracial people, who purchased goods from Crawford. Information found in the accounts include name of individual, date of transaction, goods purchased, service rendered, form of payment, amount owed, and amount paid. Goods sold include tobacco, corn, whiskey, coffee, meal, and bacon. Services rendered include pasturing livestock, renting out wagons, Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor, and barter of goods including chickens, iron kettles, and flour. Includes index.\n","Scope and Content: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904, records produce bought by various individuals.\n","Historical Information: C. Ross Mann owned a mercantile business called C.R. Mann located in the town of Batesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ledger was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Wingo, Ellett, and Crump, etc., versus Mann and Wood heard in the Albemarle County Circuit Court. The dispute centered over money owed Wingo, Ellett, and Crump by C. Ross Mann and his business partner William L. Wood. According to Mann, all the business' financial records were held by Wood which Wood denied.   \n","Scope and Content: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880, is a ledger that records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased, and amount owed or paid, and form of payment. Items sold include tobacco, food (bacon, beef, eggs, sugar), tools, farm implements, nails, tools, and cloth. forms of payment include cash, credit, and barter of items such as wheat, cherries, and chickens. \n","Also see:  Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Cause, Wingo, Ellett, and Crump], etc. versus Mann and Wood, 1890-022 .","Scope and Content: Mason, Walker and Richardson Daybooks, July 1860-July 1861 and 1873-1875, record the transactions as they occurred daily. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold include beef, soap, whiskey, bed steads, cabbage, potatoes, sugar, and coffee. Entries in one of the daybooks include page numbers that correspond with page numbers found in the ledger. Both daybooks include additional miscellaneous information. \n","Mason, Walker and Richardson Ledger A, 1860-1861, records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in the accounts includes items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Payments made by cash, barter including eggs and vegetables, or labor. Ledger also includes a list of horses and mules worked at Shadwell. The list includes name of horse or mule, age, and value.\n","Scope and Content: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877, records accounts of individuals for purchases made within the tavern. Information includes name of account holder, quantity of purchases, and total of accounts.\n","Scope and Content: Price, Phares, and Randolph real estate listings, undated, records physical descriptions of 115 properties that have been offered for sale. The properties are primarily large farms with dwelling houses. Other properties have smokehouses, icehouses, or quarters for enslaved individuals available.\n","Historical Information: :John B. Spiece was a lawyer and an enslaver in Albemarle County. \n","Scope and Content: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890), records debits and credits incurred in the administration of his plantation. Accounts include wages for laborers employed in picking fruit, milling, and planting; board for laborers; and supplies such as clothing bought for his enslaved individuals or tools and farm implements. Page 477 records the names of ten enslaved individuals owned by Spiece and their date of death from 1847-1864.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836, records individual accounts of customers. Information found in accounts accounts include name of customer, date of transaction, service rendered, amount owed and paid, and form of payment. Services rendered primarily relate to publishing advertisements for customers such as property sales including enslaved individuals. The account book also includes a list of names of subscribers who lived locally, in-state, and out-of-state. Includes index. \n","Scope and Content: Woods and Company Account Book, 1897-1898, contains accounts of goods bought and sold. Items include produce, eggs, flour, sugar, and coffee. \n","Woods and Company Order Book No. 4, 1897-1898, records name of customer, date of purchase, grocery items (such as coffee, butter, tobacco, and bacon) purchased, and price of purchase.  \n","Scope and Content: A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger A, 1871-1872, records individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes purchases of merchandise and sundries by cash and includes balance due. Am index is found in the front of the volume.  \n","A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger B, 1874, records individual and company accounts by date. However, the purchases notes are more specific--noting specific items such as needles, cotton, socks and fabrics such as linen, muslim and calico.  The volumes contains a loose account and numbers 122 pages. \n","Scope and Content: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871, contains individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes profit and loss, interest on accounts, balance due, a tally of merchandise and whether cash or check is received for payment. The hiring of enslaved individuals is also included.  Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage. Within the same box folder is found an Unidentified Ledger, 1861.\n","Scope and Content: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855, records wages paid to and groceries bought by individuals. Day laborers were employed in farm labor like harvesting, butchering, thrashing, and mowing. Among the items purchased from Samuel Lewis were bacon, butter, flour, corn, and potatoes. This volume also includes an Unidentified Ledger, 1858-1860.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859, records accounts of an unknown nature. Lists payments to and payments received by individuals. Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860, records the sale of clothing, fabric, thread, ribbon, and cloth fringe. This volume also includes the Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861 July 1-5, records individual accounts with a very detailed list of items purchased. Materials bought include lace, cotten, silk, flannel, wool and indigo. Other items procured include staples (sugar and molasses), coats, shoes, buttons, matches, candle sticks, tobacco, wagons, harnesses and hay. Within the same box folder is found Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871.\n","There are no restrictions.\n","State Records Center; Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"collection_title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"collection_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, \n1831-1904, undated"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"creator_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"acqinfo_ssim":["These records came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Albemarle County in an undated accession.\n","Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875, came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Fluvanna County in an undated accession.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["20 volumes; 6 microfilm reels"],"extent_tesim":["20 volumes; 6 microfilm reels"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMany of the business volumes are fragile and should not be handled, \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eplease check alternative formats for volumes that have been microfilmed. Please use microfilm if available\u003c/emph\u003e.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions\n"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Many of the business volumes are fragile and should not be handled,  please check alternative formats for volumes that have been microfilmed. 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Reel 230","Price, Phares and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 230","John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890) is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 232","Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836 is available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 234","Woods and Company Order Book and Account Book No. 4, 1897-1898 are available as microfilm Albemarle County (Va.) Reel 231"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is arranged\u003clist type=\"simple\"\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries I: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868\n \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries II: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869\n \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries III: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904\n \u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries IV: C. R. 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Bibb and Company Ledgers, 1871-1872, 1874\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XII: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XIII: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XIV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003citem\u003eSeries XVI: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861\n\u003c/item\u003e\n\u003c/list\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is arranged Series I: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868\n  Series II: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869\n  Series III: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904\n  Series IV: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880\n Series V: Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875\n Series VI: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877\n Series VII: Price, Phares, and Randolph Real Estate Listings, undated\n Series VIII: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890)\n Series IX: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836\n Series X: Woods and Company Records, 1897-1898\n Series XI: A. P. Bibb and Company Ledgers, 1871-1872, 1874\n Series XII: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871\n Series XIII: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855\n Series XIV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859\n Series XV: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860\n Series XVI: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eContext for Record Type:\u003c/emph\u003e Business Records, both volumes and loose records, are in some cases transferred to the Library of Virginia as components of court record transfers. These business records in some cases were simply stored in the local court building for safe keeping by business owners. In other cases, business records (particularly ledgers, account books, etc.) may have been filed in a court case as an exhibit. These business record exhibits appeared both in chancery causes and in judgments, these records serving as exhibits for business dissolution cases, debt suits, and contract disputes.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLocality History:\u003c/emph\u003e Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville. Area: 722.6 square miles. 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These business record exhibits appeared both in chancery causes and in judgments, these records serving as exhibits for business dissolution cases, debt suits, and contract disputes.\n","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville. Area: 722.6 square miles. Population: 94,186 (2000), 90,400 (2005 estimate)  \n","Lost Records Locality:  Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Created in 1744. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePrior to 2024, the various business records in this collection were originally described as individual records, but they have been consolidated into one large business record for the locality. Additional records for this locality were also found in Fluvanna County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e In 2024 Local Records staff made the decision to include the Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875 in the Albemarle Business Records descriptive guide as the sphere of activity is more central to Albemarle than to Fluvanna County despite being transfered by the Circuit of Fluvanna County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncoded by C. Freed, July 2024\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information\n"],"processinfo_tesim":["Prior to 2024, the various business records in this collection were originally described as individual records, but they have been consolidated into one large business record for the locality. Additional records for this locality were also found in Fluvanna County."," In 2024 Local Records staff made the decision to include the Mason, Walker and Richardson Records, 1860-1875 in the Albemarle Business Records descriptive guide as the sphere of activity is more central to Albemarle than to Fluvanna County despite being transfered by the Circuit of Fluvanna County.","Encoded by C. Freed, July 2024\n"],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional Albemarle County (Va.) records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/local/results_all.asp?CountyID=VA003\"\u003e\"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost\"\u003eLost Records Localities Digital Collection\u003c/extref\u003e available at Virginia Memory.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material\n"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Additional Albemarle County (Va.) records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult  \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated are comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Albemarle County (Va.) Represented records consist of bound volumes such as a subscriber list, account books, ledgers, daybooks, real estate listings and an order book.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eCharlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868, lists subscribers by town and lists various accounts with other businesses.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHistorical Information:\u003c/emph\u003eJohn S. Crawford was an enslaver and owned extensive real estate in Bath County, Virginia in the 19th century.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eJohn S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869, records the accounts of individuals, including enslaved Black and Multiracial people, who purchased goods from Crawford. Information found in the accounts include name of individual, date of transaction, goods purchased, service rendered, form of payment, amount owed, and amount paid. Goods sold include tobacco, corn, whiskey, coffee, meal, and bacon. Services rendered include pasturing livestock, renting out wagons, Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor, and barter of goods including chickens, iron kettles, and flour. Includes index.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eWilliam J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904, records produce bought by various individuals.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHistorical Information:\u003c/emph\u003eC. Ross Mann owned a mercantile business called C.R. Mann located in the town of Batesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ledger was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Wingo, Ellett, and Crump, etc., versus Mann and Wood heard in the Albemarle County Circuit Court. The dispute centered over money owed Wingo, Ellett, and Crump by C. Ross Mann and his business partner William L. Wood. According to Mann, all the business' financial records were held by Wood which Wood denied.   \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eC. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880, is a ledger that records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased, and amount owed or paid, and form of payment. Items sold include tobacco, food (bacon, beef, eggs, sugar), tools, farm implements, nails, tools, and cloth. forms of payment include cash, credit, and barter of items such as wheat, cherries, and chickens. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso see: \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=003-1890-022\"\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Chancery Cause, Wingo, Ellett, and Crump], etc. versus Mann and Wood, 1890-022\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eMason, Walker and Richardson Daybooks, July 1860-July 1861 and 1873-1875, record the transactions as they occurred daily. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold include beef, soap, whiskey, bed steads, cabbage, potatoes, sugar, and coffee. Entries in one of the daybooks include page numbers that correspond with page numbers found in the ledger. Both daybooks include additional miscellaneous information. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMason, Walker and Richardson Ledger A, 1860-1861, records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in the accounts includes items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Payments made by cash, barter including eggs and vegetables, or labor. Ledger also includes a list of horses and mules worked at Shadwell. The list includes name of horse or mule, age, and value.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eWilliam T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877, records accounts of individuals for purchases made within the tavern. Information includes name of account holder, quantity of purchases, and total of accounts.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003ePrice, Phares, and Randolph real estate listings, undated, records physical descriptions of 115 properties that have been offered for sale. The properties are primarily large farms with dwelling houses. Other properties have smokehouses, icehouses, or quarters for enslaved individuals available.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eHistorical Information:\u003c/emph\u003e:John B. Spiece was a lawyer and an enslaver in Albemarle County. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eJohn B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890), records debits and credits incurred in the administration of his plantation. Accounts include wages for laborers employed in picking fruit, milling, and planting; board for laborers; and supplies such as clothing bought for his enslaved individuals or tools and farm implements. Page 477 records the names of ten enslaved individuals owned by Spiece and their date of death from 1847-1864.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836, records individual accounts of customers. Information found in accounts accounts include name of customer, date of transaction, service rendered, amount owed and paid, and form of payment. Services rendered primarily relate to publishing advertisements for customers such as property sales including enslaved individuals. The account book also includes a list of names of subscribers who lived locally, in-state, and out-of-state. Includes index. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eWoods and Company Account Book, 1897-1898, contains accounts of goods bought and sold. Items include produce, eggs, flour, sugar, and coffee. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoods and Company Order Book No. 4, 1897-1898, records name of customer, date of purchase, grocery items (such as coffee, butter, tobacco, and bacon) purchased, and price of purchase.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eA. P. and Bibb Company Ledger A, 1871-1872, records individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes purchases of merchandise and sundries by cash and includes balance due. Am index is found in the front of the volume.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA. P. and Bibb Company Ledger B, 1874, records individual and company accounts by date. However, the purchases notes are more specific--noting specific items such as needles, cotton, socks and fabrics such as linen, muslim and calico.  The volumes contains a loose account and numbers 122 pages. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eMrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871, contains individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes profit and loss, interest on accounts, balance due, a tally of merchandise and whether cash or check is received for payment. The hiring of enslaved individuals is also included.  Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage. Within the same box folder is found an Unidentified Ledger, 1861.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eSamuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855, records wages paid to and groceries bought by individuals. Day laborers were employed in farm labor like harvesting, butchering, thrashing, and mowing. Among the items purchased from Samuel Lewis were bacon, butter, flour, corn, and potatoes. This volume also includes an Unidentified Ledger, 1858-1860.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859, records accounts of an unknown nature. Lists payments to and payments received by individuals. Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860, records the sale of clothing, fabric, thread, ribbon, and cloth fringe. This volume also includes the Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eScope and Content:\u003c/emph\u003eUnidentified Business Ledger, 1861 July 1-5, records individual accounts with a very detailed list of items purchased. Materials bought include lace, cotten, silk, flannel, wool and indigo. Other items procured include staples (sugar and molasses), coats, shoes, buttons, matches, candle sticks, tobacco, wagons, harnesses and hay. Within the same box folder is found Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Business Records, 1831-1904, undated are comprised of various records created by individuals and companies in pursuit of documenting business activities in and around Albemarle County (Va.) Represented records consist of bound volumes such as a subscriber list, account books, ledgers, daybooks, real estate listings and an order book.\n","Scope and Content: Charlottesville Chronicle Subscriber List and Account Book, 1860-1868, lists subscribers by town and lists various accounts with other businesses.\n","Historical Information: John S. Crawford was an enslaver and owned extensive real estate in Bath County, Virginia in the 19th century.\n","Scope and Content: John S. Crawford Plantation Account Book, 1859-1869, records the accounts of individuals, including enslaved Black and Multiracial people, who purchased goods from Crawford. Information found in the accounts include name of individual, date of transaction, goods purchased, service rendered, form of payment, amount owed, and amount paid. Goods sold include tobacco, corn, whiskey, coffee, meal, and bacon. Services rendered include pasturing livestock, renting out wagons, Forms of payment include cash, credit, labor, and barter of goods including chickens, iron kettles, and flour. Includes index.\n","Scope and Content: William J. Ficklin Account Book, 1902-1904, records produce bought by various individuals.\n","Historical Information: C. Ross Mann owned a mercantile business called C.R. Mann located in the town of Batesville in Albemarle County, Virginia. The ledger was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit Wingo, Ellett, and Crump, etc., versus Mann and Wood heard in the Albemarle County Circuit Court. The dispute centered over money owed Wingo, Ellett, and Crump by C. Ross Mann and his business partner William L. Wood. According to Mann, all the business' financial records were held by Wood which Wood denied.   \n","Scope and Content: C. R. Mann Book C, 1879-1880, is a ledger that records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in each entry includes date of transaction, type of transaction, item purchased, and amount owed or paid, and form of payment. Items sold include tobacco, food (bacon, beef, eggs, sugar), tools, farm implements, nails, tools, and cloth. forms of payment include cash, credit, and barter of items such as wheat, cherries, and chickens. \n","Also see:  Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Cause, Wingo, Ellett, and Crump], etc. versus Mann and Wood, 1890-022 .","Scope and Content: Mason, Walker and Richardson Daybooks, July 1860-July 1861 and 1873-1875, record the transactions as they occurred daily. Information found in each entry includes name of customer, items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Merchandise sold include beef, soap, whiskey, bed steads, cabbage, potatoes, sugar, and coffee. Entries in one of the daybooks include page numbers that correspond with page numbers found in the ledger. Both daybooks include additional miscellaneous information. \n","Mason, Walker and Richardson Ledger A, 1860-1861, records the accounts of individual customers. Each account lists transactions in chronological order. Information found in the accounts includes items purchased, payment debts or expenses, and the amount owed and paid. Payments made by cash, barter including eggs and vegetables, or labor. Ledger also includes a list of horses and mules worked at Shadwell. The list includes name of horse or mule, age, and value.\n","Scope and Content: William T. McAllister Daybook, 1876-1877, records accounts of individuals for purchases made within the tavern. Information includes name of account holder, quantity of purchases, and total of accounts.\n","Scope and Content: Price, Phares, and Randolph real estate listings, undated, records physical descriptions of 115 properties that have been offered for sale. The properties are primarily large farms with dwelling houses. Other properties have smokehouses, icehouses, or quarters for enslaved individuals available.