Z 1949.000 Nicholson (J. J. and J. M.) Plantation Records

J. M. Nicholson and J. J. Nicholson were two brothers who moved to Kemper County, Mississippi, in the early nineteenth century. They made their home in the town of Scooba. J. M. Nicholson was a planter and a Baptist minister who pastored several local churches in the county. J. J. Nicholson was also a planter. Each brother owned a substantial number of slaves before the Civil War. After the war, they operated a sharecropping plantation near Scooba.

This collection contains a variety of items, including a journal which outlines operations and transactions on the Nicholson plantation following the Civil War. On the inside journal cover is a list of the rules of hire for sharecroppers. Also included are one 1871 letter from J. Gordon to Mr. Nicholson explaining why Nicholson has not received a receipt for a $190 payment and another letter from J. M. Nicholson to William D. Boyd accepting Boyd's resignation from the Wahlak Baptist Church. Financial records include several receipts detailing purchases made by J. M. Nicholson and the workers on the plantation. Another item of interest is a printed map of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for 1907.

1. Plantation Journal. 1869-1885. 0.10 c.f.
2. Correspondence. 1871; n.d. 0.10 c.f.
3. Financial Records. 1872-1881. 0.10 c.f.
4. Map. 1907. 0.10 c.f.