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Brighton Plantation
Location: Adjacent to Brighton Woods place, near Second Creek; Adams Co., MS
History: A relatively small 180-acre plantation run by about twenty slaves during John S. Mosby's ownership. John Mosby, born in Virginia in 1801, was a prosperous farmer, but not wealthy by Adams County standards. In spite of his second-class economic status, he established close connection with many of the wealthier planters int he vicinty through the school, Elva Academy, located on his land. His wife was visited by their very well-off immediate neighbor Mrs. Annis Dunbar Jenkins and her children. Mosby's plantation suffered from waivering financial stability: He borrowed money heavily and often used his slaves as collateral. This was a constant threat to the fragile family integrity of the slaves on the plantation
Associated Surnames: Jenkins
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1850's: John S. Mosby slaves
Winthrop D. Jordan, From "Road Duty, UTA; Road Duty, MDAH"
- Nelson
- Orange
- Henry
1854: John S. Mosby's slaves
Winthrop D. Jordan, From "Road Duty, UTA; Road Duty, MDAH"
- Alfred: father Harry Scott, owned by Dr. Scott, lived very close by
- Harvey
- Wesley
1860: Slave sale, John S. Mosby to a Natchez slave-trading firm
Winthrop D. Jordan, From "Adams County Deeds, Book LL, 535, Book MM, 273, 443"
- Three middle-aged women
- Four children
- Harriet: cook; wife of Nelson; female
- Wesley: son of Harriet; age 21
- Harriet's other 3 children
- Maria: female; substituted for Harriet
- Total sale amount: $8631.25
- Note: "Perhaps the sale was not fully consumated, since Wesley, at least, remained on the place..." W.D. Jordan
1862: Adams County Personal Property Assessment Rolls
Winthrop D. Jordan
- Twelve remaining slaves listed in the name of Frances B. Mosby
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