Correspondence By datebox folder Request box 1 1 Correspondence, receipts, medical bills, 1817-1849 Includes correspondence with Middleton Pope, Pope Barrow, George F. platt, Thomas Spalding, John Lumpkin. Receipts for general purchases including clothing and food, medical services for the Barrow family and enslaved population. Bill of Sale for an enslaved 8-year old boy named Sam. 1 2 Correspondence, receipts, 1850-1851 Includes receipts for general household needs, correspondence regarding Blowing Cave plantation, letter from Middleton Pope, bills of sale for enslaved people, letter from George Neal regarding the burning of his shop and accusing Aleck an enslaved man 1 3 Correspondence, receipts, 1852 Includes letters about land and gins, receipts for general household items, cotton bale accounts, bill of sale for an enslaved man named Ellick 1 4 Correspondence, receipts, 1853 Includes land deeds; receipts for general goods, guano, and bales of cotton; correspondence with family and tradesmen 1 5 Correspondence, 1854 Includes letter from George Lumpkin regarding the family health including typhoid fever, cholera, and St. Anthony's Fire; receipts for cotton bales and general goods; bill of sale for enslaved 9-year old girl named Martha; letter from Robert Toombs 1 6 Correspondence, receipts, 1855 Includes letter from James A. Booth regarding being an overseer; letters from H. H. Parks, Abbie Pope, George Lumpkin; receipts for sale of fodder, corn, barley in Atlanta and Athens; receipts for household goods 1 7 Correspondence, receipts, 1856 Includes a letter from John B. Lamar about feelings in the North against the South; letters from Middleton Pope Barrow and others from the University of Georgia; letters from George Hicks regarding an organ; letter regarding the sale of an enslaved woman Matilda and her child so that she may live with her husband; cotton sales 1 8 Correspondence, receipts, 1857 Includes general and cotton receipts, various letters 1 9 Correspondence, receipts, 1858 Includes various letters, information on land, letters to Lucy Pope, cotton bales sales, subscription to Godey's Lady's Book 1 10 Correspondence, receipts, 1859 January-June Includes various letters, letters from Middleton Pope Barrow, grocery and cotton recipts, wages to overseer, letter from L.G. Childs regarding preaching to enslaved population, letters regarding enslaved people stealing property, letters regarding war in Europe, certificate for Bounty Land for service in the Florida War, state aid, letter from overseer James Finley regarding Blowing Cave and two enslaved men named Ben and George, letter regarding measles 1 11 Correspondence, receipts, 1859 July-December Includes letters regarding David Barrow's election to the state senate, receipts, cotton, letters from John Norris and T.R.R. Cobb, letters from Poullain, Jennings, & Co. 1 12 Correspondence, receipts, 1860 January-April Includes various letters, letters from John Norris; cotton; receipts from Poullain, Jennings & Co; letter regarding Thomas A. Barrow's poor work at UGA; letter from John B. Lamar regarding the Milledgeville and Charleston Conventions; letter from John A. Cobb; letter from overseer James Finley regarding a runaway slave; letter from overseer James Spratlin about shooting an enslaved man named Calvin box folder Request box 2 1 Correspondence, receipts, 1860 May-October Includes various letters and receipts, Charleston Convention, land purchases, Democratic State Convention and John C. Breckinridge campaign, typhoid fever 2 2 Correspondence, receipts, 1860 November-December Includes various letters, cotton, mentions of "disunion", dissolving the Union, and Lincoln election, Avenel plantation, letter regarding medical care for an enslaved man, letter from John B. Lamar about seceding 2 3 Correspondence, receipts, 1861 Includes various letters many political; numerous letters from James Barrow about resigning from West Point, requesting an enslaved servant named Clark, and serving in the military; medical bill for services to enslaved population; cotton and hogs; war letters discussing organizing companies, uniforms and feeding soldiers; letters from plantations; insurrection movement among enslaved; James Barrow from Fort Pulaski 2 4 Correspondence, receipts, 1862 Includes Pope, James, and Thomas Barrow at Camp Marion, Petersburg, and Martinsburg; letters from the front; corn, salt and salt works, and cotton; hurricane in Camilla; letter from Lindsey Jack about overseers; James Jewel inquiring about jobs in the gun manufacturing plant in Athens; letter from cousin James Barrow about his sone having leg amputated and being a prinsoner; vacination against small pox; letter regarding the draft; and various other correspondents. 