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41 Title:   Hammond family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hammond family  
  Dates:   1782-1921  
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The collection consists of documents which deal mainly with land transactions relating to the Hammons / Hammonds and allied families of Walton, Wilkes and Oglethorpe County, Georgia. There is some Hammond and Ellsbury family genealogy. Some names involved include: Josiah Amerson, Isaiah C. Brand, W.K. Hammond, Moses Jernigan, Green H. Lirsey, Kinchin Rambo, and William Trammell.
 
  Identifier:   ms1523  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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42 Title:   Hand family and business records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hand, Judson Larrabee, 1851-1916  
  Dates:   1872-1985  
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This collection contains the business and personal records of the Hand family of Pelham, Georgia and reflects the status of South Georgia's agricultural economy from the end of Reconstruction to the early 1980s. Initial success in land speculation, farming, and timber and turpentine production during the late 19th to early 20th centuries led Judson Larrabee (J. L.) Hand to establish the Hand Trading Company, a company that would become southwest Georgia's largest mercantile business and spur his expansion into banking, railroads, textiles, and fertilizer manufacture. The collection is comprised of the deeds, financial records, and correspondence of the Hand family's many businesses; political papers relating to Frederick Barrow Hand, Sr.'s terms in the Georgia General Assembly from 1933 to 1955 and his 1954 gubernatorial primary campaign; photographs of J. L. Hand's businesses, employees, and home, as well as Fred Hand, Sr.'s political career; and Fred Hand, Sr.'s genealogical records.
 
  Identifier:   ms4248  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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43 Title:   John Ray papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Ray, John, -1868  
  Dates:   1829-1868  
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The collection consists of John Ray's day book, docket book, and plantation book. The day book records debts collected from 1831-1844, and contains some notes concerning land; and the docket book contains notes of proceedings and filings in court cases in Coweta County, Georgia Superior Court from 1843-1865. The plantation book records names of enslaved people, and account of their clothes, rations, and blankets; notes on legal decisions; and recipes for various illnesses, including heart disease, measles, rheumatism, pneumonia, scarlet fever, and asthma. The collection also includes handwritten papers on heart disease; promissory notes, deeds and indentures for land in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, a bill of sales for two "Negroes" (named "Roland, 2 years old, and Randal, about 7 years old"); tax records; and records of White Oak Plantation (Coweta County, Ga.) and an unidentified plantation. The plantation records record how much cotton was sold (cotton made at White Oak Plantation).
 
  Identifier:   ms119  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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44 Title:   Howell Erwin family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Erwin, Howell  
  Dates:   1858-1959  
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The collection consists of Erwin family Bible records, correspondence, family photographs, deeds, wills (including that of Harriet D.P. Bryan), printed materials, account books, and materials about the W.T. Byron estate and the Eustace Floyd estate.
 
  Identifier:   ms3275  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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45 Title:   William Lamar Cawthon, Jr. Estate county documents  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Mitchell, David Yoakley  
  Dates:   1790-1936  
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This collection contains legal and land records, estate administration records, business records, and correspondence arranged chronologically by county and state. It also includes records of criminal cases, slavery trade, land grants, plats, wills, and divorce.
 
  Identifier:   ms4401  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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46 Title:   Cobb, Erwin, and Lamar families collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lamar family  
  Dates:   1796-1929  
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The collection consists of personal and business papers of the Cobb, Erwin, and Lamar families from 1796-1929. Early records deal mainly with the Zachariah Lamar family and include deeds, bonds, land grants, receipts, slave bills of sale, and correspondence. The period 1811-1928 covers the Lamar, Cobb, and Erwin families and contains correspondence, both business and personal; bills; receipts; invitations; legal papers; telegrams; tax notices; postcards; case books; letterbooks; scrapbooks; account books; photographs; and genealogical and biographical information pertaining to the Cobb, Erwin, and Lamar families. Also includes information on the law practice and legal firms of the Cobb and Erwin families. Of particular interest are Howell Cobb's order books for the 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment (Cobb's Brigade). The collection includes correspondence and material relating to the following family members: Zachariah Lamar, Howell Cobb, Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, John Addison Cobb, Sarah Robinson Rootes Cobb, Mary Ann Lamar Cobb Erwin, and Alexander S. Erwin.
 
