OVERVIEW

Location

Located along both sides of Second Creek east of the Mississippi River south of Natchez in Adams County, Mississippi.

Date Constructed/Founded

Possibly 1805

Associated Surnames

Conner, Savage, Gaillard, Gustine, Baker, Buckner, Young

Historical Notes

Berkeley Plantation was the home plantation of William Carmichael Conner Sr. and his wife Mary Savage Conner. William Carmichael Conner Sr. claimed land on Second Creek that was in the name of his mother-in-law, Ann Gaillard Savage, daughter of Isaac Gaillard. The land was part of a 1789 Spanish land grant. William Conner claimed additional land on Second Creek in 1805 from Samuel Lewis, Sarah Lewis, and Robert Robertson which was part of a 1776 British land grant. Also founded Clifford Plantation east of Second Creek and north of the Homochitto River in Adams County, Mississippi.

Associated Slave Workplaces

Rifle Point Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA), Clifford Plantation (Adams Co., MS)

Associated Free Persons

• William Carmichael Conner, Sr. - owner
• Mary Savage – wife
• Ann Gaillard Savage – mother-in-law
• William Carmichael Conner, Jr. – son
• Jane Elizabeth Boyd Gustine Conner – daughter-in-law
• Lemuel Parker Conner – grandson

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none found yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, 1818-1865, Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series I, Part 3, Stampp, Kenneth M., Editor, University Publications of America, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989.

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• none

Users Researching This Workplace

• Edward B Adams

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