Overview

Location

Tensas Pa., LA. The following link shows David Hunt as having 139 slaves on Argyle in Tensas Parish in 1860. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/latensas.htm. My best guess is that this plantation was near David Hunt's other Louisiana plantations - in the vicinity of the town of Waterproof on the MS River.

Date Constructed/ Founded

My best guess is in about 1822 or slightly before when David Hunt is known to have been renting out land he owned on nearby Lake Concordia ("David Hunt Letters," LA State University, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/natchez/collections/hunt/index.html, retrieved , 30 Nov 07).

Associated Surnames

Hunt

Historical notes

This plantation would have been one of David Hunt's most valuable because it was on very fertile low MS Delta land near the MS River (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi," Wildside Press, Hollcong, PA). It probably flooded from time-to-time which would have deposited rich silt onto the land. This would have continually renewed the fertility of this land. Natchez MS area planters like Hunt had been expanding into this area of LA. since at least the early 1800s (D. Clayton James, "Antebellum Natchez," LSU Press, Baton Rouge, p148).

By 1860 this plantation had been put into a trust for four of David Hunt's grandchildren by his then deceased son Abijah (named after David's Uncle Abijah). They were being raised by their mother and step father, Edgar Wood, on Calviton Plantation in Jefferson Co. MS which adjoined David Hunt's Woodlawn Plantation MS.

This plantation was not a residence for any of the Hunt family before the Civil War (Dunbar Hunt, "Sketch of David Hunt," "The Fayette Chronicle," 29 May 1908, VOL XLI. No35). It would have been operated for David Hunt and later for David's son Abijah's children by a plantation manager who lived on the plantation.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Hole In The Wall Plantation, Arcola Plantation, see David Hunt's Woodlawn Plantation MS

Associated Free Persons

• David Hunt - owner
• Abijah Hunt (David's son - not his Uncle)

• In 1860 this plantation was held in a trust by David Hunt for his four grandchildren, listed below, by his then deceased son Abijah.
• Thomas W. Hunt, born in 1842, married Jeanette D. January.
• Ann Hunt, born in 1844.
• Mary Floyd Hunt born 1 Feb 1845 married William Dougald Torrey.
• Ella Agnes Hunt born 1846 married Field F. Montgomery.

Associated Enslaved Persons

• According to the 1860 slave census, 139 slaves worked on this plantation. The following link shows David Hunt as having 139 slaves on Argyle in Tensas Parish. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/latensas.htm

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Plantations of David Hunt, by Andy McMillon. http://jeffersoncountyms.org/davidhunt.htm
• The Hunt Family of Jefferson County, by Andy McMillion. http://jeffersoncountyms.org/hunt_family.htm

Users Researching This Workplace

• Andy-McMillion

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