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{"id":260,"date":"2017-07-18T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T17:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/?p=260"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:38:36","slug":"dr-powhatan-bolling-dandridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/biographies\/dr-powhatan-bolling-dandridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Powhatan Bolling Dandridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
With the signing of the Treaty of Pontotoc and the cessation of all Chickasaw lands east of the Mississippi River in 1832, thousands of white settlers from the eastern slave states rushed into the fertile prairie belt of northern Mississippi. Among the first families to settle what came to be known as Pontotoc County were Thomas and Caroline Dandridge of Henry County, Virginia. Powhatan Bolling Dandridge was the youngest of their six children and their only son. When he was born in 1839 they named him after Chief Powhatan, their ancestor and the famed father of Pocahontas.<\/p>\n
When Thomas Dandridge died in 1842, he had saved enough money to leave each one of his children $440 in land (about $11,116 in 2016). He also left the control of the plantation and eight slaves to his widow, who continued to manage the estate while seeing to her children\u2019s\u2019 education. By 1860, the Dandridge\u2019s land and twenty-four slaves were valued at $32,000 (about $867,715 in 2016).<\/p>\n