This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BECK, ROUNDTREE, ROUNTREE Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.dickson/503/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Davidson Co. TN Deed Book W, p. 616, Registered 12 May 1835, Signed 24 Dec 1834 ---- Abstract: Peyton ROBERTSON and Benjamin SHARP, executors of the late R.C. NAPIER, sold for $680 to Jesse BECK of Dickson County a negro boy named Peter ROUNTREE, aged "about eighteen years," a slave for life. ----- RESEARCH NOTE: Perhaps this is slave Peter ROUNTREE's son? 1870 U.S. Census, Davidson Co. TN, records a Peter ROUNTREE, age 25, born in TN, Black, with wife America and sons Frederick, age 2, and Peter J., age 1. No other Peter ROUNTREE/ROUNDTREE in the federal census for Tennessee. No Peter ROUNTREE/ROUNDTREE indexed in the federal census for Tennessee in 1860, which was prior to the emancipation of slaves in 1863.