\n","Historical Information: :John B. Spiece was a lawyer and an enslaver in Albemarle County. \n","Scope and Content: John B. Spiece Plantation Ledger, 1831-1890 (bulk 1857-1890), records debits and credits incurred in the administration of his plantation. Accounts include wages for laborers employed in picking fruit, milling, and planting; board for laborers; and supplies such as clothing bought for his enslaved individuals or tools and farm implements. Page 477 records the names of ten enslaved individuals owned by Spiece and their date of death from 1847-1864.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Newspaper Account Book, 1831-1836, records individual accounts of customers. Information found in accounts accounts include name of customer, date of transaction, service rendered, amount owed and paid, and form of payment. Services rendered primarily relate to publishing advertisements for customers such as property sales including enslaved individuals. The account book also includes a list of names of subscribers who lived locally, in-state, and out-of-state. Includes index. \n","Scope and Content: Woods and Company Account Book, 1897-1898, contains accounts of goods bought and sold. Items include produce, eggs, flour, sugar, and coffee. \n","Woods and Company Order Book No. 4, 1897-1898, records name of customer, date of purchase, grocery items (such as coffee, butter, tobacco, and bacon) purchased, and price of purchase.  \n","Scope and Content: A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger A, 1871-1872, records individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes purchases of merchandise and sundries by cash and includes balance due. Am index is found in the front of the volume.  \n","A. P. and Bibb Company Ledger B, 1874, records individual and company accounts by date. However, the purchases notes are more specific--noting specific items such as needles, cotton, socks and fabrics such as linen, muslim and calico.  The volumes contains a loose account and numbers 122 pages. \n","Scope and Content: Mrs. Jones Account Book, 1857-1871, contains individual and company accounts by date. The volume notes profit and loss, interest on accounts, balance due, a tally of merchandise and whether cash or check is received for payment. The hiring of enslaved individuals is also included.  Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage. Within the same box folder is found an Unidentified Ledger, 1861.\n","Scope and Content: Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855, records wages paid to and groceries bought by individuals. Day laborers were employed in farm labor like harvesting, butchering, thrashing, and mowing. Among the items purchased from Samuel Lewis were bacon, butter, flour, corn, and potatoes. This volume also includes an Unidentified Ledger, 1858-1860.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1857-1859, records accounts of an unknown nature. Lists payments to and payments received by individuals. Volume is in very poor condition due to water damage.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1858-1860, records the sale of clothing, fabric, thread, ribbon, and cloth fringe. This volume also includes the Samuel Lewis Ledger, 1839-1855.\n","Scope and Content: Unidentified Business Ledger, 1861 July 1-5, records individual accounts with a very detailed list of items purchased. Materials bought include lace, cotten, silk, flannel, wool and indigo. Other items procured include staples (sugar and molasses), coats, shoes, buttons, matches, candle sticks, tobacco, wagons, harnesses and hay. 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Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)",".","Chancery Causes 1768-1871, use digital images found on the  Chancery Records Index  available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.  \n","Chancery Causes 1872-1969, processed and indexed information is available on the Chancery Records Index, but digital images are not available at this time. Contact Archives Reference Services for availability. ","There remain 7 boxes of unprocessed Chancery Records, 1885-1912. Contact Archives Reference Services for availability. ","Organized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the latest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found. Arranged chronologically. ","Arrangement of documents within each folder are as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.) \n","Context for Record Type:  Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statue of 1744 and formed from Goochalnd County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. "," Lost Records Locality Note:   All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n ","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1768-1850 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program 2021-2022. ","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1851-1871 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program 2024-2025. ","Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, were processed by field processors as well as various Local Records Staff and completed from early 2000s- 2010s ","Chancery Causes, 1768-1840, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by G. Crawford in 2018-2020.  ","Chancery Causes, 1840-1850, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by M. Long and M. Mason, 2020-2021. ","Chancery Causes, 1851-1871, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by C. Collins and E. Swain, 2022-2023. ","Encoded by M. Mason, December 2024; updated by M. Mason: April 2025 ","Additional Albemarle County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult A Guide to  Virgnia County and City Records on Microfilm","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the available at Virginia Memory. \n","Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \n","Chancery causes before 1870 contain a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," James Geekie immigrated from Scotland at the request of a wealthy relative named John White a resident of Albemarle County. White offered to leave his estate to Geekie to encourage him to immigrate. Soon after Geekie's arrival, Geekie claims White began to mistreat him. Upon his death, White refused to live up to his promise made to Geekie except for a small amount of land in Kentucky. In his will, James White emancipated the individuals he enslaved and gave them all of his estate. Geekie made claim to a portion of the estate the enslaved people inherited. Rather than file suit for the property for concern it would delay, perhaps permanently, their emancipation, both parties went to arbitration where an agreement was reached in which Geekie received one-third of the estate. Geekie still had to file suit against the enslaved people because the court had to ensure the interest of the enslaved infants were ensured. \n"," Cause involves sell of enslaved family [unnamed]. Plaintiff purchased an enslaved mother and her children. The husband of the enslaved woman asked the plaintiff to purchase him as well so he would not be separated from his family. \n"," Plaintiff accused defendant of selling him Prudence, unhealthy enslaved woman who suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Cause includes deposition of physician who examined the Prudence while she was held by Higginbotham. The physician testified that he found the Prudence being kept in a damp cellar during intense cold weather, and that she was salivating due to medication given to her by Higginbotham. The physician diagnosed her with a severe lung infection and some form of a pox spreading over her body. He told Higginbotham to remove Prudence from the cellar because the poor conditions made her health condition worse. He also told him that \"his mismanagement of the case endangered the life of the woman\" and that the combination of the lung infection and pox \"rendered her situation critical and dangerous.\" The physician was unable to examine Prudence for the STD due to her poor health. The physician was asked to examine the Prudence again while she was in the possession of the plaintiff. The pox had returned. While examining her, the physician discovered that Prudence had an abortion which was \"hastened by the circumstances of the woman concealing her state of pregnancy and the medicine administered for the pox.\" \"That a state of pox generally but not always produces abortion - and the disease is hereditary and most generally afflicts the offspring of a mother who is thus afflicted.\" \n","  Causes concerns Hagar, a man enslaved by Lewis Nevell. Nevell names Hagar head man of a boat giving him authority to make contracts with others including Archibald Lingo. Lingo refused to conduct business with Hagar as an enslaved man, claiming the last time he conducted business with an enslaved man, a man named Jim, Jim then ran away with the money received and believed to have self- emancipated. \n"," Cause concerns the fraudulent sale of enslaved persons. Harriot, Harry, Sarah, and Shadrick claimed to have been emancipated by deed recorded in Lancaster County. \n [  ChOriginal deed    as well as  Filed freedom suit in common law.   available through Virginia Untold site.\nSee also:  Augusta County Chancery Cause 1823-034.] \n"," Plaintiff agreed to serve as substitute on behalf of defendant for a tour of duty during the War of 1812. \n"," Cause involved questions over the categorization of enslaved people as either real property or personal property. \n"," Cause involves Simon, an enslaved man, being given permission by his enslaver to return to Albemarle County from Estill County, Kentucky. \"Slave pass\" filed as exhibit. \n"," The cause involved a dispute over the estate of William Smith who died at age 96. Multiple depositions center on Smith's mental health before his death. One deponent recalled Smith claiming to be a French and Indian War veteran. He learned that Congress passed a law giving additional pension to Revolutionary War veterans. Smith believed he should get additional pension for his French and Indian War service. He was told he could not because the pension was only for Revolutionary War veterans. Another deponent was asked how Smith's enslaved people were treated. He recalled seeing one enslaved person at the home of Smith's son Willis Smith. He was chained, wore an iron collar, and had been physically abused. He was punished for being a runaway and stealing meal and bacon from the home of Willis' mother. \n"," Robert Lewis convicted of the murder of Thomas Noel in 1821 and then Fled Virginia. Lewis' estate was managed by coroner of Albemarle after he left the state, with Morris is seeking payment of debt from Lewis' estate.  [See also: Albemarle County - Thompson Noel: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1821 September] \n"," Defendant claimed to be a dentist. Contracted by plaintiff to learn dentistry. Advertisement of Hall's dentist practice filed as exhibit. \n"," Cause involves disagreement over purchase of Monticello by plaintiff from defendant. \n"," Estate dispute that centers around the question of whether or not Martin Dawson, the testator, had the right to free all of the enslaved people included in his estate in his will. Ultimately, a third of the enslaved individuals in question were manumitted. Their names, ages, and family relationships were described in the case's records. Also included in the case is a discussion of the African Colonization Society, and a report on the lives of the people who had been manumitted after they migrated to Illinois. The case also discusses the Literary Fund of Virginia, the establishment of public schools, and the University of Virginia. \n"," Estate dispute. A recent Irish immigrant, William Leitch, moved to Virginia in order to investigate the estate of his father, who had died in the state many years earlier. Leitch claimed that he had discovered that his uncle had defrauded him of most of his father's estate. He further claimed that his uncle also owed additional money to the estate, due to debts that accrued after Leitch's father had to cut off a business partnership due to the uncle's drunken behavior. The case included depositions by other Irish immigrants and travel papers from France and the United States consul in London. \n"," Estate disputes concerning Caroline Brand, a woman who had previously been enslaved. She and her children were manumitted by the will of their enslaver, Joseph Brand, and were also left his estate. In the 1842 suit, she argued that the administrator had failed to grant her and her children their full inheritance after her family moved to Pennsylvania. The case includes records of their lives as free Black residents of Pennsylvania, and of medical care given to other individuals who were enslaved by Joseph Brand. In the 1843 suit, she and her new husband Alexander Wilson sued for the rights to Joseph Brand's portion of his father's estate. \n"," Ann Eliza Sandridge was a feme sole suing for property rights after Charles D. Maupin had suddenly broken off their engagement by moving out of state. Maupin argued that he had attempted to break off the engagement multiple times previously and that she had burned all of the relevant letters.The other defendants argued that Maupin never had rights to the property in question to begin with. Case includes love letters between Sandridge and Maupin. \n"," Estate dispute. Martha Walker's will had manumitted all enslaved people belonging to her estate. She also left money so that these people could also free their family members and move together to a free state. Reuben Lee, one of the formerly enslaved individuals, entered suit against Walker's estate on the grounds that he had not been given the amount required to free his wife and child and move with them to Ohio. \n"," Debt suit that centers around Mary, a teenage girl who was enslaved. Miletus Harris claimed that Staples Tyler \u0026 Co had fraudulently taken ownership of Mary as part of a judgment against Samuel D. Venable, when Mary had actually been transferred to Harris as the result of a previous judgment against Venable. Harris claimed in the suit that part of the issue was that Mary's family members were enslaved by relatives of Harris, and Staples Tyler \u0026 Co's claim would cause her to be separated from them. \n"," Estate dispute, wherein Austin M. Appling claimed that Abram Eades had made a will before his death, which had later been destroyed by an enslaved woman. Includes a long, angry note by the defendants' counsel. In it, he decried the fact that Appling's evidence was based on the claims of an enslaved woman and an illiterate day laborer, when the defendants' evidence was based on the testimony of white witnesses  \"of great respectability.\"  \n"," Contract Dispute between several parties largely concerning the title to property used for the tanbark industry. Lengthy discussion of the local tanbark industry in Albemarle County.  \n","  An estate dispute concerning the children of Mary Eleanor Hoomes Stout's estate, first marriage to Benjamin Hoomes, who claim rights to Washington, an enslaved man, as part of their mother's dower interest. Wish to reclaim Washington who is in the possession of Thornton Stout, James Crewdson, and Isaiah Stout, after the men took Washington from Mary Eleanor's second husband , Samuel Stout, for security of his debts.  \n"," Steven Bias, a \"free man of color\", claims that he has been unlawfully seized of property to pay debts owed to George Trueheart for legally representation in judgement involving Bias's, and his wife's, ability to remaining in the commonwealth. Bias asserts that he never secured Trueheart for any legal services and is unaware of any judgment regarding his status as a freeman.  \n"," Concerns the debts of Edwin Conway and his wife, operating a hotel on the campus of the University of Virginia, taking issue with Mrs. Conway, as a married woman, operating the business in her own right. Large argument regarding whether Mr. or Mrs. Conway is actually in charge of the operations, who the debts belong to, possible sale of individuals enslaved by Mrs. Conway to pay debts, and the unlawful nature of Mrs. Conway's business dealings.  \n"," Estate dispute concerning property of late Dabney Minor and various plantations \"Gilmerton\", \"Carr's Brook\", and \"Bremo\" with much discussion about enslaved persons, and the pricing and hiring of enslaved persons to neighboring landowners. [see: EXR OF Dabney Minor v Catharine H Reinheart ETC 1874-010]  \n"," Ann Chick seeks a divorce from Littleton Chick due to cruelty and abuse suffered by her for over ten years.  Ann claims Littleton is violent when intoxicated which is almost constant. Describes his abuse towards her, her five children, and enslaved persons. Ann wants custody of her children and possession of the 5 enslaved persons as her father gave them to her and believes Littleton will simply sell them if left in his care.  \n"," Yates claims he should not have to pay Kinsolving the remaining balance for an enslaved woman named Elvira as he was assured that Elvira was of sound mind, but several days after the purchase it was revealed that Elvira suffered from violent \"fits.\" \n"," Thomas requests the court ability to sell Nealy, an enslaved person, in order to pay for college education at Randolph Macon  \n"," Cause covers the settling of accounts for Tompkins and Noel, company acting as owner and editors of the Virginia Advocate newspapers. The accounts shown in the division of assets providers a long list of the paper's subscribers. \n"," Joseph Twyman claims he was defrauded into purchasing Harriet who proved to be \"unsound\" due to a condition described as an \"enlarged womb\" and therefore will not pay the remaining bonds to Alfred Twyma and would like a refund and Harriet returned.  \n","  Concerns the construction of the Augusta County Court House in 1836, and requests settlement of accounts from the partnership entered into during the construction. \n","  Concerns property in Fluvanna County, Buckingham County, and Candle \u0026 Soap Factory near Richmond, Va., as well as the Dismal Swamp, New Orleans, and Kentucky, The Will of Richard Morriss emancipates Fanny and her children while providing the children with property and enslaved persons. The Will of Mary M. Garland emancipates John, Nancy, and Nancy's husband Lewis Brooks, providing funds to remove them to Liberia or to a free state.  \n","  Trueheart family invested money from land sold to purchase enslaved people to work on their property in Galveston, Texas. Enslaved people purchased in Richmond and transported to Galveston. Exhibits include bills of sale, contracts with ship captains to transport enslaved people and insurance policy for enslaved man Arthur Anderson. \n","   Plaintiff describes abduction of enslaved persons. Also references execution of enslaved man Andrew. \n","  This suit concerns the use of William Donoho's securities of property and enslaved individuals to settle debts. The funds were used, among other things, for the erection of buildings contracted for the Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (Staunton, Va.). \n","  These suits involve the dissolution of a business partnership between Robert C. Noel and James C. Halsall, co-owners and publishers of the Virginia Advocate for a few years during the 1840s. \n","  This suit involves the sale of the Eagle Hotel (also known as the Eagle Tavern), the Jefferson House adjoining the hotel, and the \"Brick-Stable\" attached to the hotel, all of which were located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved individuals were auctioned in front of the Eagle Hotel through the end of the Civil War. It was sold by Andrew J. Farish to George L. Peyton in 1853, though whether Farish regained ownership of the properties following Peyton's inability to adhere to the payment schedule outlined in the sale contract is unknown. \n","  In filing for a divorce from William Gully, her husband, Susan A. Gully claimed that he committed adultery with, and later abandoned her for, an unnamed free woman of color. According to the suit, he removed with the free woman of color to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in either 1849 or 1850. \n","  Indebted to several creditors, William Moon sold at auction several enslaved persons, namely Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton, to Stapleton C. Sneed. However, Moon \"felt the deepest solicitude that [Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton] should pass forever and hopelessly beyond his control,\" owing to what Moon described as \"the peculiar relation existing between [Moon] and his slaves.\" As such, Moon and Sneed entered into a contract wherein Moon was allowed to redeem Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton within ten years so long as he did so to free them. Moon, however, was unable to come up with the capital to redeem them in time. A deposition in 1856-033 confirms that Cary Ann and her children were related by blood to William Moon. The question \"Were any of the other Negroes besides Cary Ann and her children related by blood to Moon?\" was posed to Fontaine Wells, a deponent, who answered, \"I believe all were - except the old woman of all - the others were her's [sic] \u0026 his descendants.\" \n","  This suit contains limited genealogical and biographical information about persons who were enslaved in Albemarle, Virginia. The information shows familial relationships between enslaved persons, though only highlighting parent-child relationships, and mentions some of their responsibilities (e.g., blacksmith). \n"," Suite features Michie Tavern. The original location of the tavern is depicted on a plat included in the suit. \n","  This suit involves several free Black and multiracial people who lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. According to the bill of complaint, Nancy West was a Black woman and the \"de facto\" wife of David Isaacs, a Jewish merchant residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. They had several children, namely Thomas, Hays, Frederick, Tucker, Jane, Julia Ann, and Agness [sic]. As of the initiation of the suit, Thomas Isaacs was presumed lost at sea; Hays and Frederick were deceased; Tucker and Agness [sic] (along with her husband, German Evans) lived in Ohio; Julia Ann had married Eston Hemings Jefferson, purportedly the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, with whom she moved to Wisconsin; and Jane had married Nathaniel H. West and presumably lived in Albemarle County. David Isaacs died in 1837 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy West moved to Ohio sometime in the 1850s. \n","  Land in Albemarle County, Virginia, referred to as the Norvell Farm and Gold property, came under contention when Lafayette K. Saylor refused to pay John M. Norvell for the land until Norvell perfected its title. As part of their agreement, Saylor offered to pay Norvell $50,000, or almost $2,000,000 today, for the land. Saylor discovered that Norvell attempted to sell the land to other speculators after Saylor's nonpayment, at which point Saylor sought the court's aid in forcing Norvell to adhere to the original sale. One of the speculators, Patrick H. Cowen, claimed some expertise in gold mining, \"having pursued [gold] for sometime in California,\" during the California gold rush. \n","  The suit involves a monetary bequest by Frances B. Smith to Richmond College [University of Richmond]. Other organizations, such as the Colonization Society and the Baptist Foreign Mission, were also listed as beneficiaries, but the parties involved with the suit could not determine whether the organizations still existed because of the American Civil War. The suit contains limited information about the chartering of Richmond College and its activities during the war. \n","  This suit mentions Tom, an enslaved man, who was \"impressed into the service of the Confederate States for labor on the defenses near Richmond.\" \n","  In his will, John Bow stipulated that Susan, an enslaved Black woman and Bow's purported daughter, and her two children, Lewis and Lucy, should either be emancipated upon agreeing to migrate to Liberia or remain enslaved in Virginia under the stewardship of trustees named in Bow's will. The court wrestled with the intent behind the stipulation, as evidenced by a counsel's note that considered the following: was Bow's attempt to will the enslaved people to trustees if they chose to remain in Virginia an evasion of \"the policy as well as the letter of statute prohibiting emancipated slaves to remain within the Commonwealth?\" The counsel argued that, should such an occurrence be sanctioned by the court, \"the whole slave race of Virginia may be thus turned loose upon us, in the hands of trustees, or of nominal masters, holding the privilege...of remaining hence when it suits them.