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Thomas Jefferson’s List of Landholdings and Monticello Slaves, [ca. 1811–1812]

List of Landholdings and Monticello Slaves

[ca. 1811–1812]

[1000] . a.s patd 1735. 1743. Abram.
27 ½ purchd from  N. Lewis 49. Caesar.
25 ¼ Overton 53. John.
470 ½ part of 483. Carter 55. Davy.
40 . Wells 56. Amy.
61 ¼ Brown 57. Doll.
3 . bed of road. Brown 58. Isabel.
150 . Tufton. patd 1755. 59. Betty Brown.
150 . Portobello patd 1740. 60. Ned.
[1]927 ½ the Montico tract Lewis.
[1]162 ¼ the Hendersons 61. Nance.
222 . on Henderson’s bra. 64. Jenny. Ned’s
196 . Ingraham’s. 68. Isaac.
[1]580 ¼ the Milton tract. Bagwell.
 
400 . as Shadwell Jenny. Lewis’.
819 ¼.  Lego. 69. Critta.
485 . Shadwell mountn 70. Peter Hemings.
400 . Pouncey’s 71. Minerva.
4 . Limestone. Sharp’s 72. Jame Bedfd
133 ⅓ do Hardware 73. Sally. Hem.
5749 ⅓   Rachael B. Oct.
  75. John Hem.
Bedford & Campbell 76. James.1 Isab’s.
214 . Dan. Robinson Mary. Jerry’s.
2650 . part of Pop. For. Rachael. Doll’s.
[2]864 . N. of Tomahawk. 77. Jerry.
534 . part of Pop. For. 79. Cretia.
380 . Callaway’s pat. Moses. Isab’s.
183 . Jno Robinson’s Eve.
800 . Buffalo. 80. Mary. Moses’.
1897 . S. of Tomahawk Joe.
29 . Johnson 81. Wormly.
[4]790   Dick. Bedf.
  82. Shepherd.
  83. Lucy. Phill’s.
  Barnaby.
  Burwell.
  84[.] Davy[.] Is[ab’s.]2
[85.] [Charles.] 1799. Robert.3
Ben. 1800. John. Cretia’s.
John Bedf. Dinah’s Nanny. Bagw’s.
Davy Bedf. Isabel. Lew’s.
86. Bartlet. Thrimson.4 Isab’s
Ned. Israel. Ned’s
87. Ursula Isaiah. Jerry’s
Edy. 01. William. Moses’.
88. Lewis jr Harriet. Sally’s
Mary. Bagw’s. Mary. Bet’s
Fanny. Lovilo. Isab’s.
89. Aggy. Charles’s Joe. Rachael’s5
90. Dick. Ned’s 02. Jerry. Jerry’s
Jesse. Randal. cretia’s.
Abram jr 03. Davy. Moses’s.
91. Nancy. Rach’s Moses. Ned’s
Lilly. 04. Jupiter. Jerry’s.
92. Gill. 05. James. Edy’s
 
Sally Lew’s Madison. Sally’s.
Moses. Bedf. Dinah’s. Joe. Ursula’s.
93. Edwin. Robin. Lucy’s.
Virginia. Henry. Cretia’s.
Thenia. Washington. Mary B’s.
94. Scilla. Eliza. Rach’s
Dolly. Doll’s Lania. Bedf. Rachael’s6
Solomon. 06. Willis. Bagw’s
95. Thruston. Jossy. Eve’s.
James. Lew’s Calia. Moses’.
Esther. Sucky. Ned’s
96. Philip. Suck’s 07. Anne. Ursula’s.
Nace. Maria’s Milly. Cretia’s
James. Ned’s Maria. Edy’s
Suckey. Sandy. Lucy’s
97. Sanco. Eve’s. Gloster. B. Rachael’s7
Indridge. 08. Archy. Bagw’s.
Evelina. Eston. Sally’s.
Lazaria.8 Ellen. Rach’s.
Bec. 09. Dolly. Ursula’s
[98.] [Bev]erly. Burwell. Eve’s.
[Aggy. Ned’s.] Stannard. Lilly’s.
  Lilburn. Cretia’s.
  Ellen. Fanny’s.9
  [10.] [Tucker. Mary’s]
  Patsy. Edy’s.
  Jordan. Bagw’s.
  Polly. Aggy’s.
  Washington B. Rachael’s.
  11. Lucy. Lilly’s.
  Cornelius. Ursula’s
  Jamey.  Scilla’s.
  [Matilda.] Cretia’s.
  Jenny.  Fanny’s.
  [Robert.] Virginia’s.

