The land was approximately at T12N-R3E section 31. The county highway maps at the MS Dept. of Transportation website show these land coordinates.
Claiborne Co., MS. This plantation was on the south side of the Bayou Pierre near the Grind Stone Ford Site. Click on "Hybrid" at the following link to see the fields and forests at the historic location today. http://www.clocations.com/cviewmap.aspx?list=caty&state=MS&caty=Locale&lid=910911
The following link shows the historic Grind Stone Ford location.
http://www.clocations.com/cviewmap.aspx?list=caty&state=MS&caty=Locale&lid=913592 The modern Natchez Trace Parkway probably has a rest area near the land that this plantation was on with an exhibit telling about the Grind Stone Ford.
Abijah Hunt owned and operated a dry goods store on the banks of the Bayou Pierre at the Grind Stone Ford adjoining Fairview Plantation on it's eastern border. The Grind Stone Ford was a place where the Old Natchez Trace crossed the Bayou Pierre. In the early 1800s the area north of the Grind Stone Ford was Native American Land which stretched almost all the way to Nashville, TN along the Old Natchez Trace. The U.S. Government had formed an agreement with the Native Americans to allow settlers to travel through their land unharmed along the Old Trace.
This plantation may have been purchased by David Hunt for the following reasons:
If David Hunt did buy this plantation in around 1820, when combined with the adjoining land that he inherited or bought from his Uncle's estate, the size of Fairview would have increased to around 1,000 acres.
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