Minute Book: Rappahannock County Minute Book F p. 122
Identifier: 2017.1.84
Object titles: Rappahannock County Minute Book F p. 122
Acquisition and Creation Dates:
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged March 21 2017
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged March 21 2017
Object Source Information: RHS Archives,RHS reference
Description: John W. Swindler Captain, William Nash, Preston Martin, and Henderson Manuel, privates, assigned to patrol the Washington and Sperryville districts for 3 months, visiting their bounds at least once a week.They were to visit negro quarters and other places suspected of having unlawful assemblages and to stop slaves strolling from one plantation to anther without permission of their owners. Those captured were to be taken to the nearest justice. When under warrant to search for firearms or weapons, they had permission to force open doors of free Negroes or slave quarters.
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