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Homochitto Plantation
Location: Issaquena Co., MS
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History:
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
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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Description of Associated Architecture
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
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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