MS (ViFreJM);  written entirely in TJ’s hand on both sides of one sheet and continued at the head of TJ’s List of Slaves at Poplar Forest, printed below at 2 Nov. 1814; edges frayed, with missing text supplied from Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, 127, 130; undated, but composed after the death in October 1811 of TJ’s slave Anderson and after the transfer to Poplar Forest in 1811–12 of Phill Hubbard (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1, 130).

A page from TJ’s Farm Book depicting another list of his landholdings is reproduced elsewhere in this volume.

bra.: branch.

1. Farm Book: “Jamey.”

2. Recto ends here.

3. In Farm Book TJ here canceled “Billy Bedford.”

4. Corrected to “Thrimston” in Farm Book.

5. Entry interlined.

6. Entry interlined.

7. Entry interlined.

8. Corrected to “Maria” in Farm Book.

9. New sheet begins here.

Index Entries

  • Abram (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1740); on Monticello slave list search
  • Abram (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1794); on Monticello slave list search
  • Albemarle County, Va.; Hardware River search
  • Amy (TJ’s slave; b.1756); on Monticello slave list search
  • Anderson (TJ’s slave; b.1806); death of search
  • Archy (TJ’s slave; b.1808); on Monticello slave list search
  • Bagwell (TJ’s slave); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Bartlet (TJ’s slave; b.1786); on Monticello slave list search
  • Bec (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Monticello slave list search
  • Bedford County, Va.; TJ’s lands in search
  • Ben (TJ’s slave; b.1785); on Monticello slave list search
  • Billy (TJ’s slave; b.1799); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Brown, Benjamin; TJ purchases land from search
  • Brown, Betty (TJ’s slave; b.1759); on Monticello slave list search
  • Burwell (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave list search
  • Caesar (TJ’s slave; b.1749); on Monticello slave list search
  • Callaway, Richard; land patented by search
  • Campbell County, Va.; TJ’s land in search
  • Carter, Edward; TJ purchases land from search
  • Charles (TJ’s slave; b.1785); on Monticello slave list search
  • Colbert, Burwell (TJ’s slave; b.1783); on Monticello slave list search
  • Colbert, Edwin (TJ’s slave; b.1793); on Monticello slave list search
  • Colbert, Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Monticello slave list search
  • Colbert, Robert (TJ’s slave; b.1799); on Monticello slave list search
  • Cretia (TJ’s slave; b.1779); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Davis, Sancho (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Monticello slave list search
  • Davy (TJ’s slave; b.1785); on Monticello slave list search
  • Dick (TJ’s slave; b.1781); on Monticello slave list search
  • Doll (TJ’s slave; b.1757); on Monticello slave list search
  • Dolly (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Monticello slave list search
  • Eliza (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Ellen (TJ’s slave; b.1808); on Monticello slave list search
  • Esther (TJ’s slave; b.1795); on Monticello slave list search
  • Eve (TJ’s slave; b.1779); on Monticello slave list search
  • Evelina (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Monticello slave list search
  • Fossett, Edith (Edy) Hern (TJ’s slave; b.1787); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Fossett, James (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Fossett, Joseph (Joe) (TJ’s slave; b.1780); on Monticello slave list search
  • Fossett, Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Aggy (TJ’s slave; b.1798); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Barnaby (TJ’s slave; b.1783); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Dick (TJ’s slave; b.1790); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Gill (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, James (TJ’s slave; b.1796); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Moses (TJ’s slave; b.1803); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Ned (TJ’s slave; b.1760); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Ned (TJ’s slave; b.1786); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gillette, Scilla (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Gillette, Sucky (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Monticello slave list search
  • Gloster (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hardware River (Albemarle Co.) search
  • Hemings, Beverly (TJ’s slave and probable son; b.1798); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemings, Critta (TJ’s slave; b.1769); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemings, Eston (TJ’s slave and probable son; b.1808); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemings, Harriet (TJ’s slave and probable daughter; b.1801); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemings, Madison (TJ’s slave and probable son; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemings, Nance (TJ’s slave; b.1761); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemings, Sally (TJ’s slave; b.1773); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemmings, John (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1776); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hemmings, Peter (TJ’s slave; b.1770); on Monticello slave list search
  • Henderson, Bennett; lands of search