\" An affidavit states that Lewis, referred to as Lewis Randolph, immigrated to Liberia. As of 1853, Susan and Lucy remained in Virginia. \n","  Jack Robinson, a formerly enslaved man, sought a divorce from his wife, Amanda Johnson. According to Robinson, he and Amanda \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes,\" which became binding in 1866 following the passage of a law by the Virginia legislature stating that all Black individuals \"cohabitating as man and wife\" would be considered legally married. Robinson claimed that he left Amanda before the law's passage due to her infidelity, but he nevertheless sought a divorce in case they were married in the eyes of the law. \n","  The depositions in this suit highlight a rumored interracial relationship between John Thomason and Frankey Thomason, a Black woman enslaved by the estate of Sarah Thomason, Thomason's mother. Thomason and Frankey were said to have had multiple children, who were considered enslaved due to existing laws that governed enslavement based on the status of the mother. However, several deponents claimed that the children were considered \"quasi-free,\" (whether by themselves or the neighborhood is not specified) and were therefore afforded more leniancy when hired out by Thomason or his mother's executor. \n","  Contract suit. Case records detail the predicaments of a railroad company subsidized by the state and bound by Commonwealth law to carry all passengers and freight upon \"terms fair and equal to all without unjust preference or discrimination\" while at the same time, facing increasing private and public pressure for the transportation of express mail on its rail carriers. Suit also presents allegations made against the Adams Express Company for essentially establishing a monopoly on express mail services in Virginia. \n"," \nThree suits heard together regarding the estates of two siblings, Elizabeth Davis and Robert Davis, who were both declared to be mentally unfit by adulthood. Through their respective committees, the siblings appeared to have made standard requests for permission from the court in order to sell property originally inherited from older members of the Davis family to a neutral third-party. However, their sister Virginia Carter claimed that fraud had been committed by those committee members instead as she accused her brother-in-law and her now deceased husband of illegally purchasing that property for their own benefits. Moreover, that the Albemarle County Clerk of Court directly assisted in this scheme by helping to forge the paperwork for these purchases. \n\n","  Divorce suit. The plaintiff accused her husband of having committed adultery. Depositions include extensive details on Mr. Wheeler's alleged attempts to have extramarital relations with a number of women including Sallie Stewart, an African American woman employed by his father-in-law, James O. Hardin. Stewart's own deposition is included with the suit records. \n","  Divorce suit. John A Shackleford sought a divorce against his second wife, Clementine Shackleford (Marshall) on the grounds of adultery. Depositions given by midwife Lucy Rives and neighbor F. M. Wells provide details on the accusations made by Shackleford against his wife who had allegedly given birth to an interracial daughter. (Both plaintiff and defendant were presumed to be white). In their respective testimonies, Rives recalled her experience in assisting with the birth of this child and Wells recounted a conversation with Clementine Shackleford regarding the possible paternity of the baby. According to the final decree, Clementine Shackleford failed to make any court appearances and to provide an answer to her husband's bill. Instead, on the back of a deposition notice, there appears to be a signed statement giving her consent for her husband to take depositions and an assertion that she had no \"intention\" to \"defend [her] conduct.\" A note by the court discusses what Virginia law required for a divorce on the grounds of adultery at that time. \n","  Plaintiffs Noah Jackson and his wife, Louisa Tyree sought to settle a contract made in May 1860 with D. H. E. Saunders and John Simpson. Jackson and Tyree assert that they had entered into a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson that arranged for Jackson, who had been formally enslaved by Saunders at that time, to be sold to Simpson under the mutual understanding of all parties that Jackson would live a free man. Moreover, that their contract would allow Jackson to trade as a freeman and to remain in the Commonwealth for as long as he personally desired to do so. Tyree, a freewoman at the time, put her house and lot in Charlottesville up as security for this contract. According to the bill, the plaintiffs were unaware prior to 1868 that their contract did not legally provide those rights and privileges to Jackson; the very condition that was their primary motivation for entering into such a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson in the first place. \n","There are no restrictions.\n","","Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":[""],"normalized_title_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"collection_title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"collection_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"creator_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) 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Search the available at Virginia Memory. \n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChancery causes before 1870 contain a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Geekie immigrated from Scotland at the request of a wealthy relative named John White a resident of Albemarle County. White offered to leave his estate to Geekie to encourage him to immigrate. Soon after Geekie's arrival, Geekie claims White began to mistreat him. Upon his death, White refused to live up to his promise made to Geekie except for a small amount of land in Kentucky. In his will, James White emancipated the individuals he enslaved and gave them all of his estate. Geekie made claim to a portion of the estate the enslaved people inherited. Rather than file suit for the property for concern it would delay, perhaps permanently, their emancipation, both parties went to arbitration where an agreement was reached in which Geekie received one-third of the estate. Geekie still had to file suit against the enslaved people because the court had to ensure the interest of the enslaved infants were ensured. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involves sell of enslaved family [unnamed]. Plaintiff purchased an enslaved mother and her children. The husband of the enslaved woman asked the plaintiff to purchase him as well so he would not be separated from his family. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Plaintiff accused defendant of selling him Prudence, unhealthy enslaved woman who suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Cause includes deposition of physician who examined the Prudence while she was held by Higginbotham. The physician testified that he found the Prudence being kept in a damp cellar during intense cold weather, and that she was salivating due to medication given to her by Higginbotham. The physician diagnosed her with a severe lung infection and some form of a pox spreading over her body. He told Higginbotham to remove Prudence from the cellar because the poor conditions made her health condition worse. He also told him that \"his mismanagement of the case endangered the life of the woman\" and that the combination of the lung infection and pox \"rendered her situation critical and dangerous.\" The physician was unable to examine Prudence for the STD due to her poor health. The physician was asked to examine the Prudence again while she was in the possession of the plaintiff. The pox had returned. While examining her, the physician discovered that Prudence had an abortion which was \"hastened by the circumstances of the woman concealing her state of pregnancy and the medicine administered for the pox.\" \"That a state of pox generally but not always produces abortion - and the disease is hereditary and most generally afflicts the offspring of a mother who is thus afflicted.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Causes concerns Hagar, a man enslaved by Lewis Nevell. Nevell names Hagar head man of a boat giving him authority to make contracts with others including Archibald Lingo. Lingo refused to conduct business with Hagar as an enslaved man, claiming the last time he conducted business with an enslaved man, a man named Jim, Jim then ran away with the money received and believed to have self- emancipated. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause concerns the fraudulent sale of enslaved persons. Harriot, Harry, Sarah, and Shadrick claimed to have been emancipated by deed recorded in Lancaster County. \n [ \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://rosetta.virginiamemory.com/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1095274\"\u003eChOriginal deed \u003c/extref\u003e  as well as \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://rosetta.virginiamemory.com/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2906924%20\"\u003eFiled freedom suit in common law. \u003c/extref\u003e available through Virginia Untold site.\nSee also:  Augusta County Chancery Cause 1823-034.] \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Plaintiff agreed to serve as substitute on behalf of defendant for a tour of duty during the War of 1812. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involved questions over the categorization of enslaved people as either real property or personal property. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involves Simon, an enslaved man, being given permission by his enslaver to return to Albemarle County from Estill County, Kentucky. \"Slave pass\" filed as exhibit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The cause involved a dispute over the estate of William Smith who died at age 96. Multiple depositions center on Smith's mental health before his death. One deponent recalled Smith claiming to be a French and Indian War veteran. He learned that Congress passed a law giving additional pension to Revolutionary War veterans. Smith believed he should get additional pension for his French and Indian War service. He was told he could not because the pension was only for Revolutionary War veterans. Another deponent was asked how Smith's enslaved people were treated. He recalled seeing one enslaved person at the home of Smith's son Willis Smith. He was chained, wore an iron collar, and had been physically abused. He was punished for being a runaway and stealing meal and bacon from the home of Willis' mother. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert Lewis convicted of the murder of Thomas Noel in 1821 and then Fled Virginia. Lewis' estate was managed by coroner of Albemarle after he left the state, with Morris is seeking payment of debt from Lewis' estate.  [See also: Albemarle County - Thompson Noel: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1821 September] \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Defendant claimed to be a dentist. Contracted by plaintiff to learn dentistry. Advertisement of Hall's dentist practice filed as exhibit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involves disagreement over purchase of Monticello by plaintiff from defendant. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute that centers around the question of whether or not Martin Dawson, the testator, had the right to free all of the enslaved people included in his estate in his will. Ultimately, a third of the enslaved individuals in question were manumitted. Their names, ages, and family relationships were described in the case's records. Also included in the case is a discussion of the African Colonization Society, and a report on the lives of the people who had been manumitted after they migrated to Illinois. The case also discusses the Literary Fund of Virginia, the establishment of public schools, and the University of Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute. A recent Irish immigrant, William Leitch, moved to Virginia in order to investigate the estate of his father, who had died in the state many years earlier. Leitch claimed that he had discovered that his uncle had defrauded him of most of his father's estate. He further claimed that his uncle also owed additional money to the estate, due to debts that accrued after Leitch's father had to cut off a business partnership due to the uncle's drunken behavior. The case included depositions by other Irish immigrants and travel papers from France and the United States consul in London. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate disputes concerning Caroline Brand, a woman who had previously been enslaved. She and her children were manumitted by the will of their enslaver, Joseph Brand, and were also left his estate. In the 1842 suit, she argued that the administrator had failed to grant her and her children their full inheritance after her family moved to Pennsylvania. The case includes records of their lives as free Black residents of Pennsylvania, and of medical care given to other individuals who were enslaved by Joseph Brand. In the 1843 suit, she and her new husband Alexander Wilson sued for the rights to Joseph Brand's portion of his father's estate. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Ann Eliza Sandridge was a feme sole suing for property rights after Charles D. Maupin had suddenly broken off their engagement by moving out of state. Maupin argued that he had attempted to break off the engagement multiple times previously and that she had burned all of the relevant letters.The other defendants argued that Maupin never had rights to the property in question to begin with. Case includes love letters between Sandridge and Maupin. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute. Martha Walker's will had manumitted all enslaved people belonging to her estate. She also left money so that these people could also free their family members and move together to a free state. Reuben Lee, one of the formerly enslaved individuals, entered suit against Walker's estate on the grounds that he had not been given the amount required to free his wife and child and move with them to Ohio. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Debt suit that centers around Mary, a teenage girl who was enslaved. Miletus Harris claimed that Staples Tyler \u0026amp; Co had fraudulently taken ownership of Mary as part of a judgment against Samuel D. Venable, when Mary had actually been transferred to Harris as the result of a previous judgment against Venable. Harris claimed in the suit that part of the issue was that Mary's family members were enslaved by relatives of Harris, and Staples Tyler \u0026amp; Co's claim would cause her to be separated from them. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute, wherein Austin M. Appling claimed that Abram Eades had made a will before his death, which had later been destroyed by an enslaved woman. Includes a long, angry note by the defendants' counsel. In it, he decried the fact that Appling's evidence was based on the claims of an enslaved woman and an illiterate day laborer, when the defendants' evidence was based on the testimony of white witnesses  \"of great respectability.\"  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Contract Dispute between several parties largely concerning the title to property used for the tanbark industry. Lengthy discussion of the local tanbark industry in Albemarle County.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  An estate dispute concerning the children of Mary Eleanor Hoomes Stout's estate, first marriage to Benjamin Hoomes, who claim rights to Washington, an enslaved man, as part of their mother's dower interest. Wish to reclaim Washington who is in the possession of Thornton Stout, James Crewdson, and Isaiah Stout, after the men took Washington from Mary Eleanor's second husband , Samuel Stout, for security of his debts.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Steven Bias, a \"free man of color\", claims that he has been unlawfully seized of property to pay debts owed to George Trueheart for legally representation in judgement involving Bias's, and his wife's, ability to remaining in the commonwealth. Bias asserts that he never secured Trueheart for any legal services and is unaware of any judgment regarding his status as a freeman.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Concerns the debts of Edwin Conway and his wife, operating a hotel on the campus of the University of Virginia, taking issue with Mrs. Conway, as a married woman, operating the business in her own right. Large argument regarding whether Mr. or Mrs. Conway is actually in charge of the operations, who the debts belong to, possible sale of individuals enslaved by Mrs. Conway to pay debts, and the unlawful nature of Mrs. Conway's business dealings.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute concerning property of late Dabney Minor and various plantations \"Gilmerton\", \"Carr's Brook\", and \"Bremo\" with much discussion about enslaved persons, and the pricing and hiring of enslaved persons to neighboring landowners. [see: EXR OF Dabney Minor v Catharine H Reinheart ETC 1874-010]  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Ann Chick seeks a divorce from Littleton Chick due to cruelty and abuse suffered by her for over ten years.  Ann claims Littleton is violent when intoxicated which is almost constant. Describes his abuse towards her, her five children, and enslaved persons. Ann wants custody of her children and possession of the 5 enslaved persons as her father gave them to her and believes Littleton will simply sell them if left in his care.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Yates claims he should not have to pay Kinsolving the remaining balance for an enslaved woman named Elvira as he was assured that Elvira was of sound mind, but several days after the purchase it was revealed that Elvira suffered from violent \"fits.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas requests the court ability to sell Nealy, an enslaved person, in order to pay for college education at Randolph Macon  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause covers the settling of accounts for Tompkins and Noel, company acting as owner and editors of the Virginia Advocate newspapers. The accounts shown in the division of assets providers a long list of the paper's subscribers. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph Twyman claims he was defrauded into purchasing Harriet who proved to be \"unsound\" due to a condition described as an \"enlarged womb\" and therefore will not pay the remaining bonds to Alfred Twyma and would like a refund and Harriet returned.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Concerns the construction of the Augusta County Court House in 1836, and requests settlement of accounts from the partnership entered into during the construction. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Concerns property in Fluvanna County, Buckingham County, and Candle \u0026amp; Soap Factory near Richmond, Va., as well as the Dismal Swamp, New Orleans, and Kentucky, The Will of Richard Morriss emancipates Fanny and her children while providing the children with property and enslaved persons. The Will of Mary M. Garland emancipates John, Nancy, and Nancy's husband Lewis Brooks, providing funds to remove them to Liberia or to a free state.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Trueheart family invested money from land sold to purchase enslaved people to work on their property in Galveston, Texas. Enslaved people purchased in Richmond and transported to Galveston. Exhibits include bills of sale, contracts with ship captains to transport enslaved people and insurance policy for enslaved man Arthur Anderson. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e   Plaintiff describes abduction of enslaved persons. Also references execution of enslaved man Andrew. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit concerns the use of William Donoho's securities of property and enslaved individuals to settle debts. The funds were used, among other things, for the erection of buildings contracted for the Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (Staunton, Va.). \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  These suits involve the dissolution of a business partnership between Robert C. Noel and James C. Halsall, co-owners and publishers of the Virginia Advocate for a few years during the 1840s. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit involves the sale of the Eagle Hotel (also known as the Eagle Tavern), the Jefferson House adjoining the hotel, and the \"Brick-Stable\" attached to the hotel, all of which were located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved individuals were auctioned in front of the Eagle Hotel through the end of the Civil War. It was sold by Andrew J. Farish to George L. Peyton in 1853, though whether Farish regained ownership of the properties following Peyton's inability to adhere to the payment schedule outlined in the sale contract is unknown. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  In filing for a divorce from William Gully, her husband, Susan A. Gully claimed that he committed adultery with, and later abandoned her for, an unnamed free woman of color. According to the suit, he removed with the free woman of color to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in either 1849 or 1850. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Indebted to several creditors, William Moon sold at auction several enslaved persons, namely Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton, to Stapleton C. Sneed. However, Moon \"felt the deepest solicitude that [Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton] should pass forever and hopelessly beyond his control,\" owing to what Moon described as \"the peculiar relation existing between [Moon] and his slaves.\" As such, Moon and Sneed entered into a contract wherein Moon was allowed to redeem Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton within ten years so long as he did so to free them. Moon, however, was unable to come up with the capital to redeem them in time. A deposition in 1856-033 confirms that Cary Ann and her children were related by blood to William Moon. The question \"Were any of the other Negroes besides Cary Ann and her children related by blood to Moon?\" was posed to Fontaine Wells, a deponent, who answered, \"I believe all were - except the old woman of all - the others were her's [sic] \u0026amp; his descendants.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit contains limited genealogical and biographical information about persons who were enslaved in Albemarle, Virginia. The information shows familial relationships between enslaved persons, though only highlighting parent-child relationships, and mentions some of their responsibilities (e.g., blacksmith). \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Suite features Michie Tavern. The original location of the tavern is depicted on a plat included in the suit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit involves several free Black and multiracial people who lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. According to the bill of complaint, Nancy West was a Black woman and the \"de facto\" wife of David Isaacs, a Jewish merchant residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. They had several children, namely Thomas, Hays, Frederick, Tucker, Jane, Julia Ann, and Agness [sic]. As of the initiation of the suit, Thomas Isaacs was presumed lost at sea; Hays and Frederick were deceased; Tucker and Agness [sic] (along with her husband, German Evans) lived in Ohio; Julia Ann had married Eston Hemings Jefferson, purportedly the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, with whom she moved to Wisconsin; and Jane had married Nathaniel H. West and presumably lived in Albemarle County. David Isaacs died in 1837 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy West moved to Ohio sometime in the 1850s. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Land in Albemarle County, Virginia, referred to as the Norvell Farm and Gold property, came under contention when Lafayette K. Saylor refused to pay John M. Norvell for the land until Norvell perfected its title. As part of their agreement, Saylor offered to pay Norvell $50,000, or almost $2,000,000 today, for the land. Saylor discovered that Norvell attempted to sell the land to other speculators after Saylor's nonpayment, at which point Saylor sought the court's aid in forcing Norvell to adhere to the original sale. One of the speculators, Patrick H. Cowen, claimed some expertise in gold mining, \"having pursued [gold] for sometime in California,\" during the California gold rush. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  The suit involves a monetary bequest by Frances B. Smith to Richmond College [University of Richmond]. Other organizations, such as the Colonization Society and the Baptist Foreign Mission, were also listed as beneficiaries, but the parties involved with the suit could not determine whether the organizations still existed because of the American Civil War. The suit contains limited information about the chartering of Richmond College and its activities during the war. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit mentions Tom, an enslaved man, who was \"impressed into the service of the Confederate States for labor on the defenses near Richmond.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  In his will, John Bow stipulated that Susan, an enslaved Black woman and Bow's purported daughter, and her two children, Lewis and Lucy, should either be emancipated upon agreeing to migrate to Liberia or remain enslaved in Virginia under the stewardship of trustees named in Bow's will. The court wrestled with the intent behind the stipulation, as evidenced by a counsel's note that considered the following: was Bow's attempt to will the enslaved people to trustees if they chose to remain in Virginia an evasion of \"the policy as well as the letter of statute prohibiting emancipated slaves to remain within the Commonwealth?\" The counsel argued that, should such an occurrence be sanctioned by the court, \"the whole slave race of Virginia may be thus turned loose upon us, in the hands of trustees, or of nominal masters, holding the privilege...of remaining hence when it suits them.\" An affidavit states that Lewis, referred to as Lewis Randolph, immigrated to Liberia. As of 1853, Susan and Lucy remained in Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Jack Robinson, a formerly enslaved man, sought a divorce from his wife, Amanda Johnson. According to Robinson, he and Amanda \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes,\" which became binding in 1866 following the passage of a law by the Virginia legislature stating that all Black individuals \"cohabitating as man and wife\" would be considered legally married. Robinson claimed that he left Amanda before the law's passage due to her infidelity, but he nevertheless sought a divorce in case they were married in the eyes of the law. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  The depositions in this suit highlight a rumored interracial relationship between John Thomason and Frankey Thomason, a Black woman enslaved by the estate of Sarah Thomason, Thomason's mother. Thomason and Frankey were said to have had multiple children, who were considered enslaved due to existing laws that governed enslavement based on the status of the mother. However, several deponents claimed that the children were considered \"quasi-free,\" (whether by themselves or the neighborhood is not specified) and were therefore afforded more leniancy when hired out by Thomason or his mother's executor. