White enslaver and hotelkeeper Warner W. Minor was paid $1.50 by the University of Virginia for three days of Moses' labor. This event is recorded in the Proctor's Daybook, July 26, 1827.
White enslaver Alexander Garrett was paid $2.50 by the University of Virginia for the labor of an unidentified person (referred to as "hand"). This event is recorded in the Proctor's Daybook, November 12, 1827.
White enslaver J. Carr was paid $26.64 by the University of Virginia for Nelson's labor on waterworks for three-and-a-half months. This event is recorded in the Proctor's Daybook, November 26, 1827.
Cottrell was immediately manumitted after purchase by white enslaver and University of Virginia Professor of Mathematics Thomas Hewitt Key upon his resignation from the University of Virginia in July of 1827.
Cottrell was purchased for $400 from white enslaver Ellen Randolph Coolidge and claimed in ownership by white enslaver and University of Virginia Professor of Mathematics Thomas Hewitt Key.
White enslaver John Hartwell Cocke planned to contract this unnamed enslaved child (referred to as "her [Polly's] child") to labor for Captain Winn along with eleven additional enslaved persons in 1828. This event is recorded in a manuscript found in the John Hartwell Cocke Papers, MSS 640.
White enslaver John Hartwell Cocke planned to contract this unidentified enslaved woman (referred to as the "nurse" of Polly's child) to labor for Captain Winn along with eleven additional enslaved persons in 1828. This event is recorded in a manuscript found in the John Hartwell Cocke Papers, MSS 640.
In a letter written to white enslaver John Hartwell Cocke dated January 13, 1828, white enslaver Elizabeth Cary seeks to contract the labor of an unidentified young man she claimed in ownership. Cary described this young person as "about 16 years old a good dining room servant and perfectly honest."
White enslaver University of Virginia Bursar Alexander Garrett writes in a letter to white enslaver John Hartwell Cocke that he sends Henry to retrieve peaches from Cocke's estate. This event is recorded in a letter, March 12, 1828, in the John Hartwell Cocke Papers.
White enslaver and University of Virginia Proctor Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough writes in a letter to Cato's white enslaver John Hartwell Cocke that builders William Leitch and S. Campbell will want Cato's labor to construct the University's Rotunda steps.
White enslaver and University of Virginia Proctor Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough writes in a letter to Henry's white enslaver John Hartwell Cocke that Henry was discharged by S. Campbell after laboring "constantly" on the construction of the University's Academical Village for 13.5 days and that payment for Henry's labor will be sent to Cocke.
In an April 16, 1828 entry in the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty, "The Proctor was requested to see that all servants hired by the students should be sent away from the Precincts, particularly a boy named German."
White enslaver Charles Bonnycastle was paid $2 by the University of Virginia for the labor of an unidentified child referred to as "his boy." This event is recorded in the Proctor's Daybook, June 7, 1828.
An entry in the Journals of the Chairman dated March 23, 1829, reads, "The Proctor...was desired to have a servant punished by Magistrational Authority who had stolen from students clothes & other articles."
