1860 Slavery Statistics for Fairfax County, VA

1860 Federal Slave Schedule

Overall Numbers

Area	Number Of Owners	Number Of [Slave] Houses	Number Of Male Slaves	Number Of Female Slaves	Total Number Of Slaves
SOLAR Road Township[1]	223	148	730	704	1434
Not Stated Township[2]	502	261	1071	1169	2240
Fairfax County, VA Totals	725	409	1801	1873	3674

SOLAR Road Township[1]

Page	Number Of Owners	Number Of [Slave] Houses	Number Of Male Slaves	Number Of Female Slaves	Total Number Of Slaves	Other[3]
1/11	14	6	28	52	80
2/11	14	10	41	39	80
3/11	16	12	45	35	80	2 Manumitted
4/11	19	8	46	34	80
5/11	13	6	37	43	80
6/11	13	6	39	41	80
7/11	10	11	46	34	80
8/11	16	7	40	40	80
9/11	10	9	42	38	80
10/11	10	7	41	39	80
11/11	8	10	40	37	77
[Total]	143	92	445	432	877

Some of the larger slaveholders in this Township:

Fanny Chichester

Virginia Scott

John A. Washington

Francis Coffer & Joshua Coffer

Ford Family

Not Stated Township[2]

Page	Number Of Owners	Number Of [Slave] Houses	Number Of Male Slaves	Number Of Female Slaves	Total Number Of Slaves	Other[3]
1/29	10	10	39	41	80
2/29	21	6	40	40	80
3/29	20	[Blank]	42	38	80
4/29	16	[Blank]	44	36	80
5/29	21	3	37	43	80	26 Manumitted[4]
6/29	16	12	36	44	80	26 Manumitted[5]
7/29	28	7[6]	25	55	80	6 Manumitted[6]
8/28	29	18	35	45	80
9/29	13	[Blank]	44	36	80
10/29	11	[Blank]	40	40	80
11/29	21	[Blank]	35	45	80
12/29	15	11	23	57	80	2 Manumitted
13/29	15	16	38	42	80
14/29	19	10	35	45	80
15/29	12	16	47	33	80	1 Manumitted
16/29	17	12	38	42	80	1 Blind, 1 Idiotic
17/29	20	23	35	45	80
18/29	16	16	35	45	80
19/29	16	[Blank]	32	48	80	4 Manumitted
20/29	18	15	39	41	80
21/29	17	13	36	44	80	1 Manumitted
22/29	24	[Blank]	36	44	80
23/29	25	10	42	38	80
24/29	16	17	42	38	80
25/29	3	2	4	5	9
26/29	14	16	41	39	80
27/29	26	13	42	38	80
28/29	15	7	46	34	80
29/29	8	8	43	28	71
[Total]	502	261	1071	1169	2240

Some of the larger slaveholders in this Township:

Johnston [Johnson] Family

Chichester Family

David Fitzhugh and the Fitzhugh Family

A. S. Grigsby

Millan Family

Jones Family

Gunnell Family

Turley Family

Gooding Family

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[1] “SOLAR Township” South of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad

[2] “Not Stated Township” all county land north of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad

[3] ”Other” options available to be accounted for at the bottom of each census page were:

·      Number of Fugitives

·      Number Manumitted

·      Number of Deaf and Dumb

·      Number of Blind

·      Number of Insane

·      Number of Idiotic

[4] Check Land Records, Probate Records and Registrations of Free Negroes to verify this large number. Possibility that enumerator put the “tick” in the wrong box.

[5] Check Land Records, Probate Records and Registrations of Free Negroes to verify this number. Also, there are substantial discrepancies in the actual vs. tallied numbers on this page.

[6] I think there is a distinct possibility that the enumerator ticked “Number of Manumitted” instead of “Number of [Slave] Houses” on the left column of this page.

Data Compiled by: 

Maddy McCoy, Fairfax County, Virginia Slavery Inventory Database

Source Information: 

Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.