Claiborne Scott

Name

Claiborne Scott

Alternate Names

Claiborn

Sex

Male

Record(s) Seen In

Will Book 1-1: 1839-1885

Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 3

Page and Line Number

IAS3: PP. 149

Date(s) Seen in Records

Will Book 1: March 1857

Family & Relations

Wife was Anne, daughter was Sally.

Sally Betts Scott

Anne Scott

Name of Enslaver

Sarah Betts

Additional Information

Sarah Betts' will requested that the family of Claiborne and Anne, as well as their infant Sally Betts, are granted the option of freedom or remaining with the family at the risk of being sold. This was a first step in the manumission of the Scott family.

In IAS Book 3, the will of Sarah Betts is recorded on page 149. In this entry, the will says "I require that if the Laws of Virginia shall furthermore I require that to render legal manumitting of a slave the master or mistress shall give to said slave or slaves any certain amount of money or other benefit then such sum or sums shall be raised as aforesaid in the payment for the aforesaid slaves." That is to say that Sarah Betts wanted Claiborne and his family to be able to seek freedom and receive any amount of money to be able to achieve that.