West Oak Plantation

West Oak/Oaks Plantation was a 2800 acre sugar plantation in Maringouin, Iberville Parish, Louisiana.The Plantation was owned by Dr. Jesse Batey (whose name was spelled a number of different ways) who was born in 1796. He was a physician and volunteered his time with the Hibernian Society in Louisiana. Jesse Beatty also had additional landholdings in Pointe Coupe and Fordoche. It does not appear that Dr. Batey lived at the West Oaks Plantation. Beatty died in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana in 1851.

In 1838 Dr. Beatty was one of the men who purchased for his own West Oak Plantation a number of slaves during the Georgetown University sale. The original documents list the names and ages of these persons who were sold and relocated. The slaves were transported from Alexandria, District of Columbia, to New Orleans, Louisiana on the Katherine Jackson of Georgetown, 13 Nov 1838.

After Dr. Jesse Beatty died in 1851 the plantation was put up for sale, slaves and all.