shields plantation
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Shields
Plantation
Location: Lowndes Co., MS
Constructed:
History: ----
Associated Surnames: Adams, Shields, Smith
Associated Plantations: Smith Plantation (Halifax
Co., NC)
Associated Free White Names
- Charles Shields: owner; resided in Scotland Neck, Halifax Co. North
Carolina
- Howel Adams: overseer at Shields Plantation in MS
- William Ruffin Smith: executor of the Shields estate
Associated Black Slave Names
Agriculture
Description of Associated Architecture
Research Leads
- Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Ruffin
Smith Papers, 1772-1959, Lowndes County, Mississippi; also North Carolina.
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm
Most of the papers in Series 1 relate to the Mississippi plantation of Charles
Shields, William Ruffin Smith's neighbor in North Carolina. Shield bought a plantation
in Mississippi and took an unspecified number of slaves there to operate it under
the supervision of an overseer, Howell Adams, but died shortly thereafter. Smith,
as executor of the estate, administered the property for Shields's heirs.
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