SANKOFA'S PLANTATION DATABASE
Shropshire
Plantation
Location: Fayetteville, GA
Constructed:
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Information: Greg Burton
History: The Shropshire's lived in Fayetteville, Georgia on a cotton plantation.
The plantation house was not destroyed during the Civil War.
Associated Free White Names
- Joshua Pollard Shropshire: plantation owner
Associated Black Slave Names
Contributed by: Greg Burton
" In the family bible of my great great great grandparents,
Joshua Pollard SHROPSHIRE and Minerva Letcher SMITH, I found the names of a
number of slaves that I thought would be of interest to slave researchers. The
list of names follows, and the spelling is as it appears in the bible."
- Lucy was borned 1814 from the billersale
Lucy died November 19th 1855
- Lizer Daughter of Lucy was borned Monday 11th March 1839
- Monday was born the 6, December 1842
- Charles was born February, 19th, 1846
- Aring was born 27th April 1837 Sold 1856
- Tom was born from bilersale 1847
- Bailey was born in the year 1825 from bilersale
- Ralph was born in the year 1792 from bestaccount
Ralph died 7th March 1858
- Anna departed this life the 29th of October 1859 aged 3 months 17
days
- Rose departed this life the 5th day of Sept 1862 aged 1 yr - 10 mo
- 13 days
- Mollie daughter of Susan was born the 25th of November 1858
- Alice daughter of Susan was born friday 24th August 1860
- Rosella daughter of Manda was born monday 22nd of October
1860
- Emma daughter of Eliza was born saturday June 15th 1860
- Jack son of Manda was born wednesday March 5th 1862
- Ida daughter of Susan was sunday May 11th 1862
- Lee son of Susan was born monday December 28th 1863
- Frank son of Manda was born on saturday February 6th 1864
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