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Huntley Plantation

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Overview

Location

(County and State where the plantation/workspace was located.  Information to help others locate the plantation is optional.)

 

  • Jefferson Co. MS. This plantation was located on Cole's Creek at T9N-R1E section 10 & 11 and T9N-R1W section 3 & 26 ("Jefferson County Plantations and Tracts," http://jeffersoncountyms.org/plantations.htm ,15 Aug 02, MSGenWeb Project, retrieved 15 Jan 08). This location can be found on the county highway maps at the MS Dept. of Transportation website.
    • See the land on a modern map atMississippi Department of Transportation website.
    • See original land survey atGeneral Land Office website of the bureau of land management.  The plantation was where one can see the words "Legal Reps of William Murry" in the upper right corner of the map.
    • See photos of the land from above at www.google.com, , click on "map" search, type "Rodney Mississippi" in the search bar, click on "satellite" view, use the zoom feature to find the area where the Natchez Trace Parkway and Frasier/Aldridge/Rodney Road (or whatever its name is) intersect.  This intersection would have been right in the middle of Huntley; however, the Natchez Trace Parkway didn't exist back then and the Old Natchez Trace which did exist ran slightly to the south/east of Huntley through section 32.
    • Follow the Natchez Trace Parkway south to it's intersection with Highway 533 to see where Huntley was   http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7130691
  •  Huntley Plantation was just north of the town of Greenville (now extinct) and was just to the west of the Old Natchez Trace which ran through Greenville.
    • The upper part of the town of Greenville was known as "Huntston" or "Huntley" after Abijah Hunt ("Greenville," From: Mississippi Vol. I A-K by Dunbar Rowland, 1907, page 801-803, http://jeffersoncountyms.org/greenville.htm 9 Sep 2007, MSGenWeb Project, retrieved 21 Jan 08.)  Upper part of the town didn't necessarrily mean the northern part.  It probably meant literally the high ground, which was probably the southern part of Greenville.
    • See where Greenville was on the map at the General Land Office website of the bureau of land management.
      • The town is clearly marked as extending into Abijah Hunt's section 31 on a land survey map, with the Old Natchez Trace running through section 31.
      • From studying deeds and maps:
        • According to claim number 1100 (though it's very legalistic and hard to understand), Abijah bought 111 French Acres (100 American acres) on 23 June 1800 with a cotton gin on it.  The land appears to have been in the vicinity of the southern part of Greenville.  Furthermore, that on 3 Junr 1801, Abijah bought 84 more acres (apparently French acres), which brought his total to 195 French acres (so slightly less American acres).  This land incluced lots number 15, 16 and 17 in the town of Huntston (the upper, or southern part of Greenville, was known as Huntston after Abijah Hunt).  It corresponds with T9N R1E, section 31 in Jefferson County an current maps.  Apparently Platner's branch off of the middle fork of Coles Creek (which ran by Greenville) was where the Hunt and Smith public cotton gin was located.
      • The tip of Huntley Plantation can be seen in the upper left of this map where "Wm Murry" and "Jacob Cable" are written.  The bulk of Huntley, however, extends into the adjoining map at:  http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=74204&Index=9&QryID=56579.8 where "Legal Reps of William Murry" is written.
      • Coles Creek entered the MS River on this map in the extreme upper left corner just above Edward Green's land.  It isn't shown, but that is where it was.

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

(Year the plantation/workplace was established and/or built.)

 

  • On August 4, 1794 the plantation land was granted to Don Juan Murdoch by the Spanish government.  On July 19, 1802 Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman bought the plantation land that had originally belonged to Juan Murdoch. From the original land survey, it appears that William Murry and Jacob Cable owned the land between when Murdoch and when Abijah and William owned it.    The book, "Early Settlers of Mississippi," by Walter Lowrie, Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1986, records the certificates of title issued to partners Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman in 1805 for several tracts of land on Cole's Creek in Jefferson Co, MS. The certificates for 1,900 acres of this land were listed together in the book.  The certificate for an additional 250 acres was listed, which also originally had belonged to John Murdoch, was listed in another area in the book.  The total land purchased from John Murdoch by Abijah and William was 2,150 acres.  On November 23, 1816 Joseph Forman, acting as the administrator of the estate of his father William G. Forman, sold the 250 acre tract to David Hunt.  On 17 Mar 1817 David Hunt sold the 250 acre tract to a Mr. Simms.  At any rate Huntley Plantation was known to have belonged to David Hunt and later to his son George.  This indicates that the plantation maybe was originally 1,900 acres and that the 250 acre tract wasn't an integral part of it.  Planters like David Hunt were constantly buying and selling land, so it's likely that a little more land was added to Huntley over the years by David. 
    • The titles were often recorded a few years after the actual land purchases in those days.  For example, it took until 1805 to get a certificate of title to an additional 195 acres that Abijah bought in 1800 on Cole's Creek with a cotton gin on it (David Odam, Sr. of Cole's Cr., Miss. Territory; Posted by: Virginia Weeks Warbington (ID *****8373); Date: January 23, 2005 at 10:19:56; http://genforum.genealogy.com/odam/messages/13.html ; Source: McBee, May Wilson, Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805; retrieved 21 Jan 08.)

