Talk:Nathaniel C. Claiborne

Portrait request

Info box parameters for image and caption are supplied. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:39, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Start class article

According to Wikipedia:Start-Class, the classification requires that, "The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas.

"...the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as wp:notability and BLP, [it does, featuring a notable person who is both an elected member of the State legislature and a delegate to a Constitutional Convention -- see wp:politician.] ..."and provide sources to establish verifiability. [It does here, whether from Pulliam, the Biographical Directory of Congress, or Brenaman.]

"No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.” TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:39, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Lifespan in lead

Seems to be the one of Eustace Conway (politician), as later it reads he was living later. This came up on d:Wikidata:Database reports/identical birth and death dates/1. Jura1 (talk) 15:13, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Triage edit

Can't consult the often-unreliable Pulliam booklet cited, but corrected death date per gravestone and several obituaries referred to on ancestry.com's library edition. However, couldn't read the cited Internet archive article about Judge Napton, as it seemed in 6point type or smaller, required an additional signin which I chose against, and even putting it full screen on an 15inch laptop left most of the screen black blank despite two pages of a book in the middle. While a search within the digitized book showed 23 references to the Claiborne surname (either this man or Thomas Claiborne who preceded him), scrolling through about half showed them mostly in footnotes, and the rest withheld in "preview" mode.Jweaver28 (talk) 22:43, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Turns out the modern Dictionary of Virginia Biography has an article about him, which consulted the family bible and other sources to confirm his birth and death dates. Hence made corresponding changes. I also checked the 1860 census on ancestry.com, and could not find any slave schedule entries for him. As a younger son, he might not have inherited any slaves, and the recent bio does not eleborate his ideas on slaveholding, although as the county's prosecutor, his duties would normally include prosecuting recaptured escaped slaves.Jweaver28 (talk) 23:59, 29 November 2022 (UTC)