Overview
Location
Near Natchez, Adams Co., MS
Date Constructed/ Founded
not determined
Associated Surnames
not determined
Historical notes
John Nevitt was the owner of Clermont Plantation in Adams County, Mississippi, near Natchez. Nevitt was in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1803, and retired in 1811 as a lieutenant. Tradition has it that he named his plantation for a ship (the Clermont) that he commanded.
Associated Slave Workplaces
none
Associated Free Persons
- John Baptiste Nevitt (b.1783-d.1860)- owner
- Mary Shilling Nevitt (b.1793-d.1813) - first wife of John B. Nevitt (m.1810)
- George Washington Nevitt (b.1813-d.1834) - son of John B. and Mary S. Nevitt
- Sarah Susannah Banks Nevitt (b.1796-d.1822) - second wife of John B. Nevitt (m.1818)
- Matilda Nevitt (b.1821-d.1868) - daughter of John B. and Sarah S.B. Nevitt
- Sutton Banks Nevitt (b.1821-d.1832) - son of John B. and Sarah S.B. Nevitt
Associated Enslaved Persons
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: John Nevitt Diary, 1826-1854, Adams County, Mississippi
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm This collection consists chiefly of a diary kept by John Nevitt between 1826 and 1832, and a typed transcription of that diary. In the diary, Nevitt discussed at length activities on the plantation, where cotton seems to have been the chief crop. Nevitt mentioned his slaves daily: their duties, health, when they ran away, their punishments, and when he sold, bought, or hired them out, as well as when he hired those belonging to others.
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