 

Associated Surnames

(List of names associated with this workplace)

 

  • Forman, Hunt

 

Historical notes

(Historical summary of the workplace.)

 

  • Abijah Hunt is supposed to have been burried in a cemetery on Huntley Plantation in T9N-R1W, section 11.  Though research so far hasn't shown exactly where he lived, one researcher stated that his base of operations in his early years was at the Bayou Pierre in Claiborne County.  His nephew David Hunt  who took over his Uncle's businesses after his death, lived near Greenville and Huntley Plantation in Jefferson County.  This suggests that Abijah eventually based his life out of Greenville as well.

 

The original owners of this plantation were surely Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman. Abijah's nephew David Hunt probably inherited his Uncle Abijah's business interest in this plantation in 1811 when Abijah died. When William Forman died, his relative Joseph Forman probably inherited William Forman's business interest in Huntley Plantation. At some point, Joseph probably sold out to David Hunt or split his part of the plantation off from David Hunt's part. David's son George probably received this plantation as a wedding gift and residence when he married Anna Watson in 1848. The reasons that support this follow.

  1. In 1805 Abijah Hunt's and William G. Forman's joint certificates of ownership to several tracts of land on Cole's Creek in Jefferson County totaling 2,150 acres (all purchased from John Murdock) were recorded at the land office west of the Pearl River ("Early Settlers of Mississippi," by Walter Lowrie, Southern Historical Press, Inc. 1986).
  2. Abijah's main heir David Hunt owned a plantation named Huntley (Harnett T. Kane, "Natchez on the Mississippi, Bonanza Books, NY, page 179).
  3. Joseph Forman inherited at least some of William G. Forman's land on Cole's Creek, ("Jefferson County Court Records," Mary Ann Dobson, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dobson/ms/msjeffe2.htm , retrieved 21 Jan 2008).
  4. David Hunt and his wife Ann (Ferguson) Hunt gave each child at a minimum one plantation and about 100 slaves when they married (Harnett T. Kane, "Natchez on the Mississippi, Bonanza Books, NY, page 180).
  5. George Hunt married Anna Watson in 1848 (Allen Duane Hunt, “RootsWeb:HUNT-L[HUNT-L} Mississippi Hunts – D02 (of D01 through D02),” Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:13:10-0700, Ancestry.com, http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/HUNT/2000-07/0963425590 , retrieved 21 Jan 2008).
  6. David Hunt's son George Ferguson Hunt and his wife Anna (Watson) Hunt owned, had a residence on, and were buried on a plantation named Huntley in Jefferson County, MS (Dunbar Hunt, “Sketch of David Hunt”, by his son, Fayette Chronicle, 29 May 1908, Vol. XLI, No. 35).

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

(Plantations/ workplaces connected to this one via owners' family and/ or enslaved persons.)

 

  • Connections via the owners
    • From 1802 - 1811, Huntley Plantation was associated with Abijah Hunt's other plantations.
      • Adams County, MS
      • Jefferson County, MS
        • Huntley Plantation - The land for this plantation was purchased jointly by Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman.
        • Abijah and his business partner William Gordon Forman owned land at the Oakwood Plantation site.
      • Claiborne County, MS
        • Abijah Hunt Bayou Pierre Plantation
        • One writer thought that Abijah's slaves had 600 acres of cotton under cultivation in 1811 on Abijah's land adjacent to the town of Port Gibson.
      • Concordia Parish, LA
        • Abijah and his business partner Elijah Smith owned land at the northern end of Lake Concordia/St. John.  Abijah's nephew David Hunt later owned Hole In The Wall Plantation in Concordia Parish, LA as well as nearby Arcola Plantation in Tensas Parish, LA near Abijah's land.
    • From 1811 to 1848, Huntley Plantation was associated with David Hunt's plantations - see Woodlawn Plantation MS.
    • From 1848 to the Civil War, Huntley Plantation was associated with George Hunt's other plantation -Georgiana Plantation and possibly also Anna Watson's father's plantations. Her father James Watson owned Buena Vista Plantation - Claiborne MS in Claiborne Co., Waterloo Plantation in Jefferson County, and possibly another plantation on Deer Creek in Issaquena County.
  • Associated by enslaved persons

