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EARLY MISSISSIPPIANS IN SPANISH NATCHEZ

 THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION for 1945. Part II  This report contains translations of materials from the Spanish Archives now in the Bancroft Library at Berkley, all concerned with Spain in the MS Valley, 1765-1794.

 

A letter from Carlos de Grand Pre, Natchez, March 2, 1790, to Governor Don Estavan Miro, enclosed statement of tobacco produced by growers of Natchez, according to the settlers own statements, in 1790. The name of each planter is listed with number of pounds of tobacco reported.  The spelling of names is often SPANISH or a PHONETIC spelling of the same.

 

 

Planter #s of Tobacco
-------, WILEY   1500
ABRAMS, ROBERT   3400
ALEXANDER, ISAAC   3400
ALSTON, JAMES   1000
ALSTON, JOHN   11000
ALSTON, LEWIS  13000
ALSTON, WILLIAM   3000
AMBROSE, STEPHEN  2,000
ANDERSON   ?
AMSTRAD, JOHN  1200
ARMSTRONG, MOSES   300
BACON, RICHARD   2000
BALLACK, BENJAMIN   1600
BALLOU   5600
BANNER, JAMES  3600
BARNARD, JOSEPH   8000
BATES, EPHRAIM  4000
BEALL, ALEXANDER   5000
BELEY, GEORGE   100
BELL, SAMUEL   6000
BELL, WILLIAM   1000
BELTH, BENJAMIN,   4000
BENGEMAM, ADAM   45000
BENNELL, ELIAS   2100
BENOIST, GABRIEL   3222
BINGEMAN, CHRISTOPHER   1500
BISLAND, JOHN  2100
BONNER, MOSES  SENIOR 6000
BONNER, MOSES, JR.   6500
BOOTHE, JOHN  500
BOULS, JOHN   9100
BRANNON, GIRED   12000
BROCUS, WILLIAM   8000
BROWN, OBAJIAH   3800
BRUIN, PETER B.   7000
BULLEN, JOHN   2000
BURNET, JOHN   5000
CABLE, JACOB  6300
CALVERT, THOMAS   7000
CALVET, FREDERICK   10100
CALVIT, WILLIAM   10000
CARIDENE, PARKER   14000
CARPENTER, MARY   2100
CARTER, JESSE   9500
CARTER, NEHEMIAH   5100
CARTER, ROBERT   900
CASON, CHARLES  4600
CAVREY, JOHN  8200
CHAMBERS, DANIEL   1000
CHERBENAUX, LOUIS   700
--CKEY   4,100
CLARK, DANIEL   20000
CLARK, GIBSON   7000
COARTNEY, JOHN   300
COBB, ARTHUR   3800
COBURN,   5000
COLE, JAMES   2900
COLE, JAMES, SR.   5000
COLE, MARK   2500
COLE, STEPHEN   1200
COLEMAN, JEREMIAH   2300
COLEMAN, JOHN  0
COLEMAN, WILLIAM   300
COLLENS, WILLIAM  6800
COOPER, HENRY   6000
COOPER, SAMUEL   3600
COOPER, WILLIAM   11600
CRANE, WALTERMAN   4000
CURTES, BENJAMIN   1500
CURTES, RICHARD   1000
CURTES, WILLIAM   6100
DALVA, STEPHEN   1300
DAVIS, ELISHA   -,600
DAVIS, HUGH &LAN--   -,600
DAVIS, SAMUEL   1000
DAW, SEBASTION   2000
DAYTON, , EBENEZER   200
DOVE, MISTRESS   400
DUNBAR, ROBERT   11000
DUNBAR, WILLIAM   18200
DYSON, JOHN   1600
DYSON, JOSEPH   1100
DYSON, THOMAS   1000
ELLIOT, JAMES   4000
ELLIS, ABRAHAM   16000
ELLIS, HERDE   3000
ELLIS, JOHN   18100
ELLIS, RICHARD   15500
ESSER, THOMAS   1000
FABER, WILLIAM   2300
FANOU, ALEXANDER   1400
FARBANKS, WILLIAM   2000
FERGUSON,    2000
FERMONT, GEORGE  -  
FIFE, YSAAC   1300
FITZGERALD, GEORGE   12000
FLETCHER, WILLIAM   700
FLOWERS, DOCTOR   12000
FLOWERS, ELISHA  4000
FORD, JOHN   5400
FORD, JOSEPH   4500
FORD, ROBERT   8000
FOSTER, JAMES   5000
FOSTER, JOHN   2000
FOSTER, THOMAS   8000
FOSTER, WILLIAM   6000
FOYE, BENJAMIN   1000
GIBSON, GABRIEL   4000
GIBSON, RUBEN   3345
GIBSON, SAMUEL   10000
GILLAIRD, MISTRESS  12800
GILLEARD, ISAAC   10000
GLASCOCK, M.   3100
GOADEVIN, MISTRESS   2300