Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784

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Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784

1776-1784

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Receipts for money paid by Southall in connection with the establishment and building of the state foundry at Westham on James River above Richmond. Included are accounts for Westham canal and for a brewery at Westham. Accounts concern building materials, the use of hired slave labor and expenses for re-capturing runaway slaves. Prominent individuals who are represented in the collection include: William Bagnall, John Ballendine, Charles Carter, George Carrington, Samuel DuVal, Jr., Samuel Ege, William Foushee, Daniel Lawrence Hylton, Joseph Mayo, John Pleasants, Matthew Pleasants, Robert Pleasants, Thomas Pleasants, John Reveley, James Barrett Southall, and Edmund Winston.

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

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Carrington, George, 1711-1785.

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George Carrington was born in 1711. He was clerk of court of Cumberland County, Virginia, justice, surveyor, member of the house of Burgesses and General Assembly. He lived at Boston Hill in Goochland County, Virginia. He died in 1785. From the description of Land patents, 1749-1755. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122488070 Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House ...

Virginia. State foundry.

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Pleasants, John S.

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Southall, Turner, 1736-1791.

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico Co., Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the description of Receipt book, 1776-1784. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 19835574 Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henr...

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...

Virginia

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Carrington, George, d. 1809.

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Ballendine, John

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the guide to the Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Resident of Fairfax County, Va. From...

Southall, James Barrett, 1726-1800.

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the guide to the Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Carter, Charles, 1732-1806.

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the guide to the Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Pleasants, John.

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the guide to the Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...

Pleasants, Thomas

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Son of Dasey Southall and Edith Southall. Resided in Henrico County, Va. Married to Martha Vanderwall in 1756. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate. Served on a commission to establish the capital at Richmond and was one of three commissioners for the state foundry at Westham. From the guide to the Turner Southall Receipt Book, 1776-1784., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) ...