SANKOFA'S SLAVERY DATA COLLECTION
Bowling Green Plantation
Location: Wilkinson Co., MS
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Associated Surnames: McGehee, Veal
Associated Free White Names
Associated Black Slave Names
Veal Family: family of slaves associated with the McGeehee's
1860: Slaves of Edward McGeehee
From Wilkinson Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/mswilkinson.htm
- MCGEHEE, Edw., 146 slaves, pages 390B and 392B
Agriculture
Description of Associated Architecture
Research Leads
Natchez-Area Manuscript collections in The Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections at Louisiana State University http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/natchez.html
- McGehee, J. Burruss (John Burruss), 1836-1913. Papers, 1816-1951. 15 linear ft. Location: C:34-35, UU:54-60, P:1, OS:M, Z. Plantation owner in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Collection includes letters, newspaper articles, business papers related to Burruss' plantations, and genealogical notes. One item records damage to Bowling Green Plantation during the Civil War, and a map (1874) shows an area of racial uprising.
- McGehee, James Stewart, 1860-1945. Family papers, 1826-1912 (bulk 1903-1904). 35 items. Location: C:26, A:3. Planter and businessman of Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Papers include family letters, McGehee's autobiography, the history of a slave family, and financial documents. Includes items related to the destruction of Bowling Green Plantation in Mississippi by U.S. Federal and African American troops.
- McGehee, James Stewart, 1860-1945. McGehee family collection, 1724-1929 (bulk 1862-1880). 5 ms. vols. Location: H:1. Planter and businessman of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, and St. Louis, Missouri. James' grandfather, Edward McGehee, owned Bowling Green Plantation in Mississippi, and was president of the West Feliciana Railroad...Includes an account of the Veal family, a family of slaves associated with the McGehees.
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