Overview
Location
Ward 3, (East) Carroll Parish, LA; See historical notes below for township, range, etc.
Date Constructed/ Founded
Undetermined prior to Balfour ownership; following Balfour ownership, 1841 until the Emancipation Proclamation.
Associated Surnames
Balfour
Historical notes
William Lovett Balfour (b.1802-d.1857) - owner of Homestead, Woodside Plantation (Yazoo Co., MS) and Fall Back Plantation (Washington Co., MS)
Elizabeth Davis Gartley Balfour - wife of William L. Balfour (m.1823)
Mary Jane Balfour (b.1827-d.?) - daughter of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour
William Suggs Balfour (b.ca.1828-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour; owner of Homewood Plantation
John W. Balfour (b.ca.1830-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour
Charles Balfour (b.ca.1834-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour
James Balfour (b.ca.1838-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour
Joseph D. Balfour (b.ca.1840-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour
Lewis Balfour (b.ca.1843-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour
Horace Balfour (b.ca.1845-d.?) - son of William L. and Elizabeth D.G. Balfour; Eyrie Plantation willed to him as of 21st birthday
William Lovett Balfour was born March 25, 1802 in Edgecombe Co., NC. , later moved to Feliciana Parish, LA and then to Madison County, MS where he died May 8, 1857.
- Plantation is 1700 acres (valued at $64,000) with 95 slaves (valued at $57,900) based on 1860 tax receipt.
- John B. Byrne to Wm. L. Balfour, Conveyance Book B, Page 294-295 – November 13, 1841 property sold, recorded December 9, 1841. John B. Byrne and his wife sold to William L. Balfour a plantation in the parish of Carroll, LA composed of lots of land as follows: lots 71, 72, 73, 74 and 75, township 22, range 12 east, and lot number 30, township 21, range 13 east also sections 76 and 77. Township 22, range 12 east in the said parish of Carroll in the State of Louisiana, with the improvements, utensils, stock and all other things on said land together with 29 negro slaves for the some of $40,000. Purchase made in New Orleans, LA.
- W.S. Balfour to J.B. Byrne, Conveyance Book D, Page 154-157– Sold on November 12, 1846, Recorded March 8, 1848. Paid off mortgage of cotton plantation and slaves in Carroll Parish, LA. 1200 acres of lands composing lots 72, 73, 74 and 75 of township 22, range 13 east and lot number 30 township 21 range 13 east in the district of lands of the United States North of Red River in the Parish of Carroll aforesaid; 344 acres of land comprising north half of quarter section 77, township 22, range 13 east, containing 86 acres and 300th of an acre, and south half of lot 76 and south half of lot 77, township 22, range 13 east containing one 172 acres and 4500th of an acre; also south half of quarter section number 76, township 22, range 13 east containing 85 acres and 70/100ths of an acre all more or less, together with buildings and improvements thereon, ? farming utensils, cattle, ?, mules, animals and things whatsoever attached to the same and the slaves at work, thereon named: (see associated enslaved persons below)
- Reconstruction Information: King Atlas to DC Jenkins, Mortgage Book K, Page 29 – Recorded May 23, 1872 – DC Jenkins leases to King Atlas about 15 acres of land at the price of $8 per acre and four mules and one wagon for four bales of merchantable cotton and to furnish to the said Atlas rations and mule feed necessary during the year and to furnish his hands such supplies as hie requires for them. The said Atlas to secure the payment of said rent and supplies hereby gives a first lien and privilege upon all on the crops raised by him during the year on the Eyrie Plantation agreeing to pay for the same out of the first of his crops.
Associated Slave Workplaces
Homestead Plantation (Madison Co., MS),
Woodside Plantation (Yazoo Co., MS),
Homewood Plantation (Adams Co., MS)
Fall Back Plantation (Bolivar Co., MS)
Only Plantation (Issaquena Co., MS)
Balfour Family Plantation (Harrison Co., MS)
John W. Balfour Plantation (Marshall Co., MS)
William T. Balfour (Warren Co., MS),
Associated Free Persons
- Owner: John B. Byrne, William L. Balfour
- Overseer: JW Berry.
- Government Leaser During Reconstruction: DC Jenkins
- Government Lesee During Reconstruction: King Atlas
Associated Enslaved Persons
1850 Slave Schedules (61 slaves)
1860 Slave Schedules (103 slaves)
1870 US Census (80 people living on former plantation land; head sharecropper/leaser - King Atlas, Jr.)
From Conveyance Book D, Page 154-157, November 13, 1841
- -Caph?
- Eliza
- James
- Margarite
- Turner
- Mary Jane
- Maria Allen
- Heamit Sevarlles
- Charles - son
- Isaac - son
- Fountam
- Charles Seipis/Serpis
- Daniel Lewis
- Tom
- Rosetta Butler - wife of Tom
- Emaline - child of Rosetta
- Jordan - child of Rosetta
- Sarah Cragge
- Priscilla - child of Sarah Cragge
- Maria Grandein/Granderson?
