page_title: Benajah Osmun
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Benajah Osmun / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Title Windy Hill Manor, Natchez vic., Adams County, Mississippi Contributor Names Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Created / Published 1938. Subject Headings - United States--Mississippi--Adams County--Natchez vic. - Pediments. - Porches. - Dormers. - Houses. - Mississippi--Adams County--Natchez Vic Format Headings Photographic prints. Notes - Title from photographer's inventory. - Built by Col. Benijah Osmun, a veteran of the Rev. For 120 years, has been home of the Stantons. One story frame, pitch roof. Rambling. - Corresponding Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South neg. no. 1073. Library has no record of having this neg. - Related names: Miss Elizabeth Brandon Stanton. - Forms part of: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress). Medium 1 photographic print. Call Number/Physical Location LOT 12634 [item] [P&amp;P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id ppmsca 23950 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.23950 Control Number csas200907164 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsca-23950 (digital file from print) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 photographic print.
context_page_description: Benajah Osmun was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. During the Revolutionary War he made Captain and was taken prisoner at Charleston. In politics he was a federalist and a strong partisan of John Adams.
context_section_description: In 1790, Osmun moved to Natchez, Mississippi, accompanying the Forman Family Colony that was founded by Ezekiel Forman, father of General Thomas Marsh Forman and brother of General David Forman. Prior to that, Osmun was the overseer of the plantation of General David Forman.
  Osmun built and lived at Windy Hill Manor at the foot of Half Way Hill near Natchez, Mississippi. He was a good friend of Adam Cloud, an Episcopal minister who settled in Natchez and fought for religious freedom. When Aaron Burr went under trial in 1807 on a charge of treason, Osmun was one of his bondsmen. With Lyman Harding, they paid $10,000 for the bond.
caption: Windy Hill Manor, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938
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