OVERVIEW
Location: Yazoo County, Mississippi
Date Constructed/ Founded: ca. 1775
Associated Surnames: Adams, Ballance, Donahue, Grubb, Leonard, Rawls, Thistle, Warnock, Zingline
Historical Notes: William Adams was a first cousin to President John Adams, and a steam boat captain out of Natchez. He migrated from Pennsylvania to establish plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana. He owned Solitary Valley Plantation in Adams County, Mississippi. He also owned four other plantations. Adams Place (Yazoo County, MS), Cerro Gordo (Tensas Parish, LA), the home plantation in Adams County, and one in Warren County, MS. William bequeathed Cerro Gordo Plantation to his granddaughter Clarisa Flower. He willed to his son-in-law, James R. Ballance, husband of Elizabeth Adams, the majority of his vast holdings in Louisiana and Mississippi. Later, James Ballance deeded each of the Adams boys a plantation. James kept Adams Place in Yazoo County, Mississippi. He and Elizabeth were buried at Solitary Valley Plantation.
Associated Pages: Cerro Gordo Plantation (Tensas Pa., LA), John Adams Plantation (Warren Co., MS), Linwood Plantation (Tensas Pa., LA), Locust Grove Plantation (Tensas Pa., LA), Solitary Valley Plantation (Adams Co., MS), William Jefferson Adams Plantation (Warren Co., MS)
ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS
1850: Group 1 – Male age 70 (b.1780), Male age 70 (b.1780), Male age 70 (b.1780), Male age 65 (b.1785), Male age 65 (b.1785), Male age 60 (b.1790), Male age 60 (b.1790), Male age 60 (b.1790), Male age 60 (b.1790), Male age 55 (b.1795), Male age 55 (b.1795), Male age 50 (b.1800), Male age 50 (b.1800), Male age 50 (b.1800), Male age 40 (b.1810), Male age 40 (b.1810), Male age 32 (b.1818), Male age 20 (b.1830), Male age 18 (b.1832), Male age 14 (b.1836), Male age 14 (b.1836), Male age 9 (b.1841), Male age 9 (b.1841), Male age 10 (b.1840), Male age 8 (b.1842), Male age 8 (b.1842), Male age 6 (b.1844), Male age 5 (b.1845), Male age 4 (b.1846), Male age 4 (b.1846), Male age 3 (b.1847), Male age 2 (b.1848), Male age 2 (b.1848), Male age 2 (b.1848); Group 2 – Female age 70 (b.1780), Female age 65 (b.1785), Female age 65 (b.1785), Female age 50 (b.1800), Female age 55 (b.1795), Female age 50 (b.1800), Female age 45 (b.1805), Female age 40 (b.1810), Female age 35 (b.1815), Female age 35 (b.1815), Female age 30 (b.1820), Female age 30 (b.1820), Female age 25 (b.1825), Female age 20 (b.1830), Female age 20 (b.1830), Female age 19 (b.1831), Female age 18 (b.1832), Female age 18 (b.1832), Female age 22 (b.1828), Female age 18 (b.1832), Female age 19 (b.1831), Female age 17 (b.1833), Female age 15 (b.1835), Female age 14 (b.1836), Female age 12 (b.1838), Female age 12 (b.1838), Female age 8 (b.1842), Female age 9 (b.1841), Female age 7 (b.1843), Female age 8 (b.1842), Female age 6 (b.1844), Female age 5 (b.1845), Female age 7 (b.1843), Female age 6 (b.1844), Female age 5 (b.1845), Male age 10 (b.1840), Male age 5 (b.1845), Male age 6 (b.1844), Male age 0 (b.1850), Male age 0 (b.1850), Male age 3 (b.1847), Female age 2 (b.1848), Female age 1 (b.1849), Female age 1 (b.1849), Female age 15 (b.1835); Group 3 – Female age 30 (b.1820), Female age 45 (b.1805), Female age 57 (b.1793), Female age 63 (b.1787), Female age 30 (b.1820), Female age 28 (b.1822), Male age 25 (b.1825), Male age 23 (b.1827), Male age 23 (b.1827), Male age 24 (b.1826) [1850 US Federal Census (Slave Schedule), Warren Co., MS, William Adams]
Note: Warren County was located at the southwest border of Yazoo in 1850. A “William Adams” also had slaves (11 total) enumerated in Attalla County, located adjacent the northeast corner of Yazoo County in 1850
ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS
Adams family: William Adams Sr. (b.1755-d.1857) – owner; Orpha Leonard Adams (b.1774-d.1837) – wife (m.1797); Joseph Adams (b.1805-d.?) – son; Mary M. Adams (b.1806-d.?) – dau.; Alexander Adams (b.1812-d.?) – son; Marcy Leonard Adams (b.1814-d.?) – dau.; Cordelia Adams (b.1816-d.1819) – dau.
