April 18, 2012

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


[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.

April 13, 2012

Dudley's Methodist Chapel, Sudlersville, MD: The Interior

I was incredibly lucky to have been allowed into the Chapel to take photos. There is no electricity and the slave gallery is still intact.

Slave gallery:

Where the stairs leading to the gallery were: