Elisabeth/Elizabeth
References
R5.075
Inventory of Jacques Telesphore Roman’s New Orleans home (owned by Henri Jacques Roman and Marie Octavie Roman Buchanan); New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 132
Value: $1,200
R5.081
Bill of sale, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 175
Purchase price: $1,575
Lists Rosette/ Zabeth as being a domestic
R5.078
Exchange of slaves, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 46 act 165
Listed as being mulatto
R5.240
Settlement and Partition of Oak Alley Plantation, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima v 46 act 165
Purchase price $14,750 (includes a total of 14 people)
Vendor: Estate of Jacques Telesphore Roman; Vendee: Henri Jacques Roman
R5.073
Transfer of Records, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 45 act 107
Listed as being located at the Roman’s home in New Orleans
Lists Rosette/ Zabeth as mulatto
R5.074
Transfer of Records, New Orleans Notarial Archives, Felix Grima, v 45 act 108
Listed as being located at the Roman’s home in New Orleans
Lists Rosette/ Zabeth as mulatto
R17.006.21
Letter from Celina Pilie Roman to her son Henri Roman, Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, LaRC 179 Roman Family Papers
Dated: January 3, 1863
Celina wrote to Henri that Zabeth and Nancy have run away and have yet to return. When Celina has them back in her custody, “they will be caged up right fast. ” Henri is instructed to put them to the fields to work should they ever return to the country and lock them up on Sunday.
R8.198
Jacques Telesphore Roman Succession, St. James Clerk of Court, Probate 0683
Value: $1,500 (Includes her mother and four siblings)
Lists Meana as Elizabeth’s mother
Lists Charles, Raphael, Rosalie, and Genevieve as Elizabeth’s siblings