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slave name: Spiers, Valentine (John Wesley)
owner name: Spiers (Squires), Jesse
occupation: doctor
state: Virginia
town: Petersburg nr
county: Dunwoodie County
census: 1850 65, wife, 2 sons, farmer, 1670 real, 7 slaves; 1860 Jesse B. Spiers,
son?, 42, w wife, 5 ch, 1000 real, 1030 pers
place sent: Albany, N.Y.
comments: Valentine Spires, Canada Census 1861, colored, single, 35, laborer, illiterate, York, Canada West, living next to another bl family

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