OVERVIEW
Location
Located along both sides of Second Creek east of the Mississippi River south of Natchez in Adams County, Mississippi.
Date Constructed/Founded
Possibly 1805
Associated Surnames
Conner, Savage, Gaillard, Gustine, Baker, Buckner, Young
Historical Notes
Berkeley Plantation was the home plantation of William Carmichael Conner Sr. and his wife Mary Savage Conner. William Carmichael Conner Sr. claimed land on Second Creek that was in the name of his mother-in-law, Ann Gaillard Savage, daughter of Isaac Gaillard. The land was part of a 1789 Spanish land grant. William Conner claimed additional land on Second Creek in 1805 from Samuel Lewis, Sarah Lewis, and Robert Robertson which was part of a 1776 British land grant. Also founded Clifford Plantation east of Second Creek and north of the Homochitto River in Adams County, Mississippi.
Henry LeGrand Conner, a son of William Carmichael Conner Sr. and Mary Savage Conner, inherited Berkeley Plantation. He had become a wealthy planter and owned property in Adams County, Mississippi and in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. He married Susan Evelina Baker and their daughter Louisa Russell Conner inherited the plantation. Louisia's sister Mary Savage Conner married Benson Heighe Blake of Blakeley Plantation in Warren County, Mississippi near Vicksburg. Blake fled to Georgia in 1862 taking the majority of his slaves, stores, and silver when the Union Army approached Vicksburg.
Associated Slave Workplaces
Rifle Point Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA),
Clifford Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
Associated Free Persons
- William Carmichael Conner, Sr. - owner
- Mary Savage – wife
- Ann Gaillard Savage – mother-in-law
- Henry LeGrand Conner - son
- Susan Evelina Baker - daughter-in-law
- Louisa Russell Conner - granddaughter
- William Carmichael Conner, Jr. – son
- Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner – daughter-in-law
- Lemuel Parker Conner – grandson
Associated Enslaved Persons
Research Leads and Plantation Records
- Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, 1818-1865, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Stampp, Kenneth M., Editor, University Publications of America, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989.
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