Overview

Location

Baldwin Co., Alabama

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Ellison

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• 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 Henry A. and Eliza T. Ellison

Associated Enslaved Persons

• Abram M. Allen - an Ellison slave who had been freed before the Civil War in North Carolina

Research Leads and Plantation 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

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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