Associated Free Persons

(Bulletted list of free persons: plantation-owning family, overseers, etc. Example: "John Doe (b.1841-d.1885) - owner; inherited Doe Plantation from his father Joe Doe")

 

  • Plantation owning families
    • Abijah Hunt & William Gordon Forman - first owners.  They bought the land from John Murdock in about 1800.
      • Abijah Hunt
        • Biography 
          • Abijah and his brothers originally went to Cincinnati Ohio in about 1788 when it was first settled.  Abijah had been licensed in New Jersey by the U.S. Army to provide it with supplies in Cincinnati.  This was just after the American Revolution when settlers were free to leave the original English colonies and move west to settle in native american land.  The army was protecting the settlers in Cincinnati from native american attacks - and running native americans off.  When the army was no longer needed in Cincinnati, Abijah took the fortune he made in Cincinnati and moved to the Natchez area to invest and increase it.  Elijah Smith was Abijah's partner in his five stores in the Natchez District.  All of the stores were located along the lower 60 miles of the Old Natchez Trace at: Natchez, Washington, Greenville, the Grindstone Ford (a Bayou Pierre water crossing just north of Port Gibson) and the Big Black River (at another river crossing - however this store is shown by one source to have actually been well to the east of the river near Utica, MS on "Hunt Road") 
          • The following quote is a biography written by an unnamed person on the University of Texas at Austin's website.  UT may have the largest collection of Abijah Hunt's papers.
            • "Abijah Hunt, a native of New Jearsey, formed a business partnership with his brothers Jeremiah and Jess Hunt, and Elijah Smith. He came to Natchez in 1798 as a sutler, or licensed merchant, for the United States Army stationed along the lower Mississippi River. Hunt received shipments of goods from his brothers, imported, made purchases and transactions in New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, and gained a good reputation as a reputable man of business. Hunt began planting cotton, and with Smith opened several stores and cotton gins at Natchez, Washington, Greenville, Port Gibson, Big Black, and his original base of operation, Bayou Pierre. Hunt eventually acquired a 3,645-acre plantation in Adams County, and even larger tracts of land in Jefferson and Claiborne Counties. He used vertical integration as a business philosophy, growing cotton, ginning it at his own gins, brokering cotton for himself and others, ang charging a commission of 10% of the cotton to planters for processing it. The three Hunt brothers gained direct financial ties to England and became one of the largest commission mercantile entities on the southwestern frontier, supplying planters with all of their needs. They dealt in large quantities of cotton and contracted sales to British industrial consumers on behalf of their customers. Jeremiah would sometimes travel to Natchez to make plans with brother Abijah for the sale and shipment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of cotton to England. unt was also involved with the incorporation of the Bank of the Mississippi in 1809 after receiving a charter from the territorial legislature. He received an appointment as Deputy Postmaster from United States Postmaster General Joseph Habersham in the fall of 1799, establishing mail services “to that distant portion of the Union.” Hunt, who began sending the mail in January 1800, was responsible for the service along the Natchez Trace from Natchez to Nashville about 500 miles away. Hunt immersed himself in local politics as an outspoken Federalist, and became embroiled in a conflict with George Poindexter, a Democratic Republican who later became Governor of Mississippi. The two fought a duel on the west bank of the river opposite Natchez in 1811, resulting in his own death."
        • Timeline for Abijah
          • 1764 - (approximate year). Abijah was born in NJ.
          • 1788 - (approximate year).  Abijah, and his brothers Jesse and Jeremiah moved to Cincinnati because Abijah was licensed by the U.S. army to supply the soldiers who were in Cincinnati protecting the new settlement from native americans.
          • 1798. Abijah moved to the Natchez, MS distirct to invest and increase the fortune he made supplying the Army in Cincinnati.
            • Abijah and partner Elijah Smith started the business firm of Hunt and Smith.  It was mainly a cotton brokerage, but also had five general stores along the lower 60 miles of the Old Natchez Trace and several public cotton gins.  The stores were in Natchez and Washington in Adams County; Greenville (now extinct) in Jefferson County; and the Grind Stone Ford (a Bayou Pierre water crossing just north of Port Gibson) and the Big Black Rover (possibly at a ferry crossing at the river or well to the east near Utica, MS) in Cliaborne County.  One of the public gins was in Greenville, Jefferson County.
