Dangerous Harbor Project - Westmoreland County - Reel 1 - 1665-1677 - TIFFs 351-400

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Taylor, Jessica;Harris, Sabrina;Modarres Vahid, Zahra;Smith, Jolene;Billings, Cooper;Kostrzebski, Grace;Vega-Nazario, Diego;Urben, Chris;Schetselaar, Hannah;Long, Kara;Harper, William

Description

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.

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Metrics

Dataset Index

2.1

FAIR Score

85%

Citations

0

Mentions

0

Metrics Over Time

Publication Details

DOI

Publisher

University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Assigned Domain

Subfield

Political Science and International Relations

Field

Social Sciences

Domain

Social Sciences

Confidence Score

40%

Source

Scholar Data Model

Keywords

Historical studiesNorth American historyLaw and society and socio-legal researchCourts and sentencing

Normalization Factors

FT

13.46

CTw

1.00

MTw

1.00