The 1860 slave census shows 52 slaves on Fish Haul. herculoids gloop and gleep sounds I worked under the meanest overseers, and got flogged and flogged, until I thought I should die.". Cirode returned to France in 1844, abandoning his wife, Jane, who eventually took Wood with her to Ohio, a free state. Amateur genealogist Crasty Johnson of Richmond said she hopes the sites will help her trace her roots back to the 1800s. You can explore lives and stories of these slaves at the 9 slave cabins in the plantation where the Black History in America Exhibit is displayed. must be sold out of this section, or hung, or I must move, as my negroes might be the cause of all the negroes being dissatisfied and many a man might loose his property by my coming here. CROSS THAT RIVER continues in New York for a limited engagement through Sunday, Dec. 31 at the 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Madison and Park Avenues). She was soon sold again, to a French immigrant, William Cirode, who took her to New Orleans. Land he sees will do fine for small Farmers of from 1 to 20 hands to make a living on, but to plant extensively or make a fortune I should never come here except on the creeks. Hasnt seen good hogs. Her official freedom papers, at a courthouse in Cincinnati, had been destroyed in an 1849 fire, and her kidnappers had confiscated her personal copy. A letter Cornelia Jane Shields to James Brandons wife states that Mr. Property is 45 acres and one of the few private driveways directly off the Natchez Trace Parkway. Ancestry places birth on December 5, 1864., See also this genealogy page and the Gerard Brandon children website., See Steven Brooke, The Majesty of Natchez (Gretna, La. Phoebe is living with a good family for her food and clothing only. His brother was Dr.James C. Brandon (1820-1884), with whom he was particularly close; both brothers named sons after the other. (pg 44a-44b), Adams County, Mississippi: 217 enslaved people were listed under Gerard Brandon, trustee for children. 70 slave dwellings were also noted. Theyll be able to take it and grow from that.. The Virginia Historical Society finds 3,200 slaves named in private documents, The unpublished documents are from Virginians' attics, basements and desk drawers, "We sold all the negros 43 in number at astonishingly large prices," an 1858 letter says, One user of the society's free database of slaves finds the owner of his great-great-great-grandfather. After Brandon pursued several possible places to rent in Texas, Joseph S. Able, a resident of Robertson County, offered Brandon a place on his land with 300 acres in cultivation 2 cabins & corn on the ground as well as use of a mill. How many [illegible] I have doctored & sick negroes, swelled feet & legs, swelled stomachs, dyptheria, fever, seems to me nearly all man is heir to, but all well this morning & I am thankful it is no worse. Medicine nearly out. A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials. how Texas has been over stated. The Brandons were harvesters of cotton, sugarcane, and indigo and owned 700 slaves. Brandon was one of many Refugees to Texas who took Refugeed Slaves there to escape emancipating Union armies. Few white Americans wished to dwell on those evils. Mailing Address: Brandon Hall Plantation 1213 Hwy 61 North Natchez, MS 39120 Chilly weather. The Week is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The first plantations in the Americas of sugar cane, cocoa, tobacco, and cotton were maintained and harvested by African slaves controlled by European masters. One of the Grandest Greek Revival Plantation Homes in the South. His ancestors were slaves here, but the longtime math and science teacher at McComb High School felt no anger or bitterness. What a pity, that amount would have supported you during the war. Brandon kept her enslaved on a cotton plantation until well after the war. It went through a number of owners before becoming an inn and event venue. However, at the height of the slave era (1830-1860), only a few thousand masters owned as many as 300 people. Zebulon Ward was their man. Gerard Brandon, one of the largest slaveholders in the South, bought Wood and took her to his house, Brandon Hall, on the Natchez Trace. My children must thank me for the attempt to save [?] In 1889, he was one of the first African-American graduates of what became Northwestern University's School of Law. So I find my negroes out of doors, & stock poor, corn high & some difficulty to get it, & separated from my family." Brandon Hall Briars Plantation: Senderson Brighton Plantation :Mosby Brighton Woods Browmers Prissint: Adams Buckhunt Plantation: