For centuries, a story of a haunted tree has been attached to Comingtee. Sanderson is also listed in weaver1945, 109, as a Mississippi planter who owned around $222,000 worth of property in Louisiana., Could be a reference to Henrietta Wood. Swing also told the jurors to focus on Woods kidnapping in assessing the case, and the vast majority of freed people could not show, as Wood did, that they had been re-enslaved. Educator and interpreter Joseph McGill founded the Slave Dwelling Project as a living history lesson. Contact the agent for information. Meat at Bulls but so hard & dry no one could eat it. Meats Esquire Jones, an opponent of secession who fears the postwar. 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. 1847, d. 1885; married Joseph C. Pierce, Agnes Brandon (b. June 29, 1851, d. January 19, 1862; see, Sarah Brandon (b. June 29, 1851, d. December 13, 1862; see, Charles Gerard Brandon (b. To purchase tickets, call . Horse foundered, took him to Middletons camp. A copy was made, 6 October 1804. Many newspapers described Woods suit as an old case or a relic of slavery times, consigning stories like hers to a fading past. I whippped him a little. Anthony has the money. Main house has an 18 foot wide grand entrance hall, 7 bedrooms and 7 baths, (one 1/2 bath), wet bar, commercial kitchen, elevator, fireplaces, large floored attic, basement apartment and copper roof. It remains the largest known sum ever granted by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. Then, in 1848, Jane Cirode went to a county courthouse and registered Wood as free. The unfolding of our country's history with slavery, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and its surrounding streets, is critical for all Americans to understand. The land on which Brandon Hall now stands first passed into private ownership as a royal grant from the Spanish King Carlos III in 1788. One user named Treebranch02 wrote last September: Well, I think I found the slave owner that owned my great, great, great grandfather but that is as far as I got. Many of the slaves had been forgotten to the world until the Virginia Historical Society received a $100,000 grant to pore over some of its 8 million unpublished manuscripts letters, diaries, ledgers, books and farm documents from Virginians dating to the 1600s and began discovering the long-lost identities of the slaves, said society president and CEO Paul Levengood. Snowfall, the deepest I ever saw in the South. Begins December 31 entry, bitter cold, water freezes on the shelf inside his cabin. Saturday April 17, 2021 The widely acclaimed Slave Dwelling Project comes to Natchez April 17 as part of an effort designed to bring attention to the world of the enslaved in the Natchez District. The trial began only after eight years of litigation, leaving Wood to wonder if she would ever get justice. 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. Brandon strictly instructs them not to trade with anyone. Brandon told me that Mr.Poole was offered $2000 in gold for Phoebe on his way to Texas, but he was on ahead of wagons and negroes and did not hear of it until too late. These 81 years extended from Mississippi's frontier days during the period of grace and plenty before the Civil War, and through the South's darkest hours after the war. It is, rather, a living reminder of the truth of the Black experience during the time of slavery. Goes hunting for deer. . Harrisonburg by the 16th, butcould not pass the pickets" and found that all the Ferries on Ouachita & Tensas were destroyed or strictly guarded. Backtracks to Alexandria. A letter Cornelia Jane Shields to James Brandons wife states that Mr. Unfortunately Charlotte Brandon Stanton Merrill had little time to enjoy her undivided ownership of Brandon Hall because on January 27, 1914 the plantation, house and land, was sold at auction to one George Hightower as a result of default on promissory notes held by the First Natchez Bank. Brandon was a very rich man, Wood later said. His overseers are John Lyle (born in Kentucky) and William Hurley (born in Scotland, accompanied by his wife Rose). Brandon Hall would make a wonderful family estate. Its an incredibly complicated and tragic institution that were just beginning to understand the dimensions of, Levengood said. Notations on page 5 of his pocketbook indicate that on July 1, he first paid $140 for a ferry at Quitmans (a reference to a contemporary place in Adams County known as Quitmans Landing and referred to in papers and military records of that time; it was north of Natchez). Even Juneteenth, the day in June 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Texas to enforce emancipation, did not liberate Wood. Smithsonian magazine participates in affiliate link advertising programs. I worked under the meanest overseers, and got flogged and flogged, until I thought I should die.". Slavery was eventually abolished at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865. Im going to use this not only personally, but professionally, she said. Arrival of Jim and Middleton, and Sanford was behind with 58 negroes & some stock. Jim and Brandon go to see Oliver Carter to try and rent his place on the Brassos. No rental, but he gets corn. That means many American families with slave ancestors could have roots in Virginia, Levengood said. Discusses leaving Poole with a power of attorney, and one with Bennett if Poole becomes indisposed. 