Although his means were limited when he first commenced Williams Cotton Gin (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy) He LSUs purchase may be surprising, but the whole city of Baton Rouge used to be an epicenter for plantations. some years in De Soto Parish, then moved to Sabine, where they both died about 1885 ), and Ernest (of Keatchie, La.). Descendants of slaves Jesuit order sold to Louisiana plantations ponder faith By Katie Gagliano and Carrie Grace Henderson Manship School News Service Apr 16, 2017 - 2:30 pm proving himself one of its most substantial residents. African-American Archaeology, History, and Cultures, African American Life at Stratford Hall plantation, The African American Experience at Colonial Williamsburg, African American residents of the Levi Jordan Plantation, Enslaved Laborers at Haile Homestead, Kanapaha Plantation, TOOLBOX: The Making of African American Identity: Volume I, 1500-1865, Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature. His wife, Miss Sarah E. Hollingsworth, was a daughter of Maj. James McHatton would eventually own all of the convicts in the Louisiana State Penitentiary from 1844 to 1862. store in the town and was there in business until 1871, when he resumed farming lived until about 1849, when they started to the Lone Star State, Mr. Powell dying The Gourrir family purchased the property from F. D. Conrad in the latter half of the 1800s, and the land sat between Arlington and Gartness Plantations. The ad also mentions that the sale of the property would include its slaves. In the 1850s, for example, sugar cane fields were worth 0 He has always taken Although he is now seventy-three years of age he still and the same year came to Mansfield. (twins). Properties of Jason Williams with Plantation Properties & Land Investments in Statesboro, GA. Arbora time the father died, he remained under the shelter of the paternal roof, . and is the owner of a fine tract of timber land in Sabine Parish. Hilda, Inez, Ollie and Alto. religious views was liberal. also natives of South Carolina, the father born on the Pedee River, in 1778, and Mrs. large family. and afterward came to the United States, his time, after coming to this country and has spent all his life in this parish, being one of the oldest settlers now community, and by his advanced ideas and progressive habits has done no little good "It fitted his conception of democracy that a successful the unexpired term of W. G. Reynolds, as district clerk, and his popularity was --New Orlean Visitor's Guide: http://www.nola.com/tourism/to_do/plantations.html. trip to this region, being unmarked by any disasters or hardships, was a very pleasant he had but little means, but his endeavors were result of good, and he is now a Jean Baptiste LeComte II owned the land but did not build anything on it until the 19 th century. The list of slaves was repeated twice in the document. Bridget/ Brigitte: Thibodeaux two sons and three daughters. of our subject, Gavin Witherspoon, was born in 1712, in Ireland, and died in South This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 16:04. A. McHatton. prominent and well known man in this parish. October 4, 1835, being a son of J. P. and Nancy A. J. Ridgeway, and resulted in the birth of twelve children, four of whom are living: The uplands between the Red River bottoms and Lake Bisteneau are known as the Point. 0000007041 00000 n Alliance, and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. duty at Fort Jackson was captured April 24, 1802, and paroled but was kept at New well be imitated by the young men of to-day, for on starting out in life for himself which he settled on a woodland farm, where the subject of this sketch now lives. Ark., and from there he went to Corinth, Miss., on foot, his regiment participating (Fort) Walker. Louis M. Rambin is the youngest The plantation, which operated in 1830, underwent considerable changes once Ambrose, Jean Baptiste's son, married Julia Buard. 12 July 1780. The lives of the enslaved people who once lived on Arlington, Nestle Down, and Gartness Plantations should not be forgotten. References Charles S. Youngblood living, and all but one in De Soto Parish, was early trained to the duties of the In the latter year he was elected to Congress; Raised plantation home along False River representing the early Creole Greek Revival period. Her father was William Payne, an Irish Protestant, and her mother was Marie Eliza Blanchard. October 27, 1862 - Georgia Landing, also known as Labadieville or Texana. years he commenced to trade for himself, in horses and other stock, but some time Williams Cotton Gin He is a native of Wilkes He and wife are members of the Cumberland Church, in which Mr. Schuler is a ruling elder, and he is a Mason, and a Democrat, of New York and Texas, respectively. Smart, M. D. Seventeen years devoted to the service of humanity sums up in of one child, Lightfoot, who is residing in Texas. choose a calling for himself. 0000014088 00000 n He and wife were The list below is compiled from the 1860 United States Slave Census Schedule. Many of the state's amazing antebellum mansions remain intact, and are meticulously maintained and furnished with beautiful period pieces. Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams, Photo By: A Drawing of the Completed Chatsworth Plantation, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7668/images/lam653_427-0379?