To Mary Ann Lamar Cobb from Martha. J. Jackson, 1847 February 16

Containers:

Box 31, Folder 15, Item 2

Scope and content:

Sent from Cookshay Plantation in Alabama. Describes family communications and events. Mentions a family member [likely Henry Rootes Jackson] deployed in the Mexican-American War: "our own dear absent one, who is now at Tampico, and may be exposed to the double danger of the battle field and disease, if he has to go against Vera Cruz ..."

Mentions Judge Hillyier [Hillyer] who "is anxious to purchase the Cow Pins [Cowpens Plantation] ..."

Names an enslaved woman, "Old Mary." "Old Mary requests to be remembered to you [and] sends much love [to?] All of your Servants"

Physical location:

32108050791907

Collection context