Finding Aid for the Landry-Hume Collection (MUM01796)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1780s-1871

Identifier

MUM01796

LCSH

Adams County (Miss.) -- History; Buckhurst Plantation (Miss.); Elliscliffe Plantation (Miss.); Harmony Plantation (Miss.); Laurel Hill Plantation (Miss.); Natchez (Miss.) -- History; Ormonde Plantation (Miss.); Dunbar, William, 1749-1810; Farar, Benjamin, 1773-1826; Hume, Lucile Bayon; Landry, Philip; Mercer, William Newton, 1792-1874; Cotton growing -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century; Plantation Life -- Mississippi -- Adams County -- History-- 19th Century; Plantations -- Mississippi -- Adams County; Slavery -- Mississippi -- Adams County

General Physical Description Note

6.0 Linear feet (12 boxes)

Description

The Farar, Ellis, and Rapalje families were prominent plantation owners in Adams County, Mississippi in the 18th and 19th centuries. This collection contains materials related to them and several other plantation-owning families. Materials include correspondence, plantation ledgers, and various types of business and financial documents.

Recommended Citation

Landry-Hume Collection (MUM01796), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

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