Benjamin T. Tinsley

Name

Benjamin T. Tinsley

Alternate Names

B. T. Tinsley
B. Tinsley
B. S. Tinsley
B. J. Tinsley

Race

White

Location

BR: Big Lick, Elmwood
CC: Roanoke County
RR: Roanoke County

Occupation

Farmer

Record(s) Seen In

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

Death Register - 1853-1881

Confederate Slave Payrolls

Roanoke County Slave Requisition Records

Cohabitation Records of 1866

Common Law Orders - E - June 1856 - November 1864 - pgs. 1-353

Common Law Orders - E - June 1856 - November 1864 - pgs. 354-749

Page and Line Number

BR: PP. 37, L. 43; PP. 43, L. 25; PP. 61, L. 207; PP. 53, L. 109-110; PP. 61, L. 208

DR: PP. 17, L. 66-67; PP. 20, L. 35

CC: PP. 1, L. 2; PP. 1, L. 21; PP. 2, L. 9; PP. 3, L. 11; PP. 3, L. 39; PP. 4, L. 1; PP. 5, L. 37
CLE: PP. 292, 422, 620, 720

Date(s) Seen in Records

BR: April 1860; July 19, 1861; May 5, 1864; July 11, 1864; March 1866; April 1866

DR: July 1859; October 1860
CSP: December 1862 - January and February 1863; September, October, and November 1863

RR: September 2, 1863; January 17, 1865

People Enslaved

Unrecorded Named Girl

Unrecorded Named Girl

Unrecorded Named Boy

Jeff Davis

Rhoda

Harriet Simpson

John Simpson Junior

Martha Shovely

Charles

Caroline Wright

Lara

Douglas Shovely

Fanny

John

Unrecorded Named Girl

Nelson Anderson

Willis Raford

Joseph

Wat

Rhoda Dandridge

Luncinda

Peter Wyatt

J. Martin

Josiah Rafer

Ellen Ammons

Additional Information

In the Birth Register, B. T. Tinsley is listed as the former enslaver of Martha Shovely, Douglas Shovely, Charles, Caroline Wright, and Lara.

Moses Shovely, Charles and Douglas' father, may have also been enslaved by B. T. Tinsley.

Moses Shovely

John Simpson Senior, the father of John Simpson Junior, may have also been enslaved by B. T. Tinsley.

John Simpson Senior

Green Wright, Lara's father, may have also been enslaved by B. T. Tinsley.

Green Wright

Nelson labored for 46 days at a pay rate of $16.00 per month. His enslaver, B.T. Tinsley, received $24.53 for the work he completed.

Joseph labored for 62 days at a pay rate of $20.00 per month. His enslaver, B.T. Tinsley, received $41.33 for the work he completed.

In Common Law Book E, it is stated that William M. Peyton left "lot of negroes" to B. J. Tinsley.

William M. Peyton Jr.

In Common Law Book E, it is stated that Tinsley would "take charge" of an enslaved woman named Sarah for $40.00 a year.

In a separate entry in Common Law Book E, it is stated that the overseer of the poor was authorized to pay Tinsley for the annual support of a "female slave," Sarah, who was the property of James Whitten.

In another entry in Common Law Book E, it is stated that Tinsley would be released from the supply and maintenance of Sarah. After this, Sarah was forced to go back to the county poorhouse.

Sarah