Henrico Monthly Meeting Records

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Henrico Monthly Meeting Records

1699-1837

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Records of Henrico Monthly Meeting, 1699-1837. Includes men's minutes 1699-1836, women's minutes 1762-1834, and vital records 1699-1837. Henrico Monthly Meeting was initially established as Curles, prior to 1699, when records for this meeting began. Also known as New Kent, Upper, Upland, White Oak Swamp, Wayne Oak, and Weyanoke Monthly Meeting. Counties within the boundaries of Henrico Monthly Meeting included Henrico, New Kent, Hanover, Caroline, Louisa, Goochland, Prince George, Dinwiddie, Amelia, Chesterfield, York, James City, Charles City, and Mecklenburg. The meeting was discontinued in 1840 and membership joined to Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting.

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Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801

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Robert Pleasants was a Quaker merchant, planter, and enslaver-turned-abolitionist who spent most of his life in Henrico County, Virginia. He is perhaps best known for successfully suing for the freedom of over 400 enslaved people as the plaintiff in Pleasants v. Pleasants, the largest manumission case in U.S. history. Pleasants was born about 1723 to John Pleasants III and Margaret Jordan Pleasants, Quaker members of Virginia's planter aristocracy of enslavers, at their estate o...