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between 26 and 45 in that year, owned 9 slaves (which he may have inherited from his father Jacob who owned 8 then 13 slaves in the Va. Censuses of 1783 and 1787. This 2nd family is marked not only with slaves but with growing wealth which meant constant inheritances -- most of the information about this family was gleaned from wills. ................
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