A Guide to the Chesterfield County Militia Roll and Negro Account Book 1850-1853 Chesterfield County Militia Roll and Negro Account Book, 1850-1853 10777

A Guide to the Chesterfield County Militia Roll and Negro Account Book 1850-1853

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Accession Number 10777

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Accession number

10777

Title

Chesterfield County Militia Roll and Negro Account Book 1850-1853

Physical Characteristics

There is 1 bound volume in this collection.

Language

English

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Preferred Citation

Chesterfield County Militia Roll and Negro Account Book, 1850-1853, Accession #10777, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This volume was purchased from Louis Ginsberg of Petersburg, Virginia, on August 10, 1988.

Scope and Content Information

This manuscript planatation(?) account book, 1850-1854, chiefly consists of accounts pertaining to blacks as well as a militia company roll. "Negro Accounts 1853" encompasses two pages of payments for various goods and services rendered, especially for "ditching." Also present is a separate pencilled note "No negro man is to leave the plantation on Sunday until I permit them," a record of guano sales, and indicators of business dealings with various identified individuals (Joshua Condry, Mrs. E[lizabeth] Elam of Richmond, Bettie Lester and Sallie A. Flournoy).

Of particular interest is the 1850 militia company roll bearing attendance entries during the months of April, May and October. Most of the approximately 165 individuals listed therein were Chesterfield County residents according to the 1850 Virginia Census. Eventually, several of these men served with the 6th Virginia Infantry 1 during the Civil War in companies I and K; their names are appended at the end of this guide. Others probably enlisted in one of the county's remaining units described in Francis Earle Lutz's Chesterfield: An Old Virginia County . 2

1 See Michael A. Cavanaugh's 6th Virginia Infantry , 1988, pp. 5 and 6.

2 See page 231 for a brief listing of Chesterfield County Confederate units.

MILITIA MEMBERS WHO LATER SERVED WITH THE 6TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY

(as originally listed in the volume):

Bass, Robert H.
Condry, Julius C.
Forsee, Richard S.
Forsee, Robert C.
Purdy (Purdie), John T.
Elam, Richard J.
Wilkinson, Cornelius G.
Sims, John W.
Forsee, Abner G.
Elam, Joseph A.
Cheatham, Alfred
Johnson, Richard
Moody, Benjamin A.
Moody, John T.
Osborne, Edward
Rudd, William
Dorsett, Joseph
Baily, Thomas
Franklin, David