Amherst County (Va.) Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery Records, 1831-1849

Amherst County (Va.) Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery.

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Amherst County, Va. Circuit Court.

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John A. Rowan, a resident of Lynchburg, Virginia, was a prominent landowner and slaveholder who had estates in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He died in 1843. John Rowan's Silver Creek estate was located in Washington County, Mississippi. The account book was used as an exhibit in the chancery suit, Elizabeth Rowen and others versus Executor of John A. Rowan and others that began in the late 1840's and ended in the late 1860's. The...