Overview

Location

Kingston, Adams Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Green, Noland

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• Pearce Noland - owner
• Elizabeth Noland - wife of Pearce Noland; inherited personal property and slaves
• T.V. Noland - son of Pearce and Elizabeth Noland; inherited half of Sligo Plantation and slaves
• Henry Noland - son of Pearce and Elizabeth Noland; inherited half of Sligo Plantation and slaves

• Caroline Hamilton - married at Sligo Plantation on 22 October, 1831, (reported in the Mississippi Democrat); daughter of Colonel Hamilton

Associated Enslaved Persons

1829 Slaves at Sligo Plantation

From Linzay Kelly

• Green, Robert Barnes (b.1829)-d.?) - born March of 1829, Baltimore MD; slave at Sligo plantation in Kingston

Slaves of Pearce Noland and Heirs

Mentioned in his 1857 will

To Henry Noland

• Jenny
• Lorenzo - blacksmith
• Sandy
• Warren

To Elizabeth Noland

• "25 Negroes set apart by Families"

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Farrar, Alexander K. Papers, 1804-1931. 2,304 items. Location: UU:74-75. Planter and lawyer of Kingston, Adams County, Mississippi, and Mississippi state senator

Personal, professional, and plantation papers concerning Farrar's law practice, including settlement of several estates, and his plantation and business interests. Available (with some omissions) on microfilm: University Publications of America Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations Series I, Part 3, Reels 6-10. For further information see manuscript card catalog. Mss. 782, 1348. from: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/plantations.html

Noland, Pearce, The Last Will and Testament of Pearce Noland, 1857

"....I desire that there shall be a division of said property of every description, both real and personal, and that my wife, Elizabeth Noland, shall have her dower set apart in the land, Plantation known by the name of "Sligo"; and that my said wife shall have twenty-five Negroes set apart by Families...." from: http://members.tripod.com/nolandsharon/wills.htm

Miscellaneous Information

• Described in the Will of Pearce Noland as: "Plantation known by the name of "Sligo"....The said tract of land lying north of Whites Creek in Kingston in the Robb Field until it strikes the sectional line between Sections 18 and 19, then west to Markham's line including all the land down in Warren County"

References

• The Last Will and Testament of Pearce Noland, 1857

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