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

Page and Line Number

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

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.