Slaves of Gibbon S Conway

Date: 1850 to 1865
Location: Madison, Virginia, United States
Surnames/tags: slavery us_black_heritage

This page serves to document and further the research of enslaved individuals held by slave owner Gibbon Stuart Conway.

Slaves

Gibbon is on the 1860 Slave schedule owning 11 un-named slaves.^[1]

• Name: Gibbon S Conway
• Residence Date: 1860
• Residence Place: Madison, Virginia, USA
• Number of Enslaved People: 11

• UNKNOWN Male 75
• UNKNOWN Male 40
• UNKNOWN Male 33
• UNKNOWN Female 27
• UNKNOWN Male 22
• UNKNOWN Male 18
• UNKNOWN Male 13
• UNKNOWN Male 11
• UNKNOWN Female 6
• UNKNOWN Male 4
• UNKNOWN Male 1

On the same schedule a Mary F. Conway, likely his mother, is listed as having 54 un-named slaves (see her profile).^[2]

Slave Payroll

Slave Payroll 1 This payroll acknowledges that J. B. Stanard, 1st Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, paid certain Madison County, Virginia, slave owners for work performed by their slaves near Richmond, Virginia, from December 1862 to March 1863.

Gibbon S. Conway provided the following slaves^[3]( with first names only)

• Jackson
• Frank
• George[1]
• George[2]

Note: these 4 men could correspond to some of the 1860 census males between ages 13-40 (there are 6. The 13-yr-old would have been 15 at the time of the impressment). I think the next step to identify them is to look at the 1870 census entries near the property of Gibbon Conway.

Sources

1. ↑ 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules for Gibbon S Conway The National Archives in Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Eighth Census of the United States 1860; Series Number: M653; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
2. ↑ 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules for Mary F Conway The National Archives in Washington DC; Washington DC, USA; Eighth Census of the United States 1860; Series Number: M653; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
3. ↑ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24485959