1. Overview
    1. Location
    2. Date Constructed/ Founded
    3. Associated Surnames
    4. Historical notes
    5. Associated Slave Workplaces
  2. Associated Free Persons
  3. Associated Enslaved Persons
  4. Research Leads and Plantation Records
  5. Miscellaneous Information
  6. References
  7. Users Researching This Workplace

Overview

Location

Near Natchez, Adams Co., MS

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

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Historical notes

John Nevitt was the owner of Clermont Plantation in Adams County, Mississippi, near Natchez. Nevitt was in the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in 1803, and retired in 1811 as a lieutenant. Tradition has it that he named his plantation for a ship (the Clermont) that he commanded.

Associated Slave Workplaces

none


Associated Free Persons

  • John Baptiste Nevitt (b.1783-d.1860)- owner
  • Mary Shilling Nevitt (b.1793-d.1813) - first wife of John B. Nevitt (m.1810)
  • George Washington Nevitt (b.1813-d.1834) - son of John B. and Mary S. Nevitt
  • Sarah Susannah Banks Nevitt (b.1796-d.1822) - second wife of John B. Nevitt (m.1818)
  • Matilda Nevitt (b.1821-d.1868) - daughter of John B. and Sarah S.B. Nevitt
  • Sutton Banks Nevitt (b.1821-d.1832) - son of John B. and Sarah S.B. Nevitt

Associated Enslaved Persons

  • none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Series J: John Nevitt Diary, 1826-1854, Adams County, Mississippi
http://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj6.htm This collection consists chiefly of a diary kept by John Nevitt between 1826 and 1832, and a typed transcription of that diary. In the diary, Nevitt discussed at length activities on the plantation, where cotton seems to have been the chief crop. Nevitt mentioned his slaves daily: their duties, health, when they ran away, their punishments, and when he sold, bought, or hired them out, as well as when he hired those belonging to others.


Miscellaneous Information

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