Adams family: Thomas Jefferson Adams (b.1797-d.1857) – son of W. and O.L. Adams; Charlotte Donahue Adams (b.?-d.?) – wife (m.1817)
Adams family: John Adams (b.1799-d.1860) – son of W. and O.L. Adams; Mary Rawls Adams (b.1802-d.?) – wife (m.1822); Richard Adams (b.?-d.?) – son; Sarah M. Adams (b.?-d.?) – dau.; John Madison Adams (b.?-d.?) – son; Orphia Ann Adams (b.?-d.?) – dau.; Francis Marion Adams (b.?-d.?) – son; Emma Adams (b.?-d.?) – dau.; Adelia A. Adams (b.?-d.?) – dau.; Tobias Adams (b.?-d.?) – son; Josephine Adams (b.?-d.?) – dau.; Walter Warren Adams (b.?-d.?) – son; William Oscar Adams (b.?-d.?) – son; Mary Sophia Adams (b.1824-d.1910) – dau.
Adams family: Israel Leonard Adams (b.1801-d.1860) – son of W. and O.L. Adams; Elizabeth Zingline Adams (b.?-d.?) – wife (m.1820)
Warnock family: David Warnock (b.1797-d.1840); Catherine Adams Warnock (b.1803-d.?) – wife (m.?), dau. of W. and O.L. Adams; Eliza Ann Warnock (b.1827-d.1915) – dau.; James Alexander Warnock (b.1829-d.?) – son; John Madison Warnock (b.1830-d.?) – son; Mary Leonard Warnock (b.1833-d.?) – dau.; Joseph Warren Warnock (b.1835-d.?) – son; Benjamin Franklin Warnock (b.1837-d.?) – son
Adams family: William Adams (b.1808-d.?) – son of W. and O.L. Adams; Elizabeth Grubb Adams (b.1812-d.?) – wife (m.1831); Sarah Ann Adams (b.1832-d.?) – dau.; Simon Adams (b.1835-d.?) – son; David Washington Adams (b.1836-d.?) – son; Elias Adams (b.1838-d.?) – son; Susan Ann Adams (b.1839-d.?) – dau.; Lazarus Adams (b.1840-d.?) – son; Israel Adams (b.1844-d.?) – son
Ballance family: James R. Ballance (b.1798-d.?); Elizabeth C. Adams Ballance (b.1810-d.?) – wife (m.?), dau of W. and O.L. Adams; Caroline R. Ballance (b.1831-d.?) – dau.; Mary A. Ballance (b.1836-d.?) – dau.; Charles Wesley Ballance (b.1839-d.?) – son
Adams family: Washington J. Adams (b.1819-d.1860) – son of W. and O.L. Adams; Harriet Byron Thistle Adams (b.1823-d.?) – wife (m.1841); Thomas Thistle Adams (b.1845-d.?) – son; Mary Eliza Adams (b.1842-d.?) – dau.; Orpha Adams (b.1847-d.?) – dau.; Julianne Thistle Adams (b.1847-d.?) – dau.; James Ballance Adams (b.1849-d.?) – son; James Milton Adams (b.1851-d.?) – son; Eliza Ballance Adams (b.1853-d.?) – dau.; Georgiana Ord Adams (b.1855-d.?) – dau.; Forrest G. Adams (b.1859-d.?) – son; Washington Jackson Adams Jr. (b.1857-d.?) – son
RESEARCH LEADS AND RECORDS
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION
- Adams Place was originally submitted by Edward B. Adams
REFERENCES
- Rootsweb World Connect Project: Bruners of Schifferstadt (William Adams, ID: I33154), https://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=mwoehrle
- Rootsweb World Connect Project: Southwest Mississippi Families (James R. Ballance, ID: I300758), https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=swmlpar
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