  • Hern, Aggy (TJ’s slave; b.1789); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Hern, Celia (Calia) (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, David (Davy) (TJ’s slave; b.1755); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, David (Davy) (TJ’s slave; b.1784); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, David (Davy) (TJ’s slave; b.1803); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Ellen (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Fanny Gillette (TJ’s slave; b.1788; wife of David Hern [b.1784]); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Hern, Henry (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Indridge (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Isabel (TJ’s slave; David Hern’s wife [b.1758]); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, James (TJ’s slave; b.1776); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, John (TJ’s slave; b.1800); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Lilburn (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Lilly (TJ’s slave; b.1791); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Hern, Lovilo (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1780); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Hern, Milly (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Moses (TJ’s slave; b.1779); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Randal (TJ’s slave; b.1802); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Thrimston (Thrimson) (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1799); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, Thruston (TJ’s slave; b.1795); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hern, William (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hubbard, Phill (TJ’s slave); on Poplar Forest slave lists search
  • Hughes, Anne (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hughes, Dolly (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hughes, Joe (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Hughes, Wormley (TJ’s slave; b.1781); on Monticello slave list search
  • Ingraham’s tract (TJ’s estate) search
  • Isaac (TJ’s slave; b.1768); on Monticello slave list search
  • Isabel (TJ’s slave; b.1800); on Monticello slave list search
  • Isaiah (TJ’s slave; b.1800); on Monticello slave list search
  • James (Jame) (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1772); on Monticello slave list search
  • James (Jamey) (TJ’s slave; b.1795); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jefferson, Israel Gillette (TJ’s slave; b.1800); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; List of Landholdings and Monticello Slaves search
  • Jenny (TJ’s slave; b.1764); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jenny (TJ’s slave; b.1768); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jeremiah (Jerry) (TJ’s slave; b.1777); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jerry (TJ’s slave; b.1802); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jesse (TJ’s slave; b.1790); on Monticello slave list search
  • Joe (TJ’s slave; b.1801); on Monticello slave list search
  • John (TJ’s slave; b.1753); on Monticello slave list search
  • John (TJ’s slave; b.1785); on Monticello slave list search
  • Johnson, Benjamin; land transactions with search
  • Joshua (Jossy) (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Monticello slave list search
  • Jupiter (TJ’s slave; b.1804); on Monticello slave list search
  • Lania (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Lazaria (Maria) (TJ’s slave; b.1797); on Monticello slave list search
  • Lego (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); acreage of search
  • Lewis, Nicholas Meriwether; TJ receives land from search
  • Lewis (TJ’s slave; b.1788); on Monticello slave list search
  • Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1760); on Monticello slave list search
  • Lucy (TJ’s slave; b.1783); on Monticello slave list search
  • Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1776); on Monticello slave list search
  • Mary (TJ’s slave; b.1788); on Monticello slave list search
  • Milton, Va.; TJ’s land at search
  • Minerva (TJ’s slave; b.1771); on Monticello slave list search
  • Monticello (TJ’s estate); acreage at listed search
  • Monticello (TJ’s estate); slaves at listed search
  • Moses (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Monticello slave list search
  • Nace (TJ’s slave; b.1796); on Monticello slave list search
  • Nancy (TJ’s slave; b.1791); on Monticello slave list search
  • Nanny (TJ’s slave; b. ca.1799); on Monticello slave list search
  • Overton, Richard; TJ purchases land from search
  • Philip (TJ’s slave; b.1796); on Monticello slave list search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); acreage of search
  • Portobello (TJ’s property); TJ’s patent of search
  • Pouncey’s tract (TJ’s property) search
  • Rachael (TJ’s slave; b.1773); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Rachael (TJ’s slave; b.1776); on Monticello slave list search
  • Robertson, Daniel; land patented by search
  • Robertson (Robinson), John (Poplar Forest landowner); land patented by search
  • Robin (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Sally (TJ’s slave; b.1792); on Monticello slave list search
  • Sandy (TJ’s slave; b.1807); on Monticello slave list search
  • Shadwell (TJ’s estate); acreage of search
  • Sharpe, Robert; TJ buys land from search
  • Shepherd (TJ’s slave; b.1782); on Monticello slave list search
  • slaves; TJ lists search
  • Solomon (TJ’s slave; b.1794); on Monticello slave list search
  • Stannard (TJ’s slave; b.1809); on Monticello slave list search
  • Suckey (TJ’s slave; b.1796); on Monticello slave list search
  • Thenia (TJ’s slave; b.1793); on Monticello slave list search
  • Tomahawk plantation (part of TJ’s Poplar Forest estate); acreage of search
  • Tufton (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); acreage of search
  • Ursula (TJ’s slave; b.1787); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Virginia (TJ’s slave; b.1793); on Monticello slave lists search
  • Washington (TJ’s slave; b.1805); on Monticello slave list search
  • Wells, Thomas; TJ purchases land from search
  • Willis (TJ’s slave; b.1806); on Monticello slave list search

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Jefferson Papers
Title
Thomas Jefferson’s List of Landholdings and Monticello Slaves, [ca. 1811–1812]
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
January 1811 – December 1812

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Cite as
“Thomas Jefferson’s List of Landholdings and Monticello Slaves, [ca. 1811–1812],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-04-02-0295. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. 386–388.]