Overview

Location

South of Ellis Cliffs, Adams County, Mississippi

Date Constructed/ Founded

30 Nov 1836

Associated Surnames

Metcalfe, Baker, Gillespie, Semple

Historical notes

30 Nov. 1836 Dr. James Metcalfe purchased 397 acres from Calvin Smith beginning his Bourbon Plantation.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Seminole Plantation (later renamed Kilmarnock Plantation), Adams County, Mississippi

York Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi

Montrose Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi

Associated Free Persons

• Dr. James Montrose Metcalfe - owner
• Sarah Williams Baker Metcalfe - wife of James Metcalfe
• James Wistar Metcalfe - son of James and Sarah W. Metcalfe
• Dr. Orrick Field Metcalfe - son of James and Sarah W. Metcalfe
• John Thomas Metcalfe - son of James and Sarah W. Metcalfe
• Dr. Volney Metcalfe - brother James Metcalfe

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: James Wistar Metcalfe Papers, 1841-1852, Adams County, Mississippi; also Indiana

http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm

The second part of the volume contains a diary he kept while at Bourbon Plantation, near Montrose, between January and August 1843. Metcalfe apparently was managing a plantation for his father. In the diary, he kept a record of his activities, field work of slaves, hunting and fishing, the weather, building ditches, the corn crop, fodder, and social events.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

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
• Persac, A. Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River. New Orleans, B.M. Norman, 1858. Engraved, printed and mounted by L.H. Colton & Co., New York. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Users Researching This Workplace

Edward B Adams