Masters of the Big House: Elite Slaveholders of the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South

Appendix D: Elite Slaveholders by State of Residence, 1860

A P P E N D I X D ELITE SLAVEHOLDERS BY STATE OF RESIDENCE, l86o Slaveholder **i Jeremiah H. Brown (1800-1868) **2 Gaius Whitfield (1804-1879) **3 James Wright (ca. 1800- ) 4 Francis Merriwether Gilmer, Jr. (1810-1892) 5 John Collins (1798-1867) 6 John W.Walton (1817- ) **7 W. P. Molett (1791- ) **8 RobertJ. Ware (1801-1866) 9 John Peters (ca. 1802- ) Birthplace S.C. N.C. N.Y. Ga. Va. N.C. S.C. Ga. Va. County ALABAMA(25) Sumter *Marengo Lowndes, Miss. Russell Lowndes 'Montgomery Marengo Greene Dallas Montgomery Lauderdale Major Crop Subtotal Total cotton 539 cotton 383 83 466 cotton 390 cotton 232 134 366 cotton 361 cotton 360 cotton 351 cotton 346 cotton 313 Slaveholder 10 Dr. Anderson? Saltmarsh (ca. 1794- ) ii Alfred Hatch (ca. 1800- ) 12 Est. Thomas Hord Herndon (1793-1842) 13 Est. James G. Spann 14 John Starke Hunter (ca. 1796—1866) 15 Leroy M. Wiley [S.C. absentee] 16 Joel Early Mathews (1809-1874) 17 John Steele (1796-1863) **i8 Est. Henry Lucas (ca. 1777- ) 19 Garland Goode (1811-1887) 20 Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1799-1868) Birthplace N.Y. N.C. Va. S.C. S.C. Ga. Va. Va. S.C. N.C. County Dallas *Marengo Perry *Greene Sumter Lowndes Dallas Barbour Macon, Ga. Dallas *Autauga Wilcox Montgomery 'Mobile Jackson, Miss. *Marengo Lenoir, N.C. Major Crop cotton cotton cotton cotton cotton cotton cotton cotton cotton cotton mill cotton Subtotal *74 123 159 131 190 95 130 153 196 78 249 23 Total 300 297 290 290 285 285 284 283 275 274 272 Slaveholder 21 George W. Mathews (1807-1880) 22 Gideon E. Nelson (1824- ) 23 Virginia Mathews (1824- ) 24 Duncan Dew, Sr. (ca. 1797-1864) 25 James Walter Echols (ca. 1815—1869) i Elisha Worthington 2 John A. Jordan i Robert W. Williams (ca. 1809- ) 2 Frederick R. Cotten (1820- ) **3 William Bailey (1790-1866) **i William Brown Hodgson (1800-1871) Birthplace Ga. Ala. Ala. N.C. Ga. Ky. Tenn. N.C. Ga. D.C. County Montgomery *Greene Marengo *Dallas Wilcox Greene Macon ARKANSAS (2) Chicot Arkansas FLORIDA (3) "Leon Carroll, La. Leon "Jefferson Leon GEORGIA (26) Burke *Chatham-Savannah Jefferson Major Crop Subtotal Total cotton 266 cotton 145 119 264 cotton 76 179 255 cotton 253 cotton 250 cotton 529 cotton 298 48 cotton 429 477 cotton 337 cotton 185 75 260 cotton 240 72 284 596 Slaveholder 2 Leonidas A. Jordan **3 John Basil Lamar (1812-1862) **4 Est. John Buder (1806-1847)& Pierce Mease Buder (1810-1867) 5 James Potter (1793-1862), exctr. Est. Thomas F. Potter **6 Est. James Abington Everett (1787-1848) 7 Turner C. Clanton (1798-1864) **8 Parish Carter (1780-1861) Birthplace County Baldwin Dougherty Lee Baldwin (trustee for Howell Cobb) *Bibb (10 as trustee for Mary Cobb) Sumter Worth (trustee for Mary Cobb) Leon, Fl. (listed under T. B. Lamar) Pa. Mclntosh Pa. S.C. Chatham Crawford 'Houston Va. Columbia Dougherty Richmond *Richmond-city of Augusta, Ward 4 S.C. 'Baldwin Murray Major Crop Subtotal cotton . 62 185 346 *37 90 cotton 193 56 47 rice rice cotton 83 343 cotton 213 79 88 24 cotton 42 345 Total 593 523 505 440 426 404 387 Slaveholder **9 William Heyward Gibbons (1831-1887) 10 Mrs. Elizabeth Luke Lamkin (ca. 1807- ) ii P. L. Wade **i2 Est. George Welshman Owens (1786—1856) **i3 George NobleJones (1811- ) "14 Stephen Clay King 15 George Washington Walthour (1799-1859) 16 Archibald McDuffy **i7 Est. Hartwell H. Tarver ( -ca. 1853), Extr. William H. Tarver Birthplace N.Y. Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. Mass. Ga. S.C. Va. County Chatham 'Chatham-city of Savannah, Dist. i Columbia Screven Whitfield Camden Chatham *Chatham-city of Savannah Jefferson Jefferson, Fla. Leon, Fla. Camden Liberty Chatham Twiggs Major Crop Subtotal rice 320 5i cotton cotton 266 62 rice 256 71 cotton 124 130 64 rice rice & sea i. cotton rice cotton Total 371 362 328 327 318 309 300 291 290 Slaveholder 18 Nathaniel F. Walker (1787-1879) 19 Lodowick Meriwether Hill (ca. 1804- ) 20 Augustus SeabornJones (1795-1869) 21 Jacob Waldburg 22 George W. Persons (1804— ) 23 Howell Cobb (1815-1868) 24 Joseph Longworth McAllister (1820-1864) **25 Robert Habersham (1783-1870) 26 Randolph Spalding (1822-1862) Birthplace Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. Ga. County Taylor *Upson Oglethorpe *Wilkes "Chatham-Savannah, Dist. 4 Screven Whitfield "Chatham-Savannah, Dist. 2 Liberty Crawford "Houston Baldwin (see alsoJ...