Overview

Location

Adams Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Jenkins

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• Dr. John C. Jenkins - owner; experimental agriculturist and horticulturist
• Annis Dunbar Jenkins - wife of Dr. John C. Jenkins

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Manuscript Resources on the History of Music, Drama, and Other Performing Arts in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Hill Memorial Library, LSU: Jenkins, John C. Family papers, 1840-1900 (bulk 1840-1855)
89 items, 13 vols. Location: B:66, G:21, Mf. Experimental agriculturist and horticulturist and resident of Elgin Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi. Personal papers and diary of the Jenkins family. The diary records results of Jenkins' experiments at Elgin, plantation routine, financial transactions, social and literary activities, and travels. Purchases of slaves and health of slaves are noted. Jenkins' account book shows expenditures for the home, family, plantations, and slaves... http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/natchez.html

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Natchez-Area Manuscript collections in The Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections at Louisiana State University http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/natchez.html
• Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into ACivil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press.

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