Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County, Virginia

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Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County, Virginia

Posted on 2024-12-18 - 19:46 authored by Jessica Taylor

This collection includes TIFF files showing courthouse documents from Westmoreland County in Virginia. They were collected in association with the Dangerous Harbor Project (2023-2024). These documents were used 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.

CITE THIS COLLECTION

Taylor, Jessica; Schetselaar, Hannah; Harris, Sabrina; Modarres Vahid, Zahra; Carter, Paige; Harper, William; et al. (2024). Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County, Virginia. University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Collection. https://doi.org/10.7294/c.7590275.v1

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FUNDING

National Endowment for the Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

REFERENCES

https://dangerousharbor.vt.domains/

Publisher

University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Location

Westmoreland County, Virginia

Corresponding Author Name

Jessica Taylor

Corresponding Author E-mail Address

JessicaTaylor@vt.edu

Files/Folders in Dataset and Description

Naming conventions of items: There are 5 parts to the item naming conventions. For example: Dangerous Harbor Project - Lancaster County - Reel 24 - 1655-1666 - TIFFs 1-50 Dangerous Harbor Project: The larger project the datasets are associated with Lancaster County: The county the documents are associated with Reel 24: The reel the documents are associated with 1655-1666: The timeframe in which the documents were written TIFFs 1-50: The TIFFs included in the item 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