Sunday, February 11, 2018

List of White Persons Killed During Nat Turner’s Rebellion, August 21 & 22, 1831

  • Joseph Travis, his wife, Mrs. Sallie Travis, and one child; Putnam Moore
  • Joel Westbrook
  • Mrs. Elizabeth Turner
  • Hartwell Publes
  • Sarah Newsom
  • Mrs. P. Reese and her son, William Reese
  • Trajan Doyle
  • Henry Bryant, wife, child, and wife's mother
  • Mrs. Catherine Whitehead, her son, Richard, four daughters and a grandchild
  • Salathiel Francis;
  • Mr. Nathaniel Francis’ overseer, Mr. Henry Doyle, two nephews of Mr. N. Francis, named Brown;
  • John T. Barrow
  • George Vaughan
  • Mrs. Levi Waller, her baby, Martha Waller
  • Lucinda Jones and eight other school children
  • Mr. William Williams and wife
  • Miles and Henry Johnson
  • Mrs. Caswell Worrell and child
  • Mrs. Rebecca Vaughan, her son Arthur, and her niece, Miss Anne Eliza Vaughan
  • Mrs. John K. Williams and child
  • Mrs. Jacob Williams and three children
  • Mr. Edwin Drewry

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William S. Drewry adds: “There were other persons killed for whom it was impossible to account. Mr. Gray omits the overseer killed at Mrs. Rebecca Vaughan's. Some also say that fifteen persons, instead of eleven, were killed at Waller's.”

SOURCES: Thomas R. Gray, The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia, p. 22;William Sidney Drewry, Slave Insurrections in Virginia (1830-1865), p. 196

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