Carmichael and Jenkins Family Papers Inventory (#5014)
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
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- Processed by
- Jill D. Snider
- Date Completed
- May 2000
- Encoded by
- Jill D. Snider
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Descriptive Summary Including Abstract
- Title
- Carmichael and Jenkins Family Papers (#5014) 1779-1896 and undated
- Creator
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Carmichael family.
Jenkins family.
- Extent
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- About 90 items (0.5 linear feet)
- Repository
- Southern Historical Collection
- Abstract
- John F. Carmichael (1761-1837) of Fort Adams, Miss., and Pinckneyville, Miss., U.S. Army surgeon, cotton planter, postmaster, and collector for the Mississippi District for the United States Treasury; John Carmichael Jenkins (d. 1855), doctor, horticulturist, and cotton planter of Natchez, Miss.; and an unidentified individual, surname Winchester (possibly Josiah Winchester, who served as guardian to Jenkins's children after Jenkins's death). Both Carmichael and Jenkins were natives of Pennsylvania. Papers include correspondence with cotton factors, business agents, and overseers; business and personal accounts and receipts; legal papers; medical notes; lists of supplies; and other items. Items, 1779-1834, belong, with one exception, to John F. Carmichael. Items dated 1833, 1838-1855, belong to John Carmichael Jenkins, and four items, 1871-1872, 1882, and 1896, are possibly those of Josiah Winchester. Undated papers belong mostly to Jenkins, with a few for Carmichael. Carmichael's papers document medical supplies and postal accounts at Fort Adams, Miss.; shipping along the Mississippi River between Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans, La.; and the sale of cotton grown at his Cold Spring Plantation in Wilkinson County, Miss. Jenkins's papers document crops and the work of slaves on River Place Plantation in Adams County, Miss.; the cotton market; experimentation with fruit growing; outbreaks of disease in and around Natchez; and, to a small extent, Jenkins family life and activities at Elgin Plantation outside Natchez, where Jenkins seems to have operated an apothecary.
Administrative Information
- Usage Restrictions
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Provenance
- Received from William and Ruth Calhoun of Natchez, Miss., in March 1996 (Acc. 98569) and and from Ruth Ellen Calhoun of Natchez, Miss., in May 2000 (Acc. 98622).
Online Catalog Terms
- Carmichael family.
- Carmichael, John F., 1761-1837.
- Cotton growing--Mississippi.
- Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
- Fort Adams (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
- Fruit growers--Mississippi.
- Jenkins family.
- Jenkins, John Carmichael, d. 1855.
- Natchez (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
- Pharmacists--Mississippi--History--19th century.
- Physicians--Mississippi--History--19th century.
- Plantation owners--Mississippi.
- Plantations--Mississippi.
- Postal service--United States--History--19th century.
- Shipping--Mississippi River.
- Slavery--Mississippi.
- Wilkinson County (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
Biographical Note
Included in the collection are materials relating to John F. Carmichael (1761-1837), of Fort Adams, Miss., and Pinckneyville, Miss., U.S. Army surgeon, cotton planter, postmaster, and collector for the Mississippi District for the United States Treasury; his nephew John Carmichael Jenkins (d. 1855), medical doctor, horticulturist, and cotton planter, of Natchez, Miss.; and an unidentified individual with the surname Winchester, possibly Josiah Winchester, of Natchez, Miss., who served as guardian for Jenkins's children after Jenkins's death. John F. Carmichael and John Carmichael Jenkins were both originally from Pennsylvania. Jenkins acted as executor of his uncle's estate after Carmichael died in 1837, and he inherited River Place Plantation in Adams County, Miss., from him. He had at least one brother, David Jenkins, of Windsor Forge, Pa., and at least one daughter, Alice Jenkins (Allie) of Natchez, Miss. Other individuals of note in the collection are business agent James Armor of New Orleans, La.; planter Nathanial Webb of Natchez, Miss., and overseers S. L. Grier and E. T. Powell of River Place Plantation.
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Materials, 1801-1896 and undated, are arranged chronologically. All papers prior to 1834, with the exception of one item, belong to John F. Carmichael. A receipt, 1833, and papers, 1838-1855, are those of John Carmichael Jenkins, and include scattered estate papers for Carmichael. Items, 1871-1896, may belong to Josiah Winchester. The collection comprises chiefly correspondence (mostly business), accounts and receipts (business and household), and a few legal papers, inventory lists, medical notes, and miscellaneous items. Carmichael's papers document medical supplies, undated, and postal accounts, 1803, at Fort Adams, Miss.; shipping, 1801-1829, along the Mississippi River between Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans, La.; and the sale of cotton grown on Carmichael's Cold Spring Plantation in Wilkinson County, Miss. Jenkins's papers document crops and the work of slaves on River Place Plantation, Adams County, Miss.; the cotton market; outbreaks of disease in and around Natchez; experimentation with fruit growing; and, to a limited degree, Jenkins family life and activities at Elgin Plantation outside Natchez, Miss. Jenkins's correspondence is mostly with business agents, cotton factors, and overseers.
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