SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION
Trinity Bend Plantation
Location: Huston Co., TX
Constructed: 1850
History: In December 1850 the Goree family and their 40 slaves migrated from Perry County Alabama, following their friends Sam and Margaret Houston to Texas, settling first at Huntsville – some seventy miles north of the city of Houston – where they rented the Houstons’ Woodland Home. While at Huntsville the Gorees built their own plantation, Trinity Bend, some thirty mile to the north of the Trinity River in Houston County. There the family engaged in cotton planting until Langston Goree died on 5 July, 1853. The next year Sarah Goree moved her family to Moffatsville plantation in Madison County to be near her brother Pleasant Williams Kittrell and early in 1858 she purchased Raven Hill Plantation in Walker (now San Jacinto) County from Sam Houston.
History continued at Moffatsville Plantation
Notes: It should be noted that Madison County was formed in 1853 from Grimes, Walker and Leon Counties, Texas. Many years can be wasted looking in the wrong county because of changes in boundaries during the mid to late 1800s. Current day Gorees deny any association with Goree Island. Helen M. Ross
Associtated Surnames: Goree
Associated Plantations: Moffatsville Plantation (Madison Co., TX); Seven Oaks Plantation (Madison Co., TX)
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