“…another family friend…”
Letter from Rutson Maury to Ann Maury, August 10, 1863, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Connections between the Emmets and Maurys in Charlottesville will be documented in later chapters, but family correspondence indicates that friendship between the two families was long-standing. Here, on the occasion of the death of Thomas Addis Emmet (father of the Thomas Addis Emmet who would become Sims’s assistant in New York), Rutson Maury describes games at racket courts in New York between members of the two families.
“…Anne Fontaine…”
There were many letters that touched on the courtship between Lewis and Ann Fontaine Maury, who was known as “Nan.”
Letter from Ann Fontaine Maury to Ann Maury, September 10, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“…traveled once to Niagara…”
The Maury letters are no picnic—particularly not the letters of Rutson Maury, who was prolific, his letters sometimes stretching to more than thirty pages.
Letter from Rutson Maury to Ann Maury, June 7, 1855, held in the Maury Family materials at the Special Collections department of the Swem Library at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“Buy the girl…”
See “One Afternoon in 1855…,” above.
There is no “bill of sale” for Anarcha, but what is clear from the record is that Anarcha had been owned by Nathan Harris, was included on a list of enslaved persons then owned by Margaret Harris (held in trust by George Goldthwaite), and was then enslaved by William L. Maury. By identifying a number of links between Sims and the Maury family, I have constructed a likely route by which Anarcha could have passed from Alabama to Richmond, and from there to New York, as will be further described in the coming chapters.
“…gave birth yet again.”
See “Anarcha learned she had been sold…,” above.
The image indicating that Anarcha’s fifth pregnancy was a large child comes from her entry in the Woman’s Hospital case record. See “Anarca—Slave of Wm. L. Maury,” above.
“…J.D. Nixon…E.H. Robinson…”
Materials from the Harris plantation are held at the Montgomery County Archives in Montgomery, Alabama.