ellison plantation
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Ellison
Plantation
Location: Baldwin Co., Alabama
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Associated Surnames: Ellison
Associated Free White Names
- Henry Alderson Ellison: owner
- wife Eliza Tripp Ellison
Associated Black Slave Names
- Abram M. Allen: an Ellison slave who had been freed before the Civil
War
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Description of Associated Architecture
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.
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