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Overview

Location

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• Adams County, MS; on Kingston Road, south of Natchez, on Second Creek.  The map coordinates were T6N-R2W, section 42.  To get to the plantation drive south out of Natchez on Highway 61.  Turn left on Kingston Road.  Then turn onto Ogden Road.  The Retirement Plantation driveway is on Ogden Road.  The plantation cemetery is to the left and on a hill as you drive up the plantation driveway.
• See the plantation land on a modern map at the following link.
  • The plantation was probably where you see the number "32" on the map along Ogden Road.  http://www.gomdot.com/Divisions/IntermodalPlanning/Resources/Maps/pdf/CountyHighwayMaps/Adams.pdf
•  See the plantation land on the original land survey map.
  • Calvin Smith's name is in section 42 as the original owner.
  • http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=74281&Index=1&QryID=3117.853

Date Constructed/ Founded

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1791

Associated Surnames

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Bennett, Cobb, Smith

Historical notes

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Associated Slave Workplaces

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• Via the owners' family
  • Calvin and Priscilla (Cobb) Smith - owners.  Two of Calvin's brothers married two of Priscilla's sisters and also had plantations on Second Creek near Retirement Plantation.  Calvin's Retirement Plantation was at T6N-R2W section 42.  Calvin's brother Richard had T6N-R2W section 35, Calvin's brother Philander had T6N-R2W section 41.  The previous three brother's land was adjoining.  Calvin's brother Israel Smith's land was separate from the other brothers at T5N-R2W section 7 and T5N-R3W section 11 and was called Independence Plantation
  • Calvin bought Monmouth - Adams MS in around 1835 , held it for one year and then sold it to the Quitman family.
  • Edwin and Mary (Smith) Bennett (owners) also owned:
    • Bennett Plantation in Madison Parish, LA.
  • Alexander and Helen (Ferriday) Walton - Helen was a grandaughter of Calvin and Priscilla Smith and a niece of Mary (Smith) Bennett (through Mary's sister Helen).  Alexander and Helen and their children lived on Retirement Plantation.  Alexander's mother Mary Lee (Floyd) Walton owned Wilton Plantation - Adams MS and Alexander's sister was Mary Agnes (Walton) (Hunt) Wood.  Mary Agnes first marrid David Hunt's son Abijah who died young and second married Edgar Wood.  She and Edgar lived on Calviton Plantation in neighboring Jefferson County.

Associated Free Persons

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• Calvin Smith (b. 25 Dec 1768 in Granville Massachusetts - d. 7 Nov 1840 in MS) - owner, acquired a Spanish land grant in 1791 on which he developed Retirement Plantation; son of Reverend Jedediah and Sarah Cook Smith.

  • Priscilla Cobb (married Calvin Smith 28 May 1791)

• Mary Louisa Smith - inherited Retirement Plantation from her parents (Calvin and Priscilla Smith); youngest daughter of Calvin and Priscilla Smith.

  • Edwin Ruthven Bennett (married Mary Louisa Smith); son of Gov. Caleb Prew Bennett of Delaware

• Alexander and Helen (Ferriday) Walton; lived on Retirement plantation where they had their children;  Helen is connected to the Smith clan because she was the daughter of William Ferriday and Helen Smith (daughter of Calvin and Priscilla Smith) of Natchez.  Thus, Helen Ferriday Walton was a grandaughter of the plantations original owners (Calvin and Priscilla Smith) a neice of the plantations second owner (Mary Louisa Smith).  Alexander Walton's mother was Mary Lee (Floyd) Walton (of Wilton Plantation - Adams MS in Adams Co., MS), whose brother Charles Floyd was the Sergeant Floyd who died on the fameous Lewis and Clark expedition.  Alexander's sister was Mary Agnes Walton who was married to David Hunt's son Abijah first and to Edgar Wood second and who lived on Calviton Plantation .  The children of Alexander and Helen Walton who were born on Retirement Plantation were:

  • William Parke Walton

  • John Floyd Walton

  • Mary Walton

  • Leila Walton

  • Helen Walton

  • Alexander Young Walton, Jr.

  • Robert Floyd Walton

  • Alexander Young Walton

  • Henry Allen Walton

  • John Floyd Walton

  • Elizabeth Emilia Walton

  • Alfred Edgerton Walton

Associated Enslaved Persons

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• In the 1818 Adams County Census, Calvin Smith had 119 slaves.

Research Leads and Plantation Records

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Miscellaneous Information

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References

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• http://www.msgw.org/adams/retirement.htm#history  , retrieved on Mar 2010,

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