Mercer Canowa Plantation (on the Mississippi River): McAlroy, Metcalf Canowa Plantation (at Gaillards Lake): Ligon Carthage Plantation: Minor Cherry Grove Clermont Plantation: Nevitt Clifford Plantation Cliffs Plantation Brandon Hall is a Greek Revival architecture style house built in 1856 in Washington, Mississippi, United States. Brandon is an historic plantation located on the south shore of the James River in Prince George County, Virginia. The plaintiff was Henrietta Wood, described by a reporter at the time as "a spectacled negro woman, apparently 60 years old." Their son Dunbar Merrill had a daughter named (Ruth Britton) Dunbar Merrill Flinn (1926-2006), whose attic contained many Brandon family papers before they were donated to the Historic Natchez Foundation.2. "I sowed the cotton, hoed the cotton, and picked the cotton. The value of his real estate was $18,000. : Estate of Sara Brandon Rickey, 2000), 63n6., Thanks to Will Jones for locating Brandons name in the county tax rolls as part of his RA Assignments for Fall 2015., See Map of Robertson County, Portal to Texas History., Sandersons 72 slaves, valued at $64,800 appear in the Freestone County Tax Roles for 1864. I first learned of Wood from two interviews she gave to reporters in the 1870s. Contact the agent for information. Robertson offers him use of land, offers to put the deal in writing in Belton. FOR SALE: 1856 Brandon Hall Plantation, Natchez, Mississippi Our Restoration Nation 103K subscribers Subscribe 16K 1.4M views 1 year ago Have you ever wanted to own your own historic mansion. Wonderful site.. Brandon Hall is a beautifully restored plantation home that dates back to 1856. (The plantations were part of his wife's dowry.) Discovered that several men (Isaac, [Matt] & Charley) had been in the hog business, cost me $30 (noted in ledger on p.9, Brandons page 14); medicine scarce; Oh! and Mimy and three children $2505. Wood secretly told her story to a sympathetic innkeeper who followed her to Lexington, where a lawsuit was filed on her behalf asserting that she was free. Also Brandon Hall in Reid Smith and John Owens, The Majesty of Natchez (Montgomery, Ala.: Paddle Wheel Publications, 1969): it is obvious that he, like so many of his contemporaries, had succumbed to the Greek Revival era of elegance. She has learned to weave and is well satisfied your brother[-in-law] says. See Gerard B. Rickey and Alan C. Rayne, ed., I Will Write if I Have to Use a Stick: Letters from HomeCornelia Jane Shields Letters to her Children, 1864-1865 (University Park, Tex. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. All accommodations at this luxury home have private in-room (not shared) bathrooms. All rights reserved. Nearly every one of the negros were satisfied as they were bought by people in the country mostly, going ahead of the prices given by the traders, Cabell wrote his wife. In 1833 Chew sold the property to Nathaniel Hoggatt, a successful planter whose daughter Charlotte inherited the land after his death. : Estate of Sara Brandon Rickey, 2000), 79, available at Historic Natchez Foundation., In 1872, Brandon was still in a legal dispute over an assumption of debt on a plantation he purchased in Tensas Parish (LA) from Hughes, who moved to Texas in 1862 or 1863. It remains the largest known sum ever granted by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. . Brandon Hall in Natchez, MS was built by Gerard Brandon and his wife Charlotte (Hoggatt). The Robertson County Tax Rolls for 1865 show G. The Boone Hall Plantation, located in Mt. Wood's victory briefly made her lawsuit national news. Advertising Notice Misses a dinner invitation from Graves. Brandon mentions his diary in a letter to his daughter Ella, dated October 21, 1863, and found in the Vonkersburg Family Collection at the Historic Natchez Foundation. If you purchase an item through these links, we receive a commission. 2023 Smithsonian Magazine Mandys child died. Newspapers described Wood's suit as an "old case" or a "relic of slavery times," consigning stories like hers to a fading past. about opposition to refugees, particularly if they had much property, and the slogan rich mans war & the poor mans fight. Another refugee who had fenced up a spring. When he died in 1951, after a long career as a lawyer, he left behind a large clan of descendants who were able to launch professional careers of their own, even as redlining and other racially discriminatory practices put a chokehold on the South Side neighborhoods where they lived. Article. As one put it, Wood's award was "not a liberal equivalent for the loss of liberty" she had suffered, but it would "be