Alabama Slave Owners

Last Updated on April 19, 2023 by Dennis

Many wills contained information about slaves.  Reading these wills may provide the reader with a clue on their ancestors.

Statewide Alabama Slave Owners

• Slaves in the Records of the Monroe Session, North Alabama Presbytery – 1823-1827

Autauga County Alabama Slave Owners

• Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson – Jun 1831
• Slaves sold by William Anderson to various – Feb 1836
• Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler – Mar 1841

Barbour County Alabama Slave Owners

• Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church – Sep 1846

Chambers County Alabama Slave Owners

• Slaves in the Will of Elizabeth Ingram – Oct 1851

Madison County Alabama Slave Owners

• Notebook kept by Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alabama, from about 1852 to 1863
  The notebook contains records of accounts and supplies for a plank fence on his plantation “to be made by the M & C R. Road Co. and Thomas Fearn”; information on cotton crops, supplies at home and at his plantation, and lands he owned in Mississippi; notes on his journey to attend the First Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery; a register of the birth dates and death dates of his slaves; and accounts that he kept with the slaves. The notebook also includes an index to the records in it.

Montgomery County Alabama Slave Owners

• Slaves in the Will of Samuel Ingram – Nov 1839

Pike County Alabama Slave Owners

• Slaves in the Will of Thomas Youngblood – Apr 1863