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First Name
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Last Name
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Family Relationship
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Details
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Born
(approximate year)
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Death
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Austin
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Bingham
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father
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Louisa
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Bingham
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mother
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Harrison
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Bingham
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son
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Parks
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Bingham
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son
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Were jailed and hired away from the plantation after refusing to obey Lee's orders, contending that GWP Custis' will meant they were free
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Reuben
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Bingham
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son
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Were jailed and hired away from the plantation after refusing to obey Lee's orders, contending that GWP Custis' will meant they were free
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Austin
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Bingham
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son
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Were jailed and hired away from the plantation after refusing to obey Lee's orders, contending that GWP Custis' will meant they were free
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1839?
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Harrison
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Bingham
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son
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Henry
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Bingham
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son
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Edward
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Bingham
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son
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Lucius
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Bingham
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son
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Leanthe
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Bingham
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Daughter
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Louisa
Caroline
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Bingham
Bingham
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Daughter
Daughter
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Caroline
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Branham
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daughter
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Personal maid to Martha Washington, present at George Washington's death. Caroline Branham negotiated the emancipation of her grandson with GWP Custis in exchange for giving an account of Washington's death to reporter Jared Sparks.
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1764
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1843
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Jem
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Bingham
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grandson- Caroline's son
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Infant - no name given
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Bingham
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Austin
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Branham
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Possibly descendants of Charlotte & Austin, an enslaved couple at Mount Vernon
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Rachel
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Branham
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Sold in 1813; relationship to Marcellena and Almira unknown
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Marcellena
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Branham
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Have have been married to Cornelius Syphax. Sold in 1813. Enslaved to the Lees until 1861. Relationship to Rachel and Almira unknown. In 1860 the Federal Census includes a Marceline Brown who is listed as "free" and may have been the same person.
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1840
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Almira
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Branham
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Sold in 1813; relationship to Marcellena and Rachel unknown
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Lucy
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Branham
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Robert Branham's mother
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Lucy Branham and her son Robert Branham were sold in 1827; their fate is unknown
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Robert
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Branham
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Lucy Branham's son
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Lucy Branham and her son Robert Branham were sold in 1827; their fate is unknown
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Catharine
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Burke
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Fanny Burke's mother; Agnes Burke's sister
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After GWP Custis' death, Agnes Burke, her sister Catharine Burke, and Catherine's daughter Fanny fled to Washington DC. Robert E. Lee attempted to recapture them; no documentation exists about whether they were able to escape.
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1835?
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Fanny
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Burke
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Catharine Burke's daughter
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After GWP Custis' death, Agnes Burke, her sister Catharine Burke, and Catherine's daughter Fanny fled to Washington DC. Robert E. Lee attempted to recapture them; no documentation exists about whether they were able to escape.
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1856?
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Mary Ann
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Burke
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Agnes
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Burke
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Catharine Burke's sister
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After GWP Custis' death, Agnes Burke, her sister Catharine Burke, and Catherine's daughter Fanny fled to Washington DC. Robert E. Lee attempted to recapture them; no documentation exists about whether they were able to escape.
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1844?
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William
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Burke
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father
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Immigrated to Liberia in 1853. Daughter Martha Custis Burke was born in Liberia. Descendants of the Burke family still live in Liberia today.
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Rosabella
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Burke
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mother
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Immigrated to Liberia in 1853. Daughter Martha Custis Burke was born in Liberia. Descendants of the Burke family still live in Liberia today.
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Grandison
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Burke
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son
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Immigrated to Liberia in 1853. Daughter Martha Custis Burke was born in Liberia. Descendants of the Burke family still live in Liberia today.
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Cornelia
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Burke
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daughter
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Immigrated to Liberia in 1853. Daughter Martha Custis Burke was born in Liberia. Descendants of the Burke family still live in Liberia today.
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Alexander
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Burke
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son
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Immigrated to Liberia in 1853. Daughter Martha Custis Burke was born in Liberia. Descendants of the Burke family still live in Liberia today.
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William
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Burke
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son
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Immigrated to Liberia in 1853. Daughter Martha Custis Burke was born in Liberia. Descendants of the Burke family still live in Liberia today.
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Martha Custis
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Burke
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daughter
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Born in Liberia
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Arianna
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Carter
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Maria Carter Custis Syphax' mother
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Charles
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Syphax
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married to Maria Carter Custis Syphax; father of their children
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1791
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1869
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Maria Carter Custis
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Syphax
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married to Charles Syphax
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Daughter of George Washigton Parke Custis and Arianna Carter, an enslaved woman. Raised on the plantation in enslavement. In 1826, GWP Custis freed adult Maria and gave her land on the plantation. Possibly related to Marcellena who was married to Cornelius Syphax. Descendants of the Syphax family live in the Washington DC area and other places today.
