Confederate Slave Payrolls, Caroline County, Virginia

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Caroline, Virginia, United States
Surnames/tags: Black_Heritage Slavery Virginia

Introduction

This page is part of a project to further organize the National Archive's recently digitized Confederate Slave Payrolls. See:

• Index to Confederate Slave Payrolls on WikiTree
• National Archives

Combined Payrolls for Caroline County, Virginia

Transcription and Abstract notes: Name abbreviations have generally been spelled out, such as Samuel where the writing says Sam'l.

All payrolls below have been abstracted from tables. Names have been copied, but not payment roll numbers. See payroll image or owner profile for details not fully transcribed here.

In some of these payrolls, the owners did not sign for themselves, but assigned an attorney to represent them; the attorneys signed on behalf of their clients and accepted payments for the hire of the enslaved laborers. Some payrolls have individual documents attached which authorize the attorneys and some do not. These sometimes yield extra information about the owner or enslaved laborer. Attorneys signing payrolls have been noted below.

All payrolls below acknowledge that J. B. Stanard, 1st Lieutenant and later Captain, Corps of Engineers, paid certain Caroline County, Virginia, slave owners for work performed by their slaves. The specific location and duration for each payroll is noted below.

Payroll 1285

This payroll acknowledges work performed at the "Stone Quarries" at an unstated location in Caroline County, Virginia, from January to March 1863. A grand total of $584.52 was paid out for labor on this payroll.

Most owners signed for themselves on this payroll. Sallie L. Coghill had her attorney, A.L. Goodloe, sign on her behalf. The estate of Nicholas Mills had one of the two executors (Charles S. Mills; the other was Robert R. Howison) sign, and the estate of Barton W. Morris had an executor, Edmund T. Morris sign.

• Owner: Littlebury Woodson Allen; Enslaved: George--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Elliott Wright; Enslaved: Miner--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: William Richard Baynham Wyatt; Enslaved: Tom--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: C.T. Farish; Enslaved: Claiborne--worked 53 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Estate of Nicholas Mills; Enslaved: Alfred, Harrison, James--worked 42 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Estate of Nicholas Mills; Enslaved: Jack--worked 36 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Horace A. Richards; Enslaved: Henry--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: James Duvall; Enslaved: Jim--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Atkinson & Doggett; Enslaved: Jim--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Estate of Nicholas Mills; Enslaved: Jerry--worked 48 days @ $16/month
• Owner: A.G. Goodwin; Enslaved: Peter--worked 26 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Hugh Chandler; Enslaved: Walker--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Samuel Edgar Swann; Enslaved: Bob--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: John G Coleman; Enslaved: Billy--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Pollard, Hundley[?] & Long; Enslaved: George--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Sarah L. "Sallie" (Goodloe) Coghill; Enslaved: Stapleton--worked 27 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Edmund T Morris, Executor for Barton W Morris; Enslaved: Ben--worked 60 days @ $16/month
• Owner: Edmund T Morris; Enslaved: John, Gabriel--worked 60 days @ $16/month

In the documents accompanying this payroll, there is a document assigning Edmund T. Morris as the agent of Mrs. Angelina Woolfolk of Caroline County, Virginia, who was executrix for P. Woolfolk to sign receipts and receive payment for "the services of our slaves named Aaron, Davy, Ben, John, Tom and Isaac." They do not appear on this payroll but may appear on another Caroline County payroll yet to be transcribed.