Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County - Reel 1 - 1665-1677 - TIFFs 701-750

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.

本数据集囊括了50份来自弗吉尼亚州韦斯特莫兰县的地契、专利和遗嘱的TIFF文件。地契为土地或财产权属转让的文件；专利则指明特定发明属于个人，并限制这些发明的制造权归其所有者；遗嘱旨在处理个人去世后的资产分配事宜。这些文件系与危险港口项目相关联而收集，该项目利用法院文件识别17世纪切萨皮克湾逃亡的非自由劳动者及其逃逸所受的惩罚。欲了解更多关于该项目的信息，请访问危险港口网站。