Pendleton County Slaveholders, 1680
Western Virginia's slave population
peaked in 1850 with 20,428 slaves, or nearly 7% of the
population. In 1860 the number of slaves was 18,371. Much of the
decreased number of slaves in West Virginia was due to the high
demand for slaves in the lower south. The opening of Cherokee
lands in north Georgia and Alabama resulted in the growth of
cotton and tobacco production and the slave population there
nearly tripled from 1840 to 1860. Slave "coffles" became
frequent sights in West Virginia. These were groups of slaves,
usually bound together by rope, that were moved mostly overland
to markets in the lower south. Often the slaves were not told of
their destination for fear of runaways or resistance. With the
increasing value of slaves in the 1840s and 1850s slaves were
sometimes kidnapped to be resold.
Anderson, David C. 3
Anderson, William (estate) 7
Boggs, Aaron 5
Boggs, James 17
Coatney, Edward J. 1
Cunningham, Jane A. 7
Davis, John 3
Dice, Reuben B. 5
Dice, George W. 1
Dyer, Andrew W. 19
Dyer, Jane 1
Dyer, Margaret 6
Dyer, Roger 4
Dyer, William F. 1
Harden, Comfort 14
Harold, John T. 1
Harper, Leonard 2
Harper, George 1
Hedrick, Adam (estate) 7
Hedrick, Cynthia 10
Hiner, Benjamin 3
Hinkle, Michael 4
Hopkins, Cyrus 7
Johnson, Jacob F. 2
Johnson, Samuel 5
Kile, George 7 |
Kile, Mary 9
Kile, Susannah 8
Mauzy, James L. 1
McClung, David G. 2
McCoy, William Sr. 9
McCoy, William Jr. 5
Moyers, Lewis 1
Phares, Robert 1
Priest, James H. 2
Rexroad, Jacob 1
Ruddle, James D. 1
Ruleman, Christian 1
Ruleman, Jacob 2
Samuels, Larkin 7
Simmons, Edward T. 3
Simmons, Henry 1
Simmons, Michael 1
Siple, George 6
Smedley, Peter 1
Smith, Henry 3
Smith, Jacob 1
Stone, Jacob 5
Stone, David C. 1
Trumbo, Jacob 1
Wanstaff, Peter 2 |
Pendleton County
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West
Virginia AHGP
Source: History of Pendleton County West Virginia, By Oren F.
Morton, Franklin, West Virginia, Published by the author, 1910.
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