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Homochitto Plantation

Location: Issaquena Co., MS
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Associated Surnames: Duncan, Ellis

Associated Plantations: Duncansby Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS); Ellisle Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS); Laurel Hill (Adams Co., MS); Oakley Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS); White Cliffs (Adams Co., MS); Sargossa Plantation (Adams Co., MS)

Associated Free White Names

• Stephen Duncan: owner of Homochitto, L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS), Ellisle Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS), Middlesex, Oakley Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS), Rescue, Reserve, Sargossa Plantation (Adams Co., MS), and Attakapas
• Richard Ellis: owner of Homochitto, Laurel Hill, and White Cliffs Plantations
• (1865) Seth Stronghton: owner
• (1865) H.W. Scott: owner
• (1865) H.P. Dun: owner

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

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Research Leads

Manuscript Resources on the History of Music, Drama, and Other Performing Arts in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Hill Memorial Library, LSU http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/perfarts.html

• Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. Family papers, 1817-1877. 158 items, 2 ms. vols. Location: S:120. Planter and banker of Natchez. Duncan plantations included L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby, Ellisle, Homochitto, Middlesex, Oakley, Rescue, Reserve, and Attakapas...Papers include legal documents, bills, and receipts. A daybook includes lists of slaves present at Homochitto Plantation.
• Ellis-Farar papers, 1768-1871 (bulk 1804-1833). 308 items. Location: S:1. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reel 10. Richard Ellis, planter of White Cliffs, Homochitto, and Laurel Hill plantations, Natchez. His children included Mary (who married Captain Benjamin Farar), Jane, and Abram. Papers document plantation management and include deeds, vouchers, correspondence with overseers, and receipts.

  Natchez Holdings at Louisiana State University, The Louisiana & Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Compiled by Robert S. Martin and Faye Phillips
  http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/srr/srr7/srr7d.htm
  

• ELLIS-FARAR PAPERS, 1768-1871; 308 items.
  Papers of the Richard Ellis family and the related Captain Benjamin Farar family, planters of Adams County, MS, related to land holdings and plantation management in the Natchez district, including White Cliffs, Homochitto and Laurel Hill plantations. Papers relate to the activities of successive generations of the Ellis and Farar families.

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RESOURCES

• Manuscript Resources on the History of Music, Drama, and Other Performing Arts in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Hill Memorial Library, LSU http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/perfarts.html