SANKOFA'S PLANTATION DATABASE

Dunbarton Plantation

Location: Nine miles East of Natchez; Adams Co., MS

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Notes: William Dunbar of Dunbarton and William Dunbar of The Forest are two different unrelated individuals. In "Life, Letters, and Papers of William Dunbar" William Dunbar of the Forest explains he is not the same person and that his mail should always be addressed to The Forest to avoid confusion. R.S. Snedeker

Associated Surnames: Dunbar

Associated Free White Names

• ( - 1826) William Dunbar: owner; born 1775
  • ( - 1870) wife Martha W. Dunbar: wife of William Dunbar
  • son William Henry Dunbar

Associated Black Slave Names

1860: Slaves of Martha W. Dunbar
From Adams Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msadams.htm

• DUNBAR , Martha W., 99 slaves, page 52
  

1861: Slaves of Martha W. Dunbar
From Tumult and Silence at Second Creek, Winthrop D. Jordan

• 89 slaves

Agriculture

• Cotton

Description of Associated Architecture

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Research Leads

• Bondurant, Gabriella Means. The Dunbars: Dunbarton, 1863.

Connect With People Researching This Plantation

• Debra Patterson, [email protected]

RESOURCES

• Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into A Civil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press.
• Rowland, Mrs. Dunbar. Life, Letters, and Papers of William Dunbar. 1930. Press of the Mississippi Historical Society.
• Notes and additional reference (Rowland, 1930) contributed by R.S. Snedeker, [email protected]. Thank you!