Overview

Location

Adjacent to Brighton Woods place, near Second Creek; Adams Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Mosby

Historical notes

A relatively small 180-acre plantation run by about twenty slaves during John S. Mosby's ownership. John Mosby, born in Virginia in 1801, was a prosperous farmer, but not wealthy by Adams County standards. In spite of his second-class economic status, he established close connection with many of the wealthier planters int he vicinty through the school, Elva Academy, located on his land. His wife was visited by their very well-off immediate neighbor Mrs. Annis Dunbar Jenkins and her children. Mosby's plantation suffered from waivering financial stability: He borrowed money heavily and often used his slaves as collateral. This was a constant threat to the fragile family integrity of the slaves on the plantation

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• John S. Mosby - owner
• Frances B. Babbitt Mosby - wife of John S. Mosby

Associated Enslaved Persons

1850 Slaves of John S. Mosby

Winthrop D. Jordan, From "Road Duty, UTA; Road Duty, MDAH"

• Nelson
• Orange
• Henry

1854 Slaves of John S. Mosby

Winthrop D. Jordan, From "Road Duty, UTA; Road Duty, MDAH"

• Alfred - father Harry Scott, owned by Dr. Scott, lived very close by
• Harvey
• Wesley

1860 Slave sale, John S. Mosby to a Natchez slave-trading firm

Winthrop D. Jordan, From "Adams County Deeds, Book LL, 535, Book MM, 273, 443"

• Three middle-aged women
• Four children

• Harriet - cook; wife of Nelson; female
• Wesley - son of Harriet; age 21
• Harriet's other 3 children

• Maria - female; substituted for Harriet

Total sale amount: $8631.25

Note: "Perhaps the sale was not fully consumated, since Wesley, at least, remained on the place..." W.D. Jordan

1862 Adams County Personal Property Assessment Rolls

Winthrop D. Jordan

• Twelve remaining slaves listed in the name of Frances B. Mosby

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• Elva Academy: a school on the Brighton Plantation attended by the sons of wealthy plantation owners who chose not to hire a tutor at home

References

• Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into ACivil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press.

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