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Oak
Grove Plantation
Location: Autauga (now Elmore) Co., Alabama; a few miles from Montgomery
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Associated Surnames: Fitzpatrick, Elmore, Blassingame
Associated Free White Names
- (1827 - 1865) Benjamin Fitzpatrick: plantation owner
- (1827 - 1837) wife Sarah Terry Elmore Fitzpatrick: first wife
- (1846 - 1865) wife Aurelia Rachel Blassingame Fitzpatrick: second
wife
Associated Black Slave Names
Agriculture
Description of Associated Architecture
Research Leads and Plantation
Records
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick Papers, 1819-1892, Autauga (now Elmore) and Hale
Counties, Alabama. Subseries 1.1. Business, Financial, Personal, and Political
Papers (1819-1869): This subseries comprises business, financial, personal,
and political papers. Included are receipts for the purchase of slaves by
his nephews, David and William Baldwin; Fitzpatrick's commission as a member
of the Alabama state militia in 1823; receipts for the purchase of slaves
and land, and for the sale of cotton
- The Alabama Historical Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1976:
Alabama Plantation Life in 1860---Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick's "Oak Grove"
by Mark Keller. p218.
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