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1803
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1886
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Elinor Bertha
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Syphax
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daughter
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William
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Syphax
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son
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Cornelius
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Syphax
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son
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Charles
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Syphax
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son
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Colbert Stewart
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Syphax
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son
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Shaulter
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Syphax
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son
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Austin
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Syphax
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son
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John Bryce
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Syphax
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son
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Ennis Gray
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Syphax
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son
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Maria
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Syphax
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daughter
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Mary
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Syphax
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granddaughter
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Washington
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Syphax
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grandson
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Cassy
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Surname not recorded
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married to Lewis [Surname not recorded]
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Gained their freedom before the Civil War and moved to New York. Cassy suggested they move closer to Washington DC to be closer to friends; Lewis refused, concerned he might be returned to enslavement.
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Lewis
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Surname not recorded
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married to Cassy [Surname not recorded]
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Gained their freedom before the Civil War and moved to New York. Cassy suggested they move closer to Washington DC to be closer to friends; Lewis refused, concerned he might be returned to enslavement.
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Julia Ann
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Check
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Catharine Check's mother
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The Check family was enslaved at Arlington Plantation, and freed in GWP Custis' will in 1862. This was enacted by Robert E. Lee, the will's executor, five years after Custis' death at the last moment allowed by the terms of the will.
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Catharine
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Check
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Julia Ann Check's daughter
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The Check family was enslaved at Arlington Plantation, and freed in GWP Custis' will in 1862. This was enacted by Robert E. Lee, the will's executor, five years after Custis' death at the last moment allowed by the terms of the will.
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Catharine Check's child - first name not recorded
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Check
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Catharine Check's child
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The Check family was enslaved at Arlington Plantation, and freed in GWP Custis' will in 1862. This was enacted by Robert E. Lee, the will's executor, five years after Custis' death at the last moment allowed by the terms of the will.
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Louis
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Check
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Catharine Check's son
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The Check family was enslaved at Arlington Plantation, and freed in GWP Custis' will in 1862. This was enacted by Robert E. Lee, the will's executor, five years after Custis' death at the last moment allowed by the terms of the will.
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Henry
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Check
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Catharine Check's son
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The Check family was enslaved at Arlington Plantation, and freed in GWP Custis' will in 1862. This was enacted by Robert E. Lee, the will's executor, five years after Custis' death at the last moment allowed by the terms of the will.
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"Old Shack"
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Check
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Relationship unknown
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The Check family was enslaved at Arlington Plantation, and freed in GWP Custis' will in 1862. This was enacted by Robert E. Lee, the will's executor, five years after Custis' death at the last moment allowed by the terms of the will.
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Ephraim
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Derricks
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Left each Saturday and returned Monday, visting his wife in Washington DC over the weekend. Enslaved at Arlington House as GWP Custis' valet, and after his death, gardener.
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Daniel
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Dotson
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Enslaved as a coachman at Arlington Plantation, and ran errands such as carrying mail.
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Eddison
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Surname not recorded
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Gained his freedom and moved to New York - details unknown. Moved with Lily, another formerly enslaved person from Arlington.
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Elijah
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Surname not recorded
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Willed to GWP Custis from Martha Washington's estate.
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Lily
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Surname not recorded
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Sold in 1829 to Edward Stabler, who probably freed Lily. By 1845 she was living in New York with Eddison, another member of the Arlington former enslaved community
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Eloisa
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Surname not recorded
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Charles' mother
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Died in enslavement in 1818. After her death, GWP Custis freed her son Charles
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Charles
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Surname not recorded
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Eloisa's son
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After his mother Eloisa's death in 1818, GWP Custis freed Charles
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1804?
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Gardner [possibly first name or title]
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Surname not recorded
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Austin
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Gray
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Possibly descendants of Charlotte & Austin, an enslaved couple at Mount Vernon. Possibly a brother or uncle of Thornton Gray.
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Obediah
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Gray
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Possibly a brother or uncle of Thornton Gray. Manumitted in 1862.
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Sally
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Norris
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Selina Gray's mother
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Leonard "Len"
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Norris
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Selina Gray's father
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Wesley
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Norris
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Child of Sally Norris; sibling to Selina Gray
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Made a bid for freedom after GWP Custis' death with Mary Norris and George Parks. Was captured and brutally beaten by Robert E. Lee. Manumitted in 1862
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Mary
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Norris
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Child of Sally Norris; sibling to Selina Gray
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Made a bid for freedom after GWP Custis' death with Mary Norris and George Parks. Was captured and brutally beaten by Robert E. Lee. Manumitted in 1862
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Selina Norris
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Gray
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married to Thornton Gray
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Married to Thornton Gray, and raised eight children together. Selina Gray was enslaved as the Lee's housekeeper.
