[4] Page 4. Macon Co, AL Slave Census 1860 Mortality Schedule 1866 Macon Co, AL Colored Population Census African American Marriages (1868-1879) Macon Co, AL Slave Narratives Southern Claims Commission: Alabama Claims 1871-1880 1880 Macon Co, AL Mortality Schedule 1880 List of Prisoners Utah B. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. or freeing of slaves before . Now, he will bury another replica and participate in the dedication ceremony by performing from his children's book, "Jalani and the Lock," and displaying the original lock briefly with other historical church documents. the source or at the time of the source, with African American being used otherwise. The Vaughans were natives of, One of the earliest plantation houses with a monumental, Built between 1828 and 1832 for Dr. Alexander W. Mitchell, a native of Virginia. OF THE CIVIL WAR IN VIRGINIA, Anne Trice Thompson Akers, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 1981, The Canebrake Herald (Uniontown, Alabama)26 Mar 1903, Page 8, Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After, Essie Collins Matthews, Champlin Press, 1915, Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, "National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State", "National Historic Landmark Program: NHL Database", "The Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage", "Farms Recognized as Alabama Century and/or Heritage Farms", "10 endangered Alabama plantation homes, plus 15 mansions lost to history", "Perry County, Alabama Communities & Places", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_plantations_in_Alabama&oldid=1143952581, Contributing property to a National Register of Historic Places historic district, Alabama Century and/or Heritage Farm (Alabama Department of Agriculture), Built from 184446 for Amos Travis, a native of Georgia. Registry of Negroes and Mulattos, 1853-54, Vigo County, Indiana, 1860 Instead, place individual profiles into the category corresponding to the county of Alabama where they held enslaved persons. They developed the county for large cotton plantations. New York Maryland This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. papers (Box 2910, Folder 6) (, See Bills of sale for slaves (Box 412, Folder 5) (, See Business and Plantation Accounts: North East and South West Railroad Company: Receipts for Hire of Slaves, 1853-1859 (Box 0753.0054, Folder 06) (, See Family and Personal Data: Legal and Financial: Slaves (Box 309, Folder 3) (, See Financial Papers: Receipts (Box 3458, Folders 9, 16, 22, 24, 25, 26) (, See James L. Watkins: Negro slaves (Box 4114, Folders 14-15), See Brackett O. Watkins: Business: Negro purchases (Box 4114, Folder 20), See Receipts: Slave bill of sale (Box 1551, Folder 2), See Family and others: Malena Smyly (Box 1551, Folder 17), See Bills of sale for slaves (Box 3759.001, Folder 6) (, William Garrard and Samuel N. Luckett bill of sale (in, William Waltrip and Franklin Wright Depositions (in, Matthew Crumb and Margaret Vest Legal Documents (in, See Hardy Clements: Will (Box 389, Folder 1), Robert B. McAfee Letter of Emancipation (in, Depositions of Lewis and Mary Ann Chandoin (in, William Richardson Last Will and Testament (in, Joseph Meek and C. Haynes letters to Samuel Logan (in, See Ms to In Defence of the South (Box 420, Folder 5), See Ms of Letters to Editors (Box 420, Folder 6), See S. H. Woodward: Miscellaneous (Box 2183, Folder 26) essay Statement, The Justice of Slavery Extension, 1848 (, Business papers Plantation proclamations (Box 0753.0008, Folder 01) (. Macon County 1850 Federal Census Slave Schedule Monroe County Hosted at Alabama USGenWeb Archives 1850 Federal Census Slave Schedule Index 1860 Federal Census: Slave Schedule Index 1880 US Census, Mulatto Residents Perry County 1860 United States Slave Census 1870 Federal Census, Black Households Pike County Hosted at Alabama USGenWeb Archives The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly Family Bible, English names of plantations in this County with the names of the large holders on this list should not be a difficult research task, but 1855 Macon County Alabama Slave Census. 8,624 whites, 1 "free colored" and 18,176 slaves. That was 13 years ago. According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 613 square miles (1,590km2), of which 609 square miles (1,580km2) is land and 4.3 square miles (11km2) (0.7%) is water.[4]. Includes wills as well as documents on legal proceedings related to slavery or enslaved people. The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc. (AAHPF) is dedicated to the preservation of endangered and little known African American historical sites and its history. There were 8,950 households, out of which 28.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 31.70% were married couples living together, 25.80% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.10% were non-families. In Alabama in 1860 there were 482 farms of were enumerated with the same surname. See: Slave Records By County, American Slavery: Underground Railroad (The number of slaves in the county was over 3,000. 1855 Macon County Alabama Slave Census. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,532. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. [2] Its name is in honor of Nathaniel Macon, a member of the United States Senate from North Carolina. See: American Slavery: Underground Railroad, Web Team Office This Sunday, Pace is taking the lock to Creek Stand for the first time since his great-grandfather and former slave Stephen Pace died there. slaveholder. An Once the monument was unveiled in 2000, Pace buried a replica of his great-grandfather's lock at its base as well, inscribed with a dedication to his mother, father, uncle and great-grandfather. Division, and those 450 and above in the Southern Division, though pages below 430 did not have a division written on Michigan them. She and Lorenzo Pace agree that most tradition and history has been passed down orally. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. The per capita income for the county was $13,714. Starting in 1932, 600 African American men from Macon County, Alabama were enlisted to partake in a scientific experiment on syphilis. Built 1842, also known as the Oden-Bledsoe-Kelly Plantation. 