1. York County Wills and Inventories 18 (1732–1740): 537–40; York
County Orders, Wills, and Inventories 19 (1740–1746): 8. York County’s
original colonial documents are on file in the York County Courthouse, Yorktown,
Virginia; microfilms are available at the Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia.
2. York County Deeds, Administrations, and Bonds 5 (1741–1754): 64–66;
York County Orders, Wills, and Inventories 19 (1740–1746): 193; Norman
F. Barka, Edward Ayres, and Christine Sheridan, The “Poor Potter”
of Yorktown: A Study of a Colonial Pottery Factory; Colonial National Historical
Park, 3 vols. (Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
1984), 1: 18–19.
3. Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1700–1750
(Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992), pp. 11, 83, 127,
169, 180, 186–87, 218, 252, 487; British Public Records Office, London,
Colonial Office Papers (hereafter C.O.) 5/1320, fol. 6.
4. Walter Minchinton, Celia M. King, and Peter B. Waite, eds., Virginia
Slave-Trade Statistics, 1698–1775 (Richmond: Virginia State Library,
1984), p. 41; York County Deeds and Bonds 20 (1701–1713): 365–66;
York County Deeds, Orders, Wills 14 (1709–1716): pp. 82, 123.
5. York County Deeds, Orders, Wills 14 (1709–1716): 72–73, 119,
123.
6. Ibid., pp. 116, 119, 124, 136–37; 16, p. 575; 17, p. 74; York County
Orders, Wills, and Inventories 15 (1716–1720): 14, 43, 86–89,
126, 357, 522.
7. Martha W. McCartney, Documentary History of Jamestown Island, 3 vols.
(Williamsburg, Va.: National Park Service, 2000), 2: 106–22, 3: 396–37.
8. John Mercer, “Ledger Book, 1725–1732,” fol. 27, Library
of Virginia, Richmond, Va.; John W. Reps, Tidewater Towns: City Planning
in Colonial Virginia and Maryland (Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation, 1972), p. 78.
9. C. Malcolm Watkins and Ivor Noël Hume, The “Poor Potter”
of Yorktown (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967), p.
92; York County Orders, Wills, Inventories 18 (1732–1740): 157A.
10. C.O. 5/1320, fol. 6; York County Orders, Wills, and Inventories 16 (1720–1729):
25, 59, 248, 280; 18 (1732–1740): 223; Minchinton, King, and Waite,
Virginia Slave-Trade Statistics, pp. 49–51. When William Rogers made
his will in 1739, several of these individuals were still part of the household;
York County Wills and Inventories 18 (1732–1740): 553–57.
11. Some of the men and women transported to the colonies were habitual
criminals; the majority, however, was not.
12. York County Orders, Wills, and Inventories 18 (1732–1740): 513–14.
13. John Snelson, Letter Book, 1757–1775, entry for July 5, 1760, microfilm,
Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
14. Dalton, who owned a plantation in Gloucester, sometimes sent shipments
of pork, shingles, hams, pots of lard, beef, and beeswax to Barbados and
Madeira. When William Dalton died, his widow, Sarah, married John Thruston,
another Gloucestertown merchant, who owned Lot L in Yorktown’s Gwyn
Read subdivision, next door to William Rogers’s Lot K (C.O. 5/1443,
fol. 79; Polly C. Mason, comp., Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia:
A Collection of Abstracts from Original Documents Concerning the Lands and
People of Colonial Gloucester County, 2 vols. (Newport News, Va.: Privately
printed, 1946), 2: 58, 60.
15. Coldham, Emigrants in Bondage, pp. 11, 83, 17, 169, 180, 186–87,
218, 252, 487; Mason, Records of Colonial Gloucester County, 2: 58, 60;
Miles Cary, Plan of Gloucestertown, 1707, Filson Club, Louisville, Ky.;
David K. Hazzard, personal communication, April 2002.
16. York County Orders, Wills, and Inventories 16 (1720–1729): 380.
17. Parks established the Maryland Gazette in Annapolis in 1727 and then
moved to Williamsburg, where he established a newspaper. Parks and his family
owned property in both locations. He and Mrs. Sarah Packe of Williamsburg
did business together and it is perhaps significant that Mrs. Packe and William
Rogers sometimes transacted business; Martha W. McCartney, A Documentary
History of the Hanover Tavern Tract (Williamsburg, Va.: Privately printed,
2002).
18. C.O. 5/1442, fol. 25; C.O. 5/1443, fols. 51, 68, 79–80, 102; C.O.
5/1444, fols. 1v, 12v; York County Orders, Wills, and Inventories 15 (1716–1720):
307, 317–18, 357–58, 388–89, 394, 439; Peter Wilson Coldham,
English Convicts In Colonial America. Middlesex: 1617 - 1775, London: 1656
– 1775. 2 vols. (New Orleans, La.: Polyanthos, 1974 – 1976) 1:
304; William Parks, in Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg), May 4, 1739.
19. C.O. 5/1443, fols. 68, 79; Parks, in Virginia Gazette, June 24, September
21, November 2, 1739; January 24, 1741; July 4, 1745; Watkins and Noël
Hume, “Poor Potter” of Yorktown, p. 84.
20. Barka, Ayres, and Sheridan, “Poor Potter” of Yorktown, 1:
174–77.
21. William W. Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of
All the Laws of Virginia, . . . 13 vols. (Richmond: Samuel Pleasants, 1809–1813),
3: 404–5; William P. Palmer, ed., Calendar of Virginia State Papers
and Other Manuscripts . . . Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, 11 vols.
(1875–1893; reprint, New York: Kraus Reprint, 1968), 1: 37–38
[emphasis added].
22. C.O. 5/1364, fols. 5–14; C.O. 5/1366, fols. 432–35.
23. C.O. 5/1323, fols. 62–66, 82, 93–94; C.O. 5/1324, fols. 3,
5–8, 20–21, 30–31, 59–60, 167–68.
24. York County Orders and Inventories 17 (1729–1732): 136; 18 (1732–1740):
478–80; York County Deeds, Administrations, Bonds 4 (1719–1726):
88–90; York County Deed Book 4 (1729–1740): 550–51; 21: 488–89;
Robert Anderson, Papers, folder 319, Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation.
25. York County Wills and Inventories 18 (1732–1740): 537–40.
26. Ibid., pp. 544–45.
27. Parks, in Virginia Gazette, June 20, 1745; July 4, 1745; York County
Orders, Wills and Inventories 21 (1760–1771): 99–102; John Snelson,
Letter Book, 1757–1775, entry for July 5, 1760, microfilm, Rockefeller
Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. |