According to the first Virginia tax census following the American Revolutionary War, in 1787, Charles Hill Carter owned 67 enslaved people above age 16 at Shirley Plantation and another 67 younger enslaved people, along with 16 horses and 70 cattle; and he owned another 16 enslaved adults and 22 enslaved children and additional livestock at his ...

Shirley is Virginia’s first plantation, founded in 1613 after a royal land grant carved the plantation out of the Virginia frontier. Shirley is also the oldest family-owned business in North America dating to 1638 when Edward Hill I began farming in Charles City along the James River.

2022年8月29日 · Shirley is a premier example of an colonial Virginia tobacco plantation and is the oldest plantation in Virginia, dating to 1613. The property was patented to Edward Hill in 1660 and remains in the possession of his family today.

Shirley Plantation was initially owned by Edward Hill (1590 - 1664). When he died the land passed to Edward Hill II. [3] His son Edward Hill III inherited the property in 1700 and continued its plantation economy.

2019年3月16日 · Founded with a land grant in 1613, Shirley Plantation came under the ownership of the Hill Carter family in 1638, and has been in the family ever since. The current owners, Charles Hill and Lauren Carter, are the 11 th generation to live in the Great House and to welcome guests onto the 700-acre property.

About 40 years after this first settlement Edward Hill purchased land in Shirley Hundred that would become Historic Shirley. Twelve generations of Edward Hill’s descendants have lived at Shirley, while from 1656 to 1864 at least nine generations of enslaved laborers lived there too.

2020年11月18日 · The current owners can date their family’s work at Shirley to 1638 when Edward Hill acquired the land. The Hill family merged with the legendary Carter family in 1723, and the current owners are the 11th and 12th generations of the Hill Carter family.

2019年4月3日 · Three years ago, Shirley Plantation planted pecan trees and started farming freshwater prawns in the James River. Lauren’s husband Charles also owns and manages a port at Shirley, transporting, among other things, topsoil runoff from other sites that has been repurposed from dredging.

2016年7月25日 · Shirley Plantation is the oldest active plantation in Virginia and is the oldest family-owned business in North America, dating back to 1614 with operations starting in 1638. The plantation was added to the National Register in 1969 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.

2019年6月9日 · Shirley Plantation is America’s oldest family-owned business dating back nearly four hundred years. The estate has been actively farmed and occupied by direct descendants of its original owners spanning twelve generations.