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Ellisisle Plantation
Location: Issaquena Co., MS
Constructed:
History:
Associated Surnames: Adams, Caswell, Christmas, Dun, Duncan, Florida, Jackson, Niamall, Paldo, Palls, Scott, Shif, Shrigs, Stronghton
Associated Plantations: Duncansby Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS); Homochitto Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS); Oakley Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS); Sargossa Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
Associated Free White Names
Associated Black Slave Names
1860: Slaves of Stephen Duncan
From Issaquena Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msissaquena.htm
- DUNCAN, Stephen, RITCH, O. H. T., 174 slaves, page 420B
- DUNCAN, Stephen, FURLOW, Thos. W., 154 slaves, page 422B
- DUNCAN, Stephen, HEARD, Stephen C., 132 slaves, page 423B
- DUNCAN, Stephen, ROWE, Wm. J., 126 slaves, page 424
- DUNCAN, Stephen, GARRET, Jacob, 147 slaves, page 421B
- DUNCAN, Stephen, LEMAY, S. T., 125 slaves, page 426
1865: Freedmen Under Labor Contract at Ellisle Plantation; Seth Stronghton, Planter
From Freedmans Labor Contract Data Master File, Contract #43-022, 01/01/1865
- Abram: age 47; field status
- Jim Adams: age 45; field status
- Aimy: age 30; field status
- Amy: age 31; field status
- Armsted: age 15; field status
- Becky: age 81; field status
- Big Amy: age 47; field status
- Big Elizabeth: age 36; field status
- Big Martha: age 27; field status
- Big Melinda: age 44; field status
- Big Rachel: age 25; field status
- Big Sam: age 46; field status
- Bute: age 75; field status
- Cane: age 66; field status
- Caster: age 43; field status
- Joe Caswell: age 30; field status
- Bill Christmas: age 16; field status
- Cornell: age 11; field status
- Daniel: age 25; field status
- Dave: age 38; field status
- Delia: age 28; field status
- Dennis: age 52; field status
- Diana: age 24; field status
- Elsie: age 26; field status
- Evelin: age 14; field status
- John Florida: age 24; field status
- Mary Florida: age 20; field status
- Polly Florida: age 34; field status
- George Ann: age 40; field status
- Hagan: age 11; field status
- Henry: age 32; field status
- Horace: age 12; field status
- Isaac: age 18; field status
- Fanny Jackson: age 47; field status
- Maria Jackson: age 45; field status
- Jenny: age 13; field status
- Bin Johnson: age 47; field status
- Jim Johnson: age 30; field status
- Julia Ann: age 41; field status
- Keziah: age 20; field status
- Kitty: age 12; field status
- Lazarus: age 44; field status
- Lean: age 25; field status
- Liddie: age 47; field status
- Little Amy: age 32; field status
- Little George: age 11; field status
- Little Martha: age 15; field status
- Little Mary: age 15; field status
- Little Melinda: age 19; field status
- Little Rachel: age 20; field status
- Little Sam: age 15; field status
- Lorenz: age 24; field status
- Lucinda: age 56; field status
- Matilda: age 66; field status
- Milly: age 23; field status
- Minerva: age 27; field status
- Molly: age 12; field status
- Nancy: age 50; field status
- Nannie: age 50; field status
- John Niamall: age 45; field status
- Orange: age 49; field status
- Bill Paldo: age 41; field status
- John Palls: age 40; field status
- Peggy: age 37; field status
- Phillip: age 47; field status
- Plato: age 23; field status
- Primus: age 43; field status
- Roger: age 14; field status
- Rose: age 18; field status
- Sarah: age 57; field status
- Adam Shif: age 51; field status
- Maria Shrigs: age 61; field status
- Sissie: age 31; field status
- William: age 32; field status
- Note: Remarks next to every name read "other owners H.W. Scott and H.P. Dun"
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