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The Nottoway of Virginia: a Study of Peoplehood and Political Economy, C.1775-1875 W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 2013 The Nottoway of Virginia: A Study of Peoplehood and Political Economy, c.1775-1875 Buck Woodard College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the Indigenous Studies Commons, Labor Economics Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Woodard, Buck, "The Nottoway of Virginia: A Study of Peoplehood and Political Economy, c.1775-1875" (2013). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539623631. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-enjx-ev85 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Nottoway of Virginia: A Study of Peoplehood and Political Economy, c.1775-1875 Buck Woodard Richmond, Virginia Master of Arts, College of William and Mary, 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1997 A Dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of the College of William and Mary in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Anthropology The College of William and Mary August, 2013 APPROVAL PAGE This Dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ~h_ <--A~ 0 Buck Woodard ~~bythe Committee Chair Research Assistant Professor, Danielle Mofetti-~nghol American Indian Resource Center, Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary Associate ProfessoT,MarUn D. Gallivan Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary COMPLIANCE PAGE Research approved by Protection of Human Subjects Committee (PHSC) Protocol number(s): PHSC-201 0-07-22-6769-bwwood Date(s) of approval: 2010-08-11 through 2011-08-11 ABSTRACT This research examines the social construction of a Virginia Indian reservation community during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Between 1824 and 1877 the lroquoian-speaking Nottoway divided their reservation lands into individual partible allotments and developed family farm ventures that mirrored their landholding White neighbors. In Southampton's slave-based society, labor relationships with White landowners and "Free People of Color" impacted Nottoway exogamy and shaped community notions of peoplehood. Through property ownership and a variety of labor practices, Nottoway's kin-based farms produced agricultural crops, orchard goods and hogs for export and sale in an emerging agro-industrial economy. However, shifts in Nottoway subsistence, land tenure and marriage practices undermined their matrilineal social organization, descent reckoning and community solidarity. With the asymmetrical processes of kin-group incorporation into a capitalist economy, questions emerge about the ways in which the Nottoway resituated themselves as a social group during the allotment process and after the devastation of the Civil War. Using an historical approach emphasizing world-systems theory, this dissertation investigates the transformation of the Nottoway community through an exploration and analysis of their nineteenth-century political economy and notions of peoplehood. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ii Dedications iii List of Tables iv List of Figures vi List of Charts ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Theoretical Approach 27 Chapter 2. Nottoway Kinship, Language and Socio-political organization 91 Chapter 3. Indian Land Sales, Tribal Trustees and Nottoway Allotment 142 Chapter 4. Southampton Lands, Peoples, Property Ownership and Labor 201 Chapter 5. The Allotment of Nottoway Real and Personal Property 249 Chapter 6. The Antebellum South, Southampton and the Nottoway within the World-System 276 Conclusion 330 Appendix A The Etymology of “Nottoway” 345 Appendix B Tracking Nottoway Descent and Marriage 347 Appendix C Post-Reservation Era Affine and Collateral Relations 378 Works Cited 382 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to express my gratitude to the Nottoway people and the residents of Southampton County who have shared their family stories and experiences with me. I am indebted to Professor Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, under whose direction this research was conducted, for her patience, guidance and tutelage throughout the investigation. I am also appreciative of my committee members, Professors Michael L. Blakey, Martin D. Gallivan and Stephen F. Feeley for their careful reading and criticism of the manuscript. Thanks to Lynette Allston, Rick Francis, Leroy Hardy, William Lamb Howell, Patricia Phillips, Alfred Whittaker and Maxine Winston who supported and contributed to the research, and to Willie Balderson and Bettye Gorman for seeing me through the process. ii