Margaret Overaker is first known to have owned the property. It was purchased in 1832 for $3,500 by Thomas Macdannold - a rich man about whom not much is known. Macdannold must have had the house built, because the property was purchased just four years later in 1836 for a much higher price ($14,320.88) by Thomas Henderson - a First Presbyterian Church of Natchez elder. The property was purchased in 1838 by the First Presbyterian Church of Natchez to serve as its manse. The previous Presbyterian manse was the Natchez home known as the Elms. The following is a list of some of the Presbyterian pastors who lived in the manse.
