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Rokeby Plantation

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years ago


 

Overview

 

Location

Jefferson Co, MS. This plantation was right across Fairchilds Creek from Hermitage Plantation - Adams, MS. This plantation was on the southern border of Jefferson County.

 

This plantation was at land coordinates T8N-R2W, section 22. It was only in the part of section 22 that was north of Fairchilds Creek. Rokeby was probably in sections 19 and 3 as well. This land can be found on-line at:

  1. The MS Dept of Transportation website "county highway maps" at: www.gomdot.com
  2. The Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Records at: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=74295&Index=3&QryID=77219.95

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

The plantation was set up in about 1812 on the part of Gabriel Benoist's 4,000 acres of land that passed to his daughter Victorie.

 

Associated Surnames

Shields

 

Historical notes

William Shields owned this plantation. His wife was Victorie Benoist. Victorie was the daughter of Gabriel Benoist and Elizabeth (Dunbar) Benoist who owned Hermitage Plantation - Adams, MS.

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

  • Victorie (Benoist) Shields was the daughter of the owners of Hermitage Plantation - Adams, MS
  • Victorie (Benoist) Shields was a descendant of Robert Dunbar who owned Lansdowne Plantation and Oakley Grove Plantation. Victorie's mother was Elizabeth (Dunbar) Benoist - a daughter of Robert Dunbar and Ann Beaver.


 

Associated Free Persons

 

  • William Baynard Shields - ownner.
  • next owner was a son of William Baynard Shields - also named William Shields


 

Associated Enslaved Persons

 

  • none recorded yet


 

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 

  • none reported yet


 

Miscellaneous Information

 

  • none


 

References

 

  • none


 

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