Isaac Ross Papers

Papers of Isaac Ross, planter, of Prospect Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi. Correspondence, statement of accounts, promissory notes, receipts, memoranda, and other papers pertaining to settlement of Ross' estate, especially concerning the will's provision for manumission of Ross' enslaved persons choosing emigration to Liberia. Includes correspondence of Ross' grandson, Isaac Ross Wade, as administrator of the estate, with the American Colonization Society; records of Wade's business transactions with Person and Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, and other cotton merchants; and business papers of Wade's son B.H. Wade. Correspondents include J. Hewitt, Natchez, Mississippi, and George L. Yerger, Jackson, Mississippi.