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A Guide to the James Campbell Wilkins Papers,
1801-1852
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| Creator | Wilkins, James
Campbell |
| Title | James Campbell Wilkins
Papers |
| Dates: | 1801-1852 |
| Abstract | James Campbell Wilkins
(1790? - 1849) was a Natchez, Mississippi cotton planter, merchant, cotton
factor, financier, and banker. The collection includes correspondence,
financial records, and legal documents that relate to the lives and careers of
Wilkins, his family, and his business associates |
| Extent | 3 ft., 9 in. |
| Language | English. |
| Repository | Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
Natchez, Mississippi, cotton planter, merchant, cotton factor,
financier, and banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before 1790, he came
to Adams County around 1805. He participated in the Battle of New Orleans, the
last general assembly of the Mississippi Territory, and the constitutional
convention for the new state. Between 1828 and 1835 he attempted an
unsuccessful political career. He was associated prominently with four banks at
Natchez (1824-1840), but lost most of his fortune in 1841 and died at
Lexington, Kentucky, in 1849.
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Correspondence, Financial records, and legal documents relate to the
lives and careers of Wilkins, his family, and business associates and concern
the cotton trade; business of commission merchants in Natchez, Mississippi, and
New Orleans, Louisiana; plantation life and economy; slavery; and the planter
elite of the Natchez and Adams County area.
Included is material concerning James Campbell Wilkins's uncle,
Charles Wilkins, Lexington, Kentucky, merchant and provisioner of the U. S.
Army's work on the Natchez Trace road (1801-1807); James Campbell Wilkins's
work as a commission merchant in Natchez; his partnership (1816-1834) with John
Linton in New Orleans; his business as a planter; activities of individuals and
families, including George Adams, Adam Lewis Bingaman, Stephen Duncan, Levin R.
Marshall, and the Minor family; and the 1836 sale and transportation to the
South of a group of 50 slaves.
Forms Part of Natchez Trace Collection.
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Organization
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| Organized into ten series. |
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Arrangement
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| Arranged chronologically under name or subject. |
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| Subjects (Persons) |
| | Adams family. |
| | Butler family. |
| | Duncan, Stephen, 1787-1867. |
| | Linton, John, d. 1834. |
| | Marshall, Levin R., b. 1800. |
| | Minor family. |
| | Skinner, J.S. |
| | Wilkins, John, d. 1817? |
| | Wilkins, Charles. |
| | Wilkins, family. |
| Subjects (Organizations) |
| | Coles Creek Plantation
(Miss.) |
| | Wilkins and Linton Company (Natchez,
Miss., and New Orleans, La.) |
| Subjects |
| | Banks and banking--Mississippi. |
| | Commission
merchants--Mississippi--Natchez. |
| | Commission merchants--Louisiana--New
Orleans. |
| | Cotton--Mississippi. |
| | Depressions--1836-1837. |
| | Plantations--Mississippi. |
| | United States. Army--Supplies and
stores. |
| Places |
| | Adams County
(Miss.)--History--Sources. |
| | Louisiana--New
Orleans--Commerce. |
| | Mississippi--Adams
County--Commerce. |
| | Mississippi--Economic
conditions. |
| | Natchez
(Miss.)--History--Sources. |
| | Natchez Trace. |
| | New Orleans
(La.)--History--Sources. |
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James Campbell Wilkins Papers, 1801-1852, Natchez Trace Collection,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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Inventory
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| 2E546 | | | Legal documents related to debt |
| | | | 1816-1846 |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | (oversize) 1828
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| 2E546 | | | Politics and elections,
1829-1835 and
undated |
| | | Banking,
1820-1838 |
| | | Planters and business enterprises of Natchez and Adams
County area: |
| | | | George Adams Family,
1830-1843 and
undated |
| | | | Adam Bingaman Family,
1813-1815, 1824-1838,
and undated |
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| 2E547 | | | | Robert H. Bowmar Family |
| | | | | 1829-1834 |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1828-1833
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| 2E547 | | | | John L. Buck,
1819 |
| | | | Thomas B. Butler Family,
1814-1831 |
| | | | Stephen Duncan Family,
1828-1841 and
undated |
| | | | Richard G. Ellis,
1827-1829 |
| | | | Robert Field |
| | | | | 1828-1832 and
undated |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1831-1832
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| 2E547 | | | | James and Charles B. Green Family,
1819-1831 |
| | | | Thomas Hinds,
1814-1831 |
| | | | Abraham Kinsey,
1829 |
| | | | Levin R. Marshall |
| | | | | 1830-1842 |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1833
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| 2E547 | | | | Stephen and John Minor Family |
| | | | | 1816-1852 and
undated |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1829-1839
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| 2E547 | | | | S. J. Noble,
1829 |
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| 2E548 | | | | George Poindexter and William Burns, secretary,
1819-1834,
1846 |
| | | | James Railey,
1826-1829 |
| | | | R. C. and John H. Randolph Family,
1826-1829, 1840-1843,
and undated |
| | | | John P. Smith,
1827-1829 |
| | | | Parke Walton,
1827-1829 |
| | | | James C. Williams,
1816-1819,
1828-1830 |
| | | | Miscellaneous planters and businesses |
| | | | | 1810-1844 and
undated |
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| 2E540 | | | Wilkins family: |
| | | | Charles Wilkins, provisioner of U. S. troops building
Natchez Trace |
| | | | | 1801-1807 |
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| 2.325/V32 | | | | | (oversize) 1801-1803
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| 2E540 | | | Miscellaneous Wilkins materials |
| | | | 1801-1833 and
undated |
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| 2.325/V32 | | | | (oversize) 1801-1823 and undated
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| 2E540 | | | James C. Wilkins and Company |
| | | | 1813-1834 |
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| 2.116/OD1223B | | | | (oversize) 1825-1826
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| 2E541 | | | Wilkins and Linton Company |
| | | | 1816-October
1817 |
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| 2E542 | | | | November 1817-December
15, 1824 |
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| 2E543 | | | | December 18, 1824-June
1827 |
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| 2.325/V32 | | | | (oversize) 1825-1827
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| 2.116/OD1223B | | | | (oversize) 1825-1826
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| 2E544 | | | | July
1827-1833 |
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| 2.325/V32 | | | | (oversize) 1827-1830
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| 2E545 | | | | 1834 and
undated |
| | | James Campbell Wilkins personal: |
| | | | General |
| | | | | 1813-1849 and
undated |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1835-1843 and undated
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| 2E545 | | | | Coles Creek Plantation, with Thomas Hall |
| | | | | 1824-1846 and
undated |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1836
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| 2E546 | | | | Presleigh, Ridge, Point Look Out, and Funnagusha
Plantations,
1828-1843 and
undated |
| | | | Real estate and land |
| | | | | 1811-1845 and
undated |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | | (oversize) 1819-1824, 1836-1839
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| | | | | (oversize) 1837
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| 2E548 | | | British cotton dealers,
1824-1843 |
| | | J. S. Skinner, port master, Baltimore, Maryland,
1836-1837 and
undated |
| | | Miscellaneous materials |
| | | | 1819, 1829-1846, and
undated |
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| 2.325/V33 | | | | (oversize) 1840 and undated
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