Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County - Reel 1 - 1665-1677 - TIFFs 251-300

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张来自弗吉尼亚州韦斯特摩兰县的TIFF格式文件，内容涵盖地契、专利和遗嘱。地契系转让土地或财产之文件，专利则用于标识特定发明并限制其制造权归所属个人所有。遗嘱之设立旨在处理个人去世后资产分配事宜。这些文件系与危险港口项目相关联收集，该项目利用法院文件以识别17世纪切萨皮克地区逃脱的无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。