Index to Confederate Slave Payrolls on WikiTree

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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Alabama 1.2 North Carolina 1.3 Virginia 2 Sources

Introduction

This page is an index for all Confederate Slave Payrolls on WikiTree. This is from a set of documents which the National Archives recently digitized, and the Archives has set no restrictions for usage. See more about the payrolls at the National Archives, and see FamilySearch for a partial list.

The Confederate States impressed into labor many enslaved people for a variety of military tasks, such as fortifying defenses and mining for materials for gunpowder. These payrolls can be genealogically valuable, and show, typically, the county from which the slave owner and enslaved person came, their names, and rate of pay for the slave. Either the owner or an approved substitute signed for and received the pay from the Confederate states.

When the War Department gathered the paperwork after the Civil War, they numbered all the payrolls, generally by state, but not specifically by county or time period. This WikiTree Index and set of free space pages attempts to organize them, link them to slave owner profiles, and create profiles for the enslaved ancestors, so that they may be connected to their descendants. (workspace pages also cross-reference censuses, wills, and other documents to attempt to identify the enslaved ancestors.

There are approximately 6,000 payrolls, with anywhere from about 2 to 15 slave owners and enslaved people on each. Instead of creating a page for each payroll, I (Elaine Weatherall) am adding several payrolls per page, according to location from which the slave owners came. Then anyone is welcome to link or create the slave owner names and enslaved ancestors, in accordance with the US Black Heritage - Exchange Program guidelines. See Heritage Exchange Portal and Naming Conventions for Slaves.

Alabama

• Confederate Slave Payrolls, Dog River Channel, Alabama December 1862
• Confederate Slave Payrolls, Choctow Bluff Batteries December 1862
• Confederate Slave Payroll Slave Payroll for City Entrenchments January-March 1863
• Confederate Slave Payroll for Engineer Service July - September 1863

North Carolina

• Johnston County to Neuse River Defenses ^[1]
• Greene County to Neuse River Defenses^[2]
• Halifax & Northampton Co, North Carolina to Petersburg Defenses (Payrolls 13, 468, 625, 2076, 2293-2295)

Virginia

• Bedford County to Richmond (Payrolls: 3, 545, 548, 549, 1281, 1286, 1367)
• Caroline County to Stone Quarries (Payroll 1285)
• Chesterfield County to Mulberry Island Point, February - May 1862 (Payrolls 9, 36, 222, 621, 683, 753, 755, 1140, 1163, 1204)
• City of Petersburg to Petersburg and Richmond, February -April 1863 (Payrolls 10 and 130)
• Greensville County, Virginia, to Petersburg Defenses, 1862 (Payrolls 4 and 381)
• Greensville County, Virginia to Yorktown, 1862 (Payrolls 993, 1045, 1046, 1049-1053)
• Goochland County to Yorktown (Payrolls 2, 650, 704, 710, 903, 904, 966, 1026, 1027, 1028, 1034-1039, and 1427)
• Hanover County to Richmond and Petersburg Defenses (Payrolls 11, 334, 390, 525, 761, 762, 775, 822, 853, 1009, 1011, 1019, 1077, 1079-1083, 1127 (pieces), 1178, 1194, 1306, 1362, 1389)
• Henrico County to Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 15, 356, 788 & 789, 921, 1151,1196, 1337)
• Henry County, Virginia, to Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 337, 791, and 1291)
• Louisa County to Chafin's Bluff (Payrolls 12, 446, 685, 815, 823, 1400)
• Lunenberg County to Wilton's Bridge and Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 6, 376, 382, 383)
• Madison County to Richmond defenses (Payrolls 1, 586, 1208, and 2311)
• Nelson County, VA to Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 71, 123, 452, 677, 695, 917, 920, 1128, 1144, and 1361)
• Norfolk County to Craney Island, February 1862 (Payroll 7)
• Pittsylvania County to Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 14, 329, 439, 956, 961)
• Powhatan County to Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 16, 326, 848, 1108, 1311, 1417, 1424)
• Prince Edward County to Petersburg Defenses and Wilton (Payroll 5 and 855)
• Prince Edward County to Richmond Defenses (Payrolls 46, 303, 623, 646, 854, 1102, 1113, 1420)
• Prince Edward County to Drewery's Bluff (Payrolls 135, 532, 544, 675, 771, 794, 797,887, 1156,1162, 1164)
• Prince Edward County to Yorktown Defenses (Payrolls 950, 1060, 1428)
• Washington County to Richmond Defenses, February - April 1863 (Payroll 8, 302)

• See also: Slaves detained for use by Confederate States, Virginia This is a supplemental list of Virginia slaves with ages, value and Slave Owner names.

Sources

1. ↑ Payroll 2367. War Department Collection of Conf Records, 1825 - 1927. Series: Conf Slave Payrolls, 1874 - 1899 [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/79425991 Payroll 2367
2. ↑ Payroll 1994

• 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.