Date of marriage to Elmira Harper from Coleman family Bible transcribed by Myrle Jean Cook Theimer.

On 30 October 1839, Mary M. Crow complained that on Saturday last the 26th inst she ascertained that the testimoney of Vincent Coleman is material in the case. He lives somewhere in King and Queen County. That George Saunders, one of the plaintiffs, resides in Middlesex County. Filed on 31 October 1839 in the case of Saunders vs. Crow. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 49, item 49-D-4.]

On 20 February 1840, Vincent Coleman provided a deposition: The deposition of Vincent Coleman of Lawful age, taken at the Counting Room of Robert M Davis Esqr at Millers by consent of the plaintiffs and defendants counsel, and in pursuance of Notice herewith, to be read as evidence in a cause now pending in the circuit superior court of Law and Chancery for Essex County, in which George Saunders & others are plaintiffs and James Croxton Jr and wife & others are defendants, taken this 20th day of February 1840. This deponant being duly sworn in behalf of the defendants deposes and saith
Question by defendants counsel
Please state in what year, and in what month you were called on by Armstead Jones to aid him in carrying to Richmond certain negroes from Mr John Jones’s in Essex; and all you know about it, and all you heard the said Armstead Jones say in relation to the matter.
Ansr As to the year some body will have to tell you for I cannot—Mr Armistead Jones come [sic] to my house to employ me to go with him, I agreed to go to carry some negroes to Richmond to sell, which negroes he said belonged to him and his sisters, he said he was going to sell them for the benefit of his sisters and himself to bring the estate to a close that he wanted his part, when we got to Richmond, he sold two the night we got in Town, after he sold them two We went to a boarding house Kept by Mr Howlett and staid all night with the other three negroes—them he did not sell while I staid, people were passing & repassing to look at them, I applied to him for pay for my going with him which he did after a while & I left him in Richmond.
Question by same
If you cannot recollect distinctly the year & month, where you were employed by A. Jones to carry the said negroes to Richmond, state as near as you can, & to the best of your recollection
Ansr It was something like the 12h or 13h day of the month of January in the year 1831 as near as I can come at it
Question by same—
Please state whether A. Jones did or did not sell two of the negroes before he had gotten fairly in the City of Richmond.
Ansr When he had got to the top of the Hill in the edge of Town he left me there with them & went down in Town and told me to stay until he came back, he was gone about half an hour and when he returned to me to come on, we went down to the turn of the road near a house where a man lived named Walker and there he sold two, we went on from there to Mr Howletts and staid all night
Question by same.
What caused A. Jones to use so much caution, in stopping your and the negroes, just on the edge of the Town.
Ansr I cannot tell you what was his reason for it, he never assigned any at all, I was much out of patience for keeping me there so long
Question by same
What was the sum which the two negroes sold in the edge of the Town, brought
Ansr he sold them for seven hundred dollars as well as I recollect—
Question by same.
Was $700 a fair price for said negroes
Ansr I am no judge and cannot say—
Question by same—You say in your answer to the first question, that A. Jones informed you that he was going to sell the said negroes for the benefit of himself & sisters—Did he return to Essex and divide the money as he promised—
Ansr I never have seen the man from that day to this
Question by same
Did, or did not A. Jones inform you how he got the possession of said negroes—
Ansr No Sir.
Question by Plaintiffs Counsel
Who went with you and Armstead Jones to Richmond and who seemed interested in the sale of the negroes—
Ansr No person at all but myself, himself & the negroes, and I saw no person when he sold them that I knew—
Question by same
Did you A Jones inform you that he was authorized by Moses Crow & James Croxton or one of them to sell the negroes—
Ansr he never said a word to me about it—
Questn by same—
Was it in the day time or night when you and A Jones started with the negroes—
Ansr As near as I can guess at it, it was about 9 or 10 O’Clock in the morning—
Questn by same
Did he not travel the usual Route to Richmond over the ferry at New Castle
Ansr He went the Hanover Town Road over Dabney’s ferry & there we staid all night he said it was as near as the other and the best Road—
Questn by same
In travelling from Essex to Richmond have you not frequently travelled the Hanover Town Road particularly in Bad Weather
Ansr I have frequently travelled both roads in bad Weather—
Question by Same
From the time that you and A Jones started untill you left him, did he show any disposition to conceal the negroes
Ansr I never saw any at all, nor heard him say any thing about concealing them
Questn by same
Do you know who had had the management of the negroes before they were sold by A Jones,
Ansr They were at work at old Mr John Jones’s from about Christmast untill he started with them
Question by same—
Did not A Jones at that time live with old Mr John Jones.
Ansr I believe he did—
Questn by same
Was not Mr Moses Crow frequently at old Mr John Jones’s in Company with A Jones while the negroes were there
Ansr If he was ever there, I never saw him.
Question by same
State if you know who had the management of the negroes before they came to old Mr John Jones’s
Ansr I do not know—
Questn by same
Did not A. Jones return to Essex in a short time after you left him in Richmond
Ansr I understood he did, I never saw him
Question by Defts Counsel—
By which road did you return from Richmond, by New Castle or Hanover Town.
Ansr I came over New Castle
Question by same—Did you come by New Castle because it was the nearest road [illegible], or why did you not come the way you went.
Ansr I came the New Castle road, because I travel that Road oftener than the other way
Questn by same
Which is the nearest & most direct Road to Richmond.
Ansr I do not know that I could tell which is the nearest, but I should go the New Castle Road, unless I had business the other way—
Questn by pltfs Counsel—
How far is the ferry at Hanover Town from New Castle.
Ansr I cannot answer the question, I do not know—
Questn by same
It is more than 6 or 8 miles
Ansr It may be six or 8 more or less I do not know.
And further this deponant saith not
Vincent Coleman
Allowed Coleman for attendance and
Mileage $1:09
[Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 49, item 49-D-1.]

1850 U.S. Census, King and Queen County, Virginia
St. Stephens Parish, Sheet 153
Dwelling 97, Family 97
Coleman, Vincent, 50, male, farmer, value of real estate $300, born in Virginia
Coleman, Eliza, 20, female, born in Virginia
Coleman, Martha, 18, female, born in Virginia
Coleman, Elizabeth, 14, female, born in Virginia
Coleman, Robert, 12, male, born in Virginia
Coleman, John R., 3, male, born in Virginia
Coleman, George W., 10, male, born in Virginia

Information on Vincent Coleman from letter from Myrle Cook Theimer to Thomas Moore, 11 November 1993.