Overview

Location

Franklin Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Harrington (Herrington)

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• James Harrington (b.?-d.1866) - owner
• Martha Lee Harrington - wife of James Harrington; daughter of Needham Lee Jr.

• Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington (b.1853-d.1893) - owner; son of James Harrington
• Carolina Grisham Harrington - wife of Pinckney C. Harrington

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington Papers, 1829-1893, Franklin County, Mississippi

http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm There are only a few papers from the Civil War era, one of which is a list of slaves and their values. These slaves presumably belonged to James Harrington. Pinckney was paroled during 1865 and signed an oath of allegiance that same year. After the war, the Harringtons continued to grow cotton using freedmen for labor. There are numerous agreements between them and their former slaves to work the land for food, clothing, shelter, and a percentage of the crops. There are detailed lists of time missed by various workers.

Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Southern Historical Collection: #1705 Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington Papers

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Harrington,Pinckney_Cotesworth.html

Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington and his father James Harrington (d. 1866), cotton planters in Franklin County, Miss. Chiefly papers relating to the Harringtons' cotton plantations. There are numerous deeds and indentures for land sold to James Harrington between 1829 and 1849.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations Series J, Part 6 (Mississippi and Arkansas) http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm
• Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Southern Historical Collection: #1705 Pinckney Cotesworth Harrington Papers, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Harrington,Pinckney_Cotesworth.html

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