George W. Shanks

Name

George W. Shanks

Alternate Names

George W. Shank
G. B. Shanks
G. W. Shanks

Race

White

Location

RR: Roanoke County

Record(s) Seen In

Inventory, Appraisements, and Sales Book 1

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

Death Register - 1853-1881

Confederate Slave Payrolls

Roanoke County Slave Requisition Records

Common Law Orders - D - July 1848 - May 1856 - pgs. 1-400

Page and Line Number

IAS1: PP. 210
BR: PP: 16, L. 171-172; PP. 48, L. 2
DR: PP. 20, L. 38-39
CLD: PP. 297

Date(s) Seen in Records

IAS1: July 1846
BR: August 1856; September 1856; 1862
CSP: December 1862-January 1863; September-December 1863; September, October, and November 1863
DR: 1860

RR: December 19, 1862; September 24, 1853

People Enslaved

Oliver

Thomas

Unrecorded Named Boy

Unrecorded Named Girl

Preston

Charles

Scip

Robert

Fanny

Additional Information

A value of $412.00 was placed on Oliver who was then purchased by George Shanks at the estate sale of John Walton.

John Walton

Scip labored for 62 days at a pay rate of $20.00 per month. His enslaver, George Shanks, received $41.33 for the work completed by Scip.

Charles labored for 33 days, and Preston for 60 days, at a pay rate of $16.00 per month. Their enslaver, G. W. Shanks, received $49.60 for the work they completed.

In September, October, and November of 1863, Charles labored for 76 days at a pay rate of $20.00 per month. His enslaver, G.W. Shanks, received $50.66 for the work completed by Charles.

In Common Law Book D, George W. Shanks along with Bernard Pitzer, 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

William Lewis (Senior)

Barney Pitzer

William C. Williams