ARHO Registration of Phillip Merriday

event name

ARHO Registration of Phillip Merriday

location

Residence of George Washington Parke Custis

Identifier

EV_5300

first name

Phillip

last name

Merriday

name note

Surname may be Meredith

occupation

Retail

occupation description

Market man

event type

Registration

notes

Hired out by REL [ER_0066] in Washington, DC; the 1860 census lists a Philip Meredith in DC, uncertain if same man (free black)

source

National Park Service. 2021. "The Many Voices of Arlington Plantation." Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial. 2021. Accessed October 28, 2024. https://www.nps.gov/arho/learn/historyculture/the-many-voices-of-arlington-plantation.htm.

place

Arlington Estate

place type

Plantation

registered person

Philip Merriday

enslaver

George Washington Parke Custis