- Ann Grace Robinson
- Henry Henderson
- Henry Waddell
- Eliza B. Stewart
- Sarah Ann
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- Caph?
- Eliza
- Jim (could be James above)
- Tom
- Rosetta Butler - wife of Tom
- Emaline - child of Rosetta
- Jordan - child of Rosetta and Tom
- Maria Jackson
- Mary Jane - child
- her other child then aged one year
- Sarah Cragge
- Priscilla - child of Sarah C. Cragge
- Maria Grandison
- Charles - son
- Ann Grace Robinson
- Isaac - son
- Henry Henderson
- Fountain
- Henry Waddell
- Charles Scipio
- Eliza B. Stewart
- Daniel
**From Inventory, dated June 8, 1857
State of Louisiana, Parish of Carroll
Succession Book I, Page 4
June 8, 1857
Estate of William L. Balfour of Madison County, MS
Samuel Bond and William Sutton, residents of Carroll Parish, LA – Appraisers
Sanders D. Oliver - Clerk
Item 1st – The following described slaves:
- Sam, aged about 30 years appraised at 1300.00
- Lydia Porter 25 1050.00
- Angeline 6 months 100.00
- George Porter 28 years 1250.00
- Emily 19 950.00
- Labe 28 1200.00
- Caroline 35 700.00
- Hannibald 45 450.00
- Nancy 45 500.00
- Matilda 14 850.00
- Henry Huddle 49 200.00
- Sarah Porter 22 1000.00
- Tom 4 250.00
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- Sally Ann aged about 6 mo. 100.00
- Nick 65 500.00
- Caraline 45 300.00
- Milton 27 1300.00
- Ruben 40 750.00
- Eliza Broks 30 600.00
- Robert 12 800.00
- Julius 35 700.00
- Louis Bell 49 550.00
- Lydia Bell 45 400.00
- Rose 15 900.00
- Cain 40 650.00
- Sarah Brooks 42 800.00
- Little Louis 16 1100.00
- William 9 700.00
- Horace 7 500.00
- Richmond 5 350.00
- Lizett 3 250.00
- Infant __ 100.00
- Wash Sorter 26 1300.00
- Cleming 22 1050.00
- Tom Talbert 23 1000.00
- Green 18 1350.00
- Shirley 45 250.00
- Bailey ___ 600.00
- Louisa Bailey 35 600.00
- Katey 13 600.00
- Priscilla 4 300.00
- Cornelius 2 200.00
- Billy 0 months 100.00
- Jerry 43 1100.00
- Aimy 30 850.00
- Mary Jane 13 900.00
- Peter 38 900.00
- Harriett 35 750.00
- Cap 31 1300.00
- Wesley 32 1050.00
- Minerva 25 500.00
- Adison 3 250.00
- Minerva 2 months 100.00
- George Brady 35 200.00
- Ike Gutty/Cutty 30 300.00
- Martha 23 1000.00
- Big Ann 35 800.00
- Dandridge 35 1050.00
- John Henry 14 750.00
- Dennis 8 300.00
- Lucinda 5 300.00
- Dick 36 1000.00
- Little Ann or Arm 37 800.00
- Lavilia 9 600.00
- Andrew 10 500.00
- Harriett 3 250.00
- Fred 42 900.00
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- Mary Rogers aged about 35 years 200.00
- Tom Monk 70 500.00
- Little Liza 70 *Idiot* 100.00
- Charles Cotton 31 1400.00
- Susan 31 800.00
- Labe 7 450.00
- Clarrissa 10 months 100.00
- Stephen 28 years 1300.00
- John Young 28 1300.00
- Nelson 33 1250.00
- Felix 22 1350.00
- Mary Felix 22 1000.00
- Amos 2 months 100.00
- Ike Brown aged 30 years 900.00
- Bash 28 1350.00
- Catharine 23 1000.00
- Prince 3 months 100.00
- Mack 27 years 1350.00
- Little Mary 23 1000.00
- Essick 42 1000.00
- Louisa Essick 34 800.00
- Isabella 10 500.00
- Joe 5 350.00
- Caroline 2 200.00
- Louisa 7 100.00
- Callis 56 years 500.00
- Libey or Tibey 34 1000.00
- John Jacob 23 1350.00
- Dilly 18 1000.00
- Maria 14 months 100.00
- Anica 16 years 1000.00
- Little Henry 18 1350.00
TOTAL: $69,350.00
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Miscellaneous Information
References
- (East) Carroll Parish Conveyance, Mortgage and Succession Books, "A Place to Remember, East Carroll Parish, LA, 1832-1976" by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkson; FHL Microfilm # 2230249 and 2230250 - Estate Papers of William Lovett Balfour, Issaquena County Mississippi Genealogical Association Website, US Census
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