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Location: Marengo County, Alabama
Surnames/tags: Manning Slavery
Biography
Dr. James Manning was known as the largest slaveholder in the county.[1] The Sanderson Plantation was on 1380 acres and located in Marengo Co, AL.[2]
The following slaves were on the inventory pages listed under the Sanderson Plantation in 1852.[3] There are spaces between the family units that were identified as such in the inventory.
- Bennett age 35, husband
- Kizzy age 40, wife of Bennett
- Narcipa (Little), age 16, Bennett's daughter
- Sarah Brown, age12, Bennett's daughter
- Bartley Brown, age 8, Bennett's son
- Washington, age 6, Bennett's son
- Ralph, age 35, husband
- Lucy, age 35, wife
- Miles, age 13 son
- Becky, age 10, daughter
- Ela., age 9, daughter
- Caroline, age 30, mother
- Coleman, age 13, son
- Ann Eliza, age 12, daughter
- Mary Ann, age 10, daughter
- Thomas, age 4, son
- Peter, age 2, son
- Julia, age 6 mos, daughter
- Frederick, age 35, husband
- Easter, age 40, wife
- Adaline, age 23, daughter, (unsound)
- Cassins, age 13, her son (probably Easter's son)
- Albert, age 60, husband
- Docia, age 58, wife
- Dennis, age 25, son
- Phelan, age 22, son
- William, age 19, son
- Chapman, age 16, son
- Young, age 12, son
- Laura Ann, age 10, granddaughter
- Anthony, age 50, husband
- Cherry, age 45, wife
- Ann, age 18, daughter
- Mary Turner, age 10, daughter
- Turner, age 8, son
- Anthony (Little), age 5, son
- Washington, age 3, son
- Lely Ann, age 1, (child)
- Stepney, age 75, husband
- Sylva, age 65, wife
- Aggy, age 23, daughter
- Sylvester, age 20, daughter, mother
- Asa, age 1, (Sylvester's child)
- Mary White, age 50, mother
- Sampson age 20, son, (has one eye)
- Peggy, age 13, daughter
- Thomas, age 12, son
- Alice, age 8, daughter
- Anderson, age 3, son
- William Riley, age 25, husband
- Silfa (or Drunella), age 22, wife
- William, age 1 (child)
- Isam, (Blacksmith), age 30
- Henry, age 35
- Melinda, age 28, mother
- Harriet, age 8 (her child)
- Henry, age 3, (her son)
- Tabertha, age 1 (her child, one-eyed)
- Moses, age 46, husband
- Narcipa, age 35, wife
- Martha Ann, age 26, sister of Narcipa
- Indy (big), age 50,
- Indy (Little), age 32 (diseased)
- Larkin, age 55
- Delia Ann, age 30, mother
- Ben, age 10, son
- Patsy, age 7, daughter
- Moses, age 6, son
- Darwin, age 4, son
- Amanda, age 15, daughter
- Reuben, age 4 weeks, son
For more information on these and the greater list of enslaved people related to Dr. Manning please see The Slaves of Dr. Manning.
Census
1850 Census Slave Schedules - Marengo Co, AL, Est. Jas Manning[4]
1866 Alabama State Census - This is Alabama state census book lists all the African-American's in Marengo Co, AL in 1866. They were listed in Alphabetical order. If you can't find your ancestor name in this list try looking under the last name Manning.[5]
Sources
- ↑ Roberts, Frances Cabaniss. The Founding of Alabama: Background and Formative Period in the Great Bend and Madison County. United States: University of Alabama Press, 2020.
- Chap 8 p.180
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90175694/1858-manning-plantation-sale/ Alabama Beacon, Greensboro, Alabama, 27 Aug 1858, Fri, Page 3
- 1858 Plantation for sale
- ↑
Alabama Probate Records, 1809-1985:
"Alabama Probate Records, 1809-1985"
Image path: Alabama Probate Records, 1809-1985 > Madison > Probate records 1851-1858 vol 16 > image 121 of 266
FamilySearch Image (accessed 11 January 2022)- Sanderson Plantation inventory
- ↑
United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 :
"United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850"
Catalog: Alabama, 1850 federal census : population schedulesPopulation schedules of the seventh census of the United States, 1850 Alabama: Slave schedules, Madison, Marengo, Marion, and Marshall counties (NARA Series M432, Roll 21)
Image path: United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 > Alabama > Marengo > Marengo county > image 173 of 259; Citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
FamilySearch Image (accessed 17 November 2021)- 1850 Marengo Co, AL p.173-175
- ↑
State census for the state of Alabama in the year 1866:
"State census for Alabama for the year 1855 State census for Alabama for the year 1866"
Catalog: State census for Alabama for the year 1855 State census for Alabama for the year 1866 Macon County
Film number: 004808466 > image 516 of 1191
FamilySearch Image (accessed 19 November 2021)- 1866 Marengo Co, AL state census
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