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Contract suit. Case records detail the predicaments of a railroad company subsidized by the state and bound by Commonwealth law to carry all passengers and freight upon \"terms fair and equal to all without unjust preference or discrimination\" while at the same time, facing increasing private and public pressure for the transportation of express mail on its rail carriers. Suit also presents allegations made against the Adams Express Company for essentially establishing a monopoly on express mail services in Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \nThree suits heard together regarding the estates of two siblings, Elizabeth Davis and Robert Davis, who were both declared to be mentally unfit by adulthood. Through their respective committees, the siblings appeared to have made standard requests for permission from the court in order to sell property originally inherited from older members of the Davis family to a neutral third-party. However, their sister Virginia Carter claimed that fraud had been committed by those committee members instead as she accused her brother-in-law and her now deceased husband of illegally purchasing that property for their own benefits. Moreover, that the Albemarle County Clerk of Court directly assisted in this scheme by helping to forge the paperwork for these purchases. \n\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Divorce suit. The plaintiff accused her husband of having committed adultery. Depositions include extensive details on Mr. Wheeler's alleged attempts to have extramarital relations with a number of women including Sallie Stewart, an African American woman employed by his father-in-law, James O. Hardin. Stewart's own deposition is included with the suit records. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Divorce suit. John A Shackleford sought a divorce against his second wife, Clementine Shackleford (Marshall) on the grounds of adultery. Depositions given by midwife Lucy Rives and neighbor F. M. Wells provide details on the accusations made by Shackleford against his wife who had allegedly given birth to an interracial daughter. (Both plaintiff and defendant were presumed to be white). In their respective testimonies, Rives recalled her experience in assisting with the birth of this child and Wells recounted a conversation with Clementine Shackleford regarding the possible paternity of the baby. According to the final decree, Clementine Shackleford failed to make any court appearances and to provide an answer to her husband's bill. Instead, on the back of a deposition notice, there appears to be a signed statement giving her consent for her husband to take depositions and an assertion that she had no \"intention\" to \"defend [her] conduct.\" A note by the court discusses what Virginia law required for a divorce on the grounds of adultery at that time. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Plaintiffs Noah Jackson and his wife, Louisa Tyree sought to settle a contract made in May 1860 with D. H. E. Saunders and John Simpson. Jackson and Tyree assert that they had entered into a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson that arranged for Jackson, who had been formally enslaved by Saunders at that time, to be sold to Simpson under the mutual understanding of all parties that Jackson would live a free man. Moreover, that their contract would allow Jackson to trade as a freeman and to remain in the Commonwealth for as long as he personally desired to do so. Tyree, a freewoman at the time, put her house and lot in Charlottesville up as security for this contract. According to the bill, the plaintiffs were unaware prior to 1868 that their contract did not legally provide those rights and privileges to Jackson; the very condition that was their primary motivation for entering into such a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson in the first place. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \n","Chancery causes before 1870 contain a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," James Geekie immigrated from Scotland at the request of a wealthy relative named John White a resident of Albemarle County. White offered to leave his estate to Geekie to encourage him to immigrate. Soon after Geekie's arrival, Geekie claims White began to mistreat him. Upon his death, White refused to live up to his promise made to Geekie except for a small amount of land in Kentucky. In his will, James White emancipated the individuals he enslaved and gave them all of his estate. Geekie made claim to a portion of the estate the enslaved people inherited. Rather than file suit for the property for concern it would delay, perhaps permanently, their emancipation, both parties went to arbitration where an agreement was reached in which Geekie received one-third of the estate. Geekie still had to file suit against the enslaved people because the court had to ensure the interest of the enslaved infants were ensured. \n"," Cause involves sell of enslaved family [unnamed]. Plaintiff purchased an enslaved mother and her children. The husband of the enslaved woman asked the plaintiff to purchase him as well so he would not be separated from his family. \n"," Plaintiff accused defendant of selling him Prudence, unhealthy enslaved woman who suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Cause includes deposition of physician who examined the Prudence while she was held by Higginbotham. The physician testified that he found the Prudence being kept in a damp cellar during intense cold weather, and that she was salivating due to medication given to her by Higginbotham. The physician diagnosed her with a severe lung infection and some form of a pox spreading over her body. He told Higginbotham to remove Prudence from the cellar because the poor conditions made her health condition worse. He also told him that \"his mismanagement of the case endangered the life of the woman\" and that the combination of the lung infection and pox \"rendered her situation critical and dangerous.\" The physician was unable to examine Prudence for the STD due to her poor health. The physician was asked to examine the Prudence again while she was in the possession of the plaintiff. The pox had returned. While examining her, the physician discovered that Prudence had an abortion which was \"hastened by the circumstances of the woman concealing her state of pregnancy and the medicine administered for the pox.\" \"That a state of pox generally but not always produces abortion - and the disease is hereditary and most generally afflicts the offspring of a mother who is thus afflicted.\" \n","  Causes concerns Hagar, a man enslaved by Lewis Nevell. Nevell names Hagar head man of a boat giving him authority to make contracts with others including Archibald Lingo. Lingo refused to conduct business with Hagar as an enslaved man, claiming the last time he conducted business with an enslaved man, a man named Jim, Jim then ran away with the money received and believed to have self- emancipated. \n"," Cause concerns the fraudulent sale of enslaved persons. Harriot, Harry, Sarah, and Shadrick claimed to have been emancipated by deed recorded in Lancaster County. \n [  ChOriginal deed    as well as  Filed freedom suit in common law.   available through Virginia Untold site.\nSee also:  Augusta County Chancery Cause 1823-034.] \n"," Plaintiff agreed to serve as substitute on behalf of defendant for a tour of duty during the War of 1812. \n"," Cause involved questions over the categorization of enslaved people as either real property or personal property. \n"," Cause involves Simon, an enslaved man, being given permission by his enslaver to return to Albemarle County from Estill County, Kentucky. \"Slave pass\" filed as exhibit. \n"," The cause involved a dispute over the estate of William Smith who died at age 96. Multiple depositions center on Smith's mental health before his death. One deponent recalled Smith claiming to be a French and Indian War veteran. He learned that Congress passed a law giving additional pension to Revolutionary War veterans. Smith believed he should get additional pension for his French and Indian War service. He was told he could not because the pension was only for Revolutionary War veterans. Another deponent was asked how Smith's enslaved people were treated. He recalled seeing one enslaved person at the home of Smith's son Willis Smith. He was chained, wore an iron collar, and had been physically abused. He was punished for being a runaway and stealing meal and bacon from the home of Willis' mother. \n"," Robert Lewis convicted of the murder of Thomas Noel in 1821 and then Fled Virginia. Lewis' estate was managed by coroner of Albemarle after he left the state, with Morris is seeking payment of debt from Lewis' estate.  [See also: Albemarle County - Thompson Noel: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1821 September] \n"," Defendant claimed to be a dentist. Contracted by plaintiff to learn dentistry. Advertisement of Hall's dentist practice filed as exhibit. \n"," Cause involves disagreement over purchase of Monticello by plaintiff from defendant. \n"," Estate dispute that centers around the question of whether or not Martin Dawson, the testator, had the right to free all of the enslaved people included in his estate in his will. Ultimately, a third of the enslaved individuals in question were manumitted. Their names, ages, and family relationships were described in the case's records. Also included in the case is a discussion of the African Colonization Society, and a report on the lives of the people who had been manumitted after they migrated to Illinois. The case also discusses the Literary Fund of Virginia, the establishment of public schools, and the University of Virginia. \n"," Estate dispute. A recent Irish immigrant, William Leitch, moved to Virginia in order to investigate the estate of his father, who had died in the state many years earlier. Leitch claimed that he had discovered that his uncle had defrauded him of most of his father's estate. He further claimed that his uncle also owed additional money to the estate, due to debts that accrued after Leitch's father had to cut off a business partnership due to the uncle's drunken behavior. The case included depositions by other Irish immigrants and travel papers from France and the United States consul in London. \n"," Estate disputes concerning Caroline Brand, a woman who had previously been enslaved. She and her children were manumitted by the will of their enslaver, Joseph Brand, and were also left his estate. In the 1842 suit, she argued that the administrator had failed to grant her and her children their full inheritance after her family moved to Pennsylvania. The case includes records of their lives as free Black residents of Pennsylvania, and of medical care given to other individuals who were enslaved by Joseph Brand. In the 1843 suit, she and her new husband Alexander Wilson sued for the rights to Joseph Brand's portion of his father's estate. \n"," Ann Eliza Sandridge was a feme sole suing for property rights after Charles D. Maupin had suddenly broken off their engagement by moving out of state. Maupin argued that he had attempted to break off the engagement multiple times previously and that she had burned all of the relevant letters.The other defendants argued that Maupin never had rights to the property in question to begin with. Case includes love letters between Sandridge and Maupin. \n"," Estate dispute. Martha Walker's will had manumitted all enslaved people belonging to her estate. She also left money so that these people could also free their family members and move together to a free state. Reuben Lee, one of the formerly enslaved individuals, entered suit against Walker's estate on the grounds that he had not been given the amount required to free his wife and child and move with them to Ohio. \n"," Debt suit that centers around Mary, a teenage girl who was enslaved. Miletus Harris claimed that Staples Tyler \u0026 Co had fraudulently taken ownership of Mary as part of a judgment against Samuel D. Venable, when Mary had actually been transferred to Harris as the result of a previous judgment against Venable. Harris claimed in the suit that part of the issue was that Mary's family members were enslaved by relatives of Harris, and Staples Tyler \u0026 Co's claim would cause her to be separated from them. \n"," Estate dispute, wherein Austin M. Appling claimed that Abram Eades had made a will before his death, which had later been destroyed by an enslaved woman. Includes a long, angry note by the defendants' counsel. In it, he decried the fact that Appling's evidence was based on the claims of an enslaved woman and an illiterate day laborer, when the defendants' evidence was based on the testimony of white witnesses  \"of great respectability.\"  \n"," Contract Dispute between several parties largely concerning the title to property used for the tanbark industry. Lengthy discussion of the local tanbark industry in Albemarle County.  \n","  An estate dispute concerning the children of Mary Eleanor Hoomes Stout's estate, first marriage to Benjamin Hoomes, who claim rights to Washington, an enslaved man, as part of their mother's dower interest. Wish to reclaim Washington who is in the possession of Thornton Stout, James Crewdson, and Isaiah Stout, after the men took Washington from Mary Eleanor's second husband , Samuel Stout, for security of his debts.  \n"," Steven Bias, a \"free man of color\", claims that he has been unlawfully seized of property to pay debts owed to George Trueheart for legally representation in judgement involving Bias's, and his wife's, ability to remaining in the commonwealth. Bias asserts that he never secured Trueheart for any legal services and is unaware of any judgment regarding his status as a freeman.  \n"," Concerns the debts of Edwin Conway and his wife, operating a hotel on the campus of the University of Virginia, taking issue with Mrs. Conway, as a married woman, operating the business in her own right. Large argument regarding whether Mr. or Mrs. Conway is actually in charge of the operations, who the debts belong to, possible sale of individuals enslaved by Mrs. Conway to pay debts, and the unlawful nature of Mrs. Conway's business dealings.  \n"," Estate dispute concerning property of late Dabney Minor and various plantations \"Gilmerton\", \"Carr's Brook\", and \"Bremo\" with much discussion about enslaved persons, and the pricing and hiring of enslaved persons to neighboring landowners. [see: EXR OF Dabney Minor v Catharine H Reinheart ETC 1874-010]  \n"," Ann Chick seeks a divorce from Littleton Chick due to cruelty and abuse suffered by her for over ten years.  Ann claims Littleton is violent when intoxicated which is almost constant. Describes his abuse towards her, her five children, and enslaved persons. Ann wants custody of her children and possession of the 5 enslaved persons as her father gave them to her and believes Littleton will simply sell them if left in his care.  \n"," Yates claims he should not have to pay Kinsolving the remaining balance for an enslaved woman named Elvira as he was assured that Elvira was of sound mind, but several days after the purchase it was revealed that Elvira suffered from violent \"fits.\" \n"," Thomas requests the court ability to sell Nealy, an enslaved person, in order to pay for college education at Randolph Macon  \n"," Cause covers the settling of accounts for Tompkins and Noel, company acting as owner and editors of the Virginia Advocate newspapers. The accounts shown in the division of assets providers a long list of the paper's subscribers. \n"," Joseph Twyman claims he was defrauded into purchasing Harriet who proved to be \"unsound\" due to a condition described as an \"enlarged womb\" and therefore will not pay the remaining bonds to Alfred Twyma and would like a refund and Harriet returned.  \n","  Concerns the construction of the Augusta County Court House in 1836, and requests settlement of accounts from the partnership entered into during the construction. \n","  Concerns property in Fluvanna County, Buckingham County, and Candle \u0026 Soap Factory near Richmond, Va., as well as the Dismal Swamp, New Orleans, and Kentucky, The Will of Richard Morriss emancipates Fanny and her children while providing the children with property and enslaved persons. The Will of Mary M. Garland emancipates John, Nancy, and Nancy's husband Lewis Brooks, providing funds to remove them to Liberia or to a free state.  \n","  Trueheart family invested money from land sold to purchase enslaved people to work on their property in Galveston, Texas. Enslaved people purchased in Richmond and transported to Galveston. Exhibits include bills of sale, contracts with ship captains to transport enslaved people and insurance policy for enslaved man Arthur Anderson. \n","   Plaintiff describes abduction of enslaved persons. Also references execution of enslaved man Andrew. \n","  This suit concerns the use of William Donoho's securities of property and enslaved individuals to settle debts. The funds were used, among other things, for the erection of buildings contracted for the Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (Staunton, Va.). \n","  These suits involve the dissolution of a business partnership between Robert C. Noel and James C. Halsall, co-owners and publishers of the Virginia Advocate for a few years during the 1840s. \n","  This suit involves the sale of the Eagle Hotel (also known as the Eagle Tavern), the Jefferson House adjoining the hotel, and the \"Brick-Stable\" attached to the hotel, all of which were located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved individuals were auctioned in front of the Eagle Hotel through the end of the Civil War. It was sold by Andrew J. Farish to George L. Peyton in 1853, though whether Farish regained ownership of the properties following Peyton's inability to adhere to the payment schedule outlined in the sale contract is unknown. \n","  In filing for a divorce from William Gully, her husband, Susan A. Gully claimed that he committed adultery with, and later abandoned her for, an unnamed free woman of color. According to the suit, he removed with the free woman of color to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in either 1849 or 1850. \n","  Indebted to several creditors, William Moon sold at auction several enslaved persons, namely Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton, to Stapleton C. Sneed. However, Moon \"felt the deepest solicitude that [Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton] should pass forever and hopelessly beyond his control,\" owing to what Moon described as \"the peculiar relation existing between [Moon] and his slaves.\" As such, Moon and Sneed entered into a contract wherein Moon was allowed to redeem Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton within ten years so long as he did so to free them. Moon, however, was unable to come up with the capital to redeem them in time. A deposition in 1856-033 confirms that Cary Ann and her children were related by blood to William Moon. The question \"Were any of the other Negroes besides Cary Ann and her children related by blood to Moon?\" was posed to Fontaine Wells, a deponent, who answered, \"I believe all were - except the old woman of all - the others were her's [sic] \u0026 his descendants.\" \n","  This suit contains limited genealogical and biographical information about persons who were enslaved in Albemarle, Virginia. The information shows familial relationships between enslaved persons, though only highlighting parent-child relationships, and mentions some of their responsibilities (e.g., blacksmith). \n"," Suite features Michie Tavern. The original location of the tavern is depicted on a plat included in the suit. \n","  This suit involves several free Black and multiracial people who lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. According to the bill of complaint, Nancy West was a Black woman and the \"de facto\" wife of David Isaacs, a Jewish merchant residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. They had several children, namely Thomas, Hays, Frederick, Tucker, Jane, Julia Ann, and Agness [sic]. As of the initiation of the suit, Thomas Isaacs was presumed lost at sea; Hays and Frederick were deceased; Tucker and Agness [sic] (along with her husband, German Evans) lived in Ohio; Julia Ann had married Eston Hemings Jefferson, purportedly the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, with whom she moved to Wisconsin; and Jane had married Nathaniel H. West and presumably lived in Albemarle County. David Isaacs died in 1837 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy West moved to Ohio sometime in the 1850s. \n","  Land in Albemarle County, Virginia, referred to as the Norvell Farm and Gold property, came under contention when Lafayette K. Saylor refused to pay John M. Norvell for the land until Norvell perfected its title. As part of their agreement, Saylor offered to pay Norvell $50,000, or almost $2,000,000 today, for the land. Saylor discovered that Norvell attempted to sell the land to other speculators after Saylor's nonpayment, at which point Saylor sought the court's aid in forcing Norvell to adhere to the original sale. One of the speculators, Patrick H. Cowen, claimed some expertise in gold mining, \"having pursued [gold] for sometime in California,\" during the California gold rush. \n","  The suit involves a monetary bequest by Frances B. Smith to Richmond College [University of Richmond]. Other organizations, such as the Colonization Society and the Baptist Foreign Mission, were also listed as beneficiaries, but the parties involved with the suit could not determine whether the organizations still existed because of the American Civil War. The suit contains limited information about the chartering of Richmond College and its activities during the war. \n","  This suit mentions Tom, an enslaved man, who was \"impressed into the service of the Confederate States for labor on the defenses near Richmond.\" \n","  In his will, John Bow stipulated that Susan, an enslaved Black woman and Bow's purported daughter, and her two children, Lewis and Lucy, should either be emancipated upon agreeing to migrate to Liberia or remain enslaved in Virginia under the stewardship of trustees named in Bow's will. The court wrestled with the intent behind the stipulation, as evidenced by a counsel's note that considered the following: was Bow's attempt to will the enslaved people to trustees if they chose to remain in Virginia an evasion of \"the policy as well as the letter of statute prohibiting emancipated slaves to remain within the Commonwealth?\" The counsel argued that, should such an occurrence be sanctioned by the court, \"the whole slave race of Virginia may be thus turned loose upon us, in the hands of trustees, or of nominal masters, holding the privilege...of remaining hence when it suits them.\" An affidavit states that Lewis, referred to as Lewis Randolph, immigrated to Liberia. As of 1853, Susan and Lucy remained in Virginia. \n","  Jack Robinson, a formerly enslaved man, sought a divorce from his wife, Amanda Johnson. According to Robinson, he and Amanda \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes,\" which became binding in 1866 following the passage of a law by the Virginia legislature stating that all Black individuals \"cohabitating as man and wife\" would be considered legally married. Robinson claimed that he left Amanda before the law's passage due to her infidelity, but he nevertheless sought a divorce in case they were married in the eyes of the law. \n","  The depositions in this suit highlight a rumored interracial relationship between John Thomason and Frankey Thomason, a Black woman enslaved by the estate of Sarah Thomason, Thomason's mother. Thomason and Frankey were said to have had multiple children, who were considered enslaved due to existing laws that governed enslavement based on the status of the mother. However, several deponents claimed that the children were considered \"quasi-free,\" (whether by themselves or the neighborhood is not specified) and were therefore afforded more leniancy when hired out by Thomason or his mother's executor. \n","  Contract suit. Case records detail the predicaments of a railroad company subsidized by the state and bound by Commonwealth law to carry all passengers and freight upon \"terms fair and equal to all without unjust preference or discrimination\" while at the same time, facing increasing private and public pressure for the transportation of express mail on its rail carriers. Suit also presents allegations made against the Adams Express Company for essentially establishing a monopoly on express mail services in Virginia. \n"," \nThree suits heard together regarding the estates of two siblings, Elizabeth Davis and Robert Davis, who were both declared to be mentally unfit by adulthood. Through their respective committees, the siblings appeared to have made standard requests for permission from the court in order to sell property originally inherited from older members of the Davis family to a neutral third-party. However, their sister Virginia Carter claimed that fraud had been committed by those committee members instead as she accused her brother-in-law and her now deceased husband of illegally purchasing that property for their own benefits. Moreover, that the Albemarle County Clerk of Court directly assisted in this scheme by helping to forge the paperwork for these purchases. \n\n","  Divorce suit. The plaintiff accused her husband of having committed adultery. Depositions include extensive details on Mr. Wheeler's alleged attempts to have extramarital relations with a number of women including Sallie Stewart, an African American woman employed by his father-in-law, James O. Hardin. Stewart's own deposition is included with the suit records. \n","  Divorce suit. John A Shackleford sought a divorce against his second wife, Clementine Shackleford (Marshall) on the grounds of adultery. Depositions given by midwife Lucy Rives and neighbor F. M. Wells provide details on the accusations made by Shackleford against his wife who had allegedly given birth to an interracial daughter. (Both plaintiff and defendant were presumed to be white). In their respective testimonies, Rives recalled her experience in assisting with the birth of this child and Wells recounted a conversation with Clementine Shackleford regarding the possible paternity of the baby. According to the final decree, Clementine Shackleford failed to make any court appearances and to provide an answer to her husband's bill. Instead, on the back of a deposition notice, there appears to be a signed statement giving her consent for her husband to take depositions and an assertion that she had no \"intention\" to \"defend [her] conduct.