Sale of Wesley Snowden · Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington

event name: Sale of Wesley Snowden
location: Residence of Allen L. Dodge
Identifier: EV_1563
first name: Wesley
last name: Snowden
age: Adult
age description: 16
event type: Sale
event date: 1854-03-30
value: 800
notes: To be enslaved for life
source: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 217.6.5 [Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of Treasury, 1775-1978]. 1862. "Receipt for Purchase of Wesley by Allen Dodge from William C Ogle, 20 March 1854, as found in Petition of Allen Dodge, 5 June 1862 (Petition No. 636)." District of Columbia, U.S., Slave Owner Petitions, 1862. Accessed 24 October 2024. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2159/images/31556_217988-00202. Courtesy of Ancestry.com.
sold person: Wesley Snowden
enslaver: William C. Ogle Esq.; Allen L. Dodge