Greetings to the Bullock list: I found something rather interesting posted on the Internet today. There was a list of 22 slaves who had been freed by David Bullock, Esq., of Virginia and transported to Monrovia in the Colony of Liberia in Western Africa, where they arrived on 15 Jan. 1828. One additional child was born at sea during the trip from VA to Liberia. The eldest person on the list was David Bullock, age 40, who took the name of his master, I would suppose, and all used the surname of Bullock. There were notations regarding the education of the persons transported. David Bullock could read, for example, and others were said to be able to spell. The transition from VA to Liberia was not an easy one, as four children under the age of 11 died during the remainder of 1828. I am curious as to the identity of this David Bullock, Esq., which often meant that the person was an attorney. I see a deed in my records from 1807 Louisa Co, VA, where David Bullock was the attorney handling a land sale, so he might be a possibility. There were two men named David Bullock in Louisa Co. who received pensions for service in the Revolutionary War, and both were born in 1759. I suppose that one of these might be the David Bullock who married Susannah Moore on 4 Feb. 1778 in Louisa Co, and he or the second David Bullock might have been the one who married Jane Terry on 12 Feb. 1782. David Bullock was a witness to the 1777 will in Louisa Co. of John Moore, who named a daughter as Susannah, so John Moore must have been the father-in-law of David Bullock. There were multiple connections between the Bullock, Moore, Clark, and Henderson families in several counties in south central Virginia, which I have not been able to sort our satisfactorily. If anyone has a good handle on these connections, I would like to learn of it. One of the two men named David Bullock in the 1820 census of Louisa Co. would likely have been the son David named in the 1784 will of John Bullock, who had married Ann Rice on 4 Feb. 1755 in Louisa Co. Maybe the other one was a nephew of John Bullock, son of Edward Bullock. Whoever the David Bullock, Esq., was who granted manumission to 22 slaves shortly before 1828, this would have represented a sizable fortune at that time. It would be interesting to know a bit more about him. Does anyone have any information? My best regards, Ron Bullock