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Brierfield Plantation

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years, 4 months ago


 

Overview

 

Location

Davis Bend, Warren Co., MS

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

ca. 1835

 

Associated Surnames

Davis

 

Historical notes

Jefferson Davis received the land upon which he and his slaves built Brierfield as a gift from his older brother Joseph E. Davis (owner of Hurricane Plantation).

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

Hurricane Plantation (Warren Co., MS), Rosemont Plantation (Wilkinson Co., MS)


 

Associated Free Persons

 

  • Jefferson Finis Davis (b.1808-d.1889) - son of Samuel E. Davis of Rosemont Plantation; President of the Confederate States of America

 

  • Sarah Knox Taylor Davis (b.1814-d.1835) - first wife of Jefferson F. Davis (m.1835)

 

  • Varina Anne Banks Howell Davis (b.1826-d.1906) - second wife of Jefferson F. Davis (m.1845); daughter of William B. Howell of Briars Plantation
  • Samuel Emory Davis (b.1852-d.1854) - son of Jefferson F. and Varina A.B.H. Davis
  • Margaret Howell Davis (b.1855-d.1909) - daughter of Jefferson F. and Varina A.B.H. Davis
  • Jefferson Davis (b.1857-d.1878) - son of Jefferson F. and Varina A.B.H. Davis
  • Joseph Evan Davis (b.1859-d.1864) - son of Jefferson F. and Varina A.B.H. Davis
  • William Howell Davis (b.1861-d.1872) - son of Jefferson F. and Varina A.B.H. Davis
  • Varina Anne Davis (b.1864-d.1898) - daughter of Jefferson F. and Varina A.B.H. Davis


 

Associated Enslaved Persons

 

1860 Federal Slave Schedule, Jeff Davis

Warren Co., MS

  • 113 slaves


 

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 

Cox, Owen B. Papers, 1844-1882

Manuscript Resources on African American History in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Special Collections, LSU Libraries. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/afam.html

n.d. 21 items. Location: Mf. Planter and merchant of Clinton and Briarfield, Mississippi. Papers include slave sale documents; family letters; two Jefferson Davis documents; and a contract (1879) and a letter (1882), both pertaining to the management of Briarfield Plantation. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 3041.


 

Miscellaneous Information

 

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References

 


 

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