            • Abijah's early base of operations in MS was on the Bayou Pierre just north of Port Gibson in Claiborne County.  His Grindstone Ford store was on the Bayou Pierre.
            • Abijah began planting cotton.  He bought land in Adams, Jefferson, and Claiborne Counties in MS and near the Concordia/Tensas Parish line just across the MS River in LA.
              • Claiborne County.  Abijah Owned at least one plantation on the Bayou Pierre - a 900 acre plantation with 61 to 65 slaves that he sold in 1808.  Abijah is shown with 16 slaves in the 1810 Claiborne County Census; thus, possibly the census was taken after he sold the Bayou Pierre plantation.  One account states that Abijah's slaves had 600 acres of cotton under cultivation on his land that was adjacent to the town of Port Gibson in 1811.  It seems like this would have needed more than the 16 slaves he is listed with in 1810 in Claiborne County.  Thus, maybe the slaves had some cotton under cultivation - just not 600 acres, or maybe Abijah added more slaves in 1811. 
              • Jefferson County.  William Gordon Forman was Abijah's partner in the land that later became Abijah's nephew David Hunt's Huntley Plantation in Jefferson County.  Mr. Forman is shown as the owner on the original land survey map for the land that later was David Hunt's Oakwood Plantation in Jefferson County.
              • Adams County.  Mr. Forman is shown as the original owner on the original land survey map for the land that became David Hunt's Wilderness Plantation.  Later Abijah owned a 3,645 acre plantation in Adams County.
              • Abijah and his business partner Elijah Smith are shown on the original land survey as land owners at and near the site of plantations David Hunt later owned in LA near the Concordia/Tensas Parish line - Hole In The Wall, Arcola, and possibly Argyle plantations.
          • 1808.  Abijah was recorded in Jefferson County in the Census.
            • In 1808 Abijah sold a plantation on the Bayou Pierre complete with 61 to 65 slaves.
            • A LA slave record shows that Abijah bought a slave named Sam for $1,000 in Orleans Parish (probably New Orleans) and took him to Natchez.
          • 1810. Abijah was recorded in Claiborne County in the Census.
            • Claiborne County.  He is listed with 5 slaves on one page of the census and with 11 on another page.
            • Jefferson County.  He is listed with 18 slaves in the census.
          • 1811.  Abijah was killed in a duel with rising politician George Poindexter.  He left a $500,000 estate (huge in its day), much of which went to his nephew David Hunt.  The cemetery where Abijah is thought to be burried is in section 11 of Huntley Plantation.
    • David Hunt & Joseph Forman - second owners; Davie inherited part of Huntley from his Uncle Abijah Hunt, and Joseph inherited part of Huntley from his father William Forman.  David Hunt probably bought out the part of Huntley that Joseph inherited from his father, or the part called Huntley was probably split off from Joseph's part.
    • George Ferguson Hunt and his wife Anna Watson - third owners;  George got Huntley and Georgiana plantations as a wedding gifts from his father David Hunt in 1848.
      • The following is an accounting of George F. Hunt's household from the 1860 U.S. Census in Jefferson County, MS (Tennessee State Library and Archives, retrieved from an on-line database in 2007). Link to the census image:  http://www.usgwarchives.org/ms/jefferson/census/1860/0610.gif 
        • George F. Hunt, age 32, planter, real estate value $18,700, personal estate value $69,950. (These dollar amounts are probably only for Huntley Plantation. George's other plantation - Georgiana located on the Issaquena/Sharkey County line - had 160 slaves which would have pushed his estate's value up considerably past $88,650.)  Georgiana (including it's 160 slaves) was probably worth about $175,000.  This would put George's net worth at about $250,000 - so basically a millionaire by today's standards.
        • Ann Hunt (George's wife), age 29.  Ann was Anna Watson, daughter of Planter James Watson.  James is listed as a small slave owner in the early 1808 census that lists Abijah Hunt in Jefferson County.  Later James is shown as a large slave owner in Claiborne County.
        • George and Ann's children - David, age 11; Martha, age 9; Abijah, age 7; and James, age 5
        • Ida Maddox, age 14
        • John Thuer (The name Thuer is probably not transcribed correctly), music teacher, personal estate value $2,000, born in Switzerland.