This dissertation is dedicated to my parents who have encouraged and helped me countless times along the way. iii LIST OF TABLES 1. Event-level evidence of Nottoway territorial and community incorporation within the periphery of the world-system 49 2. Comparison of Nottoway and Tuscarora kinship terms collected in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 99 3. Nottoway Town surname shift, 1773-1808 106 4. Aspects of Nottoway socio-political organization 108 5. Tuscarora clan divisions 110 6. Post-removal Tuscarora chiefly clan titles 115 7. Tuscarora and Nottoway leadership terms 117 8. Select examples of Nottoway, Meherrin and Tuscarora triadic headmen configurations 121 9. Select nineteenth-century Indian land allotments, sales and leases within the Eastern United States 149 10. Nottoway 1794 land sales and purchasers 157 11. “Debt and credit of the Nottoway Tribe on the first day of January 1809” 161 12. Taxed Indian Town residents, 1801-1822 227 13. Indian Town households, c.1830 232 14. 1830 Census reconfigured for Nottoway matrilineages 232 15. Indian Town households and neighbors, c.1860 233 16. Nottoway allotments of real and personal property, 1830-1840 251 17. Nottoway allotments of real and personal property, 1845-1875 258 18. Defendants in the suits Trustees of the Nottoway and Nansemond Indians vs. Jeremiah Cobb, et al. and Trustees of the Nottoway and Nansemond Indians vs. Everett, et al. 263 19. New York and Virginia direct foreign imports for select years, 1769- 1840 289 iv 20. Select Indian Town households’ farmstead material goods appraised for value, purchased by cash or used as collateral on debt during the Reservation Allotment Period, c.1830-1870 292 21. Cotton exports from Norfolk and Portsmouth, 1858-1861 and 1865- 1875 294 22. Norfolk and Portsmouth cotton exportation, 1874-1875 296 23. Southampton Agriculture Census, 1850-1870, cotton bales [300-400 lbs.] from Indian Town and immediate neighbors 302 24. Select Norfolk coastwise exports, September 1858 311 25. Indian Town and neighbors’ select agricultural produce, 1850-1860 315 26. 1860 Nottoway farms and plantation comparative income and net worth 323 27. Nottoway farms and smallholder comparative income and net worth, 1860 325 v LIST OF FIGURES 1. A Map of that part of America, now called ‘Virginia’, 1590 44 2. A Map of the Whole Territory Traversed by John Lederer in his Three Marches, 1672 45 3. Close-up of Lederer’s Territory Traversed, 1672 47 4. Close-up of Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali, 1715 51 5. Cartouche detail from Homann’s Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali, 1715 52 6. Cartouche detail from A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia… by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, 1751 52 7. Tower Hill Plantation straddling Sussex and Southampton Counties 62 8. Iroquoian communities and homes 64 9. Creek log cabin, Georgia, 1791 and Choctaw settlement, near Chefuncte, Louisiana, 1869 69 10. Catawba extended household, Catawba Reservation, York County, South Carolina and Choctaw household, Choctaw Reservation, Philadelphia, Mississippi 69 11. Iroquois kinship diagram 97 12. Nottoway matrilineal organization, c.1800-1860 104 13. Iroquoian tutelary effigies of the Wolf and Deer 112 14. Not-to-way, the Thinker and Chee-a-ka-tchee, Wife of Nottoway, Iroquois 130 15. Iroquois by George Catlin 1835-1836 132 16. Nottoway Old Town within the Circle Tract Reservation on the Assamoosick Swamp and Indian Town within the Square Tract Reservation on the Nottoway River 144 17. The Rose Hill plantation 158 18. Major Thomas Ridley’s Bonnie Doone plantation, c.1930 168 vi 19. “Nottoway Indians” petition without Trustee endorsement and signatories in Iroquoian 181 20. Alderman’s affidavit and Petersburg Intelligencer newspaper notice of William G. Bozeman 189 21. Nottoway Reservation survey, 1830 196 22. Late nineteenth-century image of “Ridley’s Quarter” 204 23. Southampton County Courthouse and the Jerusalem Bridge, c.1890 205 24. Southampton settlements, roadways and Indian Town environs, c.1860 206 25. The Cross Keys settlement 207 26. Carey’s Bridge, Barn Tavern and the Nottoway Indian Reservation 208 27. Indian Town environs 209 28. Cabins, cottages and huts 210 29. “The Indian seine place” and “Sheep Lamb’s field” 212 30. “free negroes, who live in about Chowan and the adjoining counties” 225 31. Nottoway Reservation survey, c.1840 257 32. Nottoway Trustee account ledger, 1855 272 33. Indian Town allotment surveys, c.1850-1855 274 34. The deck of the steamship Stag 280 35. Railways surrounding Indian Town, 1862 282 36. The cargo
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