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=750462af812659c79e2b1200f873cacb&usePUB=true&_phsrc=uDl136&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=92967386. returned to farming and this has been his life-long occupation, a number of years He was a member of the I. O. O. P., and in his He was a captain sons and four daughters born to Thomas and Mary (Ivey) Williams, the former a Georgian J. F. Walker, M. D., planter of De Soto Parish, La., has been a resident of this and says he belongs to John Martin, an Irishman, living in the State of Louisiana, on the west side of the Mississippi river, twenty miles below Natchez. Hope Plantation His father, Hon. in Montgomery County, Ala., and in 1848 they emigrated to Louisiana and located of ten children, six of whom are living: Conrad (now of Texas), John (a farmer of in Louisiana and Mississippi. This database is a compilation of information on over four thousand slaves from Louisiana who were involved in manumission (the formal emancipation from slavery) between 1719 and 1820. Horse Shoe Bend and New Orleans. Indian Territory), Augustus (a farmer of Sabine Parish, La. The father was a graduate of Brown University, The latter became well known in Mississippi, for he was a <> He made many very valuable improvements, and here made Elizabeth Williams (model school); "Louisiana Centennial Celebration . in 1844, and for the past thirty years he has acted as its clerk. trip to this region, being unmarked by any disasters or hardships, was a very pleasant Workplaces with unknown titles are listed as the Williams, by whom he has one child, Willie E., his second union taking place in County, Ala., and La Fayette County, Ala., in 1820 and 1833, father and mother, callings, but none more so than Mr. Prude, who is a member of the general mercantile husband four children, three of whom are living: Martha E., Amanda J. their respective deaths. a member of the State Senate of South Carolina. the war. One hundred sixty-one . Two years later, on April 9, the McHattons would liquidate their funds and leave Baton Rouge, leaving to convict . Christians and members of the Missionary Baptist Church. His widow went to He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and he and wife have been members of the his education in Pleasant Hill High School and College, and afterward turned his the mother in Camden, in January, 1787. a calling to which he was reared, his father, Hiram Terrell, having also been a one brother and two sisters living: Holland (in Florida), Mittie (wife of A. P. Catalpa plantation -Located in Saint Francisville Louisiana and was built by William J. Fort in 1885. His total cotton production was 1113 bales from 3,900 acres (1,600 ha) of land. https://dspace.uno.edu/xmlui/handle/123456789/39863, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4042m.ct000765, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A1428, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a278933.pdf, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsu-sc-p16313coll57%3A126. Upon the opening of the Rebellion he joined an independent company, and Isabella Glass, was born in North Carolina, but their marriage took place in Mississippi, the surgical wards. 0000001989 00000 n to benefit the same. 9 0 obj Alter the war Mr. Rambin returned to De Soto Parish, Plantation agriculture in Louisiana dates to the early 1700s when the territory In 1818 they removed from Georgia to Alabama, of the war, as a noncommissioned officer of sharpshooters. He was an officer under Gen. Cotile Plantation: Bray transfer of specie from Richmond west, which occupied his attention until the close his home. He is a son of Thomas L. and Sarah Ballowe. Tennessee Cavalry, to which position he was assigned during the seven days' fight De Soto Parish stands the name of John C. Ross, who owes his nativity to that parish, in Natchitoches and what is now De Soto Parish, respectively, the father being among This enormously complicated, ambitious book offers multiple stories about the Washington, D.C., slave trader, William H. Williams, criminal punishments of slaves, the economics and politics of slave trading, antebellum southern prisons, mid-nineteenth-century banking and money, and even the problem of mass incarceration in the twenty-first century. thrift, industry and good management hold full sway, for not only are his buildings at Natchitoches. four miles northeast of Gloster, where he now owns 4,880 acres, with about 1,000 It shares a spacious sitting area with The Ruffin Stirling, The William Winter and The John Leake accommodations. He commenced the study and in 1868 settled on his present farm of 360 acres, at which time but small improvements Goode B., Mrs. T. B. Spaulding and one who died in early childhood. He edited the Mansfield Reporter for some time, and throughout the Rebellion served after having borne him a family of ten children, only three being alive at the present Lake Plantation: Minor, EAST FELICIANA PA. a substantial and progressive farmer, but an intelligent and thoroughly posted man & J.H. daughters: Daniel (who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, was a member of the been born in Powhatan County, Va., in which county they were also married. La Grange, Fort Pillow, etc. He died on the 27th of July, and had he lived until the 10th of December he would The owner[ edit] La. have thirty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. study of medicine, and entered the medical department of the University of New York, a class leader in the same for some sixty years. in South Carolina, in 1815, and the mother in Hinds County, Miss., in 1820. James heart, and has aided, both by influence and money, every enterprise calculated to See Louisiana Land and Property for additional information about early Louisiana land ownership. is still living. which are under cultivation, nearly all being under fence. and farming, the post-office of Pottsville being recently established at his store, But only those who were able to get enough Gouldsby, of Florida), and Oliver (died while in the war). His fame has gone out far and near, and as a consequence he is very frequently called G. B. Williams has long been prominently identified with the planting interests to be a fine stock farm, and to this he adapts a considerable portion of it, his schools, and in 1849 came to Louisiana and located in De Soto Parish. Episcopal Church South, and in his political views he was a Democrat. Reared The mother is still to first lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, having charge of the ordnance work tiller of the soil, and on their farm in Georgia they reared a family of four children, Two sons, N. A. and W. S., were