Associated Enslaved Persons

(Bulletted list of enslaved persons. You can add several separate lists with subheadings like "1850 - 1860: Slaves listed in the Doe Family Bible")

 

  • Abijah Hunt - probably had between 34 and 100 slaves.  The 1810 census lists Abijah with 18 slaves in Jefferson County and 16 in Claiborne County.  However, Abijah owned a 3,645 acre Adams County plantation, is known to have sold a 900 acre Claiborne County plantation with 61 slaves in 1808, and is thought to have had 600 acres in cotton in Cliaborne County in 1811.  He owned well over 2,000 acres in Jefferson County, over 3,000 acres in Claiborne County, and land in Concordia parish as well.  If one believes all the accounts about Abijah, near the time of his 1811 death his slave ownership would have fluctuated from about 35 up to maybe 100 as he bought and sold plantations.  Abijah and his partner Elijah Smith (the firm of Hunt and Smith) hauled logs and probably cotton, had five general stores and several public cotton gins which all could have benefited from slave labor.
    • Adams County - Abijah had the 3,645 acre Hunt Plantation.  William G. Forman had the Wilderness Plantation land - possibly as a partner with Abijah.  Abijah and partner Elijah Smith had a general store in Natchez and also one in nearby Washington.  They probably also had one or two public cotton gins.  Abijah had other land investments in land in Adams County.  Slaves would be needed in most all of these enterprises.
      • Natchez
        • Sam.  Sam's master John Hadley died, so Sam was sold.  Abijah bought him on 3/10/1808 for $1,000 possibly in New Orleans and brought him to Natchez.  Sam was born in about 1783.  His occupation was listed as barrel maker/cooper.  This record was found in the Louisiana 1719 - 1820 slave records at www.ancestry.com .  When the record says that Sam was taken to Natchez, it could just as well mean the Natchez District, which included Adams, Jefferson and Claiborne Counties.
    • Jefferson County, MS - 18 slaves.  Abijah and partner William G. Forman had Huntley Plantation and also possibly Oakwood Plantation.  Abijah and partner Elijah Smith had a general store and public cotton gin at Greenville, MS (now extinct).  Abijah also had other land investments in Jefferson County
      • The 1808 Jefferson County Census lists Abijah with no slaves.
      • The 1810 Jefferson County Census lists Abijah with 18 slaves.
    • Claiborne County, MS - 61 slaves.  Abijah and partner Elijah Smith had two general stores.  One was at the Grind Stone Ford just north of Port Gibson on the Bayou Pierre where the Old Natchez Trace crossed the bayou.  The second was possibly just over the county line in Hinds County to the west of Utica on Hunt Road or on nearby land that Abijah bought on the Big Black River at a ferry crossing from Claiborne County into Warren County.  Abijah had at least two plantations - one on the Bayou Pierre and one which adjoined the edge of the town of Port Gibson.  At that time Greenville in Jefferson County was larger than Port Gibson.  Claiborne County is where Abijah was supposed to have had his largest livestments in land.
      • In 1808 Abijah sold an approximately 900 acre plantation in Claiborne County with 61 slaves included.
      • In 1810 the Claiborne County Census counts Abijah as a resident and lists 5 slaves with him on one page of the census and with 11 slaves on another page - so the total is 16 slaves in 1810.
      • In 1811 one source states that Abijah's slaves had 600 acres of cotton under cultivation on his land that was adjacent to the town of Port Gibson.  For this to be true, Abijah would have needed to increase his 16 Claiborne County slaves in 1810 to about 120 slaves by 1811.  Given the fact that Abijah left a $500,000 estate at his death in 1811, it is possible.  However, most likely Abijah was primarily a merchant whose primary wealth was in his stores and public cotton gin assets.  Land and slaves were probably just a smaller side line for him.  Thus, it appears that the 600 acres of cotton under cultivation may have been an exaggeration.  Based on the 1810 census, he would have probably had 11 slaves on the land adjacent to Port Gibson.  Eleven slaves could have cultivated about 55 acres of cotton.
    • Concordia and Tensas Parishes in LA.  Abijah and his partner Elijah Smith had land investments near the Concordia/Tensas Parish line near where David Hunt later had Hole In The Wall Plantation and Arcola Plantation .
  • George Hunt - 219 slaves.
    • Jefferson County, MS - 59 slaves.  From the 1860 slave census, Huntley had 59 slaves in Jefferson County.  They most likely worked on Huntley Plantation because this was probably the only Jefferson County plantation that David Hunt gave his son George when George married in approximately 1848.  (Tom Blake , “JEFFERSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI,LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES,” mindspring, April 2001, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msjefferson.htm , (20 Jan 2008).
    • Issaquena County, MS - about 160 slaves.  George had his Issaquena County slaves on Georgiana Plantation on Deer Creek.

