Enslaved Individuals: Charles Daniel
Charles Daniel
Documented History
Charles Daniel was still a boy when he was named in the estate papers of Benjamin Sedwick in July 1857. He was one of ten people enslaved by Sedwick in Page County, Virginia at the time of Sedwick’s death. In the settlement of the estate, he went to the household of Sedwick’s son George W. Sedwick, who inherited his father’s farm.
While no record of Charles Daniel’s role on Sedwick’s farm has been located, if he was of working age it is virtually certain he was involved in agriculture on the farm, 160 acres of improved land near the south fork of the Shenandoah River.
No further documents have yet been found, and nothing more is known of Charles Daniel’s life.
Speculations
Connections
Alexander, Charles, Daniel, Emily Jane, Isaac, Jacob, Jane, Martha, and Suey Frances were enslaved along with Charles Daniel in Benjamin Sedwick’s household at his death in 1857. Jacob and Charles Daniel were allotted to George W. Sedwick in the settlement of the estate.
Sources
Page County, Virginia, Will Book G, Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Sedwick, page 54; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”
Page County, Virginia, Will Book G, “Inventory and appraisement of the personal property of Benjamin Sedwick decd., of Page County, Virginia July 1st. 1857” page 94; digital image, Ancestry.com, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1983.”
1860 U.S. census, Page County, Virginia, slave schedule, District 4, page 11, George W. Sedwick, slaveowner; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), “1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules”; citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M653.
Papers of the Strickler Family, 1791-1898, Accession No. 7489, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va., “Estate Account of Benj. Sedwick dec’d with Harrison Strickler Exor.”