A Guide to the Duncan Rose Deed, 4 January 1783
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 27289a
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Preferred Citation
Duncan Rose Deed 4 January 1783. Accession 27289a, Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Lent for copying by Mrs. E. B. Short, Dinwiddie, Virginia, 25 September 1969.
Biographical/Historical Information
Duncan Rose was born in 1737 near Inverness, Scotland, to William Rose and Margaret McLean Rose and was baptized on 13 December 1737. He moved to Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1750s and became a merchant in Petersburg. Rose served as a quartermaster agent for the American forces during the Revolution and helped defend Petersburg from the British in 1781. Rose was a prosperous merchant and owned land in Virginia and Kentucky. Never married, he died by 12 December 1785.
Scope and Content Information
Deed, 4 January 1783, from Edward Watlington to Duncan Rose and William Browder, all of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. This deed grants Rose and Browder a female slave and furniture for ten thousand pounds of tobacco.