Location: Hanover, Virginia, United States

Surnames/tags: Vaughan Boxley Black_Heritage
Slaves of Benjamin Franklin Vaughan
In January of 1860 Benjamin Franklin Vaughan first appears as “Master” in the Virginia Slave Birth Index.[1] After that he appears twice more:
Virginia Slave Birth Index
Name of Slave Owner | Name/Sex of Baby | Name of Mother | Birthdate | County Born In | Page. No. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Benjamin Franklin Vaughan | (Male) | (blank) | Jan.15, 1860 | Hanover | 94 |
B. F. Vaughan | (Male) | (blank) | Feb. 1862 | Hanover | 121 |
B. F. Vaughan | (fem) | (blank) | Dec. 1862 | Hanover | 121 |
In the1860 Census for Hanover, Virginia Benjamin Franklin Vaughan appears as “Franklin Vaughan” holding 25 slaves. He is living with his mother Catherine Vaughan, who seems to have transferred her slaves to him (she held 26 slaves in the 1850 Census but only 1 in the 1860).[2]
1860 Census
SLAVES:
Page | Line | Name of Slave Owner | No. of Slaves | Age | Sex | Color |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
42 | 27 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 100 (b1760) | M | B |
42 | 28 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 35 (b1825) | F | B |
42 | 29 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 18 (b1842) | M | B |
42 | 30 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 13 (b1847) | F | B |
42 | 31 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 8 (b1852) | M | B |
42 | 32 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 6 (b1854) | F | B |
42 | 33 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 4 (b1856) | F | B |
42 | 34 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 6/12 (b1860) | M | B |
42 | 35 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 26 (b1834) | F | B |
42 | 36 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 6 (b1854) | F | B |
42 | 37 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 4 (b1856) | M | B |
42 | 38 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 1 (b1859) | F | B |
42 | 39 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 32 (b1828) | M | B |
42 | 40 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 30 (b1830) | M | B |
43 | 01 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 19 (b1841) | M | B |
43 | 02 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 22 (b1838) | F | B |
43 | 03 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 6 (b1854) | F | B |
43 | 04 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 5 (b1855) | F | B |
43 | 05 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 4 (b1856) | M | B |
43 | 06 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 2 (b1858) | M | B |
43 | 07 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 20 (b1840) | F | B |
43 | 08 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 6 (b1854) | F | B |
43 | 01 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 18 (b1842) | F | B |
43 | 01 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 16 (b1844) | M | B |
43 | 01 | Franklin Vaughan | 1 | 18 (b1842) | F | B |
Sources
- ↑ "Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W8BG-2C3Z : 4 February 2020), B F Vaughan in entry for MM9.1.1/W8BV-D7ZM:, Feb 1862; citing Birth, Hanover, Virginia, United States, Virgina State Library and Archives, Richmond; FHL microfilm 008151965.
- ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W2X2-PWW2 : 16 October 2019), Franklin Vaughan, 1860.
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