Written by
Col. Adams, Henry, American, 1823 - 1899
Received by
Col. William Clark Grasty, American, 1817 - 1901
Subject of
Fitzgerald, Edmund, American
James M. Fitzgerald, American
John Rice Miller, American
Charles E. Miller, American
Luther J. Tynes, American
Miller, N. C., American
Scruggs, Coleman, American
Scruggs, Morton, American
Date
March 15, 1846
Medium
iron gall ink on wove rag paper
Dimensions
H x W: 12 1/4 × 7 5/8 in. (31.1 × 19.4 cm)
Description
A manuscript document, one sheet of handwritten script in black ink on white paper, written by Col. Henry Ward Adams of the Virginia Militia and addressed to Capt. William C. Grasty. The document reads [I, having been requested to / appoint a company of patrol and believing the same / to be very necessary, do (in pursuance of an act of / Assembly in that case made and provided) hereby appo- / -int William C Grasty pr Captain, and Edmund / Fitzgerald, N. C. Miller, Coleman Scruggs, Morton Scruggs, / James M. Fitzgerald, John Rice Miller, Charles E. Miller, / and Luther E. Tynes a company of Patrol within the / 2nd Battalion of the 168th Regiment of Virginia Militia in / the muster bounds of Capt Wm C Grasty to patrol / and visit all Negro quarters and other places suspect- / -ed of entertaining unlawful assemblies of slaves, / servants or other disorderly persons as aforesaid, unl- / -awfully assembled, or any others strolling from one plantation to another, without a pass from his or / her master or mistress or overseer, and take them / before the next justice of the peace, who if he shall / see cause, is hereby required to order every such / slave servant stroller or other disorderly person as / aforesaid to receive any number of lashes, not exc- / -eeding twenty on his or her bare back.]. On the reverse of the document is written [Capt. William C. Grasty / Mount Airy / Henry Adams / 15 March 1846].
Place depicted
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
Collection title
Liljenquist Family Collection
Classification
Slavery and Freedom Objects
Documents and Manuscripts
Type
manuscripts
Topic
Fugitive enslaved
Law
Military
Slavery
U.S. History, 1815-1861
Violence
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Liljenquist Family
Object number
2019.26.3
Restrictions & Rights
No Known Copyright Restrictions
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GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd51f4e7d25-d521-4333-a820-dcd7212d3d07

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