Benjamin Farar Jr. dating history

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Benjamin Farar (1773–1825), sometimes spelled Farrar, was a slave-owning planter and territorial militia officer in the lower Mississippi River valley of the United States. He was one of the richest cotton plantation owners in the Natchez District of Mississippi and Concordia Parish, Louisiana. He served as captain of a militia company of mounted dragoons drawn from Adams County, Mississippi Territory who were deployed for the transfer of the Louisiana Purchase from France to the United States in 1803, and for the Sabine Expedition in 1806.