<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">LIST OF LEWIS SLAVES TAKEN BY YANKEES IN 1862 FROM THE <BR>
PLANTATIONS OF R. EPPES OF PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY <BR>
VIRGINIA FROM HIS HOPEWELL AND APPOMATTOX ESTATES. <BR>
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NAME AGE ESCAPED BIRTH YR COMMENTS<BR>
LEWIS SALLY 47 June 01 1815 <BR>
LEWIS ARCHER 29 May 20 1833 VERY LIKELY<BR>
LEWIS FRANK 22 June 01 1840 <BR>
LEWIS NANCY 46 May 20 1816 *SEE BELOW<BR>
LEWIS WM 40 May 20 1822 *<BR>
LEWIS CHAS 54 August 1808 ** SEE BELOW<BR>
LEWIS CROCODILE 44 July 1818 **<BR>
LEWIS MARGARET 21 August **<BR>
LEWIS NANCY 18 August 1844 **<BR>
LEWIS ROSE 2YRS August 1860 <BR>
LEWIS ANDREW 2 August 1861 <BR>
LEWIS JUDY NOT ON ESCAPE LIST 1841 <BR>
LEWIS ADA 1858 DIED<BR>
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*THIS ESTATE, UPPER HUNDREDS, LYING IN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, <BR>
WAS BROKEN UP AND SLAVES LEFT EN MASSE, AFTER THE 1ST <BR>
BOMBARDMENT OF CITY POINT ON MAY 19TH. MEN LEFT ON GUN <BR>
BOATS & WOMEN/CHILDREN TAKEN TO EPPES ISLAND ESTATES IN <BR>
PRINCE GEO. THIS AREA WAS CONSIDERED TO BE WITHIN ENEMY <BR>
LINES AND BECAME A DEPOT AND THEY ESCAPED FROM <BR>
SOUTHSIDE OF JAMES RIVER. ABOUT 69 BLACKS FROM ESTATES <BR>
WERE REMOVED BEFORE THE EVACUATION OF WESTOVER BY GEN. <BR>
MC CLELLAN. GEN. PECK'S ORDER SHIPPED THEM DOWN JAMES RIVER. <BR>
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**THEY WERE CARRIED OF BY NAVAL AND LAND FORCES DURING THE <BR>
YANKEE OCCUPATION OF THE JAMES RIVER FROM MAY THRU AUGUST. <BR>
THEY NUMBERED 106, EXCEPT CHARLES LEWIS (ISLAND) WHO HAD A <BR>
SLIGHT HERNIA... NONE OF THEM RETURNED TO SERVICE OF RICHARD <BR>
EPPES, PLANTER - REPORT LETTER BY HIM ON MAY 26, 1863, PETERSBURG<BR>
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NOTE: EPPES WAS REQUESTED BY ARCHIBALD GLOVER, COMMISSIONER OF THE REVENUE TO HAND IN A LIST OF THE SLAVES THAT HE LOST.EPPES' LETTER WAS FILED IN AUDITOR'S OFFICE. <BR>
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NOTE: THE EPPES/RANDOLPH/JEFFERSON/LEWIS <BR>
FAMILIES INTERMARRIED AND SOMEHOW EPPES <BR>
HAD SLAVES WITH LEWIS SURNAMES IN 1862. <BR>
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INFO FROM A OLD CONFERENCE HANDOUT <BR>
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