applicable to a great many cases yet untried.". Left for home 4th Feby 1864. On Sunday attended church in forenoon, saw a fistfight in eve, & a company pass having in charge nine deserters. My mistress gave me my freedom, Wood later said, and my papers were recorded. Wood spent the next several years performing domestic work around Cincinnati. Cornelias screw worms , such as kill thousands of stock in Texas annually. Poole has been ill for three days. Sanderson to Texas.8 While at Morgans, he is introduced to Oliver Carter near Fairfield, who put him in touch with a Mr.Deming, who had a too-small place for sale, and not until January 7. Some 80 people came to Saturdays workshop, including Gale Carter, a high school history teacher who flew in from East Chicago, Indiana for the event. Copyright 2019 Smithsonian Institution. I am captivated by their character and charm! Charles S. Darden Danish West Indies, Denmark, Records of Enslaved People, 1672-1917 Brandon camps near Butler (Freestone County, halfway between Palestine and Fairfield) and goes to see a Mr.Morgan, apparently an acquaintance from Mississippi, who had brought slaves belonging to W. S. (or S. His wife Charlotte (age 49) and his children Mary (15) and Charles (5) are listed as fellow members of the household. With help from his mother's court-ordered compensation, Arthur bought a house, started a family, and paid for his own schooling. By the 1850s, the interstate slave trade was booming, and the Whites saw dollar signs whenever they thought of Wood. Construction on the home began in 1853 and it was completed in 1856.3, Slave schedules for the 1860 Census confirm Brandons large slaveholdings. #ResearchRoadTrip pic.twitter.com/7lk820jLbt. My father gave $25. Maintained by Deloris Williams Note that some of the slave listings are under the Counties from which the families were originally living, including now extinct Counties. I need to know my history, she said, adding the site may help her prove or disprove many of the things shes heard about her familys past. The ghost of a woman whose fiance died before they could be . I cant quite tell my age, Wood recalled in a newspaper interview in 1876, but she knew she was born enslaved to the Tousey family between 1818 and 1820. One is hiring negroes to go 300 miles west for the government. Brandon sends 40. It is currently used as a successful wedding venue and bed & breakfast. Begins December 26 entry, very rainy. 1845, d. 1909), Charlotte Lottie Brandon (b. Begins October 21, the most melancholly day I have had in Texas. James (Jim) leaves for home & from thence to the army., Begins October 25 entry. The mill is out of fix, & too bad to get up a beef and all hands are on short rations. Thoughts of home. Begins December 27 entry. Reynolds and Lively got married at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, which features nine slave cabins, referred to as "Slave Street." The move was criticized at the time, but came under . Did you encounter any technical issues? Smithsonian magazine participates in affiliate link advertising programs. Brandon was a very rich man, Wood later said. Terms of Use Expressions of homesickness. Upper Brandon plantation was part of an original land patent known as Brandon, granted to Captain John Martin, one of the founders of Jamestown.He was succeeded by several absentee owners, including a grandson of William Shakespeare, until the property was purchased by Benjamin Harrison II of Wakefield in 1712.. She finally returned to Cincinnati in 1869, a free woman. 163, Probate Court, Adams County, Miss.) By 1878, white Northerners were retreating from Reconstruction. Because the award was small, procedural rules prevented Ward from appealing to higher courts where the verdict might have been more widely noticed. "I can't quite tell my age," Wood recalled in a newspaper interview in 1876, but she knew she was born enslaved to the Tousey family between 1818 and 1820. In June 1866, The New Orleans Daily Crescent published an announcement that Gerard Brandons wife Charlotte was awarded a separation of property between her and her husband by the Court of New Orleans. She would one day recall that period of her life as a sweet taste of liberty.. The Prospect Hill Plantation is without a doubt one of the most historically significant sites in the state. Grain and food were raised for local use. Thinks about people at home. I am aware of the hands that built it, and the literal blood, sweat, and tears that entailed. Photograph: Jessica Crawford. Brandon Hall Plantation, built ca 1856 by Gerard Brandon, U.S. 61, Washington. this property for them for I have seen