Wilkins, James Campbell, papers, 1801-1852.

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Wilkins, James Campbell, papers, 1801-1852.

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Papers relate to the lives and careers of Wilkins, his family, and business associates and concern the cotton trade; business of commission merchants in Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana; plantation life and economy; slavery; and the planter elite of the Natchez and Adams County area. Included is material concerning James Campbell Wilkins's uncle, Charles Wilkins, Lexington, Kentucky, merchant and provisioner of the U.S. Army's work on the Natchez Trace road (1801-1807); James Campbell Wilkins's work as a commission merchant in Natchez; his partnership (1816-1834) with John Linton in New Orleans; his business as a planter; activities of individuals and families, including George Adams, Adam Lewis Bingaman, Stephen Duncan, Levin R. Marshall, and the Minor family; and the 1836 sale and transportation to the South of a group of 50 slaves.

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Wilkins, John, d. 1817?

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Skinner, J.S.

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Adams family.

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Marshall, Levin R., b. 1800

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Wilkins, Charles (Charles Everett)

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Linton, John, approximately 1745-approximately 1834

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Wilkins and Linton Company (Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans, La.)

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Minor family.

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Butler family.

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Wilkins, James Campbell, 1786-1849

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Natchez, Mississippi, cotton planter, merchant, cotton factor, financier, and banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before 1790, he came to Adams County around 1805. He participated in the Battle of New Orleans, the last general assembly of the Mississippi Territory, and the constitutional convention for the new state. Between 1828 and 1835 he attempted an unsuccessful political career. He was associated prominently with four banks at Natchez (1824-1840), but lost most of his fortune in 1841...

Wilkins family.

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Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867

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Stephen Duncan was a planter and banker of Natchez, Mississippi. The Duncan family plantations included L'Argent, Auburn, Camperdown, Carlisle, Duncan, Duncannon, Duncansby, Ellisle, Homochitto, Middlesex, Oakley, Rescue, Reserve, and Attakapas Plantation. Duncan was married to Margaret Duncan, née Ellis (d. 1815), and had two children, John Ellis Duncan and Sarah Jane Duncan. He married his second wife, Catherine A. Duncan, née Bingaman, in 1819 and had four children, Stephen Duncan, Jr., Cha...