Archive of six documents related to slavery in 18th-century Stafford County, Virginia. Items include: 

1. Dr. Mr. James Buchanan deced. in Accot. with Isaac Hite. [Virginia], [December 1777]. 2 pages, folio, 7 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. 

2. The Estate of Mr. James Buchanan Deced. in Accot. with Isaac Hite. 2 pages, folio, 7 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. Docketing to verso.

Both documents are nearly identical in content, notably noting in July 1777 the accounting for the sale of "Negro boy Timothy" for £100 in paper currency, and for "Ross for takin up runaway" for 10 shillings in paper currency. 

3. Account Col. Thomas Turner with Benj. Strother. 1 January 1783. 2 pages, folio. Docketing to verso.

4. Dr. Mr. Reuben Bullard for Col. Turner in Acct. with Johnston & Lindsay. [January 1785]. 2 pages, folio. Docketed to verso.

On 17 May 1787, it is noted that  £10 was paid for "To Hire of a Negro Fellow for 1787." 

5. Dr. Colo. Thomas Turner In Account with Francis Cracroft. [September 1785]. 2 pages. Docketed to verso. 

6. The Estate of Mr. James Buchanan. 5 October 1789. 1 page, folio. 

Importantly, the document notes that on 1 [January] & 2 May 1778,  £6.2.0 was paid "for laying negro woman." In October 1788 "to cash paid Col. Fielding Lewis, Recd on Bond  £465.10 (paper currency) and £93.2. Fielding Lewis (1725 - 1781) was a merchant, member of the House of Burgesses, and colonel during the Revolutionary War. He was a brother-in-law and second cousin of George Washington.
 

7. Deced. in Accot. with Isaac Hite his Adm. [1793]. 3 pages, folio. 

An interesting collection of accounting documents, with several related to the estate of James Buchanan (1742 - ca. 1777). Born in Massachusetts Bay Colony, he married Anna Hite (1746-1816) in 1765, and they lived in Falmouth, Virginia, where he appears to have been a tobacco merchant. (Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. IV, pp. 363-). 

His brother-in-law, Isaac Hite, Sr. (1721-1795) of the Shenandoah Valley, was a justice of the peace for Frederick County and furnished supplies to the patriot forces during the Revolutionary War. In 1783, he gave Belle Grove Plantation as a wedding present to his son, Major Isaac Hite, Jr., and his new wife, Nelly Madison Hite, sister of President James Madison. 

Isaac Hite, Sr., was the administrator for Buchanan and, in April 1778, advertised that he would sell in Falmouth part of the estate, consisting of "several valuable Negroes, a double-chair and two horses, several head of cattle, a variety of household and kitchen furniture, a few barrels of flour, some bacon, and sundry other useful articles." (The Virginia Gazette, 24 April 1778). He advertised again, on 4 December 1778, that he would sell at auction as administrator "two valuable negro wenches, with their five children, two horse, also a double chair, with two pair of harness." 

Also included among the documents was Thomas Turner (1751 - 1787), another Virginia planter who lived at Walsingham and Smith's Mount near Leedstown on the Rappahannock River, and was a member of the King George County Committee of Safety (1774 - 1776). George Washington's nephew William A. Washington (1757 - 1810) was one of the administrators of Turner's estate when he died in 1787. 

A fascinating collection of documents related to the estates of prominent 18th-century Virginians and their management of the enslaved individuals they owned. 

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