Duncan Rose Deed, 4 January 1783

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Preferred citation:

Duncan Rose Deed 4 January 1783. Accession 27289a, Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Duncan Rose Deed 4 January 1783. Accession 27289a, Personal papers collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Deed, 4 January 1783, from Edward Watlington to Duncan Rose and William Browder, all of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. This deed grants Rose and Browder a female slave and furniture for ten thousand pounds of tobacco.

Biographical / historical:

Duncan Rose was born in 1737 near Inverness, Scotland, to William Rose and Margaret McLean Rose and was baptized on 13 December 1737. He moved to Petersburg, Virginia, in the 1750s and became a merchant in Petersburg. Rose served as a quartermaster agent for the American forces during the Revolution and helped defend Petersburg from the British in 1781. Rose was a prosperous merchant and owned land in Virginia and Kentucky. Never married, he died by 12 December 1785.

Acquisition information:

Lent for copying by Mrs. E. B. Short, Dinwiddie, Virginia, 25 September 1969.

Physical location:

Personal papers collection, Acc. 27289a.

Physical description:

1 leaf, photocopy.