Overview

Location

Jasper Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

not determined

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• Dr. James Metcalfe - owner
• Sarah W. Metcalfe - wife of James Metcalfe
• James Wistar Metcalfe - son of James and Sarah W. Metcalfe

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: James Wistar Metcalfe Papers, 1841-1852, Adams County, Mississippi; also Indiana. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm The second part of the volume contains a diary he kept while at Bourbon Plantation, near Montrose, between January and August 1843. Metcalfe apparently was managing a plantation for his father. In the diary, he kept a record of his activities, field work of slaves, hunting and fishing, the weather, building ditches, the corn crop, fodder, and social events.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations Series J, Part 6 (Mississippi and Arkansas) http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm
• Persac, A. Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River. New Orleans, B.M. Norman, 1858. Engraved, printed and mounted by L.H. Colton & Co., New York. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

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