Tensas Pa., LA. This plantation was just south of the town of Waterproof, LA. The historic site is on highway 568/65 just south of its intersection with highway 566. It is to the west of highway 568 and most likely stretched all the way to the MS. Click on "Hybrid" at the following website to see the fields and forrests in the area today. http://www.clocations.com/cviewmap.aspx?list=caty&state=LA&caty=Locale&lid=649855 Lake St. John is the same as Lake Concordia where David Hunt's (Woodlawn Plantation MS) Hole-In-The-Wall Plantation was located (Concordia Parish used to be St. John Parish). Samuel Clements Clement to become part of Ravenswood Plantation. Note that the area on the map where Elijah Smith owned a section of land and where Henry Hunt (probably some relative of Abijah) owned another section of land is where David Hunt's Hole In The Wall Plantation was located. Date Constructed/ Founded My best guess is in about 1822 or slightly before when David Hunt is known to have been renting out land he owned on nearby Lake Concordia ("David Hunt Letters," LA State University, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/natchez/collections/hunt/index.html, retrieved , 30 Nov 07).
Tensas Pa., LA. This plantation was just south of the town of Waterproof, LA. The historic site is on highway 568/65 just south of its intersection with highway 566. It is to the west of highway 568 and most likely stretched all the way to the MS. Click on "Hybrid" at the following website to see the fields and forrests in the area today. http://www.clocations.com/cviewmap.aspx?list=caty&state=LA&caty=Locale&lid=649855 Lake St. John is the same as Lake Concordia where David Hunt's (Woodlawn Plantation MS) Hole-In-The-Wall Plantation was located (Concordia Parish used to be St. John Parish). surrounding sections - possibly including section 26. sections. Abijah Hunt and William Forman owned lot number 26 (William Forman was a member of the Natchez area Hunt and Smith firm (Abijah Hunt and Elijah Smith) as well as Abijah Hunt's partner in Huntley Plantation in Jefferson County, MS). Note Elijah Smith somehow became the owner of lot number 26 and sold it to Samuel Clements to become part of Ravenswood Plantation. Note that the area on the map where Elijah Smith owned a section of land and where Henry Hunt (probably some relative of Abijah) owned another section of land is where David Hunt's Hole In The Wall Plantation was located. Date Constructed/ Founded My best guess is in about 1822 or slightly before when David Hunt is known to have been renting out land he owned on nearby Lake Concordia ("David Hunt Letters," LA State University, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/natchez/collections/hunt/index.html, retrieved , 30 Nov 07).
Overview Location Land Managment Management original survey map (ca. 1829), Twp 9N-10E, LA, Louisiana (North, South, East, West boundaries and Subdiv. Lines) includes the Ravenswood Plantation property. Based on the land purchases documented below, it is believed that the Ravenswood Plantation extended from Lot #26 to Lot #31. Bureau of Land Management original survey map, Twp 9N-10E: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=78649&Index=67&QryID=47865.35
Overview Location Subdiv. Lines)includes Lines) includes the area believed to be Ravenswood Plantation. Bureau of Land Management original survey map, Twp 9N-10E: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=78649&Index=67&QryID=47865.35 Click(Click Plat Image tab to view the map) The following are documented land purchases of Samuel Clement on Lake St. John and references to those sections of the above map believed to represent these purchases: 2/1/1822: Samuel Clement purchases from David Urguhart 592 1/2 acres payable for $3,000 by 4/3/1827 [Believed to be Lot #27 on Twp 9N-10E map] (Records of Conveyances, Concordia County Courthouse, Vidalia, Book D at 344 4/2/1824: Samuel Clement purchses 720 argents on Lake St. John from Charles B. and Helen Green upper side of tract of land now in possession of Samuel Clement and on lower side of tract of Isau Rassely (belongs to John Perkins and surveyed in name of L. James Beauvais) [Although map has the name of Frances Beauvais, it is believed that this purchase corresponds to Lot #28.] (Records of Conveyances, Concordia County Courthouse, Vidalia, Book D at 534.) Date Constructed / Founded Approx. 1822
