Southampton County (Va.) Judgments - Commonwealth Causes Ended, Nat Turner Insurrection, 1831 Aug. 31-1831 Nov. 21
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Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
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Nat Turner (b. Oct. 2, 1800, Southampton County, VA-d. Nov. 11, 1831, Southampton County, VA) was born into slavery as the property of Benjamin Turner and later his son Samuel Turner. On Aug. 21, 1831, he led a two-day rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia. After the rebellion was suppressed, Turner escaped but was captured in Oct 1831. He was hanged Nov. 11, 1831....
Southampton County (Va.) Circuit Court
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Southampton County was named, in the opinion of many authorities, for Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton and treasurer of the London Company from 1620 to 1624. It is more likely, however, that the county was named for the borough of Southampton in England. Southampton County was formed in 1749 from Isle of Wight County, and part of Nansemond County was added later. In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia, the term "tithable" referred to a person who pai...
