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Stephen Minor
American governor and banker (1760–1815) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stephen Minor (1760–1815) was an American who served as the last acting governor of the Spanish held Natchez territory, a plantation owner and a banker in the antebellum South.
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Early life
Stephen Minor was born on February 8, 1760, in Greene County, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3] His parents were Captain William Minor and Frances Ellen Phillips.
Career
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He moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1779 and served as Captain in the Spanish Army, participating in the Battle of Fort Charlotte.[1][3][4] He then served as the Secretary to the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (1747–1799).[2][4][5] In 1791, he received generous land grants from the Spanish government for his service.[2][4]
He turned his land grants into nine plantations, including the Southdown Plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where he grew sugar cane.[2][5] In 1797, his plantations produced twenty-five hundred bales of cotton.[4] He became one of Natchez's richest residents in the 1810s and 1820s.[4]
Additionally, he served as the first President of the Bank of Mississippi from 1797 to 1815.[2]
In 1814, a letter from Sam Steer to John Minor reported "that the new road to Port Gibson (from Natchez) was to run through the best part of the Minor plantation, the making of 120,000 brick by the two brick makers on Minor plantation, the order for building materials ordered by Minor for use on the plantation, the construction of a Gin-house on Minor's plantation."[6]
There was a building in Port Gibson, Mississippi that was described in 1818 as "the tavern of Stephen Minor."[7]
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Personal life
He resided in Natchez, Mississippi from 1780 to 1815.[3] He purchased the Concord in Natchez, which burned down in 1901.[2][8][9][10]
He married three times. His first wife was Anna Bingaman Minor. His second wife was Martha Ellis Minor. His third wife was Katherine Lintot Minor, the daughter of Bernard Lintot,[2][3] "a founding member of the United States Mississippi Territory."[11] They had three children; Minor's daughter Mary married cotton broker and sugar planter William Kenner.[12] One of his grandsons, John Minor, went on to live at the Oakland in Natchez.[13]
Death
He died on November 29, 1815, in Natchez, Mississippi.[3]
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