----, BEN
    by Julia Munro

JUEL ID/KEY: P47778

Ben, male (last name unknown), described as an "old man." He was mentioned in a March 10, 1831 Chairman's Journal entry: "Some of Mr. Rose's boarders kept a servant. The proctor informed me that he understood some of Mr. Rose’s (P43866boarders had joined to keep a servant. On inquiring it appeared that nine of them had clubbed half a dollar a month for the services of an old man named Ben. He was ordered away from the premises." 

Captain John N. Rose, at that time, was the Hotelkeeper for Hotel D (PL8435). Although Rose was not the owner of Ben, it is not clear from whom the students had hired him. 

Click here for more information about Captain John N. Rose, Sr, and for another slave of Captain Rose's, Tom

 

 

PRIMARY SOURCE INFORMATION 

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Chairman's Journals, March 3, 1831, Session 7a

 

 

2. Library Call Numbers/Bibliographic Records

 

Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty [Manuscript], 1827-1864. University of Virginia Library. Call Number: RG-19/1/2.041

 

 

 

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