The Planters of Colonial VirginiaWertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
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The Planters of Colonial Virginia
Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
Slavery -- Virginia; Virginia -- Economic conditions; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Gleab formerly Capt Foxcrofts 1500
John Majr at Occahannock 200
Hogbin not being in Virginia 100
Tho Smith 300
Tho Marshall orphan 75
Jno Rews not in Virginia 100
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2275
The total on the other side is 99671 acres
Added to it ye Glebe land 1500
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101171 acres
The preceding Sheets are true copys of the Rentrolls for the year 1704
given in and accounted for by the several Sherifs in April 1705 and
sworne to before his Excellcy according to which they made up their
accounts of the Quitrents with
Will Robertson Clerk.
_INDEX_
INDEX
Accomac,
farms and tithables of, 58; 79.
Allen, Arthur,
six tithables, 57.
Allen, William,
_Burgess_ in 1629, 73.
Allerton, Isaac,
deals in servants, 48.
Ambrose, Robert,
deals in servants, 49.
Anbury, Major,
describes Virginia upper class, 158.
Andros, Sir Edmund, 29; 35; 52;
hesitates to deprive wealthy of land holdings, 143-144.
Archer, George,
deals in servants, 49;
extensive landowner, 79.
Armetrading, Henry, 79.
Artisans,
became planters in Virginia, 27;
called for in broadside of 1610, 28;
on the plantations, 156-157.
Ashton, Peter,
deals in servants, 48.
Austin, James,
deals in servants, 48.
Avery, Richard,
his cattle, 101;
inventory of, 106.
Bacon Nathaniel, Sr., 109; 110.
Bacon, Nathaniel, Jr.,
describes poverty in Virginia, 91;
rebellion of and _Navigation Acts_, 92-93;
says peoples hoped in _Burgesses_, 109; 113.
Baker, John,
buys _Button's Ridge_, 49.
Baldwin, William,
landowner, 79.
Ballard, Thomas, 109.
Ball, William,
has 22 slaves.
Baltic,
English trade of, 8;
Denmark controls entrance to, 9;
wars endanger trade to, 9;
cheap labor of, 16; 17;
tobacco trade to, 118-119;
trade to injured by wars, 131, 148.
Banister, John,
has 88 slaves, 158.
Barbadoes,
complain of _Navigation Acts_, 94.
Barnett, Thomas,
servant, _Burgess_ in 1629, 74.
Bassett, William,
deals in servants, 48.
Beer, George Lewis,
defends _Navigation Acts_, 86-87;
says trade restrictions did not cause _Bacon's Rebellion_, 92;
statement of concerning county grievances, 93;
denies that serious opposition existed to _Navigation Acts_, 93-94.
Bell, Richard,
landowning freedman, 74.
Bennett, Richard,
estate of described, 108.
Bennett, Samuel,
landowning freedman, 74.
Berkeley, John,
conducts iron works in Virginia, 18.
Berkeley, Lord John, 90.
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