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Bedford County, but as owning three enslaved teenagers, two adult slaves, three horses and seventeen cattle there. In Campbell County "Ro. Alexander" paid taxes on six enslaved teenager as well as four adults, five horses, 21 cattle and a two-wheeled carriage. When Alexander wrote his will in 1814, he owned a thousand-acre plantation and eighteen slaves. His house, known as "Rock Castle", was one of the largest in Campbell County, and later was the home of Confederate general and U.S. Senator
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