1859 List of Enslaved People on Bayou Plantation, West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
In the papers of Turnbull / Allain, there is a 4 page handwritten list of about 148 enslaved persons titled “List of Slaves belonging to Bayou Plantation 1st October 1859”. Updates are indicated by names lined out, information written over those lined out names, and subsequent births in the 1860s present. Unique to this list is the column giving the family connection such as Wife of or Child of. This made it possible to create a family tree containing 15 distinct Family Units, and 9 Individuals. Further research has determined the list to be for the Bayou Plantation owned by Abraham Lobdell, Jr. in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
I created a public tree on Ancestry named “Bayou Plantation Enslaved Persons – West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana – Abraham Lobdell Jr ”
The names are added to the Enslaved People Database, and the spreadsheet is below:
Bayou-Plantation-Abraham-Lobdell-Jr-in-West-Baton-Rouge-Parish-LA