Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

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                  HENRY ALDERSON ELLISON PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract: Slave records and other papers relating to Henry
Alderson Ellison, planter of Baldwin County, Ala., and his
family, including a notebook, 16 pp., containing lists of slaves
belonging to Ellison in 1848 and 1858-1860 and records of their
being hired out.  Other papers include a letter, 30 October 1864,
from Abram M. Allen, an Ellison slave who had been freed before
the Civil War, in Washington, N.C., to Eliza Tripp Ellison,
Henry's widow, at Wilson, N.C., where she had taken refuge during
the Civil War, in which he informed her of his whereabouts and
offered hope for the future.  Also included is a letter, 16
October 1867, to Eliza, now living near Mobile, Ala., from Edward
Stanly (1810-1872), California politician who had been U.S.
representative from North Carolina, describing conditions in
California and evaluating prospects there for southerners; and
five invitations to social functions in Beaufort County, N.C.,
1877-1880 and undated, sent to Ellison and Bonner family members.

Online   Allen, Abram M., fl. 1864.
Catalog  Beaufort County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th
Terms:    century.
         Bonner family.
         California--Description and travel--1848-1869.
         California--Social life and customs--19th century.
         Ellison, Eliza Tripp, fl. 1864-1867.
         Ellison, Henry Alderson, d. 1862.
         Ellison family.
         Freedmen--North Carolina--Correspondence.
         Slave records--Alabama.
         Slavery--Alabama.
         Stanly, Edward, 1810-1872.

Size:    9 items.

Provenance: Received from Mary Virginia Bonner of Mobile,
Alabama, in 1948 and 1958.

Access:  No restrictions.

Processing Note: This collection was rehoused under the
sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.