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Fairntosh Plantation, Orange County, North Carolina

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Plantations Index

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Biography

Duncan Cameron (1777-1853) had several plantations, some co-owned with his father-in-law, Richard Bennehan, his brother-in law, Thomas Bennehan, and his son Paul C. Cameron:[1] He became one of the largest plantation owners and slaveholders in the South. A year after his marriage he built a mansion house, called Fairntosh, [2] on property gained from his father-in-law, on an elevated site about a mile east of the Stagville house.[3]

Owners

Duncan Cameron 1777-1853 was a planter. He spent his adult life in North Carolina where he raised his family. He was the son-in-law of Richard Bennehan, and shared plantations and expenses with the Bennehan family until brother-in-law, Thomas D. Bennehan, died. After that Duncan's plantation partner was his son, Paul C. Cameron.

Paul C. Cameron 1808-1891, raised on Fairntosh plantation, received Stagville and other plantations from his uncle Thomas D. Bennehan when he died in 1847. Paul continued expanding the plantations and planted new ones in Alabama and Mississippi.

Slaves

1830 Fairntosh Slave Census[4]

1834 December Fairntosh Slave Census[5]

1839 Fairntosh Slave Census [6]

In 1844 the Cameron's selected 144 enslaved persons to move to their new Alabama plantation. Some of those slaves came from the Fairntosh plantation. By 1845 the slaves had been moved around and there were some new names on the Fairntosh Census.

1845 Fairntosh Slave Census[7]

Please see the Bennehan-Cameron Plantations Page for more information.

Sources

  1. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/
    • Folder 3657, Volume 119: 1839 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  2. ↑ http://www.opendurham.org/buildings/fairntosh/
  3. ↑ NC Pedia http://ncpedia.org/biography/cameron-duncan
  4. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#d1e9961 Subseries 6.7.1. Other Antebellum and Civil War Era Account Books, 1768-1865
    • Folder 3653, Volume 115: 1830 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  5. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#d1e9979 Subseries 6.7.1. Other Antebellum and Civil War Era Account Books, 1768-1865
    • Folder 3654, Volume 116: 1834
  6. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133
    • Folder 3657, Volume 119: 1839 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  7. ↑ Cameron Family Papers https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00133/#d1e9961 Subseries 6.7.1. Other Antebellum and Civil War Era Account Books, 1768-1865
    • Folder 3662 Volume 124: October 1845 Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.




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