OVERVIEW
Location: Baldwin County, Alabama
Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined
Associated Surnames: Allen, Ellison
Historical Notes: none
Associated Pages: none
ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS
Abram M. Allen – freed before the Civil War in North Carolina
ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS
Ellison family: Henry Alderson Ellison (1808-1863) – plantation owner; Eliza Tripp Ellison (bef.1820-1880) – wife of Henry A. Ellison; Virginia Neville Ellison (1842-1907) – daughter of H.A. and E.T. Ellison
RESEARCH LEADS AND RECORDS
- Henry Alderson Ellison Papers, 1848-1882, Baldwin County, Alabama. This small collection comprises slave records and other papers relating to Henry Alderson Ellison, planter of Baldwin County, Alabama, and his family, including a notebook containing lists of slaves belonging to Ellison in 1848 and 1858-1860 and records of their being hired out. Other papers include a letter, 30 October 1864, from Abram M. Allen, an Ellison slave who had been freed before the Civil War, in Washington, North Carolina, to Eliza Tripp Ellison, Henry’s widow, at Wilson, North Carolina, where she had taken refuge during the Civil War, in which Allen informed her of his whereabouts and offered hope for the future.
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
None noted yet
REFERENCES
- Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations From the Revolution Through the Civil War. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj7.htm
- Rootsweb World Connect Project – Tripp, Bonner, Sparrow, Dupree & Delamar Families. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=trippscarolina
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