Barney Pitzer

Name

Barney Pitzer

Alternate Names

B. Pitzer
B. Pitser
Bernard Pitzer
Bernard Petzer

Race

White

Location

BR: Salem Mills
DR: Roanoke County

RR: Roanoke County
CC: Roanoke County

Record(s) Seen In

Birth Register - 1853-1885 - pp. 1-66

Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 4

Death Register - 1853-1881

Confederate Slave Payrolls

Roanoke County Slave Requisition Records

Cohabitation Records of 1866

Freedmen's Bureau Census - Roanoke County

Page and Line Number

BR: PP. 8, L. 21; PP. 44, L. 22
IAS 4: PP. 50
DR: PP. 2, L. 25-27; PP. 17, L. 85; PP. 20, L. 34
FB: PP. 312, 313

CC: PP. 1, L. 34; PP. 3, L. 16

Date(s) Seen in Records

BR: July 1, 1855; 1861
IAS 4: December 18, 1862

DR: March 4, 1853; May 1853; June 1853; August 9, 1859; 1860

CSP: December 1862 - January and February 1863; September-December 1863

RR: December 19, 1862; September 24, 1863
FB: 1866

People Enslaved

Unrecorded Named Girl

Delia

Unrecorded Named Boy

Maria

Patsy

Caroline

Bob

Elijah

George

Harriet (CHA)

Lizzie (CHA)

Lidia (CHA)

Maria (CHA)

Betsey (CHA)

Adelia

A. Watkins

Harriet Anderson

Matilda Watkins

Additional Information

In the inventory of William L. Walton's finances, an entry states, "To cash of B. Pitzer for girl named Delia" with a value of $1,100.00.

William L. Walton

From December 1862 to February 1863, Bob labored for 60 days at a pay rate of $16.00 per month. His enslaver, Barney Pitzer, received $32.00 for the work he completed. From September to December in 1863, Bob labored for 62 days at a pay rate of $20.00 per month. Barney Pitzer, received $41.33 for this work, also.

In Common Law Book D, Barney Pitzer along with George W. Shanks, William C. Williams, and P. H. Huff, was reported as having "assessed" Peggy Jane, Mary, Paulina, Edmund, Ellen, Simon, and Robert as part of William Lewis's estate.

Robert

Simon

Ellen

Edmund

Paulina

Nancy

Mary

Peggy Jane

Powell Huff

William C. Williams

George W. Shanks

William Lewis (Senior)