2 5 Correspondence, receipts, 1863 January-September Includes letters from the front, deaths in the war, conscription exemption of overseers; corn, salt, sugar, hogs, syrup, and cotton; explosion at the steam mill in Camilla; small pox and vaccination; Genl Howell Cobb about corn and mules; and other correspondents. 2 6 Correspondence, receipts, 1863 October-December Includes letters about the war; corn, salt works; letter from Ro. Cornilius Robson regarding purchasing an enslaved woman; letter from cousin James Barrow about his son's amputation in the war; information regarding overseers; all of the enslaved sent to the salt works ran away; petition for W. D. Sullivan (teacher) to be exempt from army; other correspondents. 2 7 Correspondence, receipts, 1864 Includes examination of D. C. Barrow finding him unfit for military service; letters about the war and battles; salt works; overseer Baker Daniel; death of James Barrow; conscription of overseers; corn and cotton; letter discussing the Union troops destroying General Cobb's plantation in Baldwin County 2 8 Correspondence, receipts, 1865 January-March Includes letters from Lucy Barrow Cobb, Pope Barrow; salt works; letter from Emma May fleeing Sherman's path; corn; letter from cousin James Barrow about all his sons and sons-in-law killed and having to care for all the orphaned children; letters regarding rasing regiment of "Negro troops" box folder Request box 3 1 Correspondence, receipts, 1865 April-August Includes family letters; corn; salt works; Pope taken prisoner but being paroled; Lucy Cobb Institute; freedmen gatherings and activities 3 2 Correspondence, receipts, 1865 September-December Includes family letters, the Freedmen's Bureau, Lucy Cobb Institute, renting land to former enslaved man named Jacob, David Barrow's pardon, agreement between Barrow and Tillman a freedman 3 3 1866 January-June 3 4 1866 July-December 3 5 1867 January-July 3 6 1867 August-December 3 7 1868 January-June 3 8 1868 August-December box folder Request box 4 1 1869 January-July 4 2 1869 August-December 4 3 1870 January-May 4 4 1870 June-July 4 5 1871 4 6 1872 January-May 4 7 1872 June-October 4 8 1872 November-December 4 9 1873 4 10 1874 box folder Request box 5 1 1875 5 2 1876 January-July 5 3 1876 August-December 5 4 1877 5 5 1878 January-October 5 6 1878 November-December 5 7 1879 January-March 5 8 1879 April-June 5 9 1879 July-September box folder Request box 6 1 1879 October-December 6 2 1880 January-March 6 3 1880 April-August 6 4 1880 September-December 6 5 1881 6 6 1882 6 7 1883 6 8 1884-1887 6 9 1888-1915 By namebox folder Request box 6 10 R.P. Adams Letters box folder Request box 7 1 Alex A. Allen Letters, 1850-1855 Includes the plantation in Bainbridge, tornado destruction, corn and cotton 7 2 James Barrow Letters, 1856-1860 7 3 James Barrow Letters, 1861-1862 7 4 James Barrow Letters, 1863-1864 7 5 Thomas A. Barrow Letters box folder Request box 8 1 Thomas A. Barrow Letters, 1870-1872 Letters from Blowing Cave about the plantation including a teacher for the freedmen 8 2 Church Records Lexington Circuit, Cherokee Corners Sunday School, Pope's Chapel 8 3 George H. Davis, overseer at Blowing Cave Plantation, Letters, 1855-1860 8 4 George H. Davis, overseer at Blowing Cave Plantation, Letters, 1861-1863 Includes some letters from Cairo, McElveensville, and Decatur County. 8 5 George H. Davis, overseer at Blowing Cave Plantation, Letters, 1863-1865 8 6 H. Cobb Davis, overseer at Syls Fork (Sylls Fork) Plantation, Letters, 1866-1868 8 7 James C. Finley, overseer Camilla, Letters (overseer), 1860-1865 8 8 J.M. Harrison, overseer at Blowing Cave Plantation, Letters, 1850-1855 8 9 John H. Lumpkin Letters, 1859-1860 Includes Charleston and Milledgeville Conventions 8 10 William and A.C. McKinley Letters, 1855-1875 Includes a letter about preserving the University of Georgia for "the whites" 8 11 William G. Porter and Co. Letters regarding cotton sales, 1855-1861 8 12 Legal and financial transactions regarding enslaved people, 1855-1859 8 13 James A Spratlin, overseer Oglethorpe County, Letters, 1855-1867 8 14 William R. Vaughn, overseer at Boner, Letters, 1863-1865 box folder Request box 9 1 Undated Correspondence I 9 2 Undated Correspondence II 9 3 Undated Correspondence III