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Elizabeth Marie Celeste Hutchins Brooks

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1812 (aged 43–44)
Adams County, Mississippi, USA
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Sibley, Adams County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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w/o 1st Captain William Vousden (??-1802), m. 9-15-1796 who established "Cotton Fields Plantation" and was among the first in the Miss. Terr. to introduce cotton for export, and, 2nd William Brooks (1746-1821), m. 3-31-1803.

Elizabeth's will: Elizabeth Maria Celeste Hutchins was born in 1770 or 1772 in SC. She married , 15 Sep 1796 at Natchez, Mississippi, Capt. (of the Natchez Militia) William Vousdan, her first husband who died in 1802. His will left her "the plantation called Cotton field;" its slaves except for two specifically named men, Ben and Nory, father and son, to be set free; a tract of land on Bayou Sara patented in the name of Elizabeth Hutchins; and $1,600 "to enable her to support ___ expenses of the plantation for the present year." Elizabeth also inherited a slave couple, Sam and Tamor (and their increase) from her mother, Anne Hutchins. She re-married, 24 or 31 Mar 1803 at Natchez, MS, as his 2nd wife, William Brooks. She and Brooks had two children, Charlotte Marie Celeste Brooks Crane and Ann Elizabeth Claiborne Brooks who married Elias B. Griffith..
w/o 1st Captain William Vousden (??-1802), m. 9-15-1796 who established "Cotton Fields Plantation" and was among the first in the Miss. Terr. to introduce cotton for export, and, 2nd William Brooks (1746-1821), m. 3-31-1803.

Elizabeth's will: Elizabeth Maria Celeste Hutchins was born in 1770 or 1772 in SC. She married , 15 Sep 1796 at Natchez, Mississippi, Capt. (of the Natchez Militia) William Vousdan, her first husband who died in 1802. His will left her "the plantation called Cotton field;" its slaves except for two specifically named men, Ben and Nory, father and son, to be set free; a tract of land on Bayou Sara patented in the name of Elizabeth Hutchins; and $1,600 "to enable her to support ___ expenses of the plantation for the present year." Elizabeth also inherited a slave couple, Sam and Tamor (and their increase) from her mother, Anne Hutchins. She re-married, 24 or 31 Mar 1803 at Natchez, MS, as his 2nd wife, William Brooks. She and Brooks had two children, Charlotte Marie Celeste Brooks Crane and Ann Elizabeth Claiborne Brooks who married Elias B. Griffith..

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