January 16, 2011

Pohick Church, Fairfax County, VA: II










Peter Wagener, reinterred at Pohick from the family burial ground at Stisted [adjacent to the Town of Colchester]:


Former Mason Neck resident Jeremiah Bronaugh[Branaugh]:

















Thomas Bushrod, slave of the Fitzhugh family, post-bellum guard of Washington's tomb. He owned land near Pohick Church. His descendants still live in the area:








Many [but, not all!] members of the Fitzhugh family were reinterred at Pohick from Ravensworth burial ground:
















Photos taken August, 2010.
Maddy McCoy
Fairfax County, Virginia
Slavery Inventory Database

Pohick Church, Fairfax County, VA: III




























Photos taken August 2010.
Maddy McCoy
Fairfax County, Virginia
Slavery Inventory Database

January 5, 2011

Map of Virginia : showing the distribution of its slave population from the census of 1860




Map of Virginia : showing the distribution of its slave population from the census of 1860 / drawn by E. Hergesheimer ; C.B. Graham, lithr.
Graham, Henry S.




CREATED/PUBLISHED


Washington, D.C. : H.S. Graham, [1861]


NOTES


"Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1861 by Henry S. Graham..."


"Sold for the benefit of the sick and wounded of the U.S. Army."


"Washington, June 13th, 1861."


Includes census table for 1860.


This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information.


Reference: Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 919

Civil War project no.: lva00215.


Digital image available: 22 x 29.5 in.


Map accession no. 1968 (1929).


Previously filed as: 755 S4 1861.

With manuscript note: "Presented to the Honorable the Secretary of the Navy by obedt. servt. M R Palmer, Capt. Topl Engineers U.S. Army."

Scale [ca. 1:1,330,560].

REPOSITORY


Library of Virginia Richmond, VA 23219-8000 USA For copies contact: Archives Research Services.


DIGITAL ID


glva01 lva00215 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/glva01.lva00215


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Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860 Drawn by E. Hergesheimer. Engr. by Th. Leonhardt:
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