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135:. The inventory of James White's estate in 1825 listed the names and values of twenty enslaved human beings: "Tom, $ 425. Palnik or Patrick, $ 450. No name, $ 400. Sam, $ 400. Rachel and child Louisa, $ 350. Mary, $ 350. Charlotte, $ 325. Hannah, $ 300. Nancy and child Elisa, $ 350. Jenny and child Patty, $ 325. Mary, $ 300. Negro girl Lucinda and child, $ 300. Negro girl Keziah, $ 175. George, $ 100. Caesar, of no value. Molly, of no value." His son James Early White succeeded and in 1852 upon the death of his mother, Susanna Bourne, he moved to Illinois and then to farmland north of 514: 310: 213:
his wife Susanna, the mansion house and 150 acres in Orange County, four slaves, oxen, bed and furniture. His children were named as follows: Crenshaw, Willis, Anderson, Susanna Stephens, Nancy, Overton, Early, Polly and Kitty. His sons Willis and Anderson were appointed executors. Witnesses were William Carterton, William Cave, Ewell Mason and D. Whitelaw. Orange County, Virginia, Will Book 6-92.
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Obtained Will of James White, 1823 and Inventory, 1825 (microfilm) from Library of Virginia. Microfilm Reel 25. Orange Co. Book 6. Page 92 (will) Page 234 (inventory). Other files associated: page 399 - 400; page 517 - 518: James White wrote his will 4/2/1823 and it was recorded 4/28/1823. He gave to
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Among the early settlers in Dyke were families named Parrott, Gibson, Austin, Shifflet, Ogg and White. James White purchased acreage from his uncle in 1788 between Brokenback mountain and Ogg (Bingham) mountain next to the
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in 1838 when it was formed from the western part of Orange. Dyke is believed to have been named in the 19th century after a family of
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people with roots in West Africa who lived here. In 1860, nearly 40 percent of the more than 5,000 inhabitants in Greene County were
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Binghams United Methodist Church, formerly known as Austin's Meeting House, established in 1796, is on the north side of the
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by Edgar Woods, published in 1902 by Michie Company Printers, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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The region was settled in the southwestern part of what was then
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Census of the United States, Greene County, Virginia, 1860.
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Unincorporated communities in Greene County, Virginia
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Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States
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unincorporated community
Greene County
Virginia
United States
Saint George, Virginia
Blue Ridge School
Estes Farm
National Register of Historic Places
Lynch River
Orange County
Greene County
enslaved
enslaved
Lynch River
Nortonsville
Albemarle County
Leicestershire
tobacco
plantation
Ruckersville
Scuffletown
St. Catharine, Missouri
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
Interview with James W. Dyke Jr.
GNIS reference
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