HISTORIC: Walker Slave Plantation Land Survey/Walker Slave Taxes (2 Documents) for Sale

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HISTORIC: Walker Slave Plantation Land Survey/Walker Slave Taxes (2 Documents):
$1399.00

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Up for purchase is an authentic hand-drawn, colored land survey from 1841, for property of deceased slave owner William Walker of Cumberland County, VA (1757-1840). The document gives a unique glimpse of a layout of a slave plantation in Virginia, where at one point, 30 Black slaves worked this land by 1840, the year of Walker’s death. At one point,11of the slaves were under the age of 10-years-old. The document, measuring 12 X 15 inches, documents the geography of 200 ½ acres of land, located about 30-miles east of Richmond, VA. The bottom of the document says the land was sold to Allen Wilson. Also, up for purchase, is a second slavery document, measuring 6 X 8 inches, that says Walker paid taxes on 16 slaves in 1823. Further research suggests Walker was related to White indentured servants that came to Virginia in the 1600s from Europe. Additional information says William Walker enlisted in the military in February of 1776, just a week before his 19th birthday, as a rifleman in Captain John Morton’s Company during the Revolutionary War. A few days later his Company marched from Prince Edward County, VA to Portsmouth, VA where they were organized into the Fourth Regiment under Col. Commander Lawson. The regiment remained in Portsmouth until September 1776, when they received orders to march to New Jersey to reinforce troops serving under General George Washington. His first combat experience was at Brunswick, NJ covering a party attempting to take down a bridge. He would later marry and have nine children. If you’d like to learn more about William Walker, please view the following website:

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Feel free to ask questions. I am member of the Manuscript Society and a member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, also known as ASALH. You can see my collection of African American slavery-era documents on X (Formally Twitter) at: @SlaveStudies