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Fairfax County, Virginia in 1760, Showing Landowners, tenants, slave owners, churches, Roads, Ordinaries, Ferries, Mills, Tobacco Inspection warehouses and the Towns of Alexandria and Colchester
This map highlights the different types of landowners in Fairfax County in 1760 and the extent of their slaveholders. George Washington's property of Mount Vernon on the lower right shows that he had 88 enslaved workers, more than anyone else in the county. With his marriage to Martha Custis in 1759, the number of enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon would nearly double to 172. By the year of Washington's death, 1799, the number had expanded to 317.
Beth Mitchell, Office of Comprehensive Plans, Fairfax County, VA, lithograph, 1987 |