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Fairland Plantation

Page history last edited by Andy McMillion 9 years, 8 months ago


Overview

 

Location

  • The plantation was located right on the MS River below the town of Mayersville.  The 1,200 acre Shipland Plantation owned by William Shipp adjoined it going upstream on the MS River.  Fairland backed on to the large block of Steven Duncan's many Issaquena  County Plantations.
  • The plantation is shown on this map of plantations in Issaquena County located at the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/resource/g4013e.la000252/ .    

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

  • It was constructed in around 1835 when this region when plantations were first being established on former Indian lands in this area.

 

Associated Surnames

  • Balfour

 

Historical notes

  • Fairland Plantation was William L. Balfour's large Issaquena County Plantation.
  • The plantation was surely the one that was passed on to William L.'s son William S. Balfour.  William S. Balfour married Catherine Hunt and they lived in a mansion that rivaled Stanton Hall in Natchez on their Homewood Plantation in Adams County.  William S. and his family lived on this plantation during the five years (1855 to 1860) that it took to build their mansion on Homewood Plantation. 
  • The town of Tallulah was adjacent to this MS River plantation.
  • Shipland Plantation, owned by William Shipp, was adjacent to this planation on the upriver side.  On the downriver side, George F. Hunt had a 400 acre cotton farm with 16 slaves on it that was probably affiliated with Georgiana Plantation that he also owned. 
  • Fairland was approximately 1,400 acres. 

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

  • In the 1860 slave census, William S. Balfour had about 177 slaves in Issaquena County.  They were enumerated in two groups on the census.  Because one group was listed right after the other, and because both groups had the same plantation manager, this suggests that either they were on two adjacent plantations or that they were on one large plantation but in two separate housing clusters on the same plantation.  Since maps only show one large Balfour plantation in Issaquena County - Fairland - they were probably all on this plantation.

Associated Free Persons

 

  • William L. Balfour

  • William S. Balfour  

 

 


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