sligo plantation
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Sligo
Plantation
Location: Kingston, Adams, MS
History:
Associated Surnames: Green, Noland
Associated Free White Names
- (???? - 1857) Pearce Noland: slaveholder of Sligo Plantation
- (1831) On 22 October, 1831, the MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRAT reported the marriage,
at Sligo Plantation,
of Caroline Hamilton, daughter of the late Colonel Hamilton
- (1857) Elizabeth Noland: wife of Pearce Noland; inherited personal
property and slaves
- (1857) T.V. Noland: son of Pearce Noland; inherited half of Sligo Plantation
and slaves
- (1857) Henry Noland: son of Pearce Noland; inherited half of Sligo
Plantation and slaves
Associated Black Slave Names
From:
Linzay Kelly, [email protected]
- Green, Robert Barnes: born March of 1829, Baltimore MD; slave at Sligo
plantation in Kingston
Slaves of Pearce Noland and Heirs (mentioned in his 1857 will)
- Jenny: inherited by Henry Noland
- Lorenzo: blacksmith; inherited by Henry Noland
- Sandy: inherited by Henry Noland
- Warren: inherited by Henry Noland
- "25 Negroes set apart by Families": inherited by Elizabeth Noland
Agriculture
Description of Associated Architecture
Description of Land
- Described in the Will of Pearce Noland as: "Plantation known by the name
of "Sligo"....The said tract of land lying north of Whites Creek [in Kingston]
in the Robb Field until it strikes the sectional line between Sections 18 and
19, then west to Markham's line including all the land down in Warren County"
Research Leads
- Farrar, Alexander K. Papers, 1804-1931. 2,304 items. Location: UU:74-75.
Planter and lawyer of Kingston, Adams County, Mississippi,
and Mississippi state senator. Personal, professional, and plantation papers concerning
Farrar's law practice, including settlement of several estates, and his plantation
and business interests. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University
Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I,
Part 3, Reels 6-10. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss.
782, 1348. from: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/plantations.html
- Noland, Pearce, The Last Will and Testament of Pearce Noland,
1857 : "....I desire that there shall be a division
of said property of every description, both real and personal, and that my wife,
Elizabeth Noland, shall have her dower set apart in the land, Plantation
known by the name of "Sligo"; and that my said wife
shall have twenty-five Negroes set apart by Families...." from: http://members.tripod.com/nolandsharon/wills.htm
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