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. As laid out in McDaniel's book, in 1840, Mississippi accounted for nearly a quarter of all. Janes husband exclaimed just as she was knocked out to his master Glory to God on high, peace and good will to men on earth and it seemed to pop from his very soul. Nothing on my great grandfather and great grandmother who lived in Manquin, VA. 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. Arranges situation for Phoebe.11 Feels gloomy, homesick. p.3: Deaths on Trip to Texas, continued onto 4. herculoids gloop and gleep sounds She must be about 85 years old now. Ward planned to make Wood the latest victim of this trade, but she resolved to fight. 1841, d. 1859 in the, Elizabeth Elmina C. Ella Brandon (b. What a pity, that amount would have supported you during the war. After years of trials and tribulations, a group of 300 of Ross' slaves were transported to Africa, where they founded Liberia. When possible, I have also noted the dates of Brandons entries. She was suing him for $20,000 in reparations. Prince George County: Brandon. 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. Danish West Indies, Denmark, Records of Enslaved People, 1672-1917 Headed back to TX today using same route Brandon took with slaves, including Wood, in 1863. Begins August 11 entry. The New York Times observed, Files of newspapers of the five years following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law are filled with stories of the kidnapping of free men in free States. (In fact, free black Northerners had been kidnapped for years before the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.) While the online website is intuitive on how to use, the workshops are being held for users who need more guidance, Levengood said. These searches were performed by Christina via HeritageQuest as part of her RA Assignments.4. The Robertson County Tax Rolls for 1865 show G. In the 1863 tax sales the property was sold to the Federal government for . Brandon and Middleton travelling. 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. They note that disfranchisement and segregation only worsened the racial wealth gap, which was established under slavery and remains today. Begins August 3 entry at came near Dr.Milners Spring. This article originally appeared in Smithsonian Magazine. Call List Agent for a Fact Sheet. The plantation, however, plays a role in the darkest period of American history. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a New Orleans native who has devoted much of her life to the study of slavery, spent 15 years in the courthouses of Louisiana, as well as in archives in Spain, France and. Then, in 1848, Jane Cirode went to a county courthouse and registered Wood as free. Brandon Hall is a beautifully restored plantation home that dates back to 1856. Updated he goes to look at Robertsons land and is piloted by Mr. But Wood and her lawyers had argued that the case was about much more than damages from abduction. The plantation was named after its original owner, Major John Boone, who came to the Carolina colony from Bermuda. The plantation, founded in 1681, is one of the oldest working plantations in the US. A NCGenWeb Special Project Documented Slave Plantations of North Carolina is a comprehensive database of various plantations derived from a variety of information mediums. She spent the first nights of her captivity locked inside two roadside inns. Swing also told the jurors to focus on Wood's kidnapping in assessing the case, and the vast majority of freed people could not show, as Wood did, that they had been re-enslaved. 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. The trial began only after eight years of litigation, leaving Wood to wonder if she would ever get justice. Because the award was small, procedural rules prevented Ward from appealing to higher courts where the verdict might have been more widely noticed. "Not so many complications of a legal nature arise out of the old relations of master and slave as might have been expected," the New-York Tribune argued with barely concealed relief. At San Agustine by 11th. 