Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, 1745-1898 (bulk 1745-1850).

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...

Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Virginia

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Black Water Monthly Meeting [Also called Surry, Burley and Gravelly Run Monthly Meeting before 1800] established: 1672, 1692, 1702 or 1737 depending upon the record, continued after 1752 as Surry or Black Water. Surviving records began in 1752. Divided: 1800 into Blackwater Monthly Meeting and (The Upper Gravelly Run, Burley) Monthly meeting. Discontinued: 1807. Previous to this time many references are made to "The monthly Meeting held at Black Water in Surry County" and later referred to as bo...

Pleasants, John Hampden, 1797-1846

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Founded the Richmond Whig newspaper; killed in a duel on 27 February 1846 with Isaac Vaughan. From the description of Letter to Daniel Webster, and engraving [manuscript], 1829 May 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647989928 Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family. Brown Family Henry Brown 1 (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven children including; Capt. Hen...

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Mount Holly Monthly Meeting was established in 1776 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Meeting was discontinued in 1828 ; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Mount Holly Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the cu...

Pleasants, William Henry, d. ca. 1826

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Pleasants family.

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The Pleasants were a prominent Virginia Quaker family with lands on the Upper James River. Robert Pleasants (1723-1801), was Clerk of the Upper Quarterly Meeting and Virginia Yearly Meeting. He was a renowned abolitionist and philanthropist, a founder and president of Virginia Abolition Society. From the description of Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, 1745-1898 (bulk 1745-1850). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122644187 ...

Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Richmond Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Richmond, Va.)

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Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914

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Wirt County was named for William Wirt, who gained fame in Virgtinia as a lawyer and perhaps is best known for his role in the prosecution of Aaron burr for treason. It was created in 1848 from sections of Wood and Jackson Counties. Wirt County was one of the fifty western Virginia counties to form the state of West Virginia in 1863. From the guide to the Wirt County (W. Va.) plat and land survey, 1860, (The Library of Virginia) Northumberland County was formed in 1645 from ...