Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #M-2339
                   NEWSTEAD PLANTATION RECORDS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Brief daily records, 1857-1861, 1873-1882, of
           crops, weather, slaves' work, supplies issued to
           slaves and tenants, and visits and other personal
           matters, kept by overseers of Newstead plantation in
           Washington County, Miss.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Agriculture--Mississippi--History--19th century.
   Mississippi--Economic conditions--19th century.
   Newstead Plantation (Washington County, Miss.).
   Plantations--Management.
   Plantations--Mississippi--Washington County.
   Slavery--Mississippi.
   Tenant farmers--Mississippi--Economic conditions--19th
       century.
   Washington County (Miss.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
   
Size:  9 volumes (1 reel of microfilm).

Provenance:    Lent for filming by Harley Metcalfe of Greenville,
               Miss., in April 1941.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.