I have just completed reading a new book entitled: The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves" by Andrew Levy (2005) Random House publishers. Robert Carter III manumitted 453 slaves after the Revolutionary War. This book gives the courthouses where the individual papers were filed and also the original Deed of Gift. These are located in the Northern Neck counties. The book names many ordinary people who were rent collectors, ministers, tutors and also lightly mentions family members. The main gift of this book is that it gives books of deed citations in which anyone seeking their slave family documents. Sorry I have not provided more detailed information regarding this book but I do suggest it as a good read and the notes are good for further research sources. Tree Mother "She is insane, of course. The family history has become a mania for her." Hercule Poirot