\" A note by the court discusses what Virginia law required for a divorce on the grounds of adultery at that time. \n","  Plaintiffs Noah Jackson and his wife, Louisa Tyree sought to settle a contract made in May 1860 with D. H. E. Saunders and John Simpson. Jackson and Tyree assert that they had entered into a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson that arranged for Jackson, who had been formally enslaved by Saunders at that time, to be sold to Simpson under the mutual understanding of all parties that Jackson would live a free man. Moreover, that their contract would allow Jackson to trade as a freeman and to remain in the Commonwealth for as long as he personally desired to do so. Tyree, a freewoman at the time, put her house and lot in Charlottesville up as security for this contract. 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Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":[""],"text":["","Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)",".","Chancery Causes 1768-1871, use digital images found on the  Chancery Records Index  available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.  \n","Chancery Causes 1872-1969, processed and indexed information is available on the Chancery Records Index, but digital images are not available at this time. Contact Archives Reference Services for availability. ","There remain 7 boxes of unprocessed Chancery Records, 1885-1912. Contact Archives Reference Services for availability. ","Organized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the latest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found. Arranged chronologically. ","Arrangement of documents within each folder are as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.) \n","Context for Record Type:  Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are \"administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law.\" A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case; however, the judge is basing the decision on findings compiled and documented by Commissioners. Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history. Chancery causes document the lived experiences of free and enslaved individuals; women; children; people living with physical disabilities or mental health struggles; people living in poverty; defunct institutions and corporate entities; or those that may not have otherwise left traditional written histories.","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statue of 1744 and formed from Goochalnd County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. "," Lost Records Locality Note:   All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton's raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.\n ","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1768-1850 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program 2021-2022. ","Digital images of Chancery Causes 1851-1871 were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program 2024-2025. ","Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, were processed by field processors as well as various Local Records Staff and completed from early 2000s- 2010s ","Chancery Causes, 1768-1840, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by G. Crawford in 2018-2020.  ","Chancery Causes, 1840-1850, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by M. Long and M. Mason, 2020-2021. ","Chancery Causes, 1851-1871, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by C. Collins and E. Swain, 2022-2023. ","Encoded by M. Mason, December 2024; updated by M. Mason: April 2025 ","Additional Albemarle County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult A Guide to  Virgnia County and City Records on Microfilm","Albemarle County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle County records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Digital Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the available at Virginia Memory. \n","Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \n","Chancery causes before 1870 contain a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," James Geekie immigrated from Scotland at the request of a wealthy relative named John White a resident of Albemarle County. White offered to leave his estate to Geekie to encourage him to immigrate. Soon after Geekie's arrival, Geekie claims White began to mistreat him. Upon his death, White refused to live up to his promise made to Geekie except for a small amount of land in Kentucky. In his will, James White emancipated the individuals he enslaved and gave them all of his estate. Geekie made claim to a portion of the estate the enslaved people inherited. Rather than file suit for the property for concern it would delay, perhaps permanently, their emancipation, both parties went to arbitration where an agreement was reached in which Geekie received one-third of the estate. Geekie still had to file suit against the enslaved people because the court had to ensure the interest of the enslaved infants were ensured. \n"," Cause involves sell of enslaved family [unnamed]. Plaintiff purchased an enslaved mother and her children. The husband of the enslaved woman asked the plaintiff to purchase him as well so he would not be separated from his family. \n"," Plaintiff accused defendant of selling him Prudence, unhealthy enslaved woman who suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Cause includes deposition of physician who examined the Prudence while she was held by Higginbotham. The physician testified that he found the Prudence being kept in a damp cellar during intense cold weather, and that she was salivating due to medication given to her by Higginbotham. The physician diagnosed her with a severe lung infection and some form of a pox spreading over her body. He told Higginbotham to remove Prudence from the cellar because the poor conditions made her health condition worse. He also told him that \"his mismanagement of the case endangered the life of the woman\" and that the combination of the lung infection and pox \"rendered her situation critical and dangerous.\" The physician was unable to examine Prudence for the STD due to her poor health. The physician was asked to examine the Prudence again while she was in the possession of the plaintiff. The pox had returned. While examining her, the physician discovered that Prudence had an abortion which was \"hastened by the circumstances of the woman concealing her state of pregnancy and the medicine administered for the pox.\" \"That a state of pox generally but not always produces abortion - and the disease is hereditary and most generally afflicts the offspring of a mother who is thus afflicted.\" \n","  Causes concerns Hagar, a man enslaved by Lewis Nevell. Nevell names Hagar head man of a boat giving him authority to make contracts with others including Archibald Lingo. Lingo refused to conduct business with Hagar as an enslaved man, claiming the last time he conducted business with an enslaved man, a man named Jim, Jim then ran away with the money received and believed to have self- emancipated. \n"," Cause concerns the fraudulent sale of enslaved persons. Harriot, Harry, Sarah, and Shadrick claimed to have been emancipated by deed recorded in Lancaster County. \n [  ChOriginal deed    as well as  Filed freedom suit in common law.   available through Virginia Untold site.\nSee also:  Augusta County Chancery Cause 1823-034.] \n"," Plaintiff agreed to serve as substitute on behalf of defendant for a tour of duty during the War of 1812. \n"," Cause involved questions over the categorization of enslaved people as either real property or personal property. \n"," Cause involves Simon, an enslaved man, being given permission by his enslaver to return to Albemarle County from Estill County, Kentucky. \"Slave pass\" filed as exhibit. \n"," The cause involved a dispute over the estate of William Smith who died at age 96. Multiple depositions center on Smith's mental health before his death. One deponent recalled Smith claiming to be a French and Indian War veteran. He learned that Congress passed a law giving additional pension to Revolutionary War veterans. Smith believed he should get additional pension for his French and Indian War service. He was told he could not because the pension was only for Revolutionary War veterans. Another deponent was asked how Smith's enslaved people were treated. He recalled seeing one enslaved person at the home of Smith's son Willis Smith. He was chained, wore an iron collar, and had been physically abused. He was punished for being a runaway and stealing meal and bacon from the home of Willis' mother. \n"," Robert Lewis convicted of the murder of Thomas Noel in 1821 and then Fled Virginia. Lewis' estate was managed by coroner of Albemarle after he left the state, with Morris is seeking payment of debt from Lewis' estate.  [See also: Albemarle County - Thompson Noel: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1821 September] \n"," Defendant claimed to be a dentist. Contracted by plaintiff to learn dentistry. Advertisement of Hall's dentist practice filed as exhibit. \n"," Cause involves disagreement over purchase of Monticello by plaintiff from defendant. \n"," Estate dispute that centers around the question of whether or not Martin Dawson, the testator, had the right to free all of the enslaved people included in his estate in his will. Ultimately, a third of the enslaved individuals in question were manumitted. Their names, ages, and family relationships were described in the case's records. Also included in the case is a discussion of the African Colonization Society, and a report on the lives of the people who had been manumitted after they migrated to Illinois. The case also discusses the Literary Fund of Virginia, the establishment of public schools, and the University of Virginia. \n"," Estate dispute. A recent Irish immigrant, William Leitch, moved to Virginia in order to investigate the estate of his father, who had died in the state many years earlier. Leitch claimed that he had discovered that his uncle had defrauded him of most of his father's estate. He further claimed that his uncle also owed additional money to the estate, due to debts that accrued after Leitch's father had to cut off a business partnership due to the uncle's drunken behavior. The case included depositions by other Irish immigrants and travel papers from France and the United States consul in London. \n"," Estate disputes concerning Caroline Brand, a woman who had previously been enslaved. She and her children were manumitted by the will of their enslaver, Joseph Brand, and were also left his estate. In the 1842 suit, she argued that the administrator had failed to grant her and her children their full inheritance after her family moved to Pennsylvania. The case includes records of their lives as free Black residents of Pennsylvania, and of medical care given to other individuals who were enslaved by Joseph Brand. In the 1843 suit, she and her new husband Alexander Wilson sued for the rights to Joseph Brand's portion of his father's estate. \n"," Ann Eliza Sandridge was a feme sole suing for property rights after Charles D. Maupin had suddenly broken off their engagement by moving out of state. Maupin argued that he had attempted to break off the engagement multiple times previously and that she had burned all of the relevant letters.The other defendants argued that Maupin never had rights to the property in question to begin with. Case includes love letters between Sandridge and Maupin. \n"," Estate dispute. Martha Walker's will had manumitted all enslaved people belonging to her estate. She also left money so that these people could also free their family members and move together to a free state. Reuben Lee, one of the formerly enslaved individuals, entered suit against Walker's estate on the grounds that he had not been given the amount required to free his wife and child and move with them to Ohio. \n"," Debt suit that centers around Mary, a teenage girl who was enslaved. Miletus Harris claimed that Staples Tyler \u0026 Co had fraudulently taken ownership of Mary as part of a judgment against Samuel D. Venable, when Mary had actually been transferred to Harris as the result of a previous judgment against Venable. Harris claimed in the suit that part of the issue was that Mary's family members were enslaved by relatives of Harris, and Staples Tyler \u0026 Co's claim would cause her to be separated from them. \n"," Estate dispute, wherein Austin M. Appling claimed that Abram Eades had made a will before his death, which had later been destroyed by an enslaved woman. Includes a long, angry note by the defendants' counsel. In it, he decried the fact that Appling's evidence was based on the claims of an enslaved woman and an illiterate day laborer, when the defendants' evidence was based on the testimony of white witnesses  \"of great respectability.\"  \n"," Contract Dispute between several parties largely concerning the title to property used for the tanbark industry. Lengthy discussion of the local tanbark industry in Albemarle County.  \n","  An estate dispute concerning the children of Mary Eleanor Hoomes Stout's estate, first marriage to Benjamin Hoomes, who claim rights to Washington, an enslaved man, as part of their mother's dower interest. Wish to reclaim Washington who is in the possession of Thornton Stout, James Crewdson, and Isaiah Stout, after the men took Washington from Mary Eleanor's second husband , Samuel Stout, for security of his debts.  \n"," Steven Bias, a \"free man of color\", claims that he has been unlawfully seized of property to pay debts owed to George Trueheart for legally representation in judgement involving Bias's, and his wife's, ability to remaining in the commonwealth. Bias asserts that he never secured Trueheart for any legal services and is unaware of any judgment regarding his status as a freeman.  \n"," Concerns the debts of Edwin Conway and his wife, operating a hotel on the campus of the University of Virginia, taking issue with Mrs. Conway, as a married woman, operating the business in her own right. Large argument regarding whether Mr. or Mrs. Conway is actually in charge of the operations, who the debts belong to, possible sale of individuals enslaved by Mrs. Conway to pay debts, and the unlawful nature of Mrs. Conway's business dealings.  \n"," Estate dispute concerning property of late Dabney Minor and various plantations \"Gilmerton\", \"Carr's Brook\", and \"Bremo\" with much discussion about enslaved persons, and the pricing and hiring of enslaved persons to neighboring landowners. [see: EXR OF Dabney Minor v Catharine H Reinheart ETC 1874-010]  \n"," Ann Chick seeks a divorce from Littleton Chick due to cruelty and abuse suffered by her for over ten years.  Ann claims Littleton is violent when intoxicated which is almost constant. Describes his abuse towards her, her five children, and enslaved persons. Ann wants custody of her children and possession of the 5 enslaved persons as her father gave them to her and believes Littleton will simply sell them if left in his care.  \n"," Yates claims he should not have to pay Kinsolving the remaining balance for an enslaved woman named Elvira as he was assured that Elvira was of sound mind, but several days after the purchase it was revealed that Elvira suffered from violent \"fits.\" \n"," Thomas requests the court ability to sell Nealy, an enslaved person, in order to pay for college education at Randolph Macon  \n"," Cause covers the settling of accounts for Tompkins and Noel, company acting as owner and editors of the Virginia Advocate newspapers. The accounts shown in the division of assets providers a long list of the paper's subscribers. \n"," Joseph Twyman claims he was defrauded into purchasing Harriet who proved to be \"unsound\" due to a condition described as an \"enlarged womb\" and therefore will not pay the remaining bonds to Alfred Twyma and would like a refund and Harriet returned.  \n","  Concerns the construction of the Augusta County Court House in 1836, and requests settlement of accounts from the partnership entered into during the construction. \n","  Concerns property in Fluvanna County, Buckingham County, and Candle \u0026 Soap Factory near Richmond, Va., as well as the Dismal Swamp, New Orleans, and Kentucky, The Will of Richard Morriss emancipates Fanny and her children while providing the children with property and enslaved persons. The Will of Mary M. Garland emancipates John, Nancy, and Nancy's husband Lewis Brooks, providing funds to remove them to Liberia or to a free state.  \n","  Trueheart family invested money from land sold to purchase enslaved people to work on their property in Galveston, Texas. Enslaved people purchased in Richmond and transported to Galveston. Exhibits include bills of sale, contracts with ship captains to transport enslaved people and insurance policy for enslaved man Arthur Anderson. \n","   Plaintiff describes abduction of enslaved persons. Also references execution of enslaved man Andrew. \n","  This suit concerns the use of William Donoho's securities of property and enslaved individuals to settle debts. The funds were used, among other things, for the erection of buildings contracted for the Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (Staunton, Va.). \n","  These suits involve the dissolution of a business partnership between Robert C. Noel and James C. Halsall, co-owners and publishers of the Virginia Advocate for a few years during the 1840s. \n","  This suit involves the sale of the Eagle Hotel (also known as the Eagle Tavern), the Jefferson House adjoining the hotel, and the \"Brick-Stable\" attached to the hotel, all of which were located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved individuals were auctioned in front of the Eagle Hotel through the end of the Civil War. It was sold by Andrew J. Farish to George L. Peyton in 1853, though whether Farish regained ownership of the properties following Peyton's inability to adhere to the payment schedule outlined in the sale contract is unknown. \n","  In filing for a divorce from William Gully, her husband, Susan A. Gully claimed that he committed adultery with, and later abandoned her for, an unnamed free woman of color. According to the suit, he removed with the free woman of color to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in either 1849 or 1850. \n","  Indebted to several creditors, William Moon sold at auction several enslaved persons, namely Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton, to Stapleton C. Sneed. However, Moon \"felt the deepest solicitude that [Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton] should pass forever and hopelessly beyond his control,\" owing to what Moon described as \"the peculiar relation existing between [Moon] and his slaves.\" As such, Moon and Sneed entered into a contract wherein Moon was allowed to redeem Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton within ten years so long as he did so to free them. Moon, however, was unable to come up with the capital to redeem them in time. A deposition in 1856-033 confirms that Cary Ann and her children were related by blood to William Moon. The question \"Were any of the other Negroes besides Cary Ann and her children related by blood to Moon?\" was posed to Fontaine Wells, a deponent, who answered, \"I believe all were - except the old woman of all - the others were her's [sic] \u0026 his descendants.\" \n","  This suit contains limited genealogical and biographical information about persons who were enslaved in Albemarle, Virginia. The information shows familial relationships between enslaved persons, though only highlighting parent-child relationships, and mentions some of their responsibilities (e.g., blacksmith). \n"," Suite features Michie Tavern. The original location of the tavern is depicted on a plat included in the suit. \n","  This suit involves several free Black and multiracial people who lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. According to the bill of complaint, Nancy West was a Black woman and the \"de facto\" wife of David Isaacs, a Jewish merchant residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. They had several children, namely Thomas, Hays, Frederick, Tucker, Jane, Julia Ann, and Agness [sic]. As of the initiation of the suit, Thomas Isaacs was presumed lost at sea; Hays and Frederick were deceased; Tucker and Agness [sic] (along with her husband, German Evans) lived in Ohio; Julia Ann had married Eston Hemings Jefferson, purportedly the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, with whom she moved to Wisconsin; and Jane had married Nathaniel H. West and presumably lived in Albemarle County. David Isaacs died in 1837 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy West moved to Ohio sometime in the 1850s. \n","  Land in Albemarle County, Virginia, referred to as the Norvell Farm and Gold property, came under contention when Lafayette K. Saylor refused to pay John M. Norvell for the land until Norvell perfected its title. As part of their agreement, Saylor offered to pay Norvell $50,000, or almost $2,000,000 today, for the land. Saylor discovered that Norvell attempted to sell the land to other speculators after Saylor's nonpayment, at which point Saylor sought the court's aid in forcing Norvell to adhere to the original sale. One of the speculators, Patrick H. Cowen, claimed some expertise in gold mining, \"having pursued [gold] for sometime in California,\" during the California gold rush. \n","  The suit involves a monetary bequest by Frances B. Smith to Richmond College [University of Richmond]. Other organizations, such as the Colonization Society and the Baptist Foreign Mission, were also listed as beneficiaries, but the parties involved with the suit could not determine whether the organizations still existed because of the American Civil War. The suit contains limited information about the chartering of Richmond College and its activities during the war. \n","  This suit mentions Tom, an enslaved man, who was \"impressed into the service of the Confederate States for labor on the defenses near Richmond.\" \n","  In his will, John Bow stipulated that Susan, an enslaved Black woman and Bow's purported daughter, and her two children, Lewis and Lucy, should either be emancipated upon agreeing to migrate to Liberia or remain enslaved in Virginia under the stewardship of trustees named in Bow's will. The court wrestled with the intent behind the stipulation, as evidenced by a counsel's note that considered the following: was Bow's attempt to will the enslaved people to trustees if they chose to remain in Virginia an evasion of \"the policy as well as the letter of statute prohibiting emancipated slaves to remain within the Commonwealth?\" The counsel argued that, should such an occurrence be sanctioned by the court, \"the whole slave race of Virginia may be thus turned loose upon us, in the hands of trustees, or of nominal masters, holding the privilege...of remaining hence when it suits them.\" An affidavit states that Lewis, referred to as Lewis Randolph, immigrated to Liberia. As of 1853, Susan and Lucy remained in Virginia. \n","  Jack Robinson, a formerly enslaved man, sought a divorce from his wife, Amanda Johnson. According to Robinson, he and Amanda \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes,\" which became binding in 1866 following the passage of a law by the Virginia legislature stating that all Black individuals \"cohabitating as man and wife\" would be considered legally married. Robinson claimed that he left Amanda before the law's passage due to her infidelity, but he nevertheless sought a divorce in case they were married in the eyes of the law. \n","  The depositions in this suit highlight a rumored interracial relationship between John Thomason and Frankey Thomason, a Black woman enslaved by the estate of Sarah Thomason, Thomason's mother. Thomason and Frankey were said to have had multiple children, who were considered enslaved due to existing laws that governed enslavement based on the status of the mother. However, several deponents claimed that the children were considered \"quasi-free,\" (whether by themselves or the neighborhood is not specified) and were therefore afforded more leniancy when hired out by Thomason or his mother's executor. \n","  Contract suit. Case records detail the predicaments of a railroad company subsidized by the state and bound by Commonwealth law to carry all passengers and freight upon \"terms fair and equal to all without unjust preference or discrimination\" while at the same time, facing increasing private and public pressure for the transportation of express mail on its rail carriers. Suit also presents allegations made against the Adams Express Company for essentially establishing a monopoly on express mail services in Virginia. \n"," \nThree suits heard together regarding the estates of two siblings, Elizabeth Davis and Robert Davis, who were both declared to be mentally unfit by adulthood. Through their respective committees, the siblings appeared to have made standard requests for permission from the court in order to sell property originally inherited from older members of the Davis family to a neutral third-party. However, their sister Virginia Carter claimed that fraud had been committed by those committee members instead as she accused her brother-in-law and her now deceased husband of illegally purchasing that property for their own benefits. Moreover, that the Albemarle County Clerk of Court directly assisted in this scheme by helping to forge the paperwork for these purchases. \n\n","  Divorce suit. The plaintiff accused her husband of having committed adultery. Depositions include extensive details on Mr. Wheeler's alleged attempts to have extramarital relations with a number of women including Sallie Stewart, an African American woman employed by his father-in-law, James O. Hardin. Stewart's own deposition is included with the suit records. \n","  Divorce suit. John A Shackleford sought a divorce against his second wife, Clementine Shackleford (Marshall) on the grounds of adultery. Depositions given by midwife Lucy Rives and neighbor F. M. Wells provide details on the accusations made by Shackleford against his wife who had allegedly given birth to an interracial daughter. (Both plaintiff and defendant were presumed to be white). In their respective testimonies, Rives recalled her experience in assisting with the birth of this child and Wells recounted a conversation with Clementine Shackleford regarding the possible paternity of the baby. According to the final decree, Clementine Shackleford failed to make any court appearances and to provide an answer to her husband's bill. Instead, on the back of a deposition notice, there appears to be a signed statement giving her consent for her husband to take depositions and an assertion that she had no \"intention\" to \"defend [her] conduct.