Overview

Location

Jefferson County, Missisippi. At map coordinates T8N-R1W, section 27 and probably also section 42. These coordinates may be located at the Mississippi Department of Transportation website "county highway maps" for Jefferson County. www.gomdot.com

The original survey of this land is at the following link. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=74188&Index=2&QryID=981.059

David Hunt's wife's (Ann Ferguson Hunt) Uncle William Dunbar's Arundo Plantation was to the immediate north in section 11.

South western Jefferson County, MS; south of the Church Hill area; adjoined Robert Y. Wood's Woodland Plantation; was near the intersection of Highway 553 with Chamberlain Road; on the west side of Hwy 553; also was near the Jefferson Co./Adams Co. line; probably on Fairchild Creek.

Date Constructed/Founded

about 1800

Associated Surnames

Forman, Hunt, Archer

Historical notes

Oakwood plantation probably originated with William Forman in about 1800. He owned the land at T8N-R1W, section 27. His business partner owned the adjoining land at T8N-R1W, section 42. Abijah Hunt died in 1811, and David Hunt was his main heir. Somehow David Hunt would up with all of this land known as Oakwood Plantation. If Oakwood was only in sections 27 and 42, it was about 600 acres.

Oakwood Plantation was an 1836 wedding gift from David Hunt to his daughter Mary Ann when she married James Archer. He was the lawyer son of Maryland Supreme Court Justice Stephenson Archer. They married in 1836 and moved to the plantation in 1837 where they built a residence.

Oakwood Tract was at T10N-R1E, section 20. This land was probably also owned by Mary Ann and James Archer. The original land survey of this approximately 500 acre section of land is online at the following link: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/SurveySearch/Survey_Detail.asp?dmid=73266&Index=1&QryID=547.988

James Archer fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the War, he still had all his land and his house. He ran a school on his plantation for the children from Church Hill and Selzertown from 1840 to 1860 and after the War for an income.

Mary Ann and James are buried in the Oakwood Plantation garden.

Associated Slave Workplaces

*The Hunt clan owned many plantations in the area - see Woodlawn Plantation MS

Associated Free Persons

*Abijah Hunt (David Hunt's Uncle and benefactor) owned part of the land for Oakwood Plantation - T8N-R1W, section 42.
*William Forman (Abijah Hunt's business partner) owned the rest of the land that made up Oakwood - T8N-R1W, section 27.
*David Hunt - gave this plantation to his daughter Mary Ann when she married James Archer in 1836.
*James Archer - owned this land until after the Civil War.
*Mary Ann Hunt - wife of James Archer

Associated Enslaved Persons

According to the 1860 slave census, James Archer owned 98 slaves in Jefferson Co which were probably on Oakwood Plantation and nearby Oakwood Tract.

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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