OVERVIEW

Location

Located about two miles beyond the Village of Washington in Adams County, Mississippi.

Date Constructed/Founded

ca 1800

Associated Surnames

Brandon, Stanton, Davis

Historical Notes

• none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Canebrake Plantation (Concordia Pa., LA)

Associated Free Persons

• Gerard Brandon - owner
• Dorothy Nugent – wife
• Gerard Chittoque Brandon – son
• Elizabeth Brandon - daughter
• Margaret Lindsey Brandon - daughter
• William Lindsey Brandon - son
• Robert Emmett Brandon - son

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none found yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• The University of Southern Mississippi – McCain Library and Archives Manuscript Collection, The Natchez Trace Research Collection, Collection Number M249, Dates: 1704-1978; Box 5, Folder 75 Selma Plantation

Miscellaneous Information

Gerard Brandon was a native of County Donegal, Ireland. He was a follower of Robert Emmet and escaped to America on the failure of his cause, settling in Charleston, South Carolina. He served in the War of the Revolution under Francis Marion and in Colonel Washington's cavalry and took part in the battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain. He migrated to West Florida about 1782 settling at Natchez in present day Mississippi.

He was on the list of American and English Prisoners of War from Natchez desiring to settle at Attakakapas, Opelousas and New Iberia in 1781.

Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed.

References

• Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records
• Phillips, Charles, Recollections of Curran and some of his Comptemporaries, Dublin: Milliken Press, 1818, p256.
• Feldman, Lawrence H., Anglo-Americans in Spanish Archives, Lists of Anglo-American Settlers in the Spanish Colonies of America, A Finding Aid, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1991., p349.

Users Researching This Workplace

• Edward B Adams

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