\" A note by the court discusses what Virginia law required for a divorce on the grounds of adultery at that time. \n","  Plaintiffs Noah Jackson and his wife, Louisa Tyree sought to settle a contract made in May 1860 with D. H. E. Saunders and John Simpson. Jackson and Tyree assert that they had entered into a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson that arranged for Jackson, who had been formally enslaved by Saunders at that time, to be sold to Simpson under the mutual understanding of all parties that Jackson would live a free man. Moreover, that their contract would allow Jackson to trade as a freeman and to remain in the Commonwealth for as long as he personally desired to do so. Tyree, a freewoman at the time, put her house and lot in Charlottesville up as security for this contract. According to the bill, the plaintiffs were unaware prior to 1868 that their contract did not legally provide those rights and privileges to Jackson; the very condition that was their primary motivation for entering into such a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson in the first place. \n","There are no restrictions.\n","","Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":[""],"normalized_title_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"collection_title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"collection_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, \n1768-1969 (bulk 1880-1920)"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"creator_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) 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"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the latest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found. Arranged chronologically. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrangement of documents within each folder are as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.) \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement\n"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organized by case, of which each is assigned a unique index number comprised of the latest year found in case and a sequentially increasing 3-digit number assigned by the processor as cases for that year are found. Arranged chronologically. ","Arrangement of documents within each folder are as follows: Bill, Answer, and Final Decree (if found.) \n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eContext for Record Type:\u003c/emph\u003e Chancery Causes are cases of equity. 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Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, were processed by field processors as well as various Local Records Staff and completed from early 2000s- 2010s ","Chancery Causes, 1768-1840, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by G. Crawford in 2018-2020.  ","Chancery Causes, 1840-1850, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by M. Long and M. Mason, 2020-2021. ","Chancery Causes, 1851-1871, were reprocessed and brought up to current processing and indexing standards by C. Collins and E. Swain, 2022-2023. ","Encoded by M. Mason, December 2024; updated by M. Mason: April 2025 "],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAdditional Albemarle County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. 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Search the available at Virginia Memory. \n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChancery causes before 1870 contain a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e James Geekie immigrated from Scotland at the request of a wealthy relative named John White a resident of Albemarle County. White offered to leave his estate to Geekie to encourage him to immigrate. Soon after Geekie's arrival, Geekie claims White began to mistreat him. Upon his death, White refused to live up to his promise made to Geekie except for a small amount of land in Kentucky. In his will, James White emancipated the individuals he enslaved and gave them all of his estate. Geekie made claim to a portion of the estate the enslaved people inherited. Rather than file suit for the property for concern it would delay, perhaps permanently, their emancipation, both parties went to arbitration where an agreement was reached in which Geekie received one-third of the estate. Geekie still had to file suit against the enslaved people because the court had to ensure the interest of the enslaved infants were ensured. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involves sell of enslaved family [unnamed]. Plaintiff purchased an enslaved mother and her children. The husband of the enslaved woman asked the plaintiff to purchase him as well so he would not be separated from his family. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Plaintiff accused defendant of selling him Prudence, unhealthy enslaved woman who suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Cause includes deposition of physician who examined the Prudence while she was held by Higginbotham. The physician testified that he found the Prudence being kept in a damp cellar during intense cold weather, and that she was salivating due to medication given to her by Higginbotham. The physician diagnosed her with a severe lung infection and some form of a pox spreading over her body. He told Higginbotham to remove Prudence from the cellar because the poor conditions made her health condition worse. He also told him that \"his mismanagement of the case endangered the life of the woman\" and that the combination of the lung infection and pox \"rendered her situation critical and dangerous.\" The physician was unable to examine Prudence for the STD due to her poor health. The physician was asked to examine the Prudence again while she was in the possession of the plaintiff. The pox had returned. While examining her, the physician discovered that Prudence had an abortion which was \"hastened by the circumstances of the woman concealing her state of pregnancy and the medicine administered for the pox.\" \"That a state of pox generally but not always produces abortion - and the disease is hereditary and most generally afflicts the offspring of a mother who is thus afflicted.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Causes concerns Hagar, a man enslaved by Lewis Nevell. Nevell names Hagar head man of a boat giving him authority to make contracts with others including Archibald Lingo. Lingo refused to conduct business with Hagar as an enslaved man, claiming the last time he conducted business with an enslaved man, a man named Jim, Jim then ran away with the money received and believed to have self- emancipated. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause concerns the fraudulent sale of enslaved persons. Harriot, Harry, Sarah, and Shadrick claimed to have been emancipated by deed recorded in Lancaster County. \n [ \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://rosetta.virginiamemory.com/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1095274\"\u003eChOriginal deed \u003c/extref\u003e  as well as \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://rosetta.virginiamemory.com/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2906924%20\"\u003eFiled freedom suit in common law. \u003c/extref\u003e available through Virginia Untold site.\nSee also:  Augusta County Chancery Cause 1823-034.] \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Plaintiff agreed to serve as substitute on behalf of defendant for a tour of duty during the War of 1812. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involved questions over the categorization of enslaved people as either real property or personal property. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involves Simon, an enslaved man, being given permission by his enslaver to return to Albemarle County from Estill County, Kentucky. \"Slave pass\" filed as exhibit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e The cause involved a dispute over the estate of William Smith who died at age 96. Multiple depositions center on Smith's mental health before his death. One deponent recalled Smith claiming to be a French and Indian War veteran. He learned that Congress passed a law giving additional pension to Revolutionary War veterans. Smith believed he should get additional pension for his French and Indian War service. He was told he could not because the pension was only for Revolutionary War veterans. Another deponent was asked how Smith's enslaved people were treated. He recalled seeing one enslaved person at the home of Smith's son Willis Smith. He was chained, wore an iron collar, and had been physically abused. He was punished for being a runaway and stealing meal and bacon from the home of Willis' mother. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Robert Lewis convicted of the murder of Thomas Noel in 1821 and then Fled Virginia. Lewis' estate was managed by coroner of Albemarle after he left the state, with Morris is seeking payment of debt from Lewis' estate.  [See also: Albemarle County - Thompson Noel: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1821 September] \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Defendant claimed to be a dentist. Contracted by plaintiff to learn dentistry. Advertisement of Hall's dentist practice filed as exhibit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause involves disagreement over purchase of Monticello by plaintiff from defendant. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute that centers around the question of whether or not Martin Dawson, the testator, had the right to free all of the enslaved people included in his estate in his will. Ultimately, a third of the enslaved individuals in question were manumitted. Their names, ages, and family relationships were described in the case's records. Also included in the case is a discussion of the African Colonization Society, and a report on the lives of the people who had been manumitted after they migrated to Illinois. The case also discusses the Literary Fund of Virginia, the establishment of public schools, and the University of Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute. A recent Irish immigrant, William Leitch, moved to Virginia in order to investigate the estate of his father, who had died in the state many years earlier. Leitch claimed that he had discovered that his uncle had defrauded him of most of his father's estate. He further claimed that his uncle also owed additional money to the estate, due to debts that accrued after Leitch's father had to cut off a business partnership due to the uncle's drunken behavior. The case included depositions by other Irish immigrants and travel papers from France and the United States consul in London. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate disputes concerning Caroline Brand, a woman who had previously been enslaved. She and her children were manumitted by the will of their enslaver, Joseph Brand, and were also left his estate. In the 1842 suit, she argued that the administrator had failed to grant her and her children their full inheritance after her family moved to Pennsylvania. The case includes records of their lives as free Black residents of Pennsylvania, and of medical care given to other individuals who were enslaved by Joseph Brand. In the 1843 suit, she and her new husband Alexander Wilson sued for the rights to Joseph Brand's portion of his father's estate. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Ann Eliza Sandridge was a feme sole suing for property rights after Charles D. Maupin had suddenly broken off their engagement by moving out of state. Maupin argued that he had attempted to break off the engagement multiple times previously and that she had burned all of the relevant letters.The other defendants argued that Maupin never had rights to the property in question to begin with. Case includes love letters between Sandridge and Maupin. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute. Martha Walker's will had manumitted all enslaved people belonging to her estate. She also left money so that these people could also free their family members and move together to a free state. Reuben Lee, one of the formerly enslaved individuals, entered suit against Walker's estate on the grounds that he had not been given the amount required to free his wife and child and move with them to Ohio. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Debt suit that centers around Mary, a teenage girl who was enslaved. Miletus Harris claimed that Staples Tyler \u0026amp; Co had fraudulently taken ownership of Mary as part of a judgment against Samuel D. Venable, when Mary had actually been transferred to Harris as the result of a previous judgment against Venable. Harris claimed in the suit that part of the issue was that Mary's family members were enslaved by relatives of Harris, and Staples Tyler \u0026amp; Co's claim would cause her to be separated from them. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute, wherein Austin M. Appling claimed that Abram Eades had made a will before his death, which had later been destroyed by an enslaved woman. Includes a long, angry note by the defendants' counsel. In it, he decried the fact that Appling's evidence was based on the claims of an enslaved woman and an illiterate day laborer, when the defendants' evidence was based on the testimony of white witnesses  \"of great respectability.\"  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Contract Dispute between several parties largely concerning the title to property used for the tanbark industry. Lengthy discussion of the local tanbark industry in Albemarle County.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  An estate dispute concerning the children of Mary Eleanor Hoomes Stout's estate, first marriage to Benjamin Hoomes, who claim rights to Washington, an enslaved man, as part of their mother's dower interest. Wish to reclaim Washington who is in the possession of Thornton Stout, James Crewdson, and Isaiah Stout, after the men took Washington from Mary Eleanor's second husband , Samuel Stout, for security of his debts.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Steven Bias, a \"free man of color\", claims that he has been unlawfully seized of property to pay debts owed to George Trueheart for legally representation in judgement involving Bias's, and his wife's, ability to remaining in the commonwealth. Bias asserts that he never secured Trueheart for any legal services and is unaware of any judgment regarding his status as a freeman.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Concerns the debts of Edwin Conway and his wife, operating a hotel on the campus of the University of Virginia, taking issue with Mrs. Conway, as a married woman, operating the business in her own right. Large argument regarding whether Mr. or Mrs. Conway is actually in charge of the operations, who the debts belong to, possible sale of individuals enslaved by Mrs. Conway to pay debts, and the unlawful nature of Mrs. Conway's business dealings.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Estate dispute concerning property of late Dabney Minor and various plantations \"Gilmerton\", \"Carr's Brook\", and \"Bremo\" with much discussion about enslaved persons, and the pricing and hiring of enslaved persons to neighboring landowners. [see: EXR OF Dabney Minor v Catharine H Reinheart ETC 1874-010]  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Ann Chick seeks a divorce from Littleton Chick due to cruelty and abuse suffered by her for over ten years.  Ann claims Littleton is violent when intoxicated which is almost constant. Describes his abuse towards her, her five children, and enslaved persons. Ann wants custody of her children and possession of the 5 enslaved persons as her father gave them to her and believes Littleton will simply sell them if left in his care.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Yates claims he should not have to pay Kinsolving the remaining balance for an enslaved woman named Elvira as he was assured that Elvira was of sound mind, but several days after the purchase it was revealed that Elvira suffered from violent \"fits.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Thomas requests the court ability to sell Nealy, an enslaved person, in order to pay for college education at Randolph Macon  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Cause covers the settling of accounts for Tompkins and Noel, company acting as owner and editors of the Virginia Advocate newspapers. The accounts shown in the division of assets providers a long list of the paper's subscribers. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Joseph Twyman claims he was defrauded into purchasing Harriet who proved to be \"unsound\" due to a condition described as an \"enlarged womb\" and therefore will not pay the remaining bonds to Alfred Twyma and would like a refund and Harriet returned.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Concerns the construction of the Augusta County Court House in 1836, and requests settlement of accounts from the partnership entered into during the construction. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Concerns property in Fluvanna County, Buckingham County, and Candle \u0026amp; Soap Factory near Richmond, Va., as well as the Dismal Swamp, New Orleans, and Kentucky, The Will of Richard Morriss emancipates Fanny and her children while providing the children with property and enslaved persons. The Will of Mary M. Garland emancipates John, Nancy, and Nancy's husband Lewis Brooks, providing funds to remove them to Liberia or to a free state.  \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Trueheart family invested money from land sold to purchase enslaved people to work on their property in Galveston, Texas. Enslaved people purchased in Richmond and transported to Galveston. Exhibits include bills of sale, contracts with ship captains to transport enslaved people and insurance policy for enslaved man Arthur Anderson. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e   Plaintiff describes abduction of enslaved persons. Also references execution of enslaved man Andrew. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit concerns the use of William Donoho's securities of property and enslaved individuals to settle debts. The funds were used, among other things, for the erection of buildings contracted for the Virginia School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (Staunton, Va.). \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  These suits involve the dissolution of a business partnership between Robert C. Noel and James C. Halsall, co-owners and publishers of the Virginia Advocate for a few years during the 1840s. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit involves the sale of the Eagle Hotel (also known as the Eagle Tavern), the Jefferson House adjoining the hotel, and the \"Brick-Stable\" attached to the hotel, all of which were located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved individuals were auctioned in front of the Eagle Hotel through the end of the Civil War. It was sold by Andrew J. Farish to George L. Peyton in 1853, though whether Farish regained ownership of the properties following Peyton's inability to adhere to the payment schedule outlined in the sale contract is unknown. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  In filing for a divorce from William Gully, her husband, Susan A. Gully claimed that he committed adultery with, and later abandoned her for, an unnamed free woman of color. According to the suit, he removed with the free woman of color to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in either 1849 or 1850. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Indebted to several creditors, William Moon sold at auction several enslaved persons, namely Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton, to Stapleton C. Sneed. However, Moon \"felt the deepest solicitude that [Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton] should pass forever and hopelessly beyond his control,\" owing to what Moon described as \"the peculiar relation existing between [Moon] and his slaves.\" As such, Moon and Sneed entered into a contract wherein Moon was allowed to redeem Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton within ten years so long as he did so to free them. Moon, however, was unable to come up with the capital to redeem them in time. A deposition in 1856-033 confirms that Cary Ann and her children were related by blood to William Moon. The question \"Were any of the other Negroes besides Cary Ann and her children related by blood to Moon?\" was posed to Fontaine Wells, a deponent, who answered, \"I believe all were - except the old woman of all - the others were her's [sic] \u0026amp; his descendants.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit contains limited genealogical and biographical information about persons who were enslaved in Albemarle, Virginia. The information shows familial relationships between enslaved persons, though only highlighting parent-child relationships, and mentions some of their responsibilities (e.g., blacksmith). \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Suite features Michie Tavern. The original location of the tavern is depicted on a plat included in the suit. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit involves several free Black and multiracial people who lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. According to the bill of complaint, Nancy West was a Black woman and the \"de facto\" wife of David Isaacs, a Jewish merchant residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. They had several children, namely Thomas, Hays, Frederick, Tucker, Jane, Julia Ann, and Agness [sic]. As of the initiation of the suit, Thomas Isaacs was presumed lost at sea; Hays and Frederick were deceased; Tucker and Agness [sic] (along with her husband, German Evans) lived in Ohio; Julia Ann had married Eston Hemings Jefferson, purportedly the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, with whom she moved to Wisconsin; and Jane had married Nathaniel H. West and presumably lived in Albemarle County. David Isaacs died in 1837 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy West moved to Ohio sometime in the 1850s. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Land in Albemarle County, Virginia, referred to as the Norvell Farm and Gold property, came under contention when Lafayette K. Saylor refused to pay John M. Norvell for the land until Norvell perfected its title. As part of their agreement, Saylor offered to pay Norvell $50,000, or almost $2,000,000 today, for the land. Saylor discovered that Norvell attempted to sell the land to other speculators after Saylor's nonpayment, at which point Saylor sought the court's aid in forcing Norvell to adhere to the original sale. One of the speculators, Patrick H. Cowen, claimed some expertise in gold mining, \"having pursued [gold] for sometime in California,\" during the California gold rush. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  The suit involves a monetary bequest by Frances B. Smith to Richmond College [University of Richmond]. Other organizations, such as the Colonization Society and the Baptist Foreign Mission, were also listed as beneficiaries, but the parties involved with the suit could not determine whether the organizations still existed because of the American Civil War. The suit contains limited information about the chartering of Richmond College and its activities during the war. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  This suit mentions Tom, an enslaved man, who was \"impressed into the service of the Confederate States for labor on the defenses near Richmond.\" \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  In his will, John Bow stipulated that Susan, an enslaved Black woman and Bow's purported daughter, and her two children, Lewis and Lucy, should either be emancipated upon agreeing to migrate to Liberia or remain enslaved in Virginia under the stewardship of trustees named in Bow's will. The court wrestled with the intent behind the stipulation, as evidenced by a counsel's note that considered the following: was Bow's attempt to will the enslaved people to trustees if they chose to remain in Virginia an evasion of \"the policy as well as the letter of statute prohibiting emancipated slaves to remain within the Commonwealth?\" The counsel argued that, should such an occurrence be sanctioned by the court, \"the whole slave race of Virginia may be thus turned loose upon us, in the hands of trustees, or of nominal masters, holding the privilege...of remaining hence when it suits them.