Sale of Nelson Harris · Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington · Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington

event name: Sale of Nelson Harris
location: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
Identifier: EV_2736
first name: Nelson
last name: Harris
name note: Possibly ED_01292
event type: Sale
event date: 1829-09-26
value: 1
notes: Based on value, assumed that manumission to occur; reissued as first deed lost
source: "Deed of Sale for Nelson Harris, reissued." 1829. In Alexandria County Deed Book. S-2:387. As found in Virginia Jenkins (1995) Edward Stabler, "A Kind Friend and Counsellor": A Quaker and Abolitionist in Alexandria, Virginia: 1790-1830. John G. Motheral, editor. Alexandria Archaeology Publications, No. 27. Office of Historic Alexandria, City of Alexandria, Virginia.
sold person: Nelson Harris
enslaver: William H. Fitzhugh; Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis; Edward Stabler