SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION
Westview Plantation
Location: Roanoke District, Charlotte Co., VA
Constructed: 1832
History: ----
Associated surnames: Bailey, Brown, Chappel, Cousins, Crawley, Davis, Dean, Elam, Hamlet, Hodge, Jones, Lawson, Mason, McCraw, Mitchell, Robinson/ Robertson, Spencer, Wilson
Associated Free White Names
Associated Black Slave Names
1847: Slaves named in the inventory of John Elam (deceased)
From Slaves on Westview Plantation Charlotte County, Virginia , submitted by The USF Africana Heritage Project.
http://www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/1029/SlavesonWestviewPlantation.txt
- Ann: negro woman
- 5 children
- Armistead: negro boy
- Arthur: negro boy
- Bob: negro man
- Isaac: negro man
- Frances: negro woman
- Kendis: old woman
- Mary: old woman
- Miles: negro man
- Sam: negro man
- William: negro boy
- Winney: negro woman; died Dec. 9, 1854 of scarlet fever
- 3 children
1851 - 1855: Slaves hired by and from Martha J. Elam Williams
From Slaves on Westview Plantation Charlotte County, Virginia , submitted by The USF Africana Heritage Project.
http://www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/1029/SlavesonWestviewPlantation.txt1851
- Clem: man hired from L.S. Skidmore
- David: boy hired from L.S. Skidmore
- Jim: man, house joiner; hired from L.S. Skidmore
- Kiah: man hired from George M. Lawson
1853 (all hired from L.S. Skidmore)
- Anthony
- Charles
- Clem
- Edmund
1855
- William: man, carpenter; Hired by James D. Crawley from Martha J. Elam Williams
1857 - 1863: Doctor's visits
From Slaves on Westview Plantation Charlotte County, Virginia , submitted by The USF Africana Heritage Project.
http://www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/1029/SlavesonWestviewPlantation.txt1857
- Arthur: Arthur, son of Winney, died of pneumonia, Nov. 12, 1857, age 29
- Bob
- Davy
- Dick: age 6 months)
- Frances: in labor; Francess infant, Ana Maria, born April 30, 1857, died of fits two months after she was born. In March 1859, she lost a second child to fits
- Mary
- Jane
1858
- Angelina: Angelina, age 39, died October 1858 of typhoid fever
- Ann
- Chelsea
- David: boy
- Davy
- Frank: boy
- Isaac
- Louis: boy
- Sam
1860
- Davy
1863
- Armistead
- Elvira
- Frank
- Jane
- Judy
- Polly
- Sally
1865 - 1870: Tenant workers at Westview Plantation
From Former Slaves Working at Westview Plantation 1865 - 1916, submitted by The USF Africana Heritage Project.
http://www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/1026/FormerSlavesWorkingatWestviewPlantation1865.doc1865
- William
- Winston
1868
- Luawell [?] Brown
- Milton Chappel
- Thomas Dean
- Nancy Hodge
- Joshua
- Fab Lawson [transcriber's note: probably Phoebus Lawson]
- Peter McCraw
- Henry Robinson [transcriber's note: I could not find Robinsons on the 1870 census; possibly Robertson]
- Clem Wilson
1869
- Hettie Bailey [transcriber's note: the Bailey farm adjoined Westview to the north and east. John W. Elam purchased it in the 1880s.]
- Idithie[?] Bailey
- James Bailey
- Joe Bailey
- Liza Bailey
- Restial[?] Bailey
- Charles Cousins
- John Cousins
- Mary Cousins
- Albert Crawley
- Dandridge
- Lucindy Elam
- Sam Elam [transcriber's note: Sam is listed in the inventory done at John Elam's death in 1847. He lived at Westview.]
- Thomas Hamlet
- Daniel Jones
- London
- Joe Mason
- Josp__ Mason
- Glasgow McCraw
- Peter McCraw
- Coleman Mitchell
- Peter
- Henry Robinson
- Nannie Robinson
- Isbel Spencer
- Dick Spencer
- Washington
1870
- Hettie Bailey
- Joe Bailey
- Margaret Carter
- Sam Elam
- Bumpass Hamlette
- Fab Lawson
- Martha Miller
- Millie
- Ben Taylor
(Note: a complete list of tenants up to 1916 can be accessed at http://www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/1026/FormerSlavesWorkingatWestviewPlantation1865.doc)
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