Carmichael and Jenkins Family Papers, 1779-1896 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Carmichael (Family : Carmichael, John F., 1761-1837) and Jenkins (Family : Natchez, Miss.)
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.

Extent:
90 items (0.5 linear feet)
Language:
English.
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Background

Biographical / historical:

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.

Scope and content:

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.

Custodial history:

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).

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Access and use

Restrictions to access:

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to use:

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

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Carmichael and Jenkins Family Papers #05014, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:
Louis Round Wilson Library
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Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Contact:
(919) 962-3765
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