sights of trouble more than I can ever describe or make them sensible of. Begins August 13 entry. At Boone Hall Plantation Black history is not something that is defined by a certain time of year. This is terrific. Wood suffered another, unexpected setback in 1874, when her lawyer was murdered by a client's husband in an unrelated divorce case. In 1807, at the death of Benjamin Harrison III (1743-1807), his will divided the . When she died in 1912, her suit was already forgotten by all except her son. These slaves hadn't been disguised as 'servants . He came 407 miles.. The society stores the documents in an archive spanning thousands of square feet, he said. Plantations in Mississippi In addition to the plantation name and owner, the date the county was formed is also shown. For them, the money Henrietta Wood demanded for her enslavement made a long-lasting difference. Arranges situation for Phoebe.11 Feels gloomy, homesick. [1] [2] [3] It will not be held responsible or liable for its use and accuracy. After her suit, she moved with her son to Chicago. Sanford Poole & Sandy had gone to kill a deer. Middleton arrives, and he gets a package from home. (In fact, free black Northerners had been kidnapped for years before the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.) In 2009 the owners of the house, Edward L. and James R. Diefenthal of New Orleans, Louisiana, donated the house to the Historic Natchez Foundation.[2]. Elsewhere in the database is a stark description of the sale of slaves and goods in a February 11, 1858, typed letter from slaveholder William Daniel Cabell of Benvenue in Nelson County, Virginia, to his wife, Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell. And when the carriage finally rolled to a stop outside of Covington, Ward's men were waiting. A Warner Bros. She had not forgotten Ward and sued him the following year. Copyright 2023, Though a fraction of what Wood had asked for, the amount would be worth nearly $65,000 today. Two hundred and five years ago, on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history. Now, she watched nervously as the 12 jurors returned to their seats. The trial began only after eight years of litigation, leaving Wood to wonder if she would ever get justice. The freedom suit had prevented Ward from selling Wood for nearly two years, but in 1855, he took her to a Kentucky slave-trading firm that did business in Natchez, Mississippi. Returns from Salado to reports of death, including Henrietta has just come to say Diceys little boy is dead. After moving to Ables, All at Home for the war. Description of the Able Family , and another Mississippi refugee named Williams.10 Difficulty getting a beef he had paid for. As one put it, Woods award was not a liberal equivalent for the loss of liberty she had suffered, but it would be applicable to a great many cases yet untried.. The whole country bleeds and is in mourning. Before the Civil War, large Southern rice and cotton plantations depended on enslaved African Americans to operate successfully. By the 3rd he paid $53 for a ferry at Trinity, Louisiana (likely to cross the Black River), and then paid $38 to cross Little River on the 7th. He had cautioned the jurors against an excessive award, claiming falsely that many former slaveholders already regretted slavery. This heritage is currently documented on the plantation's grounds, in exhibits at nine of the original property's slave cabins. 1842 wing of the residence. The Civil War began, followed in 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation, but Wood's ordeal continued. : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., 2007), 92. In 1637, merchants John Sadler and Richard Quiney and mariner William Barber, bought Martin's Brandon. The letter continued: Jane and three children brought $2795. After 1815, as white settlers rushed into the lower Mississippi River Valley, many looked to purchase slaves to cultivate the regions most profitable crop. $$$ info@brandonhallplantation.com Closed now 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM The Brandons had numerous slaves and most likely used them for tobacco growing, resulting the in the prosperity that enabled the construction of the ca. In 1987 the home was completely renovated and restored, perfectly duplicating the original construction. 