1. Overview
    1. Location
    2. Date Constructed/ Founded
    3. Associated Surnames
    4. Historical notes
    5. Associated Slave Workplaces
  2. Associated Free Persons
  3. Associated Enslaved Persons
  4. Research Leads and Plantation Records
  5. Miscellaneous Information
  6. References
  7. Users Researching This Workplace

Overview

Location

Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Humphreys

Historical notes

Lucknow Plantation, which adjoined Nitta Tola, was owned by Benjamin Grubb Humphreys and Mildred Maury Humphreys prior to the Civil War. Members of the Maury family (of Nitta Tola Plantation) frequently visited and stayed overnight at Lucknow.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Nitta Tola Plantation (Claiborne Co., MS )


Associated Free Persons

  • Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (b.1808-d.1882) - owner
  • Mildred Hickman Maury Humphreys (b.1823-d.?) - wife of Benjamin G. Humphreys
  • James M. Humphreys (b.1846-d.?) - son of Benjamin G. and Mildred H.M. Humphreys
  • Benjamin G. Humphreys (b.1848-d?) - son of Benjamin G. and Mildred H.M. Humphreys
  • John Barnes Humphreys (b.1850-d.1912) - son of Benjamin G. and Mildred H.M. Humphreys
  • Elizabeth Fontaine Humphreys (b.1856-d.1957) - daughter of Benjamin G. and Mildred H.M. Humphreys
  • David Smith Humphreys (b.1860-d.?) - son of Benjamin G. and Mildred H.M. Humphreys
  • Benjamin Grubb ,Jr. Humphreys (b.1865-d.?) - son of Benjamin G. and Mildred H.M. Humphreys

Associated Enslaved Persons

  • none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: James Fontaine Maury Diary, 1861, Claiborne County, Mississippi
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm James Fontaine Maury's diary, dated 1 January to 26 May 1861, consists of brief entries that mention the weather; his health; attendance at church; socializing with friends and guests; family and neighborhood news; visiting Lucknow plantation; reading books and newspapers; walking and horseback riding around Nitta Tola Plantation; short trips by steamship and railroad; conveying relatives and friends between Nitta Tola, Grand Gulf, and Port Gibson; and Mississippi's political and military preparations for the Civil War.


Miscellaneous Information

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