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In 1830, Mary A. E. M. McCargo, daughter of Thomas McCargo, married James F. Hill in Halifax County, Virginia. [8] Also in 1830, Thomas McCargo was enumerated in the fifth census of the United States as a resident of Halifax County, Virginia; his household consisted of three free whites and 41 black slaves, including 11 children under the age ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Thomas Hamlet Averett (July 10, 1800 – June 30, 1855) was a 19th Century American physician, slave owner [1] [2] and U.S. Representative from Virginia from 1849 to 1853. Biography [ edit ]
By this period, William Howson Sims owned 16 tracts of land in Halifax County, along with 116 slaves. He employed four overseers to manage his extensive landholdings. The 1860 Census identifies William Howson Sims as a "planter" owning $57,000.00 worth of real estate and $238,270.00 worth of personal property.
Jared Ellison Groce (October 12, 1782, Halifax County, Virginia [1] – November 20, 1836 [2] [3]) was an American planter, slaveowner and settler. He was one of the first American settlers in Texas, making him one of the Old Three Hundred .
[45] [47] The slave population increased in the counties now encompassing West Virginia in the years 1790 to 1850, but saw a decrease from 1850 to 1860, [48] by which year four percent (18,451) of western Virginia's total population were slaves, while slaves in eastern Virginia were about thirty percent (490,308) of the total population.
Little is known about Coleman's early life, but it is estimated that he was born around the early 1830s in North Carolina. [2] He was born into slavery and worked as a slave until he gained his freedom and moved to Virginia at an unknown point of time, although records show that he worked as a carpenter in Halifax County and purchased land in the late 1800s.
William L. Owen (April 29, 1809 – July 22, 1881) was a prominent planter, businessman, and politician from Halifax County, Virginia. As a politician, he served in the House of Delegates of Virginia, the Committee of Nine, and the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867. He was a trustee of Virginia Military Institute and Hampden-Sydney ...