Sale of Thomas Brown · Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington · Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington

event name: Sale of Thomas Brown
location: Residence of Allen L. Dodge
Identifier: EV_1568
first name: Thomas
last name: Brown
event type: Sale
event date: 1854-03-25
value: 560
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 Rosa Brown and children from Allen Dodge from Theodore Mosher, 25 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.
place: Washington, DC
place type: City
sold person: Thomas Brown
enslaver: Theodore Mosher Esq.; Allen L. Dodge