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The Forest

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Overview
Associated Free Persons
Associated Enslaved Persons
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Miscellaneous Information
References
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Overview

Location

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Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

not determined

Historical notes

Sir William Dunbar who married Dinah Clark owned this plantation. This is a separate family from the Robert Dunbar family who owned several plantations in the Pine Ridge area of Adams County.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Brighton Plantation (Adams Co., MS)

Associated Free Persons

William Dunbar (b.1749-d.?) - owner; born in 1749
Dinah Clark Dunbar - wife of William Dunbar
Dr. William Dunbar (b.1793-d.?) - son of William and Dinah C. Dunbar

Associated Enslaved Persons

1850-1856 Slaves of The Forest Plantation

From Silence and Tumult at Second Creek, "Road Duty, UTA; Road Duty, MDAH", Winthrop D. Jordan

Albert
Dennis

Dick
Peter - son of Dick

George
Harry
Paul
Simon

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: William Dunbar Account Book, 1776-1847, Adams County, Mississippi; also Louisiana

http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm This collection documents Alexander Ross (d. 1806), trader and planter in West Florida, the Bahamas, and elsewhere, and William Dunbar (fl. 1845-1847), son of William Dunbar (1749-1810), who came to America from Scotland as an Indian trader and planter in British West Florida near Baton Rouge and at the Forest near Natchez, Mississippi.

Miscellaneous Information

Manor House: built ca. 1816; burned in 1852

References

Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations Series J, Part 6 (Mississippi and Arkansas) http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm
Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry Into A Civil War Slave Conspiracy. 1993. Louisianna State University Press.
Rowland, Mrs. Dunbar. Life, Letters, and Papers of William Dunbar. 1930. Press of the Mississippi Historical Society.
Notes and additional reference (Rowland, 1930) contributed by R.S. Snedeker. Thank you!