Slaves of Newton Paley Banks, Alabama

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: slavery Alabama

This page enumerates the slavery history of Newton Paley Banks (1824-1901)

Newton lived in Macon County, AL in 1850, but it is uncertain if he owned any slaves at that time. He did own real estate worth 2240, but he is not listed on the 1850 Macon schedule.

In a book on family history, Newton was said to have built a log school-house on his property "for the negroes, probably the first built in Alabama after the war by an ex-slaveholder for the education of negroes." It is not clear if this was in Macon County or Russell County, Alabama, as he owned slaves in both these locations.

1855 Census Macon County, AL

16 slaves--not individually enumerated

1860 Slave Schedule Russell County, AL

Age Birthdate Gender Race

• 45 1815 Female Black
• 13 1847 Male Black
• 11 1849 Female Black
• 9 1851 Male Black
• 7 1853 Male Black
• 5 1855 Female Black
• 2 1858 Female Black
• 25 1835 Male Black
• 22 1838 Female Black
• 4 1856 Female Black
• 1 1859 Female Black
• 30 1830 Male Black
• 21 1839 Female Black
• 6/12 1859 Male Black
• 22 1838 Male Black
• 25 1835 Female Black
• 25 1835 Female Black
• 4 1856 Male Black
• 3 1857 Male Mulatto
• 6/12 1859 Male Black
• 28 1832 Female Black
• 9 1851 Female Mulatto
• 3 1857 Female Black
• 6/12 1859 Female Black

24 Total

Sources

• "The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina," by Joseph A. Groves, MD, 1901.

• 1855 Census: "Alabama, U.S., State Census, 1820-1866"
  Original data: Alabama State Census, 1820, 1850, 1855 and 1866. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Archives & History. Rolls M2004.0008-M2004.0012, M2004.0036-M2004.0050, and M2008.0124
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1576 #240931
  N P Banks in Macon.

• 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules:
  The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Eighth Census of the United States 1860; Series Number: M653; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7668 #91625927
  Newton P Banks in Southern Division, Russell, Alabama, USA.