\" An affidavit states that Lewis, referred to as Lewis Randolph, immigrated to Liberia. As of 1853, Susan and Lucy remained in Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Jack Robinson, a formerly enslaved man, sought a divorce from his wife, Amanda Johnson. According to Robinson, he and Amanda \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes,\" which became binding in 1866 following the passage of a law by the Virginia legislature stating that all Black individuals \"cohabitating as man and wife\" would be considered legally married. Robinson claimed that he left Amanda before the law's passage due to her infidelity, but he nevertheless sought a divorce in case they were married in the eyes of the law. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  The depositions in this suit highlight a rumored interracial relationship between John Thomason and Frankey Thomason, a Black woman enslaved by the estate of Sarah Thomason, Thomason's mother. Thomason and Frankey were said to have had multiple children, who were considered enslaved due to existing laws that governed enslavement based on the status of the mother. However, several deponents claimed that the children were considered \"quasi-free,\" (whether by themselves or the neighborhood is not specified) and were therefore afforded more leniancy when hired out by Thomason or his mother's executor. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Contract suit. Case records detail the predicaments of a railroad company subsidized by the state and bound by Commonwealth law to carry all passengers and freight upon \"terms fair and equal to all without unjust preference or discrimination\" while at the same time, facing increasing private and public pressure for the transportation of express mail on its rail carriers. Suit also presents allegations made against the Adams Express Company for essentially establishing a monopoly on express mail services in Virginia. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \nThree suits heard together regarding the estates of two siblings, Elizabeth Davis and Robert Davis, who were both declared to be mentally unfit by adulthood. Through their respective committees, the siblings appeared to have made standard requests for permission from the court in order to sell property originally inherited from older members of the Davis family to a neutral third-party. However, their sister Virginia Carter claimed that fraud had been committed by those committee members instead as she accused her brother-in-law and her now deceased husband of illegally purchasing that property for their own benefits. Moreover, that the Albemarle County Clerk of Court directly assisted in this scheme by helping to forge the paperwork for these purchases. \n\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Divorce suit. The plaintiff accused her husband of having committed adultery. Depositions include extensive details on Mr. Wheeler's alleged attempts to have extramarital relations with a number of women including Sallie Stewart, an African American woman employed by his father-in-law, James O. Hardin. Stewart's own deposition is included with the suit records. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Divorce suit. John A Shackleford sought a divorce against his second wife, Clementine Shackleford (Marshall) on the grounds of adultery. Depositions given by midwife Lucy Rives and neighbor F. M. Wells provide details on the accusations made by Shackleford against his wife who had allegedly given birth to an interracial daughter. (Both plaintiff and defendant were presumed to be white). In their respective testimonies, Rives recalled her experience in assisting with the birth of this child and Wells recounted a conversation with Clementine Shackleford regarding the possible paternity of the baby. According to the final decree, Clementine Shackleford failed to make any court appearances and to provide an answer to her husband's bill. Instead, on the back of a deposition notice, there appears to be a signed statement giving her consent for her husband to take depositions and an assertion that she had no \"intention\" to \"defend [her] conduct.\" A note by the court discusses what Virginia law required for a divorce on the grounds of adultery at that time. \n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  Plaintiffs Noah Jackson and his wife, Louisa Tyree sought to settle a contract made in May 1860 with D. H. E. Saunders and John Simpson. Jackson and Tyree assert that they had entered into a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson that arranged for Jackson, who had been formally enslaved by Saunders at that time, to be sold to Simpson under the mutual understanding of all parties that Jackson would live a free man. Moreover, that their contract would allow Jackson to trade as a freeman and to remain in the Commonwealth for as long as he personally desired to do so. Tyree, a freewoman at the time, put her house and lot in Charlottesville up as security for this contract. According to the bill, the plaintiffs were unaware prior to 1868 that their contract did not legally provide those rights and privileges to Jackson; the very condition that was their primary motivation for entering into such a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson in the first place. \n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1768-1969, consists of cases concerning issues of equity brought largely by residents of the county and filed in the circuit court. These cases often involve the following actions: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, disputes regarding contracts, debt, divorce, and business disputes. Other less prevalent issues include freedom suits, permissions to sell property, and disputes concerning trespass. Predominant documents found in these chancery causes include bills (documents the plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response to the plaintiff's complaint), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, plats, wills, records involving enslaved individuals, business records or vital statistics. \n","Chancery causes before 1870 contain a substantial amount of information concerning enslaved Black men, women, and children. While there are several suits concerning the freedom of enslaved individuals, these cases largely represent the perspective of white enslavers and their disputes involving the sale, hiring, financial responsibilities, and legality of ownership of Black individuals. "," James Geekie immigrated from Scotland at the request of a wealthy relative named John White a resident of Albemarle County. White offered to leave his estate to Geekie to encourage him to immigrate. Soon after Geekie's arrival, Geekie claims White began to mistreat him. Upon his death, White refused to live up to his promise made to Geekie except for a small amount of land in Kentucky. In his will, James White emancipated the individuals he enslaved and gave them all of his estate. Geekie made claim to a portion of the estate the enslaved people inherited. Rather than file suit for the property for concern it would delay, perhaps permanently, their emancipation, both parties went to arbitration where an agreement was reached in which Geekie received one-third of the estate. Geekie still had to file suit against the enslaved people because the court had to ensure the interest of the enslaved infants were ensured. \n"," Cause involves sell of enslaved family [unnamed]. Plaintiff purchased an enslaved mother and her children. The husband of the enslaved woman asked the plaintiff to purchase him as well so he would not be separated from his family. \n"," Plaintiff accused defendant of selling him Prudence, unhealthy enslaved woman who suffered from a sexually transmitted disease. Cause includes deposition of physician who examined the Prudence while she was held by Higginbotham. The physician testified that he found the Prudence being kept in a damp cellar during intense cold weather, and that she was salivating due to medication given to her by Higginbotham. The physician diagnosed her with a severe lung infection and some form of a pox spreading over her body. He told Higginbotham to remove Prudence from the cellar because the poor conditions made her health condition worse. He also told him that \"his mismanagement of the case endangered the life of the woman\" and that the combination of the lung infection and pox \"rendered her situation critical and dangerous.\" The physician was unable to examine Prudence for the STD due to her poor health. The physician was asked to examine the Prudence again while she was in the possession of the plaintiff. The pox had returned. While examining her, the physician discovered that Prudence had an abortion which was \"hastened by the circumstances of the woman concealing her state of pregnancy and the medicine administered for the pox.\" \"That a state of pox generally but not always produces abortion - and the disease is hereditary and most generally afflicts the offspring of a mother who is thus afflicted.\" \n","  Causes concerns Hagar, a man enslaved by Lewis Nevell. Nevell names Hagar head man of a boat giving him authority to make contracts with others including Archibald Lingo. Lingo refused to conduct business with Hagar as an enslaved man, claiming the last time he conducted business with an enslaved man, a man named Jim, Jim then ran away with the money received and believed to have self- emancipated. \n"," Cause concerns the fraudulent sale of enslaved persons. Harriot, Harry, Sarah, and Shadrick claimed to have been emancipated by deed recorded in Lancaster County. \n [  ChOriginal deed    as well as  Filed freedom suit in common law.   available through Virginia Untold site.\nSee also:  Augusta County Chancery Cause 1823-034.] \n"," Plaintiff agreed to serve as substitute on behalf of defendant for a tour of duty during the War of 1812. \n"," Cause involved questions over the categorization of enslaved people as either real property or personal property. \n"," Cause involves Simon, an enslaved man, being given permission by his enslaver to return to Albemarle County from Estill County, Kentucky. \"Slave pass\" filed as exhibit. \n"," The cause involved a dispute over the estate of William Smith who died at age 96. Multiple depositions center on Smith's mental health before his death. One deponent recalled Smith claiming to be a French and Indian War veteran. He learned that Congress passed a law giving additional pension to Revolutionary War veterans. Smith believed he should get additional pension for his French and Indian War service. He was told he could not because the pension was only for Revolutionary War veterans. Another deponent was asked how Smith's enslaved people were treated. He recalled seeing one enslaved person at the home of Smith's son Willis Smith. He was chained, wore an iron collar, and had been physically abused. He was punished for being a runaway and stealing meal and bacon from the home of Willis' mother. \n"," Robert Lewis convicted of the murder of Thomas Noel in 1821 and then Fled Virginia. Lewis' estate was managed by coroner of Albemarle after he left the state, with Morris is seeking payment of debt from Lewis' estate.  [See also: Albemarle County - Thompson Noel: Coroners' Inquisitions, 1821 September] \n"," Defendant claimed to be a dentist. Contracted by plaintiff to learn dentistry. Advertisement of Hall's dentist practice filed as exhibit. \n"," Cause involves disagreement over purchase of Monticello by plaintiff from defendant. \n"," Estate dispute that centers around the question of whether or not Martin Dawson, the testator, had the right to free all of the enslaved people included in his estate in his will. Ultimately, a third of the enslaved individuals in question were manumitted. Their names, ages, and family relationships were described in the case's records. Also included in the case is a discussion of the African Colonization Society, and a report on the lives of the people who had been manumitted after they migrated to Illinois. The case also discusses the Literary Fund of Virginia, the establishment of public schools, and the University of Virginia. \n"," Estate dispute. A recent Irish immigrant, William Leitch, moved to Virginia in order to investigate the estate of his father, who had died in the state many years earlier. Leitch claimed that he had discovered that his uncle had defrauded him of most of his father's estate. He further claimed that his uncle also owed additional money to the estate, due to debts that accrued after Leitch's father had to cut off a business partnership due to the uncle's drunken behavior. The case included depositions by other Irish immigrants and travel papers from France and the United States consul in London. \n"," Estate disputes concerning Caroline Brand, a woman who had previously been enslaved. She and her children were manumitted by the will of their enslaver, Joseph Brand, and were also left his estate. In the 1842 suit, she argued that the administrator had failed to grant her and her children their full inheritance after her family moved to Pennsylvania. The case includes records of their lives as free Black residents of Pennsylvania, and of medical care given to other individuals who were enslaved by Joseph Brand. In the 1843 suit, she and her new husband Alexander Wilson sued for the rights to Joseph Brand's portion of his father's estate. \n"," Ann Eliza Sandridge was a feme sole suing for property rights after Charles D. Maupin had suddenly broken off their engagement by moving out of state. Maupin argued that he had attempted to break off the engagement multiple times previously and that she had burned all of the relevant letters.The other defendants argued that Maupin never had rights to the property in question to begin with. Case includes love letters between Sandridge and Maupin. \n"," Estate dispute. Martha Walker's will had manumitted all enslaved people belonging to her estate. She also left money so that these people could also free their family members and move together to a free state. Reuben Lee, one of the formerly enslaved individuals, entered suit against Walker's estate on the grounds that he had not been given the amount required to free his wife and child and move with them to Ohio. \n"," Debt suit that centers around Mary, a teenage girl who was enslaved. Miletus Harris claimed that Staples Tyler \u0026 Co had fraudulently taken ownership of Mary as part of a judgment against Samuel D. Venable, when Mary had actually been transferred to Harris as the result of a previous judgment against Venable. Harris claimed in the suit that part of the issue was that Mary's family members were enslaved by relatives of Harris, and Staples Tyler \u0026 Co's claim would cause her to be separated from them. \n"," Estate dispute, wherein Austin M. Appling claimed that Abram Eades had made a will before his death, which had later been destroyed by an enslaved woman. Includes a long, angry note by the defendants' counsel. In it, he decried the fact that Appling's evidence was based on the claims of an enslaved woman and an illiterate day laborer, when the defendants' evidence was based on the testimony of white witnesses  \"of great respectability.\"  \n"," Contract Dispute between several parties largely concerning the title to property used for the tanbark industry. Lengthy discussion of the local tanbark industry in Albemarle County.  \n","  An estate dispute concerning the children of Mary Eleanor Hoomes Stout's estate, first marriage to Benjamin Hoomes, who claim rights to Washington, an enslaved man, as part of their mother's dower interest. Wish to reclaim Washington who is in the possession of Thornton Stout, James Crewdson, and Isaiah Stout, after the men took Washington from Mary Eleanor's second husband , Samuel Stout, for security of his debts.  \n"," Steven Bias, a \"free man of color\", claims that he has been unlawfully seized of property to pay debts owed to George Trueheart for legally representation in judgement involving Bias's, and his wife's, ability to remaining in the commonwealth. Bias asserts that he never secured Trueheart for any legal services and is unaware of any judgment regarding his status as a freeman.  \n"," Concerns the debts of Edwin Conway and his wife, operating a hotel on the campus of the University of Virginia, taking issue with Mrs. Conway, as a married woman, operating the business in her own right. Large argument regarding whether Mr. or Mrs. Conway is actually in charge of the operations, who the debts belong to, possible sale of individuals enslaved by Mrs. Conway to pay debts, and the unlawful nature of Mrs. Conway's business dealings.  \n"," Estate dispute concerning property of late Dabney Minor and various plantations \"Gilmerton\", \"Carr's Brook\", and \"Bremo\" with much discussion about enslaved persons, and the pricing and hiring of enslaved persons to neighboring landowners. [see: EXR OF Dabney Minor v Catharine H Reinheart ETC 1874-010]  \n"," Ann Chick seeks a divorce from Littleton Chick due to cruelty and abuse suffered by her for over ten years.  Ann claims Littleton is violent when intoxicated which is almost constant. Describes his abuse towards her, her five children, and enslaved persons. Ann wants custody of her children and possession of the 5 enslaved persons as her father gave them to her and believes Littleton will simply sell them if left in his care.  \n"," Yates claims he should not have to pay Kinsolving the remaining balance for an enslaved woman named Elvira as he was assured that Elvira was of sound mind, but several days after the purchase it was revealed that Elvira suffered from violent \"fits.\" \n"," Thomas requests the court ability to sell Nealy, an enslaved person, in order to pay for college education at Randolph Macon  \n"," Cause covers the settling of accounts for Tompkins and Noel, company acting as owner and editors of the Virginia Advocate newspapers. The accounts shown in the division of assets providers a long list of the paper's subscribers. \n"," Joseph Twyman claims he was defrauded into purchasing Harriet who proved to be \"unsound\" due to a condition described as an \"enlarged womb\" and therefore will not pay the remaining bonds to Alfred Twyma and would like a refund and Harriet returned.  \n","  Concerns the construction of the Augusta County Court House in 1836, and requests settlement of accounts from the partnership entered into during the construction. \n","  Concerns property in Fluvanna County, Buckingham County, and Candle \u0026 Soap Factory near Richmond, Va., as well as the Dismal Swamp, New Orleans, and Kentucky, The Will of Richard Morriss emancipates Fanny and her children while providing the children with property and enslaved persons. The Will of Mary M. 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Halsall, co-owners and publishers of the Virginia Advocate for a few years during the 1840s. \n","  This suit involves the sale of the Eagle Hotel (also known as the Eagle Tavern), the Jefferson House adjoining the hotel, and the \"Brick-Stable\" attached to the hotel, all of which were located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Enslaved individuals were auctioned in front of the Eagle Hotel through the end of the Civil War. It was sold by Andrew J. Farish to George L. Peyton in 1853, though whether Farish regained ownership of the properties following Peyton's inability to adhere to the payment schedule outlined in the sale contract is unknown. \n","  In filing for a divorce from William Gully, her husband, Susan A. Gully claimed that he committed adultery with, and later abandoned her for, an unnamed free woman of color. According to the suit, he removed with the free woman of color to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in either 1849 or 1850. \n","  Indebted to several creditors, William Moon sold at auction several enslaved persons, namely Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton, to Stapleton C. Sneed. However, Moon \"felt the deepest solicitude that [Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton] should pass forever and hopelessly beyond his control,\" owing to what Moon described as \"the peculiar relation existing between [Moon] and his slaves.\" As such, Moon and Sneed entered into a contract wherein Moon was allowed to redeem Cary Ann, Everett, and Overton within ten years so long as he did so to free them. Moon, however, was unable to come up with the capital to redeem them in time. A deposition in 1856-033 confirms that Cary Ann and her children were related by blood to William Moon. The question \"Were any of the other Negroes besides Cary Ann and her children related by blood to Moon?\" was posed to Fontaine Wells, a deponent, who answered, \"I believe all were - except the old woman of all - the others were her's [sic] \u0026 his descendants.\" \n","  This suit contains limited genealogical and biographical information about persons who were enslaved in Albemarle, Virginia. The information shows familial relationships between enslaved persons, though only highlighting parent-child relationships, and mentions some of their responsibilities (e.g., blacksmith). \n"," Suite features Michie Tavern. The original location of the tavern is depicted on a plat included in the suit. \n","  This suit involves several free Black and multiracial people who lived in Albemarle County, Virginia. According to the bill of complaint, Nancy West was a Black woman and the \"de facto\" wife of David Isaacs, a Jewish merchant residing in Charlottesville, Virginia. They had several children, namely Thomas, Hays, Frederick, Tucker, Jane, Julia Ann, and Agness [sic]. As of the initiation of the suit, Thomas Isaacs was presumed lost at sea; Hays and Frederick were deceased; Tucker and Agness [sic] (along with her husband, German Evans) lived in Ohio; Julia Ann had married Eston Hemings Jefferson, purportedly the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, with whom she moved to Wisconsin; and Jane had married Nathaniel H. West and presumably lived in Albemarle County. David Isaacs died in 1837 and was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. Nancy West moved to Ohio sometime in the 1850s. \n","  Land in Albemarle County, Virginia, referred to as the Norvell Farm and Gold property, came under contention when Lafayette K. Saylor refused to pay John M. Norvell for the land until Norvell perfected its title. As part of their agreement, Saylor offered to pay Norvell $50,000, or almost $2,000,000 today, for the land. Saylor discovered that Norvell attempted to sell the land to other speculators after Saylor's nonpayment, at which point Saylor sought the court's aid in forcing Norvell to adhere to the original sale. One of the speculators, Patrick H. Cowen, claimed some expertise in gold mining, \"having pursued [gold] for sometime in California,\" during the California gold rush. \n","  The suit involves a monetary bequest by Frances B. Smith to Richmond College [University of Richmond]. Other organizations, such as the Colonization Society and the Baptist Foreign Mission, were also listed as beneficiaries, but the parties involved with the suit could not determine whether the organizations still existed because of the American Civil War. The suit contains limited information about the chartering of Richmond College and its activities during the war. \n","  This suit mentions Tom, an enslaved man, who was \"impressed into the service of the Confederate States for labor on the defenses near Richmond.\" \n","  In his will, John Bow stipulated that Susan, an enslaved Black woman and Bow's purported daughter, and her two children, Lewis and Lucy, should either be emancipated upon agreeing to migrate to Liberia or remain enslaved in Virginia under the stewardship of trustees named in Bow's will. The court wrestled with the intent behind the stipulation, as evidenced by a counsel's note that considered the following: was Bow's attempt to will the enslaved people to trustees if they chose to remain in Virginia an evasion of \"the policy as well as the letter of statute prohibiting emancipated slaves to remain within the Commonwealth?\" The counsel argued that, should such an occurrence be sanctioned by the court, \"the whole slave race of Virginia may be thus turned loose upon us, in the hands of trustees, or of nominal masters, holding the privilege...of remaining hence when it suits them.