Research Leads and Plantation Records

(Bulletted list of primary sources, plantation records from archives, books, microfilm, etc., that you think would help the reader to find his/ her ancestors.)

 

  • Library archives.
    • The University of Texas at Austin is supposed to have the bulk of the known plantation records for Abijah Hunt, David Hunt (Abijah Hunt's nephew who seems to have gotten the bulk of Abijah Hunt's estate) and George Ferguson Hunt (David Hunt's son who got Abijah Hunt's Huntley Plantation in Jefferson County, MS)
      • The Natchez Trace Collection Supplement has a folder with some of Abijah Hunts papers in Box 4BZ25, lot 7.  The page at the following link tells what is in this folder.  Scroll down the page slightly to see the information.  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01227/cah-01227.html
      • The Natchez Trace Small Manuscripts Collection has folders containing some of the papers of Abijah Hunt, David Hunt and George Ferguson Hunt.  This is a link to the index of the collection.  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00140/cah-00140.html 
        •  The Abijah and David Hunt folders are in Box 2E562
        • The George Ferguson Hunt folders are in Box 2E1004 and 2E1007. 
      • Email the UT at Austin library here http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/contact.html with the collection name and box no. asking approximately what is in the folder you are interested in and how many documents it contains.  They give you three options to get more specific information.
        • Visit the library yourself and get copies of what you want from their collection
        • E-mail them an order with your credit card number to have an entire folder copied and mailed to you.  They will not search out specific papers from a folder to copy and send to you - you must get the entire folder.  With sometimes hundreds of papers in a folder at 25 cents per page plus other charges, it could cost you close to $100 to get the information sent to you.
        • You can hire a "proxy" researcher from their list to go in and sort through the folder(s) you are interested in, who can copy only what you want and mail it to you.  http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/proxy_researcher.php
    • The public library at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA has a collection of papers from the David Hunt family.  The collection has 21 items in it pertaining to David Hunt.  This link tells in general what is in this collection.  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/guides/natchez.html 
    • The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattisburg has "The Natchez Trace Research Collection".  It has information pertaining to the Hunt family plantations.
    • The Mississippi State Archives in Jackson has folders for David Hunt and for James Archer (married David Hunt's daughter Mary Ann and got David's Oakwood Plantation).  You can do a search at the following link to get a description of the contents of their folders at:   http://mdah.state.ms.us/
    • The Adams and Jefferson County MS libraries as well as the Concordia and Tensas Parish public libraries probably have information on the Hunts.
  • Books
    • The book, The Natchez Court Records by May Wilson McBee has early records on the Hunts.  It is in most of the bigger libraries.
    • Antebellum Natchez by D. Clayton James.  Doesn't have slave names, just general information on the Hunts and other planters in the Natchez area.
    • Early Settlers of Mississippi by Walter Lowrie shows only land purchases by the early Natchez area planters like Abijah Hunt.
    • Mississippi-Louisiana Border Country:  A History of Rodney, Miss,, St. Joseph, La,, and Environs by Marie T. Logan has only information about the planters like David Hunt (not the slaves) and their plantations in and around Rodney, MS.
    • Several books have photo spreads and information about Lansdowne and Homewood Plantations (belonged to David Hunt's daughters Charlotte and Catherine).  They don't give slave information - just info on the plantation owners and how opulent the houses were for their time.
      • In Old Natchez by Catharine Van Court has - no slave information.
      • Natchez The Houses and History of the Jewl of the Mississippi by Hugh Howard and Roger Straus III - no slave information
      • Under Live Oaks The Last Great Houses of the Old South by Caroline Seebohm and Peter Woloszynski 

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References

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  • Books
    • Lowrie, Walter: Early Settlers of Mississippi; Southern Historical Press 1986.
    • McBee, May Wilson;  Natchez Court Records; 1767-1805.

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