lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01227/01227-P.html Stephen Duncan Land Indenture, 1776 Creators sketch: Stephen Duncan was one of the first settlers of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, having received an indenture of land himself from King George III. A successful merchant, he became involved in local politics and government, and raised nine children with his wife, Ann Fox. His son John married Sarah Eliza Postlethwaite, in 1785, and the couple was blessed with five children, including the future Dr. Stephen Duncan of Natchez. In 1793, shortly before Stephens sixth birthday, his father John was killed in a duel with James Lamberton over a political dispute. By 1850, Dr. Stephen Duncan of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, had become the largest cotton planter in the world. He resided at his mansion Auburn, located just outside of Natchez where he built a personal empire on cotton and slavery. Through his business connections with financiers Charles and Henry Leverich of New York, Duncan sold his cotton to British factors in Liverpool and elsewhere. See the recent biography by Martha Jane Brazy, An American Planter: Stephen Duncan of Antebellum Natchez and New York (2006). Photos MDAH
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