Robert Nicholson Ellis II (1800 - 1866)

Born 25 May 1800 in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Cowan) Ellis — married 1831 in , Abbeville, South Carolina, USA

Died 10 Mar 1866 at age 65 in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Slaves

The 1850 Slave schedules show that Robert Ellis owned 23 slaves. In 1851 he bought four additional slaves from the estate of Thomas Weir. George, a child of Harriet who was sold seperately and Sarah with three of her children, Tempy Bill and an infant. In 1860 he owned 34 enslaved people^[1].

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKT8-122M : 16 October 2019), Robert Ellis, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8Q8-W5F : 12 April 2016), Robert Ellis, Abbeville county, part of, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States; citing family 1382, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZTW-4P1 : 12 December 2017), Robert Ellis, 1860.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #84331369
• "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVZ2-9FV : 29 July 2017), Robert Ellis, Abbeville county, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States; citing line number 1, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 444,824.
• "South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-FZGD-5?cc=1911928&wc=MPP6-HZ3%3A190566901%2C190568402%2C190566903%2C192588201 : 21 May 2014), Abbeville > Probate Court, Probate records > 1782-1958 > Box 127, Packages 3744-3763 > image 244 of 287; county courthouses, South Carolina, and South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia

See also:

Title: "ABBEVILLE COUNTY MARRIAGES 1780-1879" Implied in Abbeville Co. Equity Records

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Title: "The Saga of the Seawrights" by Nell Seawright Reeves

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Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of JDS_09_17_10.ged on 09 February 2011.