Table 4.5

PETERSBURG
FIVE FORKS UNIT

 

 

An Archaeological Overview and Assessment
of the Five Forks Unit

Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia

Table 4.5
Ownership of Boisseau and Young/Gilliam/Perkinson Tracts
(Source: Land Tax, Hughes and Standefer 1973:45,46)
Year
Owner Name
Acres
Description
Bldg$
Alterations

1782

Benjamin Boisseau

800

     

1787

Benjamin Boisseau Sr.

800

80

   

from Phil Moody

1795

Benjamin Boisseau Sr.

466

   

334a. to Joseph Boisseau

1796

Benjamin Boisseau Sr.

Benjamin Boisseau

466

221

     

1802

Benjamin Boisseau Sr.

Benjamin Boisseau

466

221

139

   

 

from John Jones

1814

Benjamin Boisseau Estate

Benjamin Boisseau

 

James Boisseau

342

966

360

78

100

on Gravelly Run 5N

on Hatchers Run 10NE

same 9NE

same 8NE

branch of Gravelly Run 6NE

 

 

 

from Henry Fisher

1845

Benjamin H. Boisseau

411

on White Oak Creek 11NW

410

from John Sydnor & H. R. Fraser

1849

John, Thad., & Charles Young

200

on Hatchers Run 6NW

700

from estate of John Sydnor

1850

Benjamin H. Boisseau

411

on White Oak Creek 11NW

410

 

1851

John, Thad., & Charles Young

200

on Hatchers Run 6NW

535

 

1859

Benjamin H. Boisseau

James W. Boisseau

James Boisseau

411

20

400

on White Oak Road 11NW

same 6N

on Great Branch 5NW

400

 

400

 

1863

B. H. Boisseau

James Boisseau

J., T, & C. W. U. Young

411

400

200

near White Oak Creek 11NW

on Great Branch 5NW

Hatchers Run 6NW

400

400

200

 

not listed in 1865

1867

J. P. Gilliam & J. M. Williams

200

on Hatchers Run 6N

200

from King and Brister

1869

B. H. Boisseau

James Boisseau

L. C. Perkinson (Petersburg)

411

400

200

near White Oak Creek 11NW

on Great Branch 5NW

Hatchers Run 6N

400

400

200

 

from Gilliam & Williams*

1871

L. C. Perkinson

200

near Hatchers Run 6NE

   

1874

L. C. Perkinson

200

near Hatchers Run 6NE

200

 

* Lawrence Perkinson deeded the 200-acre tract to Besmons? Harrison and his trustee A. M. Orgain in 1868, shortly after purchase from Joseph Gilliam and James Williams (Dinwiddie County Deed Book 12, pages 9 and 10).

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