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Eustatia Plantation
Page history
last edited
by PBworks 16 years ago
Overview
Location
Issaquena Co., MS
Date Constructed/ Founded
not determined
Associated Surnames
Anderson, Brown, Blue, Bunkly, Butler, Campbell, Claiborn, Clark, Eustis, Gaines, Good, Goodson, Green, Hall, Hawley, Island, Jenifer/Jennifer/Jenfer, Jones, King, Kinny/Kinney, Odum, Reed, Thomas, Uslem/Ooslem/Uslum
Historical notes
none
Associated Slave Workplaces
none
Associated Free Persons
- Horatio Eustis (b.?-d.1858) - owner
- Catherine C. Eustis - wife of Horatio Eustis
- Sarah - free person of color
- John W. Butler - overseer; recorded entries in Eustatia Plantation Account book
- George R. Clark - overseer; recorded entries in Eustatia Plantation Account book
- Henry C. Eustis - overseer; recorded entries in Eustatia Plantation Account book
- Q.F. Hawley - overseer; recorded entries in Eustatia Plantation Account book
- Major Chatard - buyer and seller of goods, noted several times in account book
- J.R. Langley - noted as borrowing hay from Eustatia (in account book)
- Mr. William Brown - saw mill engineer
- Mr. Borham - traded goods with Eustatia plantation
- Dr. Duval - tended to many of the sick slaves
Associated Enslaved Persons
1860 - 1861 Slaves mentioned in the Eustatia Account Book
- Abe
- (Big) Amanda
- (Little) Amanda
- Amanda Campbell - married William Campbell(?)
- Anderson - ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 1, 1860
- (Old) Ann
- Anica - cook, sick nurse
- Arthor
- Bazzel/Basil/Baswell - man; carried out several duties and ran many errands; made slave collars
- Ben Reed - ran away the night of Tues., June 12, 1860; returned Sun., July 15, 1860; ran away Wed. Sept. 12, 1860; returned Fri. Oct. 5, 1860
- Betsy Brown
- Betsy Ooslem/Uslem - baby born Oct. 16, 1860
- Bob Uslum
- Body/Boddy - woman
- Borlea - meat curer
- Caroline Uslum
- Celest
- Claiborn - ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 1, 1860
- (Big) Clarissa Hall
- (Little) Clarissa
- Dick - ran away Thursday, June 15, 1860; returned Sunday, July 15, 1860; ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 1, 1860
- Elijah - mending pipes along the saw mill
- Eliza - house servant
- Eliza Ann
- Ellen
- Frozen/Frozene - baby born Sept. 18, 1860
- Green/Greene - ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; caught and returned Oct. 18, 1860
- Harrison
- Henney Jenifer - female; one baby (became ill and died June 4, 1860); married Jim Jenifer (?)
- Jack Odum
- Jackson - man; slave driver
- Jim Jenifer - male, mending pipes along the saw mill, axe grinding
- Jim King
- Jim Kinny: ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 1, 1860
- Jeff
- Jenny
- Jerry - ran away Sunday, July 8, 1860; returned Sunday, July 15, 1860
- Jery - ran away Tuesday, June 12, 1860
- Jo Claiborn
- Jo Gaines
- Joe Bunkly
- Joe Eustis - ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 1, 1860
- Joe Thomas
- Joe Uslum
- John
- Kean Hall - man; mending and sharpening plows, blacksmith, foreman
- Leah-Anne
- Leige
- Liddy
- Lidely
- Linsey/Lincy - woman; died Mon. Nov. 5, 1860
- Manervia
- Margrate - baby born Oct. 20, 1860; house servant
- Maria Anderson - house servant
- (Old) Maria
- Marrien
- Mary Blue
- Mary Green
- Mary Jones
- (Little) Mary
- Matilda - baby born July 1860
- Montgomery
- Moses
- Ned
- Nelce
- Nelson
- Ned Brown
- Patsy Ann - ran away Tues. Oct. 30, 1860; returned Sat. Nov. 3, 1860
- (Little) Patsy
- (Old) Peter - basket weaving; ran away Tues. Sept. 11, 1860; returned Fri. Oct. 5, 1860
- (Little) Peter - waggoning; ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; returned Fri. Oct. 5, 1860
- Phillip/Phill Good
- Phillis - nurse
- Polly
- Richmond/Richman - ran away Fri. Sept. 7, 1860; returned Fri. Oct. 5, 1860; ran away Wed. Oct. 10, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 15, 1860
- Roda/Rody - female; baby born Sept. 5, 1860
- Rosetter
- (Big) Sarah
- (Little) Sarah
- Sarah Goodson
- Sarah Uslem
- Spenser - ran away Oct. 16, 1860; returned night of Oct. 18, 1860
- Stepney - ran away the night of Fri., June 22, 1860; returned Thurs. Aug. 12, 1860; ran away Sat. Sept. 29, 1860; caught and returned Oct. 18, 1860
- Steven
- Susan
- (Old) Synay
- Thomas/Tom - fixing/building wagon wheels and carts in his shop
- Tom Island - carpenter
- William Campbell - house servant, working on houses; ran away Thurs. Sept. 27, 1860; returned Mon. Oct. 1, 1860
- Wilson
Research Leads and Plantation Records
- Eustatia Plantation, MS, Account Book, 1861: Ohio Historical Center Archives Library. Vol 649
Miscellaneous Information
References
- Branton, K. and Wade, A. Early Mississippi Records: Issaquena Co. & Washington Co., 1827-1900, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Co. 2001. [Estate of Horatio Eustis; WBk. C, p.13; 1859]
- The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 (online): Eustatia Plantation, MS, Account Book. The online source has images of the pages from the account book as well as a transcribed version.
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