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

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Date Constructed/ Founded

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Associated Surnames

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Historical notes

Sir William Dunbar who married Dinah Clark owned this plantation. This is a separate family from the Robert Dunbar family who owned several plantations in the Pine Ridge area of Adams County.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Brighton Plantation (Adams Co., MS)

Associated Free Persons

  • William Dunbar (b.1749-d.?) - owner; born in 1749
  • Dinah Clark Dunbar - wife of William Dunbar
  • Dr. William Dunbar (b.1793-d.?) - son of William and Dinah C. Dunbar

Associated Enslaved Persons

1850-1856 Slaves of The Forest Plantation
From Silence and Tumult at Second Creek, "Road Duty, UTA; Road Duty, MDAH", Winthrop D. Jordan

  • Albert
  • Dennis
  • Dick
  • Peter - son of Dick
  • George
  • Harry
  • Paul
  • Simon

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Dunbar Account Book, 1776-1847, Adams County, Mississippi; also Louisiana
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm This collection documents Alexander Ross (d. 1806), trader and planter in West Florida, the Bahamas, and elsewhere, and William Dunbar (fl. 1845-1847), son of William Dunbar (1749-1810), who came to America from Scotland as an Indian trader and planter in British West Florida near Baton Rouge and at the Forest near Natchez, Mississippi.

Miscellaneous Information

  • Manor House: built ca. 1816; burned in 1852

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
  • Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into A Civil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press.
  • Rowland, Mrs. Dunbar. Life, Letters, and Papers of William Dunbar. 1930. Press of the Mississippi Historical Society.
  • Notes and additional reference (Rowland, 1930) contributed by R.S. Snedeker. Thank you!

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