Jeremiah K. Pitzer

Name

Jeremiah K. Pitzer

Alternate Names

J. R. Pitzer
J. K. Petzer
J. K. Pitzer
Jerry Pitser

Race

White

Location

RR: Roanoke County
CC: Roanoke County
FB: Roanoke County, VA

Record(s) Seen In

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

Settlement of Estates - 1

Death Register - 1853-1881

Confederate Slave Payrolls

Roanoke County Slave Requisition Records

Cohabitation Records of 1866

Common Law Orders - D - July 1848 - May 1856 - pgs. 401-810

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

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

Freedmen's Bureau Census - Roanoke County

Common Law Orders - No 2 - March 1853 - March 1866

Page and Line Number

BR: PP. 42, L. 8
SoE: PP. 26, 50
DR: PP. 22, L. 22; PP. 10, L. 62-63
CC: PP. 2, L. 35
CLD: PP. 564
CLE: PP. 221, 406
FB: PP. 333-334
CL2: PP. 79

Date(s) Seen in Records

BR: September 2, 1861
SoE: January 6, 1864; March 13, 1865
DR: March 5, 1861; November 1856
CSP: December 1862 - January and February 1863; September-December 1863

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

People Enslaved

Louisa

Daniel

Emeline

Unrecorded Named Girl

Pope

Polk

Frazer Pitzer

Elisha

Samuel

Charles

Ann

Dirk C.

Ned Stephen

Agnes T.

Irving Wales

Henry Wales

Lesephus Wales

Lee Goodwin

Morris Goodwin

Harris Goodwin

Charles Wales

Henry T.

Buck Aly.

Ann Johnson

Edward J.

Arthur Johnson

Edman Beal

Additional Information

J. K. Pitzer and Frederick Johnston were listed in Settlement of Estates Book 1 as the administrators of Madison Pitzer’s estate. It was also listed on March 13, 1865 that enslaved people were hired to work at fortifications for $89.00. In the same entry, an enslaved man, Anderson, was listed as having died in service of Confederate States Government: "To cash received for negro man Anderson who died in service of Confederate States Government." $4,700.00 went to J. K. Pitzer, Frederick Johnston, and Madison Pitzer. Later in this same record, $41.33 was received by the estate of Madison Pitzer on January 6, 1864 for the hire of enslaved people who worked on Richmond Defenses.

Madison Pitzer

Frederick Johnston

Anderson

Pope labored for 62 days at a pay rate of $20.00 per month, and J. K. Pitzer, received $41.33 for the work he completed. Polk labored for 60 days at $16.00 per month, and Pitzer received $32.00 for the work he completed.

In Common Law Book D, an "E. McClanahan" left one enslaved person to both Pitzer and Frederick Johnston. In Common Law Book E, Jeremiah Pitzer obtained an attachment against the estate of William Alcoon, as they had "tried to move property, including slaves, cross the state borders to avoid paying a claim made by Pitzer." A group of enslaved people, including a man named Sam, a woman named Eliza, and all of their children, were to be "sold off" by the sheriff to pay the claims.

William Alcoon

Eliza

Sam

In Common Law Book E, it is stated that J. K. Pitzer left, or perhaps sold, an enslaved woman named Elisha to Frederick Johnston. In Common Law Book 2, Pitzer and the following enslavers were listed in a conflict over two enslaved individuals.
In Common Law Book E, it is stated that J. K. Pitzer left, or perhaps sold, an enslaved woman named Elisha to Frederick Johnston. In Common Law Book 2, Pitzer and the following enslavers were listed in a conflict over two enslaved individuals.

Unrecorded Named Individual

Unrecorded Named Individual

C. W. McClanahan

Thomas Tosh

John H. Griffin