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Bennett Plantation

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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

Madison Parish, Louisiana.

Date Constructed/Founded

c1844

Associated Surnames

Bennett, Smith, Cobb, Ferriday, Gillespie, Ralston, Dunbar

Historical Notes

Edwin Ruthven Bennett, son of Caleb Prew Bennett, Governor of Delaware, and Catherine Britton, was a lawyer and farmer who lived on Retirement Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi, with his wife, Mary Louisa Smith Ruthven, daughter of Calvin Smith and Priscilla Cobb. Edwin Ruthven Bennett purchased over 257 acres of land in Madison Parish, Louisiana in August of 1844.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Associated Free Persons

Edwin Ruthven Bennett – owner
Mary Louisa Smith Bennett – wife
Calvin Smith – father-in-law
Priscilla Cobb Smith – mother-in-law
A. R. McCrain - Manager

Associated Enslaved Persons

Robert Stewart

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Miscellaneous Information

Edwin R. Bennett and his wife, Mary Louisa Smith Bennett, lived on Retirement Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi. Mary Louisa Smith was the youngest daughter of Calvin Smith and Priscilla Cobb Smith. Mary Louisa inherited Retirement Plantation from her father. Mary Louisa and Edwin lived on Retirement Plantation. A. R. McCrain managed the Bennett Plantation.

Robert Stewart, a slave, gave a statement in an affidavit that he was born on the Bennett Plantation in Madison Parish in 1853. The affidavit is a part of the Civil War pension file of Jacob Stewart. Robert Stewart is the nephew of Jacob Stewart great great grandfather of Edward B Adams.

References

1850 U. S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules; Western District, Madison, Louisiana; E R Bennett - 66 Slaves
1860 U. S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules; Madison, Louisiana

E R Bennett - 87 Slaves; McCrain - Manager

1860 U. S. Federal Census, Madison, Louisiana; Roll: M653_413; Page: 0; Image: 318; A R McCrain 30 M W Overseer Mississippi; M J McCrain 27 F W -------- Mississippi
Jacob Stewart, widow Ellen, Civil War pension application file (private) Co. H, 6th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
Bureau of Land Management, U. S. General Land Office