Overview

Location

Scotland Neck, Chatham Co., NC

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Smith

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Egypt Plantation Chatham NC (Chatham Co., NC)

Associated Free Persons

• William Ruffin Smith (b.1779-d.1845) - owner
• Sarah Walton Norfleet (b.1871-d.?) - wife of William R. Smith (m.1801)

• William Ruffin Smith, Jr. (b.1804-d.1872) - owner; son of William R. and Sarah W.N. Smith
• Susan Evans Smith (b.1810-d.1895) - wife of William R. Smith (m.1828); daughter of Peter and Ann Evans of Egypt Plantation Chatham NC
• Peter Evans Smith (b.1829-d.1905) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• William H. Smith (b.1831-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Mary Ann Smith (b.1834-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• George Alexander Smith (b.1835-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Benjamin J. Smith (b.1839-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Adelade Smith (b.1841-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Sarah E. Smith (b.1845-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Charles Stuart Smith (b.1847-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Arthur Lillington Smith (b.1851-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith
• Walter Johnston Smith (b.1852-d.?) - son of William R. and Susan E. Smith

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations: William Ruffin Smith Papers, 1772-1959, Lowndes County, Mississippi; also North Carolina

http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm The materials in Series 3 consist of six account books, including five kept by William Ruffin Smith or his father between 1799 and 1866 in Halifax County. Volume 5 has accounts mostly for the years 1805 to 1835, and includes a three-page list of slaves owned by both Smiths, giving their names, birthdates (ranging from 1755 to 1849), mothers' names, and, occasionally, dates of death.

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations: Peter Evans Smith Papers, 1738-1869, Halifax County, North Carolina

http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj12.asp

Letters from 1822 to 1849 chiefly document the agricultural and other business concerns of Peter Evans of Egypt plantation in Chatham County, North Carolina, and his son-in-law William Ruffin Smith, Jr. of Scotland Neck in Halifax County, North Carolina...Correspondence and financial and legal materials offer only a piecemeal impression of plantation development. Nevertheless, these materials contain significant information about slaves, including their sale and hire and skills, various slave lists, and related labor contracts with freedmen.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj12.asp
• Rootsweb World Connect Project, Stirk-London Families

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