A Guide to the Amherst County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1817-1820
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Barcode number: 1182358
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Amherst County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1817-1820. Local government records collection, Amherst County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in transfers of court papers from Amherst County.
Historical Information
Amherst County was named for Major Jeffery Amherst, British commander in North America during the French and Indian War and governor of Virginia from 1759 to 1768. It was formed from Albemarle County in 1761.
Scope and Content
Amherst County (Va.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1817-1820, consist of aphotocopy of an order dated 1817 to sell a slave by the name of Berry belonging to the estate of Benjamin Palmer and an original slave patrol commission from 1826 January for Robert Gill to form a patrol to serve for thirty days. Members of the citizens summoned to be on the patrol are given.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Index Terms
- Amherst County (Va.). Circuit Court.
- African Americans -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
- Slaveholders -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
- Slaves -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
- Amherst County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Commissions -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
- Free negro and slave records -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
- Judicial records -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
- Local government records -- Virginia -- Amherst County.
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Amherst County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.