Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County - Reel 1 - 1653-1659 - TIFFs 1-50

This dataset includes 50 TIFF files showing deeds, patents, and wills from Westmoreland County in Virginia. Deeds are documents that transfer land or property from one person to another. Patents identify specific inventions as belonging to an individual and restrict the manufacturing of these inventions to the person they belonged to. Wills were created to settle asset distribution in the event of a person’s death. These documents were collected in association with the Dangerous Harbor Project which used courthouse documents to identify escaped unfree laborers in the 17th century Chesapeake and the punishments associated with their escape.

To learn more about this project, please go to the Dangerous Harbor Website.

本数据集包含50张展示弗吉尼亚州韦斯特莫兰县产权证书、专利和遗嘱的TIFF文件。产权证书是转移土地或财产所有权的文件。专利用于确认特定发明归个人所有，并限制这些发明的制造权仅限于原所有者。遗嘱旨在处理个人去世后的资产分配问题。这些文件是在与危险港口项目相关联的背景下收集的，该项目利用法庭文件来识别17世纪切萨皮克地区逃离的非自由劳工，以及与他们逃跑相关的惩罚。欲了解更多关于该项目的信息，请访问危险港口网站。