73 Natchez Trace Pkwy,Natchez, Mississippi, 39120, 7 beds 8 baths 10,768 sqft 45 acres, Jackie Smith PAUL GREEN REALTORS 601-442-2768. It was four years after the Confederate surrender before Wood was able to return up the river, where she tried to locate long-lost members of her family in Kentucky. For them, the money Henrietta Wood demanded for her enslavement made a long-lasting difference. The value of his real estate was $170,000 and his personal estate was $400,000. February 27, 2023 By restaurants on the water in st clair shores. Descendants of slave owners, slaves and freed slaves listen to a history of the plantation. Wood secretly told her story to a sympathetic innkeeper who followed her to Lexington, where a lawsuit was filed on her behalf asserting that she was free. Even Juneteenth, the day in June 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Texas to enforce emancipation, did not liberate Wood. The first part is an inventory of stores taken on the first day on which Forster Clarke entered on the management of the Estate (11 July 1803). Enough to make a man gloomy. Reads Ellas letter. She was suing him for $20,000 in reparations. In the first half of the 19th century, there were as many as 85 slaves working at the plantation. Now I was in trouble. The story told by Bill deepens in complexity, and involves a plot by Ables son to run to Mexico, though most of his slaves deny that they were going to go along. More critical talk from his dinner partners about rich planters, whose negroes are dressed better than Texas soldiers. Brandon feels it unfair but holds his peace. In the eyes of Kentucky law, Wood was a slave. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]. Boone Hall was built on the backs of black slaves, who harvested cotton and pecans and produced brick on its grounds. The private, nonprofit historical society, the fourth-oldest in the nation, is assembling a growing roster of slaves names and other information, such as the slaves occupations, locations and plantation owners names, said Levengood. But these people were writing down their inventory as if you would for insurance purposes. Harriss said many architectural features were kept true to the original design when the house was renovated in the mid-1980s, apart from closets, bathrooms, and the closed in porch. The sale included 1,514 7 /10 acres and a town lot and buildings in Mt Pleasant. See menn1964 for more information about this holding., J. H. Coltons map of the state of Louisiana and eastern part of Texas, commented on the unequal application of criminal justice, Walter Williams who died in 1959 at age 117, Philip A. Brandon (b. Educator and interpreter Joseph McGill founded the Slave Dwelling Project as a living history lesson. Brandon Hall was formally a large working cotton plantation located on the scenic Natchez Trace. Loundon Co. Duncan, Patricia B. Abstracts of Loudoun County Virginia Register of Free Negroes 1844-1861.Willow Bend Books, Westminster Maryland, 2000. Report of a Mrs. Brandons family was one of the staunchest supporters of the Confederacy in the area. And when the carriage finally rolled to a stop outside of Covington, Wards men were waiting. Ownership may have meant the purchase of a spouse, an individual's children, or other relatives who were not emancipated. This property has much more to offer. See, Trinity River (specific place illegible, but may be Madisonville) (possibly by July 22, when he paid $28 for a ferry, according to page 5 of the journal), qq Transcribe relevant portions of Texas diary, qq Go through probate records on Ancestry. Most slaves were by their owners design and eventually by law forbidden to learn how to read and write, so they didnt leave us material that so many figures in the past did, Levengood said. Cirode's daughter and son-in-law, Josephine and Robert White, still lived in Kentucky and disagreed with Jane Cirode's manumission of Wood; they viewed her as their inheritance. Not only business operations and day-to-day labor routines, but family affairs, the roles of women, racial attitudes, relations between masters and slaves, social and cultural life, the values shared by members of the planter class, and Brandon was originally a vast land grant to John Martin, companion of Captain John Smith, on his first voyage to America. The site is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the final tour starts at 4 p.m. Not everyone agreed with the verdict, but the facts of her horrific story were widely accepted as credible. Brandon Hall would make a wonderful family estate. Captivating Houses, A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new. and was bought for Miss Perking of Buckingham.. Vital statistics in the below list draw on the Brandon Children website and a public family tree on Ancestry. His wife Charlotte (39) and children Elmina (16), James (14), Charlotte (12), Sarah (9), Agnes (9), Mary (5), and Alice (4) are listed a fellow members of