Revolutionary War Onion Bottle

18th century onion wine bottle from Beaver Creek Plantation, Henry County, Virginia that was owned by Revolutionary War, Captain George Hairston (General in War of 1812). Captain Hairston (September 20, 1750 – March 5, 1825) served under Colonel Abram Penn and Major Waller in the Revolutionary War’s Southern Campaign and at the Siege of Yorktown. George Hairston was a large slave-holding tobacco plantation, and the center of an empire in tobacco-growing and slave-trading built by the Hairston family. Beaver Creek Plantation thrived in tobacco production, livestock, textile and household manufacturing. At one point the enslaved blacks of Beaver Creek were tending a thousand yam plants; in one day they made 660 candles. George Hairston represented Henry County in the Virginia House of Delegates and was a general in the War of 1812.

Provenance:

Hairston Family, Henry County, Virginia

Henry Brown, Virgilina, VA

Gordon Barlow, Swoope, Virginia (2022)