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. After being recruited by the promise of free medical care, 600 African. Kentucky We want to tell you stories about the Macon community that you want to hear. can be difficult because the name of a plantation may have been changed through the years and because the sizeable number Oregon MACON, Georgia Theres no doubt that the merchants, wealthy elite and planters in and around the growing city of Macon had slaves. enumerators, interested researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this Apart from the "dealignment" era between 1948 and 1972, and Herbert Hoover in the highly controversial 1928 election, no Republican has won so much as twenty percent of the county's vote in the past century. [2] In Monroe County, Georgia in 1830, he owned 23 slaves ranging in age from under 10 up to 54 years old. Thanks from all of us at to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. The process of publication of slaveholder names beginning with larger slaveholders will enable naming of the holders It is possible to locate a free person on the Macon County, Alabama The collection contains over 20,000 pages of type-scripted interviews with more than 3,500 former slaves collected over a ten year period. Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information. transcription for their own purposes. is a separate list of the surnames of the holders with information on numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who The plantation was in the community of Elyton prior to the. census and they may have still been living in the same State or County. Montana [2] Society Hill was once home to the Society Hill High School. this county. For thousands of years, this area was inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. surname marriages, Webb Family of Bullock and Macon Counties, AL. return to Home and Links Page. 33.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. Extract of Slaveowners (Name of Slaveowner, Number of Slaves and Number of Free Persons of Color) > Page 2. Built for Samuel Wilson Davidson, a native of North Carolina, in 1837. slaves go who did not stay in this county? See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. Certainly there was a slave market, said Chester Fontenot, Director of Africana Studies at Mercer University. Built c. 1855, contributing property to the, 1932 HABS photo of two-story main house built for William Page Molett, a native. Alaska 1855 Macon County. Listed as a National Historic Landmark, this house is considered to be an "unusually sophisticated Greek Revival style plantation house". Includes bills of sale, rental agreements, and other financial transactions involving enslaved people. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Alabama, Slave Owners]] . Phillip Lasett - 1. % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the Includes expression of personal opinions on race and accounts of race relations. Located at Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870. North Dakota He designed the monument, "Triumph of the Human Spirit," for the site. Freed slaves, if listed in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported with their full name, including [3] A post office operated under the name Society Hill from 1837 to 1914. For R. R. Co., 63 slaves, page 431B, BERRY, Wm.? Tools Society Hill is an unincorporated community in Macon County, Alabama, United States . He's doing it to commemorate the community's former slaves, many of whom were buried at the cemetery near Creek Stand AME Zion Church, in Macon County. "We should celebrate diversity.". If an African American ancestor with one of decreased almost 41% to 5,103, while the "colored" population decreased 30% to 12,620. Resources for African American research fall into two periods: pre-and post-Civil War. New Jersey on the "Add your favorite Website(s) to this page" link. changes in county boundaries. By the 1870 census, the white population of Macon County had [Report Broken Link] 1860 Federal Census - Slave Schedule Surname Matches with 1870 Census. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. these larger slaveholders, the data seems to show in general not many freed slaves in 1870 were using the surname of their U.S. Includes information about and opinions on emancipation as well as the system set up for freedmen. Maine Census data for 1860 was obtained from the Historical United States Census Data Appraisement and Inventory of Slaves in Wills, Macon County AL. Idaho Slave Information from Various Loudoun Co., VA Documents, 13 Dec 1809 to 30 June 1861, 1850 Wm. [3] The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.13. This collection of interviews stands in contrast to other slave narratives that appear in most literature anthologies which were written by the rare few who, against staggering odds, had become literate. Some of these former slaves may have been using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder at the time of the 1870 resident of Macon wanted to know if there was a slave market. See: Slave Records By State, Freedmen's Bureau Records Built 1840s, contributing property to the. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County, the number of slaves they held in Lorenzo Pace knew it was time to take his great-grandfather's lock out of the closet. By 1860, ten years later, that number would grow to 6,737.) Minnesota Extract of Slaveowners (Name of Slaveowner, Number of Slaves and Number of Free Persons of Color) Page 3. Benton, Sarah, Lee County Biggers, Riny (Macon County Slave Narratives) Birdsong, Nelson, Mobile Bishop, Ank Bohannon, Henry Bonner, Siney Booth, Etta - Barbour County Bowen . The slaves on this census are not enumerated in the normal one slave per line; instead, they are grouped on Brumby Slave Conveyance Records (Source: AfriGeneas) Tennessee free in 1860, with about half of those living in the southern States. County were held by a total of 904 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. Built 1855, also known as the Tait-Ervin House. Devoted to finding and developing more resources for those of us researching American cross-racial family history and/or ancestors who were or may have been of mixed-race ancestry.