Edward B. Adams
About Me
I started researching my family's history in 1973. In the early 1990s, hoping to learn more about my enslaved ancestors, I began to focus most of my research on slaveholders in the old Natchez District which consisted of Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson, Warren, and Wilkinson counties in Mississippi and Concordia, Madison, and Tensas parishes in Louisiana. My great great grandfather on my maternal side was born a slave in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi. His parents were born in Virginia. My great great grandmother on my maternal side was also born in Virginia. They were taken to the Rifle Point Plantation where my great grandfather was born in 1856. His wife, my great grandmother, was born In Natchez where her father was also born. Her mother was born in Virginia.
My great grandfather on my paternal side was born, according to family stories, in Indian Territory. My information on him begins in 1842 in Copiah County, Mississippi which had been part of Jefferson County. His wife, my great grandmother, according to family stories, was brought to the same area of Mississippi from Canada.
I found that the slaveholders in the Old Natchez District were related by blood, marriage, and personal relationships. There were, basically, thirteen main families from which most of the slaveholding families evolved. The further the research of their lines, the closer they were by blood.
Websites
The Edward Adams Family Home Page
Pages I've created
Coles County, Illinois
Gallatin County, Illinois
Carroll Parish, Louisiana
Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Concordia Parish, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Madison Parish, Louisiana
Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Adams County, Mississippi
Warren County, Mississippi
Yazoo County, Mississippi
McLennan County, Texas
Plantations/ Workplaces I'm Researching
I am researching the plantations listed above. I am also researching the Spring Hill Plantation and Walnut Grove Plantation in Copiah County, Mississippi.
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