Overview

Location

Adams Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Gillespie

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Indian Village Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA)

Associated Free Persons

• James A. Gillespie - owner

Associated Enslaved Persons

1860 MS Slave Census

• GILLESPIE, James A., 91 slaves (page 56B)

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Manuscript Resources on the History of Music, Drama, and Other Performing Arts in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Hill Memorial Library, LSU: Gillespie, James A., planter

Family papers, 1776-1928 (bulk 1840-1890). 1,149 items, 20 ms. vols. Location: E:22-24, G:16, 65:G, Vault. Planter of Hollywood Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi, and Indian Village Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Collection includes plantation records, business papers, and correspondence of the Gillespie family and business papers of the Davis family. Papers include slave sales, land deeds, a will, diaries, portraits, maps, sheet music, and fashion publications.... http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/perfarts.html

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
• Manuscript Resources on the History of Music, Drama, and Other Performing Arts in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections Hill Memorial Library, LSU http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/perfarts.html

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