Overview

Location

Jefferson Co. MS. David Hunt's Black Creek Plantation probably began in about 1818 when Hunt acquired about 600 acres of land at T10N-R1W sections 39 and 43. It was expanded in 1840 and 1844 when David bought 747 more acres of land at T10N-R1W sections 26, 27, and 40. Thus the total size was about 1,350 acres. The plantation was on Black Creek, which was a small creek that connected a lake to Coles Creek near where it emptied into the MS River at that time. Current maps only show a swamp where the lake was, and the MS RIver has since shifted away to the west so that the land is about a mile or so from where Coles Creek empties into the MS River. Furthermore, many contemporary maps show Black Creek in a different location - to the east - than it was when David Hunt had a plantation on this land. The land can be found at the following two websites.

1. The General Land Office Recores at the Bureau of Land Management website. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=74216&Index=66&QryID=2095.385
2. The MS Department of Transportation website County Highway maps shows this land. http://www.gomdot.com

Date Constructed/ Founded

1818 through 1844.

Associated Surnames

Hunt

Historical notes

This plantation was named after Black Creek which ran through part of this plantation.

This plantation was never a residence for any of the Hunt clan before the Civil War. It would have been operated for David Hunt by a plantation manager who lived on the plantation.

Associated Slave Workplaces

• See David Hunt's Woodlawn Plantation MS

Associated Free Persons

• David Hunt

Associated Enslaved Persons

• From the 1860 Federal Slave Schedule, Jefferson Co. Transcribed by Tom Blake, 386 slaves - HUNT, David, Police Dist. 4, page 60B. (These 386 slaves would have been spread across the several plantations that David Hunt owned in Jefferson Co. - see Woodlawn Plantation MS}

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

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