Overview Location Concordia Parish Parish. Bureau of Land Managment original survey map (ca. 1829), Twp 9N-10E, LA, Louisiana (North, South, East, West boundaries and Subdiv. Lines)includes the area believed to be Ravenswood Plantation. Bureau of Land Management original survey map, Twp 9N-10E: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=78649&Index=67&QryID=47865.35 Click Plat Image tab to view the map) The following are documented land purchases of Samuel Clement on Lake St. John and references to those sections of the above map believed to represent these purchases: Date Constructed/ Constructed / Founded Approx. 1825 1822 Associated Surnames Clement, Austin, Yznaga (del Valle) John Minor, 50, $250 Research Leads and Plantation Records none reported yetYznaga del Valle & Co. (New York, NY), (Sugar brokerage), Records, 1850-1880, 30 v. Held at Rutgers University Libraries. This collection includes: Accounts and receipts (1850-1879); letters received (1856-1860); Yznaga del Valle family accounts (ca. 1858-1878), including papers relating to Ravenswood Plantation, LA, securities, real estate, and mortgages; and miscellaneous papers, including letters (1869-1874) received by Anthony Dey, a member of the firm Miscellaneous Information Formerly a steamboat captain, Samuel Clement was captain of the "Vesuvius," reportedly the third steamboat to venture down the Mississippi river to Natchez. Built in 1814 in Pittsburgh by Robert Fulton, the "Vesuvius" was later sold to the Natchez Steamboat Company to be used as a transport to New Orleans.
Robert Weiner About Me of Ravenswood and other properties following Clement's properties. death in 1833. Please let me know if you encounter any mention of Henry Orne in regard to any plantation activities and/or life in the Natchez area during this time period. Pages I've created Ravenswood Plantation
Robert Weiner About Me encounter this name any mention of Henry Orne in regard to any plantation activities and/or life in the Natchez area during this time period. Pages I've created Ravenswood Plantation Plantations/ Workplaces I'm Researching are particularly very interested in its transformation into a large scale cotton plantation with more than 100 slaves, including documenting tracing the slave sale transactions, etc. families from this plantation and others owned by Clement and his descendents. Please contact me if you believe that an ancestor may have lived on the Ravenswood Plantation or any property owned by Clement and his family. Contact Info. [email protected]
About Me I am a financial analyst & accountant by day, with a BS from Florida State University (FSU) in Management and an MBA from Georgia State University in International Business. I am taking the GRE exams soon to pursue a Masters of History at FSU. My specialization will be the Civil War, primarily from the perspective of the state of Florida's role (especially Duval County). I wish to pursue the History Degree primarily to learn how to professionally research and write. My ultimate goal is to complete my dream project, a historical novel on the role of Florida and its people in the Civil War; I have given it a working title of "Gone with the Florida Wind". :-) motto's is - is: how can you know where you're going if you don't know where you came from? My family names of primary interest (and associated plantations) are: Mahoney, Hardee (Rural Home, Rural Felicity, Black Point, Donerale, Honeymoon), Richardson (Harmony Hall), Haddock (Rural Home and Honeymoon), Adams, Bonner, Fleming, Thornton, Bessent (the Archibald Clark House in St. Mary's, GA), Berrie (Hickory Bluff - adjacent to Rural Felicity in Camden County, GA), Braddock. Websites Rural Home - My Great Great Grandfather, Lucius Augustus Hardee, ran this plantation in Duval County, Florida (Jacksonville), that was burned during the war. Rural Felicity - This was the ancestral home of Thomas Ellis Hardee, my GGG Grandfather, located in Pitt County, North Carolina. His brother was Lieutenant General William Joseph Hardee, West Point Commandant and later CSA general under R.E. Lee. James Richardson of Richardson, officer in the Revolutionary War. War (fourth Great Grandfather of mine). See the following website for pictures and history, as the home and site is owned and run by Bladens County: http://www.harmonyhallnc.com/ Black Point - Plantation owned by Thomas Ellis Hardee, located near St. Mary's, GA. Contact Info.
Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly. Editing content is as simple as posting on a message board. Start today by sending me an e-mail expressing your interest in contributing: kh(underscore)art (at yahoo dot com) with "Sankofagen Wiki Contributor" in the subject line. meant to serve as a substitute for original sources (Wills, bills of sale, deeds). This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context... Was the slave buyer a relative of the seller? Did the buyer relocate?
