Overview

Location

Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Maury

Historical notes

James Hervey Maury and Lucinda Smith Maury, owned and operated the 750-acre Nitta Tola Plantation, which was located about two miles from Port Gibson, MS. The plantation included some 57 slaves from 1856 to 1863 when it was devastated by Union troops during the Vicksburg Campaign. James Hervey Maury also owned a home and worked in a law office in Port Gibson. James Fontaine Maury was living at Nitta Tola during most of the period covered by his diary. Subsequently, he married his first cousin, Elizabeth Owen, the daughter of Frank Owen. Lucknow Plantation, which adjoined Nitta Tola Plantation, was owned by Benjamin Grubb Humphreys and Mildred Maury Humphreys prior to the Civil War. Members of the Maury family frequently visited and stayed overnight at Lucknow.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Lucknow Plantation (Claiborne Co., MS )

Associated Free Persons

• James Hervey Maury - owner
• Lucinda Smith Maury - wife of James H. Maury
• James Fontaine Maury - son of James H. and Lucinda S. Maury

Associated Enslaved Persons

1860 MS Slave Census

• MAURY, J.H., 53 slaves, Dist. 3 (page 441B)

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

• none

References

• Claiborne Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msclaiborne.htm
• 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

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