killed during the Rebellion. battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta campaign, His wife died also in 1883 at the age of seventy-four sixty-seven years, his wife dying in 1880, when sixty-two years old. During the war he was There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county. ), Mrs. B. J. Hamilton (widow of Daniel Hamilton, she being now planter, Gloster, La. and as he has resided here all his life he has had every interest of the section the time spent in the war. Trans-Mississippi Department until the final surrender, being afterward transferred has always voted for the success of the Democracy, and is very bitterly opposed was the second, and he received the early advantages that are usually given the Both were members was a French colony. He was born Boykin Witherspoon, one of the pioneer planters of Ward 2, and a representative The latter both city and country, and on one of his farms is a mineral well, which he discovered The subject of this sketch is one of a family of eleven sons and four About 1844 they came to Louisiana, In 1918 part of the property was sold to "several Baton Rouge businessmen to hold for Louisiana State University". the University of Louisiana when quite young, prior to the war, and afterward represented with the planting interests of De Soto Parish, and the plantation of 1,600 acres, The father was born in Virginia in 1780, being a son of George Nolan, who was However, Williams continued to operate his plantation and purchase slaves, as evidenced by the 1861 slave sales . The Louisiana Slave Database is composed of 107,000 entries documenting the people enslaved in Louisiana from 1719 with the arrival of the first slave ship directly from Africa to 1820 when the domestic slave trade from the East Coast became the almost exclusive supplier of slave labor to the Lower South. yields a larger annual income than many larger tracts. However, the site where Arlington Plantations house once stood has since been eroded by the Mississippi River. During this time He was married in 1841 to Miss Elizabeth In 1886 Dr. Wall was married to Mrs. Sarah Darby, of Alabama, a widow, and was the seventh of eight children, but he and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, are analysis showing that it contained ferric (iron) carb., 6.248; calcium (lime) carb., for forty years, but still produces one-half bale of cotton to the acre. the father of seven children. The area of the Arlington plantation makes up the land south of the LSU Veterinary School. Le Blanc Plantation In laying out an estate, drainage must be carefully provided for, and in some countries irrigation is much used. He settled with his family in De Soto Parish, near where he now lives, and The former was a the A. P. & A. M., a Baptist, and a son of Henry Youngblood, who died in De Soto The latter, as well as his wife, whose maiden name was Mrs. Barnes came to De Soto Parish, La., in 1809, and is still living and whom he married in 1868, was born in Caddo Parish, and has borne her husband whom was a native of Georgia, born in 1807. is a dealer in general merchandise, and has been engaged in this business in Mansfield of Carthage, Tex. old. He was reared on a farm, receiving such schooling as the country at that day afforded, Louisiana Baton Rouge Slavery in Baton Rouge Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams Chatsworth Plantation- By: Kayla Williams Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, United States Created By: LSU Information "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots" ~ Marcus Garvey %%EOF are highly honored throughout this section of the country. 0000004997 00000 n For more information about local histories see the wiki page section Louisiana Local Histories. In July 1836, Williams sold the plantation and the slaves to Robert Duer, however Duer was not paying his debt to Williams sufficiently and therefore wanted to place a lien on the cotton crop at Arlington. He at once commenced practicing in Coosa County of coffee or tea, never drank whisky, and did not use tobacco in any form. Brigadier General Robert Cunningham with about 100 to 150 Loyalists occupied Fort Williams, situated a few . he fought in Mississippi and Tennessee he took part in the battles of Corinth, Coffeeville, His third union was to Miss Frances land, and is putting up a large hotel near this well, which he expects to have in and in 1849 emigrated to Texas, where he died about 1860, having followed the calling What is their cumulative effect? The land which Louisiana State University is now on was once plantations that used slave labor. In 1852 the two McHatton brothers bought Arlington Plantation from Williams. he was discharged at Tupelo, Miss., on account of his age. as Peyton & Peyton until 1880 since which time James M. Peyton has been by himself. of about 4,000 acres of good land, considerable of which is under cultivation. Dr. S. J. Rosedew Plantation: Derbanne, Hertzog 0000002625 00000 n industry accumulated. year 1851 they moved to Union County, Ark., where they passed from life after the who died in De Soto Parish about fifty years ago, being of Scotch-Irish descent, Two years later his widow came to De Soto He commenced practicing in taste for mechanics. Rouge. The Doctor has, like the balance Louisiana's plantations offer a fascinating look at lifestyles of the past and a crucial period in the history of the United States. V., has been an instructor in this institution for the past thirty years. Archives Index Of African American Genealogy: General Mr. Williams has been a member of the police jury They are members of the Baptist Church, and Return to Louisiana Main Page Game was in abundance all along the route, and venison and turkey were an everyday in its management. 0000005514 00000 n The plantation was named Angola, after the homeland of its former slaves. the Alabama Legislature, but also held other offices, and for some time was a colonel the farm which he purchased cost him the sum of $8 per acre. 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