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I cleaned up this article per my comments yesterday on the talk page for the Van Dorn House, but could not finish the format cleanup because of the prospective page blanking problem that happened yesterday with another article, so perhaps my cyberbullies have woken up. The census records remain problematic. Peter Van Dorn was mentioned in the 1822 territorial census for Claiborne County, but the damaged pages lack headers and thus do not indicate whether he owned a slave. He supposedly also appears on the 1816 census, but those pages are also damaged and I could not find his name. I also could not find his name on the 1830 census for Claiborne County, though I slogged through the 54 pages, which seemed clear and undamaged. I do not know what county his Yazoo plantation may have been in--the 188 mile river goes through Mississippi and Louisiana.Jweaver28 (talk) 11:40, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally, he owned a plantation on the Yazoo River as well as African slaves.
It would have been unusual to own a plantation in Mississippi without African slaves, so this is sounding like a rubber-stamp slur by the diversity lobby - something to be discouraged, I feel. Valetude (talk) 13:09, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
