SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION

Shirley Plantation

Location: between Richmond and Williamsburg; Charles City Co., VA
Founded: 1607

History: Shirley was founded six years after the settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607 to establish the first permanent English Colony in the New World.

Associated Surnames: Carter, Hill

Associated Plantations: Chelsea Plantation (King William Co., VA)

Associated Free White Names

• (1660) Edward Hill: granted to Edward Hill in 1660
• (1723) Edward Hill III: constructed manor 1723 - 1738 for his daughter Elizabeth Hill
  • dau. Elizabeth Hill Carter
  • (1738) son-in-law John Carter: husband of Elizabeth Hill
• Charles Carter: husband of Anne Butler Moore of Chelsea Plantation
• (????- 1837) Hill Carter: owner

Associated Black Slave Names

1837: Slaves of Hill Carter
From "Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation" by John H. Franklin and Loren Schweninger

• Phil: mill worker; escaped from Shirley Plantation with a large quantity of corn

Agriculture & Livestock

• Corn, wheat
• Sheep

Description of Associated Architecture

• Kitchen: two stories (1723)
• Laundry House: (1723)
• Barns: two barns are present on the grounds, one with an ice cellar beneath it. (1723)
• Stable: (1723)
• Smokehouse: (1723)
• Dove cote: (1723)

Other People Researching This Plantation

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RESOURCES

• James River Plantations (online) http://www.jamesriverplantations.org/Shirley.html
• Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. Franklin, John H. and Schweninger, Loren. Oxford University Press. 1999.