Chatham Plantation (Ascension Parish, Louisiana)
- Name
- Chatham Plantation (Ascension Parish, Louisiana)
- Alternate Name
- Chatham Estate
- Latitude
- 30.324110
- Longitude
- -90.978790
- County or Parish
- Ascension Parish, Louisiana
- State or Province
- Louisiana
- Country
- United States of America
- Description
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During the 1830s, Henry Johnson purchased adjoining tracts of land in Ascension Parish along the Mississippi River in Louisiana to form Chatham Plantation (Chatham Estate). This land shared a boundary with Claiborne Plantation which was owned by John R. Thompson in Iberville Parish. When Henry Johnson entered into an agreement with the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen in 1838 and acquired approximately 140 people, he did so with the intention of providing a labor force for the cultivation of sugar at the plantation.
Johnson sold a half share of his property to Philip Barton Key in 1844, who then transferred his portion to John R. Thompson. Then, in 1851, Johnson sold his remaining half share to John R. Thompson. People who were sold by the Jesuits in 1838 were included in those successive sales so that John R. Thompson claimed title over them. Thompson enslaved people sold by the Jesuits until emancipation in Louisiana in 1864. - Place Type
- Plantation, Estate, or Ranch
- Is Part of
- Ascension Parish, Louisiana
- Bibliographic Citation
- GSA61, "Chatham plantation, from Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River (1858)"
- GSA445, "StoryMap: The GU272 in Louisiana: Chatham Plantation (2022)"
- Sara Phillips, "The GU272 in Louisiana: Chatham Plantation (2022)"
- Source Resource
- http://onthesegrounds.georgetown.domains/omeka/api/items/7223