Brian, Starting a new thread because the other one is getting too long. Unless I "overlooked" it, I did not see the name of Joseph Chinn on this list. That is a very well documented record, from the Letter Book of Joseph Ball (original at NRA, film at MBW), nephew of Joseph-2 Ball, then living in England, with outrageously detailed instructions to Joseph Chinn on how to manage his Morattico Plantation and "The Forest" (now called Epping Forest) in Lancaster County, including extremely detailed instructions on what to do with with various slaves at various sites on the property. This was mostly in the 1743 forward time frame. This letter book, along with the Robert "King" Carter letters you are likely to find for the Northern Neck. If there are more, I am not aware of them. I hope there are. Craig

Craig, Great. I'll give it a look. I know there are also many overseer agreements I will need to locate as well. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Craig Kilby <persisto1@gmail.com> To: Northern Neck List <VA-NORTHERN-NECK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, Oct 14, 2012 3:41 pm Subject: [VA-NORTHERN-NECK] Overseers List -- add Joseph Chinn Brian, Starting a new thread because the other one is getting too long. Unless I "overlooked" it, I did not see the name of Joseph Chinn on this list. That is a very well documented record, from the Letter Book of Joseph Ball (original at NRA, film at MBW), nephew of Joseph-2 Ball, then living in England, with outrageously detailed instructions to Joseph Chinn on how to manage his Morattico Plantation and "The Forest" (now called Epping Forest) in Lancaster County, including extremely detailed instructions on what to do with with various slaves at various sites on the property. This was mostly in the 1743 forward time frame. This letter book, along with the Robert "King" Carter letters you are likely to find for the Northern Neck. If there are more, I am not aware of them. I hope there are. Craig ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message