Greetings all,
As far as the Archives group, we have had several discoveries and are making some real progress. Chris is made up a great sheet (on wiki) on surrounding neighbors and slave ads found, showing that they was definitely a slave rpescense near the campus. I am working on wills, and have found Charles B. Calvert's, Robert Clark's, and John Eversfield in the archives. Ross is doing tax assessments and has copied all the 1861 info out of the general tax ledger for the surrounding peoples, lots of good info and proves Chris' findngs. Ana and Bekah are both utilizing the online resources of land records and manumission records, as well as looking through the Stones and Bones book.
Hopefully this week we can begin to put it all together. I think it is safe to say that there were deifinitly slaves in close proximity to the campus on all sides. Cheers,
Donny
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