SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Beaver Creek Plantation
Variant names: Hairston's Bottom

Location: near Martinsville, Henry Co., VA
Founded: 1776

Associated surnames: Covington, Hairston

Associated Free White Names

• (1776 - 1827) George Hairston: founder; Revolutionary War hero
  • (1827) son Marshall Hairston: owner; inherited Beaver Creek Plantation in 1827
    • wife Ann Hairston
    • son John Hairston: died in the Civil War
• Craven Wyatt: overseer
• Beverly Brown: overseer
• The Covington-Hairston Family: owners

Associated Black Slave Names

1831-1838: Hairston slaves
Plantation Mistress Ann Hairston kept a slave ledger for 37 years. Many details (names, relations, duties, slave life) are abstracted from the original records in The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek.

Hairston house servants buried in the Hairston family cemetery
From The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek

• Esther Hairston
• Surry Hairston

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RESOURCES

• Wiencek, Henry. The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. St. Martin's Press, New York, NY. 1999.