Robert Crockett Property Assessment

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Crockett Property Assessment, Ms1988-076, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Crockett, Robert (Wythe County, Va)
Abstract:
This collection contains a document listing the enslaved persons and land held by Robert Crockett of Wythe County, Virginia.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Robert Crockett Property Assessment, Ms1988-076, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of a single document appraising the values of enslaved persons and land held by Robert Crockett of Wythe County, Virginia. The assessment lists two enslaved men, aged between 12 and 50, and one enslaved woman, aged between 12 and 50 years, one of those enslaved persons being "subject to fits." Also listed is Crockett's 280-acre farm "lying on the main road at the ford of Reed Creek" with a description of the home and outbuildings thereon, together with another 280-acre tract.

Biographical / historical:

Robert Crockett, son of Samuel and Jane Steele Crockett, was born in 1767. He served as Wythe County court clerk for more than 25 years. Crockett married Jane Lewis Stuart (1780-1855), and the couple would have seven children. Major Robert Crockett died in 1819 and was buried in Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery, Wytheville, Virginia.

Acquisition information:
The Robert Crockett Property Assessment was purchased by Special Collections and University Archives in 1988.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Robert Crockett Property Assessment was completed in 2021. Minimal processing and description was completed in 2000.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard