Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/southsidevirgini219834 THE SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIAN OCTOBER 1983 VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 Reprinted February, 1992 , THE SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIAN Volume 2 October I983 Number 1 Contents 1 From the Editors/ Book Review 2 Nottoway Indian Census, Southampton County 1808 3 Two Dinwiddle County Wills 5 Amelia County Insolvent Militia Fines 6 Princess Anne County Deed Book No. 5, 1735-17^0 7 Certificates of Allegiance I5 Records of a Sussex County Family, 17^5-1845 16 Tombstones, "The Oaks", Brunswick County 21 Chesterfield Tithables, 1756 22 Charlotte County Powers of Attorney, 1797-1830 26 Southampton County Insolvent List I807 35 Unrecorded Deeds from Isle of Wight County, 1770-1797 36 Interments in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia 43 Queries ^'6 Lyndon H. Hart, J. Christian Kolbe, editors Copyright I983 The subscription price is $16.00 per annum. All subscriptions begin with the October issue of the volume. Issues are not sold separately, Correspondence should be addressed! Box 118, Richmond, Virginia 232D1 This is a reprint. For subscription information, contact: The Southside Virginian, P.O. Box 3684, Richmond, VA 23235. FROM THE EDITORS The editors of The Southside Virginian wish to thank their subscribers for their support for this year's magazine. It was particularly nice to meet our subscribers at the Virginia-North Carolina genealogical conference in Raleigh this past August. We continue in our search for more unusual records, especially those not found in the bound county court records. Again we wish to thank those people who have submitted material to us. We look forward to a good year and as always welcome your suggestions. BOOK REVIEW The editor highly recommends to all who are doing research in "up-county" South Carolina, Brent Holcomb's two new books Spartanburg County. South Carolina Will Abstracts 1787-1840 ($25.00) and Marriages and Death Notices From the Up-Country of South Carolina ($30.00). Book available from SCMAR, Box 2I766, Columbia, S.C. 29221. Please add $1.50 mailing for first book and $.50 for each additional book. J . C . Kolbe reviewer NOTTOWAY INDIAN CENSUS SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, 1808 by L.H.Hart The following enumeration of the Nottoway Indian tribe is abstracted from the Executive Papers (July 1-22,1808) at the Virginia State Library, Archives Division. It is contained in a letter to the Governor from the Trustees of the Nottoway tribe dated July 18, 1808. The trustees were seeking instructions concerning the leasing and/or division of the Indian lands. The material will be presented as closely as possible to the original format. The list includes the males, their ages, their employments, and general remarks about their character, etc. as found in the letter, followed by a list of the females with the same data. The acreage they tilled and genealogical data will be included in the general remarks. 1. Littleton Scholar 5lyea-rs Tillage a small part of his time, balance idlej 12 acres j he is the only Indian in his family, his wife being a white woman. 2. Tom Turner 36years Tillage when he works, his employment at present unknown, as he has left his farm in the possession of a mulatto woman who has been kept by him as a wife, the greater part of his time has been generally spent in drunkeness, and the destruction of what little crop he has made; 18 acres j he is the only Indian in his family. 3. Jemmy Wineoak 38years Tillage, idle more than three fourths of his time J 18 acres j he is the only Indian in his family, has no wife, a mulatto woman lives with him. ^. Tom Step 18years Sometimes hires himself out as a day labourer, but mostly idle, (see Betsy Step) 5. Henry Turner l6years Employed by his mother in making a crop, (see Nancy Turner) 6. Alexander Rogers llyears Lives with Mrs. Susanna Goodwyn, who receives his allowance in proportion to the time she maintains him. He is brother by the mother's side of Fanny and Solomon Bartlett. Until September 1806, he with Fanny and Solomon Bartlett lived with a relation of theirs named Celia Rogers, a Nansemond Indian, on the land of the Nottowaysj at that time Celia Rogers died (their parents being long dead), they were without a near relation and none of the Nottoways came to take care , of them. The Trustees took them into their families. Alexander was taken into the family of Robert Goodwyn, a trustee, and has continued with Goodwyn' s widow. 7. John Woodson 12years Employment unknown. 8. Solomon Bartlett Syears Lives with Samuel Blunt(Trustee) no employment} Blunt receives the allowances due him and his sister. (see Alexander Rogers) 9. Billy Woodson 12years Lives with Micajah Boseman, his father, too small for any particular employment, has been sent to school by his father, can read and write a little, his father has promised the Trustees to send him again. His father in addition to his allowance also is allowed to work 1? acres. He has lived with his father since his mother's death. (Nanny Woodson) 10. Edy Turner 5^yea-rs Her employments are knitting, sewing, and what is usual in common housewifery; 3^ acres; she has had 2 negroes hired for her, last year by the Trustees and this year by her husband; her family consists of herself, Polly Woodson, and John Woodson, whose allowances are paid to her for their maintenance. 11. Nancy Turner 3^years Knitting, sewing, weaving, etc.; 15 acres also 3 acres worked at her desire and with our permission by a free negro; the Indian part of her family is composed of herself and her son Henry Turner, whose allowance hse receives. 12. Betsy Step 36years Spinning, generally; 2 acres; she and her son Tom when at home compose her family. 13. Winny Woodson I7years Spinning, generally; ^5 acres; She and her sister Anny Woodson have the care and receive the allowance of their young sister Jinny Woodson and compose a household. 1^. Anny Woodson I9years Spinning, generally. (See Winny Woodson) 15» Polly Woodson I4years Employment unknown. (See Edy Turner) 16. Fanny Bartlett lOyears Sometimes learning to spin, lives with Samuel Blunt (Trustee). (See Alexander Rogers) 17. Jenny Woodson 6years Lives with her sisters Anny and Winny Woodson. (See Winny Woodso^^)siDTied bv Henry Blow Wm. Blow Saml. Blunt Trustees to the Nottoway Tribe of Indians. TWO DINWIDDIE COUNTY WILLS by Susan B . Sheppard The following are abstracts of wills recorded originally in Dinwiddle County and found among the Chancery papers of Brunswick County. Ephraim Parham of Bristol Parish, Dinwiddle Co. Wife: Ann for life, the use of 6 negroes and home plantation in Dinwiddle Co., personalty and provisions. My children to live with her until they come of age or marry. Dau: Betsey Parham 5 negroes, personalty. Son: Nicholas land in Sussex Co. containing ^50 acres adjoining Seamore Powell and James Mangram, 5 negroes. Son: Thomas home plantation in Dinwiddle Co. at my wife's death containing 326 acres adjoining John Kirby and Starkey Moore, 5 negroes. Dau: Joan Parham 5 negroes. Should any of children die underage, his share to be divided among then surviving children. Exec. Lewis Parham Sr. , Nicholas Parham. No appraisal of estate to be made. Dated March 16,1779 Witnesses: Richard Stewart Recorded June Ct. 1779 Joseph Hardaway Sarah Lanier Lewis Parham granted probate. William Epes, Richard Yarbrough, securities. Account Current. Division. Ann Parham, now Pegram(Capt. Edward Pegram,Jr.) Eliza Parham Nicholas Parham Thos . Parham Joanna Parham. D. 1779, 1780. Ann Jones of Dinwiddle Co. Dated October 6,1806. Sis: Martha Claiborne 2 negroes Sis J Mary Brodnax 1 negro Leg: Augustine Claiborne 5 negroes Neph: Augustine C. Jones 1 negro and his sister Betsy Maclaln L25 Leg: Gray Claiborne 1 negro Leg: Frederick S. Brodnax k negroes Leg: William F. Brodnax 6 negroes Leg: Robert Brodnajc 1 negro Neph: Jack P. and Cadwallader Brodnajc 5 negroes Leg: Cad Claiborne 1 negro Leg: John Withers 1 negro Friends and exec: John Withers, Augustine Claiborne No appraisal of estate to be made. • July 17,1809, Presented for proof. Recorded May 20,1811. Witn: J. (John) H. Claiborne Jas. H. Mumford Francis Dyer Elizabeth Dyer AMELIA CO. INSOLVENT MILITIA FINES by J.C. Kolbe 1832 (R. 1833) John Burton Nottoway 1833 (R. 1834) Samuel H. Jones Chesterfield Francis Webster Richmond 183^ (R. 1835) Archer W. Bass Alabama John A. Condry Chesterfield John M. England Richmond Benjamin B. Jackson Lexington, Kentucky Pleasant A. Mann Chesterfield 1835 (R. 1836) Osborne Chetham Chesterfield Thomas J. Clark Chesterfield Albert G. Vaughn Alabama Asa Vaughn Alabama PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY DEED BOOK NO. 5 1735 - 17^0 by L.H.Hart (continued from Vol. I, page 16^) P. 165 WILLIAM HANCOCK. W.(torn) D. Mar. 15,1735/6. R. Jan. 5,1736. w. Mary. Mary Hancock, ex. Daui Susannah(not of age). Cousin: Arthur Moseley. Leg: Richard, William, Blandina Moseley. Godson: Hen. Griffen. Witn: James Nimmo, Henry Holmes. P. 166 JOHN MALBON(E).SR. W. -D . Sept. 6,1736. R. Feb. 2,1736. Margaret Malbone,ex. w. Margaret. Sons: Solomon, Lemuel, Reodolphus, Shadrack, Peter, John. Dau: Frances > Sarah Bonneyj Margret; Dinah Daugej Elizabeth Dauley. Grd: Aleif Malbone. Witn: William Dauley, Will. Carrel, James Albritton. P. 167 MAJOR HENRY SPRATT . W. D. Apr. 2^4-, 1736. R. Mar. 2,1736. Thorowgood Spratt,ex. Sons: Francis, Thorowgood, Adam. Fr: James Nimmo. Witn: James Spratt, Frances Robinson, Henry Holmes. P. 168 WILLIAM WISHART. w. D. Jan. 12,1736/7- R. Feb. 2,1736.