OVERVIEW

Location

Adams County, Mississippi

Date Constructed/Founded

Built between 1785 and 1792.

Associated Surnames

Moore, Roos, Reed, Ker, Conner, Gustine, Martin, Buckner, Wood, Turner, McMurran, Chotard, Dunab, Bisland, Walworth, Witherspoon

Historical Notes

Linden Plantation was built by James Moore as a four room cottage on land he inherited from his father, Alexander Moore. Thomas A. Reed, one of the first U.S. Senators from Mississippi acquired the property in 1818 through his wife, Margaret Ross, who inherited it from her father, Isaac Ross. Thomas Reed changed the name to Reedland. Dr. John Ker bought Reedland Plantation from Margaret Ross Reed after Thomas Reed’s death. Dr. Ker changed the name of the plantation to Linden naming it after the national tree of Germany, his family's native country. Jane Gustine Conner purchased Linden Plantation from the Ker family in 1849, after her husband's death.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Berkeley Plantation MS (Adams Co., MS), Lake Place Plantation (may have been Lake St. John Place) (Concordia Pa. LA), Killarney Plantation (Concordia Pa. LA), Spokane Plantation (Concordia Pa. LA), Innisfail Plantation (formerly Lake St. John's Place), Linden Grove Plantation (Concordia Pa. LA), Rifle Point Plantation (McClennan Co. TX), Linden Plantation (Adams Co. MS)

Associated Free Persons

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Associated Enslaved Persons

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Research Leads and Plantation Records

• The University of Southern Mississippi – McCain Library and Archives Manuscript Collection, The Natchez Trace Research Collection, Collection Number M249, Dates: 1704-1978; Box 6, Folder 22 Linden
• Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, 1818-1865, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I: Selections from the Louisiana State University, Part 3: Stampp, Kenneth M., Editor, University Publications of America, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989.

Miscellaneous Information

After quite a large expansion the Conner Family purchased the house in 1849, and it has remained in that family for 6 generations. During the Civil War, Mrs Jane Conner became known as “Little War Mother,” as she had five sons and three sons-in-law fighting for the Confederacy.

Jane Conner inherited Rifle Point Plantation, eight miles north of Vidalia, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, from her brother, Samuel Gustine, in 1845 from will dated 1836.

References

• Goodspeed Publishing, Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the State and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy and Illustrious Families and Individuals. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891.
• Will of Alexander Moore, Natchez District. Natchez Court Records, 1781-1798, BookC, p. 176. Ancestry.com
• The Gustine Compendium, Gustine Weaver, Cincinnati: Powell & White, 1929.

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