William Webb

Name Variants
Billy Webb
Person ID
6973
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Black Male born in 1805
Census Records
YearNameRelation to HeadAddressAgeRacePOBMarriageOccupation
1870Webb, William1870-329 [St. Rosalie Plantation]65BlackVirginiaFarm Laborer
Relatives in 1870 US Census
NameRelation to HeadAddressAgeRacePOBMarriageOccupation
Webb, Crecy1870-329 [St. Rosalie Plantation]60BlackVirginiaKeeping House
Brooks, Lewis1870-329 [St. Rosalie Plantation]60BlackVirginiaFarm Laborer
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The name, "Billy Webb" appears on the Freedman's Bureau Records for St. Rosalie Plantation in 1867. It describes a "Billy Webb" with two dependents. It reports that he earned $5 per month for rolling / 30 cents per day and 20 cents per watch (?) also two suits of clothes. No age or other information provided.

Further text from the document reads: That the laborers are to mark full Saturday from the time religious to put cane into mattress until finish planting and all able female and children over ten years of age if not at school, will be duty bound to turn out to work whenever called upon to do so. Women to be paid thirty cents/ per day and children twelve cents per day with food when at work, but no clothing. Should they refuse to go to work will pay a rent of two dollars per month for their lodging from the date of this contract until leaving the plantation.
 St. Rosalie Plantation, 1867, U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records (1865-1878), Louisiana (M1905), Plantation Department, Roll 046, Labor Contracts, 1866-1868, Plaquemines Parish. 

The name, Billy Webb, age 68 years old, appears in Roll 11 of the Freedmen's Bureau. His former [enslaver] was entered as "Durnford", Former Place of Residence, Plaquemines, current employer "Durnford" and current Place, "Durnford". 
Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878, Registers, Roll 11.