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1823
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1907
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Thornton
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Gray
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married to Selina Gray
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Married to Selina Gray and raised eight children together. Thornton Gray was ensalved as a groom in the stable. Thorton Gray was denied a petition to Congress after the Civil War for some land at Arlington Plantation after the Civil War (though Custis Lee was successful in suing the government for payment for the entire estate).
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Emma Norris Gray
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Spyhax
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daughter
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Sarah
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Gray
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daughter
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Harry W
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Gray
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son
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1851
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Annice
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Gray
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daughter
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1853?
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Ada
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Gray
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daughter
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1857?
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Thornton
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Gray
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son
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Selina L
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Gray
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daughter
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John
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Gray
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son
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Angelo
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Harris
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Sold in 1844 to the Quaker Stabler family with the promise he would be set free. He was freed. Possibly related to Eleanor Harris.
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Eleanor
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Harris
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Enslaved as Mary Fitzhugh Custis' housekeeper. Possibly related to Angelo Harris.
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Nelson
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Harris
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Sold in 1829 to Edward Stabler with the stipulation that Stabler free Nelson Harris.
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James
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Surname not recorded
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Manumitted in 1862
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"Aunt" Judy
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She is written about in Agnes Lee's journal because of her stories about life at Mount Vernon. Though she was a major figure in the lives of the Lee children, her importance was regarded only because of her connection to Washington. She died in enslavement.
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1779
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1855
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Judith
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Surname not recorded
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mother of Louisa and John
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Initially enslaved at Mount Vernon. May be the same person who was called "Aunt Judy" in records - if so, she died in enslavement at Arlington. In 1803, GWP Custis freed her 2 year old daughter Louisa, and in 1818 freed her son John
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Louisa
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Surname not recorded
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daughter of Judith
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Manumitted in 1803
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1801
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John
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Surname not recorded
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son of Judith
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Manumitted in 1818
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1804
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Gideon
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Lancaster
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Shared a home between the house and the river with Michael Meredith, Shack Check, "Aunt" Sukey, and Sally Norris
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Michael
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Meredith
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Enslaved as the "market man" for the Custis-Lee family. He took chickens and butter enslaved people produced on the plantation to market and collected mail. He visited family in Washington DC. He was manumitted in 1862. Possibly related to Philip Merriday.
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Sukey
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Surname not recorded
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Phillip
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Lee
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nephew of Billy Lee
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Enslaved as GWP Custis' valet. In 1829 he tried to raise money to prevent his seven children from being sold to a planter in Georgia. It is unknown if he succeeded.
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Billy
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Lee
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uncle of Phillip Lee
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Enslaved as George Washington's valet during the American Revolution
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Phillip
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Merriday
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Hired out in 1852 by Robert E. Lee to an individual in Washington DC. The 1860 census lists a "Philip Meredith" in the District of Columbia as "free." It is unclear if they are the same person.
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"Nurse" First name not recorded
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Surname not recorded
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Documents refer to an enslaved woman whose given name was not recorded as "Nurse." Speculation that she was "Aunt" Judy are negated in a record in Markie William's diary that mentions "Nurse" living in 1861, while "Aunt" Judy died in the 1850s.
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1787?
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Oney
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Surname not recorded
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Mother of Edmund and Eliza
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Edmund
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Surname not recorded
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Son of Oney
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Freed by GWP Custis in 1818
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Eliza
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Surname not recorded
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Daughter of Oney
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Freed by GWP Custis in 1818
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George
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Clark
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Patsy Clark's father; James Parks' grandfather
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Enslaved as the Custis-Lee family's cook and worked in the garden. He was separated from his wife, enslaved away from Arlington Plantation. George Clark may have learned to cook at Mount Vernon. According to grandson James Parks, George Clark lived to be more than 100 years old.
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Patsy Clark
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Parks
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George Clark's daughter; married to Lawrence Parks
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Cousins to the Norris family
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Lawrence
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Parks
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married to Patsy Clark Parks
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Cousins to the Norris family
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Perry
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Parks
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son
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1836
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George
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Parks
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son
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Amanda
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Parks
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daughter
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Martha
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Parks
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daughter
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Lawrence
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Parks
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son
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James
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Parks
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son
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1843
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1929
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Magdalena
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Parks
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daughter
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Leanna
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Parks
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daughter
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William
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Parks
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son
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Robert
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Parks
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son
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Matilda
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Parks
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daughter
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John
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Sawyer
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manumitted in 1862
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"Aunt" Sukey
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Enslaved at Arlington plantation and lived with Michael Meredith, Gideon Lancaster, Shack Check, and Sally Norris
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Margaret
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Taylor
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mother
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Fled Arlington House with her son Billy Taylor in 1861
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Danbridge
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Taylor
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son
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Ihon
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Taylor
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son
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Billy
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Taylor
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son
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Fled Arlington House with his mother Margaret Taylor in 1861
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Quincy
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Taylor
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son
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