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wealthy man of his times owning thousands of acres of land throughout
Mississippi. The 1860 Issaquena County Federal Census shows the value of his Issaquena property at $ 390,000 (which in the years 2003–2004, would be nearly $ 8 million dollars). The slaves schedules show that his Issaquena County plantation, at the end of the
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