Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives"

Fugitive Slaves > A - B > Burr, Lewis

   
   
   
slave name: Burr (Burrell), Lewis
owner name: Clark, Edward
state: District of Columbia
town: Washington / Alexandria
census: 1850 owns female slave 56; 1860 born Ky age 42. Clerk, 8500 real 800 pers.  5 children 11-5 mos all born DC
place sent: Albany, N.Y.
comments: hired to Almon Green, DC auctioneer [in 1850 Census DC - auctioneer, age 45]; bro of Peter; wife and 2 ch owned Col John Tomas Berry Hill Culpepper Va

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