This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/802 Message Board Post: The following ad appeared in the 17 Jul 1779 edition of the Virginia Gazette printed by Dixon & Nicholson at Williamsburg: "COMMITTED to the jail of Charles City, on Saturday the 10th instant (Jul), a negro man who says his name is Prince, and that he belongs to Joseph ROPER of Chesterfield county; he is a small fellow and appears to be about 50 years of age. The owner is desired to take him away and pay charges. JOHN GREGORY." This notice appeared on Page 3 at Column 2. * I have NOT verified this information against slave names appearing in the personal property tax records beginning in 1782.