the household. Thats when you have to be creative.. Even the judge who presided over Wood's case, Phillip Swing, viewed it narrowly. Eats well on the road. This structure still exists as the "basement" of the present house known as Brandon Hall. W. Caleb McDaniel is a professor of history at Rice University. Living very poor. His travels for land continue. The corn we sold yesterday brought 3.15$ per barrel. The house was built c. 1765 by . Dudley I think will die. Arrival of Mrs Spark and her son, other Mississippi refugees, who had found and brought Jack Lancaster. You have to read between the lines: Oh, they mention Amy in a letter, and then you have to read another letter in the collection to realize that Amy is a slave and not a family member, Levengood said. He says he has made some rough notes of incidents to share with her and intended to send them with Jim (his son) but cannot well do without the book., Based on his diary of the trip, Brandon left in early summer 1863. Discovery Company. Ward's lawyers stalled, claiming that Wood's failed antebellum suit for freedom proved his innocence. A NCGenWeb Special Project Documented Slave Plantations of North Carolina is a comprehensive database of various plantations derived from a variety of information mediums. Slave traders met the demand by buying slaves in Virginia, Kentucky and Maryland and selling them in the cotton states. Now she watched nervously as the 12 jurors returned to their seats. Slaves at the Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens. The great hall of Riverrun was, perforce, the largest single room in the castle. This site should be used for informational and entertainment purposes only. Brandon was also required to pay his wife $127,436 with legal interest and costs of suit. Ward began to plot with a group of these notorious slave catchers. The gang located Woods employer in Cincinnati, a boardinghouse keeper named Rebecca Boyd, and paid her to join their scheme. She was soon sold again, to a French immigrant, William Cirode, who took her to New Orleans. Snowfall, the deepest I ever saw in the South. Begins December 31 entry, bitter cold, water freezes on the shelf inside his cabin. It reaches across all of the slave South, Levengood said. Call List Agent for a Fact Sheet. But Woods name never made it into the history books. It almost makes me sick. By 1983, only 40 acres remained and the house had fallen into disrepair. One Sunday afternoon in April 1853, Boyd tricked Wood into taking a carriage ride across the river. Those Virginia families found the old, handwritten papers in attics, basements or desk drawers, Levengood said. Cold front. Prince George County: Brandon. Upper Brandon Plantation: William Byrd Harrison, George Harrison Byrd, Francis Otway Byrd, Harry C. Thompson, Fred E. Watkins, Jim Justice Brandon kept her enslaved on a cotton plantation until well after the war. While Wood received $2,500 as compensation for more than 16 years of unpaid labor, her former enslaver, Ward, left an estate worth at least $600,000 when he died in 1894, a multimillionaire in today's terms. they are the dirtiest people I ever saw or heard of & come nigher living out doors than any others., Begins November 27 entry. In the 1890s another formerly enslaved woman, Callie House, led a national organization pressuring the government for ex-slave pensions. The couple had numerous children, though only five survived into adulthood; four daughters died of natural causes during the Civil War. If you know of any others send the information to me. H. Weir of Centerville, who hit me a dig.. Researching black folk is difficult, so anytime you can find a new resource its always good to investigate, he said. From 1914 until the present, Brandon Hall Plantation has had ten owners. Then, in 1848, Jane Cirode went to a county courthouse and registered Wood as free. Poole gone to the field. Homesick thoughts, trying to read his Bible. Improve this listing Property amenities Free parking W.?) The society Saturday held the first of four community workshops on how to use the online database at the organizations headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. The postwar constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and extended national citizenship to ex-slaves enabled Wood to pursue Ward in federal court. A crowd of locals very much excited about the news and declared that the negroes . In 1834, the teenager was bought by a merchant in Louisville and taken from her family. In 1809 the property was sold at public auction to William Lock Chew for the sum of $7,000. 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