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Oak Grove Plantation

Page history last edited by Karmella Haynes 16 years ago


Overview

 

Location

Autauga (now Elmore) Co., Alabama, a few miles from Montgomery

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

unknown

 

Associated Surnames

Fitzpatrick

 

Historical notes

none

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

none


Associated Free Persons

 

  • Benjamin Fitzpatrick - plantation owner
  • Sarah Terry Elmore Fitzpatrick - first wife of Benjamin Fitzpatrick
  • Aurelia Rachel Blassingame Fitzpatrick - second wife of Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Associated Enslaved Persons

1840 Census, Benjamin Fitzpatrick

From the 1840 US Federal Census, Autauga Co., AL

  • 1 male under age 10
  • 1 male age 10-24
  • 1 male age 24-35
  • 1 female age 10-24
  • 1 female age 24-35

1850 Slave Schedule, Benjamin Fitzpatrick

From the 1850 US Federal Slave Schedule, Wetumpka, Autauga Co., AL

  • 106 slaves

1860 Slave Schedule, Benjamin Fitzpatrick

From the 1860 US Federal Slave Schedule, Wetumpka, Autauga Co., AL

  • 113 slaves
  • 27 slave houses

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 

  • Benjamin Fitzpatrick Papers, 1819-1892, Autauga (now Elmore) and Hale Counties, Alabama. Subseries 1.1. Business, Financial, Personal, and Political Papers (1819-1869). This subseries comprises business, financial, personal, and political papers. Included are receipts for the purchase of slaves by his nephews, David and William Baldwin; Fitzpatrick's commission as a member of the Alabama state militia in 1823; receipts for the purchase of slaves and land, and for the sale of cotton
  • Alabama Plantation Life in 1860, Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick's "Oak Grove" by Mark Keller, The Alabama Historical Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1976, p218.

Miscellaneous Information

 

  • none

References

 


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