SANKOFA'S SLAVERY
DATA COLLECTION
Woodlawn
Plantation
Location: Prince Georges Co., MD; town of Mitchellville, Oak Grove area
Constructed: ----
History: ----
Associated Surnames: Beall
Associated Free White Names
- (1818-1895) Washington Jeremiah Beall: owner
- wife Mary Ann Magruder Beall
- dau. Mary Eleanor Beall
- dau. Rosalie Magruder Beall
- son Otho Richard Beall
Associated Black Slave Names
- 1860 census: W. J. Beall owned 81 slaves
Agriculture
Description of Associated Architecture
Research Leads
- Jourdan, Elise Greenup. Early Families Of Southern Maryland. Volume
6 The author traces the following families: Ashman, Beall
(descendants of five Beall immigrants: Ninian, Robert,
James, Alexander and Thomas), Barron, Boswell, Deaver, Dawkins, Dyer, Dyson, Hawkins,
Howard, and Wyne. (1998), 1999, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paper, index, x+364 pp.
- Dollante, Sharon J. Maryland And Virginia Colonials: Genealogies Of
Some Colonial Families. Families of Bacon, Beall,
Beasley, Cheney, Duckett, Dunbar, Ellyson, Elmore, Graves, Heydon, Howard, Jacob,
Morris, Nuthall, Odell, Peerce, Reeder, Ridgley, Prather, Sprigg, Wesson, Williams,
and Collaterial Kin. 1 vol. Bound in 2, 1,315 pp., illus., indexed, paper. Comments:
covering 22 colonial MD and VA families and also treating hundreds of collateral
families. Virginia and Maryland ancestry corrects longstanding inaccuracies and
dispels some cherished myths, such as the non-existent fourth wife of Henry Ridgley,
the erroneously ancestry of Richard Duckett, Sr., and the putative maternity of
the Sprigg children. There are over 1200 pages of text, more than 150 illustrations,
a bibliography, place name index, and index of personal names with over 23,500
entries.
Other People Researching This
Plantation
RESOURCES
- Bowie. Across the Years in Prince Georges County. 1945 (contributed
by sherann@excite.com)