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Size | 1 items |
Abstract | William James Payne (1827-1901) owned the Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. He married Elizabeth Virginia Jones on 28 February 1854. The collection is William James Payne's plantation journal for Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. The journal contains daily entries of a few sentences each, 7 October 1857-27 March 1861, with information about the buying and selling of slaves and their daily work, Payne's daily tasks, the weather, family news, and crops including corn and tobacco. The last few pages of the journal have account information, some of it related to corn transactions. There are also Payne's comments on the national political situation and the impending Civil War. |
Creator | Payne, William James, 1827-1901. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2005
Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, December 2005
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William James Payne (1827-1901) owned the Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. He married Elizabeth Virginia Jones on 28 February 1854.
Back to TopThe collection is William James Payne's plantation journal for Pleasant View plantation in Fluvanna County, Va. The journal contains daily entries of a few sentences each, 7 October 1857-27 March 1861, with information about the buying slaves, selling slaves, the daily work of slaves, Payne's daily tasks, the weather, family news, and crops including corn and tobacco. The last few pages of the journal have account information, some of it related to corn transactions. There are also Payne's comments on the national political situation and the impending Civil War.
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