Andrew Maybank Jones family papers, 1803-1874, 1939

Summary

Creator:

Jones, Andrew Maybank

Date:

1803-1874, 1939

Extent:

0.5 Linear Feet 1 box

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Andrew Maybank Jones family papers, ms 1289, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of papers of Andrew Maybank Jones and Jones family members from 1803-1874. Materials relating to Andrew Maybank Jones include correspondence, reports of the University of Georgia, bills of sale of enslaved persons, promissory notes, a prayer book, and an account book of Jones's plantations. Further correspondence are between Charles West and Joseph Jones, Joseph Jones and Charlton Hines, W. Fleming and Captain Joseph Jones, and Mrs. Electra Dodge and Mary Ann Dodge. The collection also includes records of cotton sales for Joseph Jones, Confederate States of America money, and newspaper clippings concerning the Confederacy.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia.
Plantation life -- Georgia.
Bills of sale.
Medicine -- Practice -- Georgia.
Slavery -- Georgia -- History.
Cotton trade -- Georgia.
Enslaved persons -- Georgia
Slavery.
Correspondence

Places:

Georgia -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.

Preferred citation:

Andrew Maybank Jones family papers, ms 1289, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.