Anonymous lumber company account book, 1841-1842.

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Anonymous lumber company account book, 1841-1842.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71278927

Daybook of an unidentified lumber dealer, possibly Andrew Brown in Natchez, Mississippi, of accounts of sales of lumber and shingles, giving kind of lumber, sizes, prices, and quantity sold. Prominent purchasers include Thomas Affleck, B.L.C. Wailes, John A. Quitman, Francis Surget, John Jenkins, Stephen Duncan, and Samuel Postelwaite.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8080928

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Surget, Francis

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Francis Surget was a highly respected planter and slave owner living in Adams County, Mississippi, with extensive land holdings in the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi and in Arkansas. John F. H. Clairborne credits Surget as being "the most extensive and successful planter in Mississippi" who was "the first to introduce circular or horizontal plowing, to preserve the hill land from washing". From the guide to the Daybook of Highland Plantation, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, and...

Brown, Andrew J.

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Quitman, John Anthony, 1798-1858

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Army officer, governor, public official, and U.S. representative of Mississippi. From the description of Certificate and letter of John Anthony Quitman, 1850-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449461 John Anthony Quitman moved from Ohio to Natchez, Miss., in 1821, where he practiced law. He was a member of the State house of representatives (1826-1827), chancellor of the State (1828-1835), member and president of the State senate (1835-1836), acting governor of Mississip...

Affleck, Thomas, 1812-1868

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Thomas Affleck was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and immigrated to New York in 1832. He studied agriculture and general sciences while he lived on the East coast. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1840, he became editor of the Western Farmer and Gardener, a widely circulated agricultural periodical in the West. During a trip to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1842, Affleck met his second wife, Anna Dunbar Smith. They established their household in Washington, Adams County, Mis...

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...

Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862

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Planter and educator of Mississippi. From the description of Benjamin L.C. Wailes diary excerpt, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981286 Agriculturist, geologist, and naturalist, of Washington County, Miss. From the description of Papers, 1843-1862. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273418 Scientist and planter, chiefly remembered for his interest in soil, rocks, fossils, plants and animal life. Collected specimens in all these field...