Overview Location Date Constructed/ Founded Associated Surnames Historical notes Associated Slave Workplaces Associated Free Persons Associated Enslaved Persons Research Leads and Plantation Records Miscellaneous Information References Users Researching This Workplace

Overview

Location

near St. Johns River, St. Johns Co., FL

Date Constructed/ Founded

1828

Associated Surnames

Jenckes

Historical notes

After Edwin T. Jenckes had traveled the world and lived in Rhode Island during his retirement, he became a sugar cane planter. In Charleston, SC (1828), he had purchased $4,000.00 worth of land in FL and made plans to purchase $15 - 16,000.00 in slaves and supplies at Charleston. Jenckes described an anti-drought ritual in an 1862 letter where "the negroes have had sundry alligators killed and turned with their bellies up in the field for several weeks which is an infallible method of bringing rain."

Associated Slave Workplaces

none

Associated Free Persons

• Edwin T. Jenckes - plantation owner
• Hannah Jenckes - wife of Edwin T. Jenckes

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

*none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Waterford Plantation was originally submitted by The USF Africana Heritage Project. Thanks!
• Tanner, Earl C. "The Early Career of Edwin T. Jenckes a Florida Pioneer in the 1830's" Florida Historical Quarterly 30(3):262-276. http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?type=simple;c=fhp;c=fhq;cc=fhq;q=%22Edwin%20T.%20Jenckes%20a%20Florida%20Pioneer%22;rgn=div1;q1=Edwin%20T.%20Jenckes%20a%20Florida%20Pioneer;view=text;sort=occur;idno=SN00154113_0030_003;node=SN00154113_0030_003%3A3

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