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Dunbarton Plantation

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years ago


 

Overview

 

Location

Nine or ten miles East of Natchez; Adams Co., MS. It was on Liberty Road.

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

 

Associated Surnames

Dunbar

 

Historical notes

William Dunbar of Dunbarton and William Dunbar of The Forest are two different unrelated individuals. In "Life, Letters, and Papers of William Dunbar" William Dunbar of the Forest explains he is not the same person and that his mail should always be addressed to The Forest to avoid confusion. (From R.S. Snedeker)

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

William Dunbar was a brother of Joseph Dunbar who owned Arundo Plantation and a son of Robert Dunbar who owned Lansdowne and Oakley Grove.

 

In addition to Dunbarton, William Henry Dunbar owned Mt Vernon, Rustic Lawn, Oakley Grove, Wakefield, and Alloway Plantations.


 

Associated Free Persons

 

  • William Dunbar (b.1775-d.1826) - owner
  • Martha W. Dunbar (b.?-d.1870) - wife of William Dunbar
  • William Henry Dunbar (b.?-d.?) - son of William and Martha W. Dunbar
  • Sarah (Forman) Dunbar - wife of William Henry Dunbar, descendant of William Gordon Forman (who was a business partner of Abijah Hunt - Huntley Plantation)


 

Associated Enslaved Persons

 

1860 MS Slave Census

Slaves of Martha W. Dunbar

  • DUNBAR , Martha W., 99 slaves (page 52)

 

1861 Slaves of Martha W. Dunbar

From Tumult and Silence at Second Creek, Winthrop D. Jordan

  • 89 slaves


 

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 

  • Bondurant, Gabriella Means. The Dunbars: Dunbarton, 1863.


 

Miscellaneous Information

 

  • none


 

References

 

  • Adams Co. MS Largest Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules, Transcribed by Tom Blake. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msadams.htm
  • Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into A Civil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press.
  • Rowland, Mrs. Dunbar. Life, Letters, and Papers of William Dunbar. 1930. Press of the Mississippi Historical Society.
  • Notes and additional reference (Rowland, 1930) contributed by R.S. Snedeker


 

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