Overview

Location

Jefferson Co. MS. This plantation was located on Cole's Creek at T9N-R1E section 10 and T9N-R1W section 3 & 26 ("Jefferson County Plantations and Tracts," http://jeffersoncountyms.org/plantations.htm ,15 Aug 02, MSGenWeb Project, retrieved 15 Jan 08). This location can be found on the county highway maps at the MS Dept. of Transportation website.

Huntley Plantation was near (and may have bordered) the town of Greenville (now extinct) and was just to the west of the Old Natchez Trace. The reasons that support this follow.

1. The northern part of the town of Greenville was known as "Huntston" or "Huntley" after Abijah Hunt ("Greenville," From: Mississippi Vol. I A-K by Dunbar Rowland, 1907, page 801-803, http://jeffersoncountyms.org/greenville.htm, 9 Sep 2007, MSGenWeb Project, retrieved 21 Jan 08.)
2. Greenville was on the Old Natchez Trace and was laid out on some of Abijah Hunt's land ("Greenville," From: Mississippi Vol. I A-K by Dunbar Rowland, 1907, page 801-803, http://jeffersoncountyms.org/greenville.htm, 9 Sep 2007, MSGenWeb Project, retrieved 21 Jan 08.)

Date Constructed/ Founded

1800 - 1805. The book, "Early Settlers of Mississippi," by Walter Lowrie, Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1986, records the certificates of title issued to partners Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman in 1805 for several tracts of land on Cole's Creek in Jefferson Co, MS. They were most likely consolidating this land totaling 2,150 acres to form Huntley Plantation. Because it took until 1805 to get a certificate of title to an additional 195 acres that Abijah bought in 1800 on Cole's Creek with a cotton gin on it, it is most likely that the land for Huntley Plantation was likewise purchased in 1800 (David Odam, Sr. of Cole's Cr., Miss. Territory; Posted by: Virginia Weeks Warbington (ID *****8373); Date: January 23, 2005 at 10:19:56; http://genforum.genealogy.com/odam/messages/13.html ; Source: McBee, May Wilson, Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805; retrieved 21 Jan 08.)

Associated Surnames

Forman, Hunt

Historical notes

The original owners of this plantataion were surely Abijah Hunt and William Gordon Forman. Abijah's nephew David Hunt probably inherited his Uncle Abijah's business interest in this plantation in 1811 when Abijah died. When William Forman died, his relative Joseph Forman probably inherited William Forman's business interest in Huntley Plantation. At some point, Joseph probably sold out to David Hunt or split his part of the plantation off from David Hunt's part. David's son Geroge probably received this plantation as a wedding gift and residence when he married Anna Watson in 1848. The reasons that support this follow.

1. In 1805 Abijah Hunt's and William G. Forman's joint certificates of ownership to several tracts of land on Cole's Creek in Jefferson County totaling 2,150 acres (all purchased from John Murdock) were recorded at the land office west of the Pearl River ("Early Settlers of Mississippi," by Walter Lowrie, Southern Historical Press, Inc. 1986).
2. Abijah's main heir David Hunt owned a plantation named Huntley (Harnett T. Kane, "Natchez on the Mississippi, Bonanza Books, NY, page 179).
3. Joseph Forman inherited at least some of William G. Forman's land on Cole's Creek, ("Jefferson County Court Records," Mary Ann Dobson, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dobson/ms/msjeffe2.htm , retrieved 21 Jan 2008).
4. David Hunt and his wife Ann (Ferguson) Hunt gave each child at a minimum one plantation and about 100 slaves when they married (Harnett T. Kane, "Natchez on the Mississippi, Bonanza Books, NY, page 180).
5. George Hunt married Anna Watson in 1848 (Allen Duane Hunt, “RootsWeb:HUNT-L[HUNT-L} Mississippi Hunts – D02 (of D01 through D02),” Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:13:10-0700, Ancestry.com, http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/HUNT/2000-07/0963425590 , retrieved 21 Jan 2008).
6. David Hunt's son George Ferguson Hunt and his wife Anna (Watson) Hunt owned, had a residence on, and were burried on a plantation named Huntley in Jefferson County, MS (Dunbar Hunt, “Sketch of David Hunt”, by his son, Fayette Chronicle, 29 May 1908, Vol. XLI, No. 35).

Associated Slave Workplaces

• From 1800 to 1811, Huntley Plantation was associated with Abijah Hunt's plantations Andy-McMillion.
• From 1811 to 1848, Huntley Plantation was associated with David Hunt's plantations - see Woodlawn Plantation MS.
• From 1848 to the Civil War, Huntley Plantation was associated with Geroge Hunt's other plantation -Georgiana Plantation and possibly also Anna Watson's father's plantations. Her father James Watson owned Buena Vista Plantation - Claiborne MS in Claiborne Co., Waterloo Plantation in Jefferson County, and possibly another plantation on Deer Creek in Issaquena County.

Associated Free Persons

• Abijah Hunt & William Gordon Forman - first owners.
• David Hunt & Joseph Forman - second owners.
• George Ferguson Hunt and his wife Anna Watson - third owners. The following is an accounting of Geroge F. Hunt's household from the 1860 U.S. Census in Jefferson County, MS (Tennessee State Library and Archives, retrieved from an on-line database in 2007).
• George F. Hunt, age 32, planter, real estate value $18,700, personal estate value $69,950. (These dollar amounts are probably only for Huntley Plantation. George's other plantation - Georgiana located on the Issaquena/Sharkey County line - had 160 slaves which would have pushed his estate's value up considerably past $88,650.)
• Ann Hunt (George's wife), age 29.
• Geroge and Ann's children - David, age 11; Martha, age 9; Abijah, age 7; and James, age 5
• Ida Maddox, age 14
• John Thuer (The name Thuer is probably not transcribed correctly), music teacher, personal estate value $2,000, born in Switzerland.

Associated Enslaved Persons

• From the 1860 slave census, Huntley had 59 slaves (Tom Blake , “JEFFERSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI,LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES,” mindspring, April 2001, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/msjefferson.htm , (20 Jan 2008).

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