A Collection Transcribed
and Digitized
by Edmund Berkeley, Jr.
List of Letters
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Account of Negroes Belonging to the Lloyd Estate by Richard Meeks, April 16, 1728
Account of Negroes Belonging to the Lloyd Estate by Richard Meeks, April 16, 1728, Richard Meeks, Carter's "head Overseeer" of the Lloyd estate, properties belonging to John Lloyd, widower of Robert Carter's niece, Elizabeth. John Lloyd had gone to England, and Carter managed the estate.
An Accot of the Negroe's belonging to the LLs
Estate
by Mr. Meeks,
Aprill the 16th:, 1728
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Aprill the 16th: 1728 --
To be Sent to the Falls
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NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Robert Carter Letter Book, 1727 April 13-1728 July 23, Carter Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. Cells in the tables containing asterisks were empty in the original.
The sheet has been damaged with holes in the text and missing portions along the right margin.
[1] Bridge House Quarter was located in Richmond County and lay close to Hickory Thicket "northeast of Warsaw." In Carter's 1733 inventory,
Charles Campbell was the overseer of 9 slaves, 8 horses, 41 hogs, and 31 cattle. (Miller. Place-Names . . . .
p. 16;
and "Carter Papers: An Inventory. . . ."
)
[2] Pantico was a farm in Westmoreland County where there is a stream of this name. George Byrd was its overseer in Carter's inventory
in 1733, managing 22 slaves, 31 cattle, 18 hogs, and 3 horses. (Carter Papers: An Inventory. . . ."
)
[3] Fork Quarter was a farm in Richmond County that would become a part of the "Sabine Hall" estate as it was bequeated to Landon Carter. In 1733,
William Galloway, the overseer, supervised 16 slaves, 42 hogs, and 54 cattle. (Carter Papers: An Inventory. . . ."
)
[4] Gumfield's Quarter was a farm in Richmond or Westmoreland County In 1733,
William Dryas, the overseer, supervised 21 slaves, 35 hogs, and 39 cattle, and had three horses to assist with the work. (Carter Papers: An Inventory. . . ."
)
[5] Old House Quarter was located in John's Neck in Christ Church Parish, John's Neck is "a neck of land in Lancaster Co. between the Corotoman River and Carter Creek, stretching southward to the Rappahannock River." and was inherited by Carter from his brother. The name may refer to the original Carter settlement in the county. It probably included the sixty-acre tract "located off a cove of Carter's Creek called Carter's Cove" where Carter may have been living when he married Betty (Landon) Willis in 1701. In Carter's 1733 inventory,
George Conolly was the overseer there, managing 31 slaves, 116 sheep, 105 cattle, and "a horse calld Blackbird." (Miller. Place-Names . . . .
p. 76
; "Carter Papers: An Inventory. . . ."
; Jones. John Carter II. . . .
p. 55;
; Lloyd T. Smith, Jr., ed.
A Ring for Her Finger: . . .
[Irvington, VA: Foundation for Historic christ Church, 2011.] p. 5 and map on p. 17.;
and Jones. "Orders Book Entries . . . Referring to "Robert Carter. . . ."
pp. 140-141.
)
[6] Hinson's lay either in Richmond or Westmoreland County. Mary Miller attributes it to Richmond. In Carter's 1733 inventory,
William Crane was its overseer, supervising 12 slaves, 2 horses, 18 hogs, and 29 cattle. (Miller. Place-Names . . . .
p. 67;
and "Carter Papers: An Inventory. . . ."
)
This text, originally posted in 2004, was revised September16, 2014, to add footnotes and strengthen the modern language version text.