Purchase of Dower Rights and Divison of Enslaved people included in the Estate of Charles B. Carter
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Title
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Purchase of Dower Rights and Divison of Enslaved people included in the Estate of Charles B. Carter
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Description
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This entry in Fairfax County Deed Book Y-2 is a handwritten copy of an agreement by Thomas ap Catesby Jones (acting for his wife, Mary Walker Carter Jones), Thomas Bloomer Balch (acting for his wife Susan Carter Balch), John Hill Carter, and Elizabeth Carter to purchase from Ann B Carter Maffitt her dower rights in enslaved people included in the estate of her first husband, Charles B. Carter (the father of Mary, Susan, John, and Elizabeth). The agreement appears to be coordinated with an inventory and sale of enslaved people following the death of William Maffitt, Ann's second husband. The agreement to make a valuation and division is dated at Salona on 13 January 1829, the initial valuation and division by John Millan, Joseph Sewell, and George W. Hunter is dated 17 January 1829 and accepted by the parties on the same day (with Ann B Carter Maffitt signing for Thomas B Balch), and a further agreement that involves additional exchanges of enslaved people and money among the parties following the initial division is dated 16 January 1829 (but recorded after the portion dated 17 January). The agreement was ordered to be recorded by the court on 20 August 1829. More than 50 individual enslaved people, most of them also appearing in the inventory of William Maffitt's estate, are listed with their ages and appraised valuations and grouped into four lots. Some family relationships are reflected, both in the list and in the description of the additional exchanges. The PDF scan was performed by and obtained from the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center.
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Identifier
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LPCSOU0026
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Bibliographic Citation
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Purchase of Dower Rights and Divison of Enslaved people included in the Estate of Charles B. Carter. 1829. Deed Book Y-2, pp. 310-314. Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center, Fairfax, Virginia.
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Date
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1829-01-17
