Confederate Slave Payrolls, Greensville County, Virginia, to Petersburg Defenses

Date: 1862 [unknown]
Location: Greensville, Virginia, United States
Surnames/tags: Slavery US_Black_Heritage

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Combined Payrolls for Greensville County to Petersburg defenses 2.1 Payroll 4 2.2 Payroll 381 3 Sources

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 Greensville County to Petersburg defenses

NARA payroll numbers: 4 and 381

Payroll 4

Link to Payroll 4 Abstracted from table. Copied names but not payment amounts. "We, the subscribers, acknowledge to have received of Capt C. H. Dimmick Engineering Corps, the sums set opposite our names respectively, being in full for the services of our Slaves at Petersburg Defenses during the month of August 1862, having signed duplicate receipts. "

• Owner: John R. Randall. Enslaved: William and Matthew
• Owner: Ann H. Batt. Enslaved: Hordy and Sam
• Owner: B. S. Bailey. Enslaved: Alex, Littleton, and Jesse
• Owner: J.R. Chambliss, Sr. Enslaved: John and Smith
• Owner: J.R. Chambliss, Jr. Enslaved: Reddick and Nick
• Owner: James W. Cook. Enslaved: Miol, Tom, Abraham, Buck, Wiley, Edwin, Bill, Maclin, and Goodwin

Payroll 381

Sources

• https://catalog.archives.gov/id/719477 Payrolls at the National Archives. National Archives Identifier: 719477. Creator(s): War Department. The Adjutant General's Office. War Records Office. 1874-7/1/1899 (Most Recent). From: Record Group 109: War Department Collection of Confederate Records, 1825 - 1927
• https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Confederate_Slave_Payrolls_-_National_Archives_Catalog FamilySearch, list of about 2500 out of the 6000 payrolls.