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    Southampton Oyer and Terminer Trials

     

    Full Trial Records

    Aug. 31 - Nov 21, 1831

     

     

    Individual Trials

    Aug. 31, 1831

    Daniel Porter

    Tom Whitehead

     

    Sept. 1, 1831

    Jack Whitehead

    Andrew Whitehead

    Moses Barrow

     

    Sept. 2, 1831

    Davy Turner

    Curtis Ridley

    Stephen Ridley

    Isaac Carlton

     

    Sept. 3, 1831

    Sam Francis

    Hark Travis

    Nelson Williams

    Davy Waller

    Nat Turner II

     

    Sept. 5, 1831

    Jack Reese

    Dred Francis

    Arnold Artes (free)

     

    Sept. 6, 1831

    Nathan Blunt

    Nathan, Tom, Davy Francis

     

    Sept. 7, 1831

    Hardy Edwards

    Isham Edwards

    Sam Parker

    Jim Vaughan

     

    Sept. 8, 1831

    Bob Parker

    Davy Parker

    Daniel Parker

     

    Sept. 19, 1831

    Joe Turner

    Lucy Barrow

    Matt Ridley

    Thomas Haithcock (free)

    Jim Porter

     

    Sept. 20, 1831

    Barry Newsom (free)

    Jack Bryant

    Exum Artist (free)

     

    Sept. 21, 1831

    Stephen Bell

     

    Sept. 22, 1831

    Jim & Isaac Champion

    Preston Williamson

    Frank Parker

     

    Sept. 28, 1831

    Nelson Blunt

    Jack & Shadrach Simmons

    Sam Edwards

     

    Oct. 18, 1831

    Archer Reese

    Isham Turner (free)

    Moses Travis

     

    Nov. 5, 1831

    Nat, alias Nat Turner

     

    Nov. 21, 1831

    Ben Blunt

     

    TRIAL RECORDS

    Trial of Exum Artist (free man of color)

    September 20, 1831 – Superior Court

     

    At a Court continued and held for the County of Southampton on the 20th day of September 1831 for the examination of Exum Artist a free man of color charged with conspiring to rebel and make insurrection.

     

    Present—Robert Goodwyn, James W. Parker, James Trezevant, Ores A. Browne and Alexander Myrick—Gent.

     

    The said Exum Artist was again set to the bar in custody of the jailor of this County and the Court after hearing the testimony and from the circumstances of the case are unanimously of opinion that the prisoner ought to be tried for the said offense at the next Current Superior Court of Law held for the County and thereupon the prisoner is remanded to jail.

     

    Williams Dick here in court acknowledged himself to be indebted to John Floyd Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of three hundred dollars of his goods and chattels lands and tenements to be levied and to the said Governor and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth rendered. Yet upon the condition that if the said Williams Dick shall have the slaves Burwell and Ben before the judge of our Circuit Superior Court of Southampton County at the Courthouse on the first day of the next term then and there to give such evidence as they or either of them know against Exum Artist, a free man of color charged with felony then this recognizance to be void or else to remain in full force and virtue.