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Adam Lewis Bingaman
Adam Lewis "A.L." Bingaman (born c. 1790; died September 6, 1869) studied law in Massachusetts, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University Class of 1812. While in Boston he met and married Julia Maria Murray, daughter of Judith Sargent Murray, feminist, poet, and writer of the Universalist Church in America.
Plantation life.
Murray and her daughter went to live at "Fatherland", the Bingaman family plantation in Natchez, Mississippi. Life on the plantation was
Alabama.
Family and career.
John Benjamin Pryor was counted in Adams County, Mississippi on the 1850 and 1860 US Census. He was a slave owner and horse trainer, employed by the prominent Mississippi politician Adam Lewis Bingaman. He became the trainer of Lexington, the most famous race horse of the 1850s, after racing entrepreneur Richard Ten Broeck and his syndicate purchased the horse "in no very long time Lexington was shipped south to Natchez, where he was placed in charge of Adam Lewis Bingaman, whose stable was