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Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County - Reel 1 - 1653-1659 - TIFFs 51-100

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posted on 2024-11-22, 15:45 authored by Hannah SchetselaarHannah Schetselaar, Kara LongKara Long, William Harper, Jessica TaylorJessica Taylor, Sabrina HarrisSabrina Harris, Zahra Modarres VahidZahra Modarres Vahid, Jolene SmithJolene Smith, Cooper Billings, Grace KostrzebskiGrace Kostrzebski, Diego Vega-Nazario, Chris Urben

This dataset includes 50 TIFF files showing deeds, patents, and wills from Westmoreland County in Virginia. Deeds are documents that transfer land or property from one person to another. Patents identify specific inventions as belonging to an individual and restrict the manufacturing of these inventions to the person they belonged to. Wills were created to settle asset distribution in the event of a person’s death. These documents were collected in association with the Dangerous Harbor Project which used courthouse documents to identify escaped unfree laborers in the 17th century Chesapeake and the punishments associated with their escape.


To learn more about this project, please go to the Dangerous Harbor Website.

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National Endowment for the Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

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University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Location

Westmoreland County, Virginia

Corresponding Author Name

Jessica Taylor

Corresponding Author E-mail Address

jessicataylor@vt.edu

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Naming conventions of files: There are 3 parts to the file naming convention of the court orders. For example: LancasterOrders_1655-1666_0001 LancasterOrders: Identifies the county the court documents are from and the type of document 1655-1666: Identifies the timeframe in which the court documents were written 0001: Identifies the page’s position within the reel

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    HistoryDeedsWillsPatentsCourthouse DocumentsVirginiaWestmoreland County

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    CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

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