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 W. Caleb McDaniel 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. A record now at the National Archives in Chicago confirms that he did, in 1879. not the care, pains & comfort in fixing up places. He couldnt find corn. The 1860 slave census shows 52 slaves on Fish Haul. Wood was an early contributor to a long tradition of formerly enslaved people and their descendants demanding redress. Fortunately for this country the institution of slavery has passed away, he had instructed the jurors, and we should not bring our particular ideas of the legality or morality of an institution of that character into Court or the jury-box. He had cautioned the jurors against an excessive award, claimingfalselythat many former slaveholders already regretted slavery. The traders put Wood up for sale at Natchez's infamous Forks of the Road slave market. "And I know some people might think that's strange," says Belton, 76.. Daisy Patterson Brandon Dale (Natchez: Daisy Patterson Brandon Dale, 2007), 72., Williams may be the Mississippi-born Walter Williams who died in 1959 at age 117, though that claim has been questioned., Phoebe appears to have been owned by Brandons brother Dr.James C. Brandon. Newspapers described Wood's suit as an "old case" or a "relic of slavery times," consigning stories like hers to a fading past. If he followed the road from San Augustine to Crockett pictured on Texas Map (1865), then he likely passed through Nacogdoches as well. Today, it remains virtually unknown, even as reparations for slavery are once again in the headlines. Celebrates Christmas with Graves and Dr. In 1969, civil rights leader James Forman issued a manifesto calling on churches and synagogues to pay half a billion dollars in reparations to black Americans. Brandon Hall C1856. Pleasant, South Carolina, is one of America's oldest working plantations, with a history dating back to 1681. 2023 Cable News Network. Sometimes its a real detective work. When she died in 1912, her suit was already forgotten by all except her son. 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 . Captivating Houses, Wood suffered another, unexpected setback in 1874 when her lawyer was murdered by a clients husband in an unrelated divorce case. 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. Misses a dinner invitation from Graves. Begins November 2 & 3 entry, attends a public sale of someones effects. Major Boone was a successful planter and slave owner, and his plantation . It once belonged to Captain Isaac Ross, who freed his slaves at the time of his death. ] stream. Woods victory briefly made her lawsuit national news. p.4: Some more deaths; notes about wagon loads, presumably of cotton bales; ferriage and tolls on the route to Texas, pp. Zebulon Ward was their man. Slavery in Virginia is not just a Virginia story. In January 1914, the plantation, house, and land was sold to George Hightower as a result of a default on a promissory note, thus ending an 81-year chain of ownership by the Brandon and Hoggatt families. 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. On July 1, 1863, just days before the U.S. Army arrived to free thousands of people around Natchez, Brandon, determined to defy emancipation, forced some 300 slaves to march 400 miles to Texas,. Suggest edits to improve what we show. It reaches across all of the slave South, Levengood said. ) If some of the enslaved people owned by James Brandon were also taken to Texas by Gerard, it is possible that this is the woman referred to in the journal, who would have been a teenager at the time. She had not forgotten Ward and sued him the following year. Discovery Company. I first learned of Wood from two interviews she gave to reporters in the 1870s. The site is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the final tour starts at 4 p.m. Travels to Belton in buggy. It wasn't until she returned to Mississippi with Brandon in 1866 that she gained her freedom; she continued to work for Brandon, now promised a salary of $10 a month, but she would say she was never paid. Even the judge who presided over Wood's case, Phillip Swing, viewed it narrowly. Hes hoping his 12 grandchildren can benefit from his work. 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. The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have. The Prospect Hill Plantation is without a doubt one of the most historically significant sites in the state. Our brave participants started in a near-pitch black maze through the auditorium. 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. Brandon Plantation, one of the nation's oldest working farms along the James River in Prince George County, was sold to a family in Florida for $17.8 million. and was bought for Miss Perking of Buckingham.. Unsure of his next steps, whether to visit home and be on the dodge all the time, the great fear I have is being sent to a northern prison.. She had not forgotten Ward and sued him the following year. Begins October 3 entry. Researching a slaveholder's genealogy can be a time-consuming task, but fortunately, there are many genealogies for South Carolina slaveholders . Report of a Mrs. If you know of any others send the information to me. She was later removed from the cotton fields and put to work in Brandons house. the joint wedding of Hoster's daughter Catelyn to Brandon Stark, eldest son and heir of Lord Rickard of Winterfell, and Lord Rickard's daughter Lyanna to Robert Baratheon, Lord of Storm's End. He helped Wood file a lawsuit in Cincinnati against Ward, now a wealthy man living in Lexington. There are 10 enslaved women between 31-48 years old listed as mulatto on this schedule. Eats well on the road. 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