\" An affidavit states that Lewis, referred to as Lewis Randolph, immigrated to Liberia. As of 1853, Susan and Lucy remained in Virginia. \n","  Jack Robinson, a formerly enslaved man, sought a divorce from his wife, Amanda Johnson. According to Robinson, he and Amanda \"had a sort of wedding after the fashion of negroes,\" which became binding in 1866 following the passage of a law by the Virginia legislature stating that all Black individuals \"cohabitating as man and wife\" would be considered legally married. Robinson claimed that he left Amanda before the law's passage due to her infidelity, but he nevertheless sought a divorce in case they were married in the eyes of the law. \n","  The depositions in this suit highlight a rumored interracial relationship between John Thomason and Frankey Thomason, a Black woman enslaved by the estate of Sarah Thomason, Thomason's mother. Thomason and Frankey were said to have had multiple children, who were considered enslaved due to existing laws that governed enslavement based on the status of the mother. However, several deponents claimed that the children were considered \"quasi-free,\" (whether by themselves or the neighborhood is not specified) and were therefore afforded more leniancy when hired out by Thomason or his mother's executor. \n","  Contract suit. Case records detail the predicaments of a railroad company subsidized by the state and bound by Commonwealth law to carry all passengers and freight upon \"terms fair and equal to all without unjust preference or discrimination\" while at the same time, facing increasing private and public pressure for the transportation of express mail on its rail carriers. Suit also presents allegations made against the Adams Express Company for essentially establishing a monopoly on express mail services in Virginia. \n"," \nThree suits heard together regarding the estates of two siblings, Elizabeth Davis and Robert Davis, who were both declared to be mentally unfit by adulthood. Through their respective committees, the siblings appeared to have made standard requests for permission from the court in order to sell property originally inherited from older members of the Davis family to a neutral third-party. However, their sister Virginia Carter claimed that fraud had been committed by those committee members instead as she accused her brother-in-law and her now deceased husband of illegally purchasing that property for their own benefits. Moreover, that the Albemarle County Clerk of Court directly assisted in this scheme by helping to forge the paperwork for these purchases. \n\n","  Divorce suit. The plaintiff accused her husband of having committed adultery. Depositions include extensive details on Mr. Wheeler's alleged attempts to have extramarital relations with a number of women including Sallie Stewart, an African American woman employed by his father-in-law, James O. Hardin. Stewart's own deposition is included with the suit records. \n","  Divorce suit. John A Shackleford sought a divorce against his second wife, Clementine Shackleford (Marshall) on the grounds of adultery. Depositions given by midwife Lucy Rives and neighbor F. M. Wells provide details on the accusations made by Shackleford against his wife who had allegedly given birth to an interracial daughter. (Both plaintiff and defendant were presumed to be white). In their respective testimonies, Rives recalled her experience in assisting with the birth of this child and Wells recounted a conversation with Clementine Shackleford regarding the possible paternity of the baby. According to the final decree, Clementine Shackleford failed to make any court appearances and to provide an answer to her husband's bill. Instead, on the back of a deposition notice, there appears to be a signed statement giving her consent for her husband to take depositions and an assertion that she had no \"intention\" to \"defend [her] conduct.\" A note by the court discusses what Virginia law required for a divorce on the grounds of adultery at that time. \n","  Plaintiffs Noah Jackson and his wife, Louisa Tyree sought to settle a contract made in May 1860 with D. H. E. Saunders and John Simpson. Jackson and Tyree assert that they had entered into a formal agreement with Saunders and Simpson that arranged for Jackson, who had been formally enslaved by Saunders at that time, to be sold to Simpson under the mutual understanding of all parties that Jackson would live a free man. Moreover, that their contract would allow Jackson to trade as a freeman and to remain in the Commonwealth for as long as he personally desired to do so. Tyree, a freewoman at the time, put her house and lot in Charlottesville up as security for this contract. 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Criminal offenders and victims who appear in cases prior to the abolition of slavery in Virginia in 1865 included both free and enslaved persons.\n","Warrants were issued by grand juries, judges, and justices of the peace directing law enforcement officials to either arrest and imprison a person suspected of having committed a crime or to cause an individual to appear in court to answer accusations made against them. Peace warrants directing an offender to \"keep the peace of the Commonwealth\" or to refrain from any violent acts are commonly found in assault and battery cases.\n","Summonses were used to call a suspected person to appear in court. 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The law did not encourage the Coroner to be a medical professional until the 20th century, and only stipulated that the local court be responsible for the appointment. Although not reliant on profession, this system of affluent white men making the decisions largely ensured that only other white men served in this position for much of its history.","Prior to the Civil War, the coroner would summon a jury of twelve white men, usually prominent citizens of that locality, to assist him in determining cause of death. The jury viewed the body of the deceased and heard the testimony of witnesses which did include both white and Black perspectives. This witness testimony was recorded and after seeing and hearing the evidence, and unlike other judicial proceedings, enslaved people could provide depositions in coroner's inquisitions, but still, an all-white jury delivered in writing to the coroner their conclusion concerning cause of death referred to as the inquisition. These causes of death would be determined by a white perspective and Black individuals were only consulted; they were never in a position to make decisions. After the Civil War, the process remained the same but the racial distinctions stipulating jury eligibility no longer remained. However, as appointments still continued and juror eligibility reserved for those \"entitled to vote and hold office,\" the authority and influence in the hands of white citizens remained throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.","In 1877, an act of the General Assembly changed the number of jurors to six, and by 1926, only the coroner determined cause of death but they could require physicians to assist them with determining cause of death. Then in 1946, the General Assembly abolished the Coroner's office/ office of Coroner's Physician altogether, appointed instead a Chief Medical Examiner, and by 1950 transitioned to a statewide Office of the Chief Medical Examiner which now lives within the Department of Health.","If a criminal act was determined to be the cause of death, the coroner delivered the guilty person to the sheriff and the inquests would be used as evidence in the criminal trial. In this case, coroner's inquisitions were filed with the trial papers. If there was not a trial, coroner's inquisitions were filed separately and are more likely to appear in this collection as a standalone set of documents.","Locality History:  Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville.\n\n","Albemarle County Coroners Inquisitions were processed around 2015 for the purpose of inclusion in Virginia Untold. Therefore, at the time of processing, pre-1865 records related to free and enslaved Black and Multiracial individuals were isolated and indexed or the purposes of digitizing them for the digital project Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative.","In Spring 2024 the remaining pre-1865 inquests as well as the remaining post-1865 inquests were also indexed by M. Mason.","Encoded by G. Crawford, 2015; updated by M. 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These include demeaning and dehumanizing references to race, ethnicity, and nationality; enslaved or free status; physical and mental ability; religion; sex; and sexual orientation and gender identity.","Coroners' Inquisitions contain graphic and in some cases violent or otherwise disturbing descriptions of death.","Albemarle County (Va) Coroners' Inquisitions, 1794-1902, contains investigations into the deaths of individuals who died by a sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious manner, or died without medical attendance. Causes of death found in these records include accidental, alcohol, drowning, homicide, injuries, infanticide, medical conditions, natural causes (\"visitation by God\"), and suicide.","Documents commonly found in coroners' inquisitions include the inquisition, depositions, and summons. Some inquisitions contain other documents such as exhibits. Information found in the inquisition include the name of the coroner, the names of the jurors, the name and age of the deceased if known, gender and race of the deceased, and when, how, and by what means the deceased came to his or her death. If the coroner knew the deceased person to be Black or Multiracial, the inquest should identify the person individual's legal status (free or enslaved). If the coroner knew the deceased person to be enslaved, the inquest often includes their name, their enslaver and the enslaver's residence. Information found in the depositions include the name of the deponent(s) and their account of the circumstances that led to the death of the deceased.","Records from Albemarle County contain a fairly large number of inquests relating to free and enslaved Black and Multiracial individuals.  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They also had to include an account of all members of the applicant's family, including their health and ability to contribute to household income. In 1832, the third act extended pension benefits to include soldiers who had served in the state troops or militia. Congress also passed a related act in 1836 granting pensions to the widows and orphans of Revolutionary War veterans.\n","Locality History:    Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville.","Lost Locality Note:   Albemarle is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton’s raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.","Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845 were removed from the Albemarle County Court papers and processed by E. Woodward. Declarations filed by former soldiers rather than their widows and heirs, ranging from 1818 to 1833, were reprocessed and indexed as a distinct unit by M. Long.\n","Encoded by G. Crawford: February 2012; updated by M. Long: December 2023.\n","See also the  Albemarle County (Va.) Military and Pension Records, 1785-1919  at the Library of Virginia.","Additional Albemarle County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult   \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Albemarle is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. 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They also had to include an account of all members of the applicant's family, including their health and ability to contribute to household income. In 1832, the third act extended pension benefits to include soldiers who had served in the state troops or militia. Congress also passed a related act in 1836 granting pensions to the widows and orphans of Revolutionary War veterans.\n","Locality History:    Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville.","Lost Locality Note:   Albemarle is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton’s raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 23219.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 23219.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDeclarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845 were removed from the Albemarle County Court papers and processed by E. Woodward. 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Information found in the declarations include date and location applicants entered into service, names of military companies they served in, names of military commanders they served under, names of fellow soldiers they served with, length of service, their age, and their place of birth. The predominant portion of the declarations are narratives of their tours of duty during the Revolutionary War with emphasis on battles they fought. The declarations also include affidavits from witnesses who could verify information provided by applicants.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplicants in this series reported to have served in various Virginia military units, including the 1st Virginia Regiment of Militia; Albemarle County militia; Albemarle County militia, Picket service; Albemarle Minute Company; Albemarle Barracks Guards; Albemarle Barracks Public Service; Augusta County militia; Charlottesville guards; Fluvanna County militia; Hanover County militia; Jamestown Magazine Guards; Pittsylvania County militia; Shenandoah County militia; Spotsylvania County Minute Company; Winchester militia; 1st Virginia Regiment; 1st Virginia Regiment, Artillery; 2nd Virginia Regiment; 3rd Virginia Regiment; 3rd Virginia Regiment, Brigade; 5th Virginia Regiment; 6th Virginia Regiment, Company of Riflemen; 7th Virginia Regiment; 9th Virginia Regiment; 9th Virginia Regiment, Company of Riflemen; 10th Virginia Regiment; 14th Virginia Regiment; 17th Virginia Regiment; Virginia Light Infantry; and the Virginia militia and Virginia Continental Line generally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplicants also reported serving in many units outside of Virginia, including the 1st Maryland Regiment; 2nd Maryland Regiment; Congress's Regiment; Massachusetts Core of Artificers; Pennsylvania Artillery; the Delaware Blues Regiment; Maryland militia; Pennsylvania militia; Virginia Continental Line; Georgia Continental Line; Maryland Continental Line; North Carolina Continental Line; Pennsylvania Continental Line; and the general Continental Establishment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplicants also gave accounts of being present during several military engagements, including the Battle of Brandywine; Battle of Brusnwick; Battle of Burgoyne; Battle of Camden; Battle of Crabtree; Battle of Cowpens; Battle of Eutaw Springs; Battle of Germantown; Battle of Guilford Courthouse; Battle of Hampton; Battle of Hobwater; Battle of James Island; Battle of Jamestown; Battle of King's Mountain; Battle of Lemotte; Battle of Longbridge; Battle of Monck's Corner; Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Sandy Point; Battle of Savannah; Battle of Staten Island; Battle of Stony Point; Battle of Tuskarora; Battle of Williamsburg; Siege of Ninety-Six; Siege of Yorktown; tour against the Seneca Nation; taking of the Hessians at Trenton; and LaFayette's Wild Goose Chase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignificant materials in this collection include the pension declarations of two free Black soldiers, Richard Spinner and Sherard Goin (also spelled Sherod or Sherwood Gowing). Other notable trends include records related to a military movement referred to as \"Lafayette's Wild Goose Chase,\" soldiers who became ill during the war and suffered from lifelong symptoms as a result, the hiring of substitutes to cover mandatory militia service, and a substantial number of men who were engaged in service at the prisoner-of-war camp known as the Albemarle Barracks.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845, primarily record the declarations of individuals seeking to obtain Revolutionary War pensions provided by various acts of Congress. The applicants present detailed testimony of their time of service during the Revolutionary War. Information found in the declarations include date and location applicants entered into service, names of military companies they served in, names of military commanders they served under, names of fellow soldiers they served with, length of service, their age, and their place of birth. The predominant portion of the declarations are narratives of their tours of duty during the Revolutionary War with emphasis on battles they fought. The declarations also include affidavits from witnesses who could verify information provided by applicants.\n","Applicants in this series reported to have served in various Virginia military units, including the 1st Virginia Regiment of Militia; Albemarle County militia; Albemarle County militia, Picket service; Albemarle Minute Company; Albemarle Barracks Guards; Albemarle Barracks Public Service; Augusta County militia; Charlottesville guards; Fluvanna County militia; Hanover County militia; Jamestown Magazine Guards; Pittsylvania County militia; Shenandoah County militia; Spotsylvania County Minute Company; Winchester militia; 1st Virginia Regiment; 1st Virginia Regiment, Artillery; 2nd Virginia Regiment; 3rd Virginia Regiment; 3rd Virginia Regiment, Brigade; 5th Virginia Regiment; 6th Virginia Regiment, Company of Riflemen; 7th Virginia Regiment; 9th Virginia Regiment; 9th Virginia Regiment, Company of Riflemen; 10th Virginia Regiment; 14th Virginia Regiment; 17th Virginia Regiment; Virginia Light Infantry; and the Virginia militia and Virginia Continental Line generally.","Applicants also reported serving in many units outside of Virginia, including the 1st Maryland Regiment; 2nd Maryland Regiment; Congress's Regiment; Massachusetts Core of Artificers; Pennsylvania Artillery; the Delaware Blues Regiment; Maryland militia; Pennsylvania militia; Virginia Continental Line; Georgia Continental Line; Maryland Continental Line; North Carolina Continental Line; Pennsylvania Continental Line; and the general Continental Establishment.","Applicants also gave accounts of being present during several military engagements, including the Battle of Brandywine; Battle of Brusnwick; Battle of Burgoyne; Battle of Camden; Battle of Crabtree; Battle of Cowpens; Battle of Eutaw Springs; Battle of Germantown; Battle of Guilford Courthouse; Battle of Hampton; Battle of Hobwater; Battle of James Island; Battle of Jamestown; Battle of King's Mountain; Battle of Lemotte; Battle of Longbridge; Battle of Monck's Corner; Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Sandy Point; Battle of Savannah; Battle of Staten Island; Battle of Stony Point; Battle of Tuskarora; Battle of Williamsburg; Siege of Ninety-Six; Siege of Yorktown; tour against the Seneca Nation; taking of the Hessians at Trenton; and LaFayette's Wild Goose Chase.","Significant materials in this collection include the pension declarations of two free Black soldiers, Richard Spinner and Sherard Goin (also spelled Sherod or Sherwood Gowing). Other notable trends include records related to a military movement referred to as \"Lafayette's Wild Goose Chase,\" soldiers who became ill during the war and suffered from lifelong symptoms as a result, the hiring of substitutes to cover mandatory militia service, and a substantial number of men who were engaged in service at the prisoner-of-war camp known as the Albemarle Barracks."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions\n"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions.\n"],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Location\"\u003eLibrary of Virginia\n\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["Library of Virginia\n"],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":2,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T11:11:56.495Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi03451","ead_ssi":"vi_vi03451","_root_":"vi_vi03451","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi03451","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi03451.xml","title_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) 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Prior to the passage of this act, pensions had been restricted to former soldiers who were no longer able to support themselves due to injuries sustained while in service. The second act, passed by Congress in 1820, required applicants to provide more concrete evidence of this financial need in the form of a certified inventory of his property and income. They also had to include an account of all members of the applicant's family, including their health and ability to contribute to household income. In 1832, the third act extended pension benefits to include soldiers who had served in the state troops or militia. Congress also passed a related act in 1836 granting pensions to the widows and orphans of Revolutionary War veterans.\n","Locality History:    Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville.","Lost Locality Note:   Albemarle is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton’s raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War.","Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845 were removed from the Albemarle County Court papers and processed by E. Woodward. Declarations filed by former soldiers rather than their widows and heirs, ranging from 1818 to 1833, were reprocessed and indexed as a distinct unit by M. Long.\n","Encoded by G. Crawford: February 2012; updated by M. Long: December 2023.\n","See also the  Albemarle County (Va.) 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Information found in the declarations include date and location applicants entered into service, names of military companies they served in, names of military commanders they served under, names of fellow soldiers they served with, length of service, their age, and their place of birth. The predominant portion of the declarations are narratives of their tours of duty during the Revolutionary War with emphasis on battles they fought. The declarations also include affidavits from witnesses who could verify information provided by applicants.\n","Applicants in this series reported to have served in various Virginia military units, including the 1st Virginia Regiment of Militia; Albemarle County militia; Albemarle County militia, Picket service; Albemarle Minute Company; Albemarle Barracks Guards; Albemarle Barracks Public Service; Augusta County militia; Charlottesville guards; Fluvanna County militia; Hanover County militia; Jamestown Magazine Guards; Pittsylvania County militia; Shenandoah County militia; Spotsylvania County Minute Company; Winchester militia; 1st Virginia Regiment; 1st Virginia Regiment, Artillery; 2nd Virginia Regiment; 3rd Virginia Regiment; 3rd Virginia Regiment, Brigade; 5th Virginia Regiment; 6th Virginia Regiment, Company of Riflemen; 7th Virginia Regiment; 9th Virginia Regiment; 9th Virginia Regiment, Company of Riflemen; 10th Virginia Regiment; 14th Virginia Regiment; 17th Virginia Regiment; Virginia Light Infantry; and the Virginia militia and Virginia Continental Line generally.","Applicants also reported serving in many units outside of Virginia, including the 1st Maryland Regiment; 2nd Maryland Regiment; Congress's Regiment; Massachusetts Core of Artificers; Pennsylvania Artillery; the Delaware Blues Regiment; Maryland militia; Pennsylvania militia; Virginia Continental Line; Georgia Continental Line; Maryland Continental Line; North Carolina Continental Line; Pennsylvania Continental Line; and the general Continental Establishment.","Applicants also gave accounts of being present during several military engagements, including the Battle of Brandywine; Battle of Brusnwick; Battle of Burgoyne; Battle of Camden; Battle of Crabtree; Battle of Cowpens; Battle of Eutaw Springs; Battle of Germantown; Battle of Guilford Courthouse; Battle of Hampton; Battle of Hobwater; Battle of James Island; Battle of Jamestown; Battle of King's Mountain; Battle of Lemotte; Battle of Longbridge; Battle of Monck's Corner; Battle of Monmouth; Battle of Sandy Point; Battle of Savannah; Battle of Staten Island; Battle of Stony Point; Battle of Tuskarora; Battle of Williamsburg; Siege of Ninety-Six; Siege of Yorktown; tour against the Seneca Nation; taking of the Hessians at Trenton; and LaFayette's Wild Goose Chase.","Significant materials in this collection include the pension declarations of two free Black soldiers, Richard Spinner and Sherard Goin (also spelled Sherod or Sherwood Gowing). Other notable trends include records related to a military movement referred to as \"Lafayette's Wild Goose Chase,\" soldiers who became ill during the war and suffered from lifelong symptoms as a result, the hiring of substitutes to cover mandatory militia service, and a substantial number of men who were engaged in service at the prisoner-of-war camp known as the Albemarle Barracks.","There are no restrictions.\n","Library of Virginia\n","English\n"],"collection_title_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, \n1818-1845"],"collection_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, \n1818-1845"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Albemarle County (Va.) Circuit Court\n"],"creator_ssim":["Albemarle County (Va.) 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They also had to include an account of all members of the applicant's family, including their health and ability to contribute to household income. In 1832, the third act extended pension benefits to include soldiers who had served in the state troops or militia. Congress also passed a related act in 1836 granting pensions to the widows and orphans of Revolutionary War veterans.\n","Locality History:    Albemarle County was named for William Anne Keppel, second earl of Albemarle, and governor of Virginia from 1737 to 1754. It was created by a statute of 1744 and formed from Goochland County; part of Louisa County was added in 1761 and islands in the Fluvanna (now the James) River in 1770. The court met for the first time on 8 February 1745. The county seat is the city of Charlottesville.","Lost Locality Note:   Albemarle is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. All order books except the first and many loose papers between 1748 and 1781 were destroyed by British general Banastre Tarleton’s raid on Charlottesville in 1781 during the Revolutionary War."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 23219.\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Albemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845. Local government records collection, Albemarle County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 23219.\n"],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eDeclarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845 were removed from the Albemarle County Court papers and processed by E. Woodward. 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Military and Pension Records, 1785-1919  at the Library of Virginia.","Additional Albemarle County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia. Consult   \"A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm.\"","Albemarle is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Albemarle Records may be found in the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available on the Library of Virginia. Search the  Lost Records Localities Digital Collection  available at Virginia Memory."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlbemarle County (Va.) Declarations for Revolutionary War Pensions, 1818-1845, primarily record the declarations of individuals seeking to obtain Revolutionary War pensions provided by various acts of Congress. The applicants present detailed testimony of their time of service during the Revolutionary War. 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