  Identifier:   ms86  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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47 Title:   U. Harrold Davenport papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Davenport, Uriah Harrold, 1878-1963  
  Dates:   1860s-1960s  
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The collection consists of the financial records of Uriah Harrold Davenport, his wife Sallie Fleming and his sister, Mary C. Davenport. A large portion of the collection deals with the estate of his wife, who had considerable land holdings in Athens, particularly in African American neighborhoods.
 
  Identifier:   ms1375  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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48 Title:   John M. Phillips family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Phillips family  
  Dates:   1857-1949  
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The collection consists of photographs, correspondence, financial papers, diaries, deeds, genealogies, certificates, and other materials related to John M. Phillips, the Phillips family, the Acree family, and the Isbell family.
 
  Identifier:   ms3178  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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49 Title:   Boyd family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Mattox, Mary E. Turner, 1828-1903  
  Dates:   1810-1986  
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This collection contains Anne Boyd's genealogical notes on the Boyd family as well as letters, postcards, deeds, receipts, and photographs of related families in Georgia during the 19th and 20th centuries. The bulk of this collection contains the papers of Minnie Branham Stonestreet, a writer for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project during the Great Depression. It includes her notes and drafts for a guidebook of Washington, Georgia; oral histories; and some notes on her work as a genealogist. Also of note are the papers of Luke and Eliza Turner, parents of Mary Mattox. Luke Turner served as a state representative of Wilkes County from 1838-1839.
 
  Identifier:   ms4296  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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50 Title:   Fountain family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Fountain family  
  Dates:   1820-1955  
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This collection contains the papers of the Fountain and McCants families of Georgia. A large portion of the collection is comprised of the correspondence and financial records of Jonathan Jackson "Jack" McCants, Sr. (1845-1920) of Butler, Georgia. Also included are land deeds, titles, surveys, recipts, insurance policies, tax information, and printed material from the Fountain and McCants families, as well as a few letters from the McCrary family.
 
  Identifier:   ms4315  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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51 Title:   William J. Northen family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Northen, William J. (William Jonathan), 1835-1913  
  Dates:   1790-1959  
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The collection consists of genealogy, land documents, correspondence, financial papers, writings, photographs, artifacts, and printed material. The correspondence includes letters to William J. Northen regarding the establishment of the town of Fitzgerald, Georgia; letters regarding an apparent scandal involving the Farmers' Alliance and Leonidas Livingston; William J. Northen's letters home as he traveled around Georgia in 1907 promoting racial harmony; and two Civil War letters from brothers William and John Henry Neel of the 15th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Company K. The writings contain a journal by William J. Northen in which he writes of his trip to Tallulah Falls, speeches at Mercer University, his 21st birthday, death of his brother, and a letter to his sister regarding conditions at the end of the Civil War. Farm accounts are also included in the journal. Also of interest are slave documents and bills of sale; receipts from Mercer University and the Georgia Baptist Convention when Peter Northen was treasurer; Ruth Northen's photo album containing University of Georgia photographs from 1911-1912 and other travel photographs; and an 1801 indenture between the Catawba Indians and Thomas Neel for land in York County, South Carolina. The following items were separated from the collection: walking cane without the handle and one square back wooden chair with cane seat is housed in Organic storage.
 
  Identifier:   ms3327  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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52 Title:   Craig Barrow family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Barrow, Craig, 1876-1945  
  Dates:   1766-2010  
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The collection consists of correspondence, genealogical information, writings, financial papers, printed material, scrapbooks, photographs, deeds, and transcripts and copies of historical documents. Much of the Craig Barrow correspondence deals with his involvement with the Savannah Boxing Commission, Savannah Golf Club, Central of Georgia Railway, and the University of Georgia Alumni Society. The family correspondence contains letters regarding the Barrow property called the Home Place in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. There is much emphasis on Savannah, the Wormsloe estate, and Georgia history in both printed material and photographs. A large section of the financial papers concerns the real estate owned by the Barrows in Savannah and details the sale, rental, and management of the properties.
 
  Identifier:   ms3090  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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53 Title:   Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lamar, Clarinda Pendleton, 1856-1943  
  Dates:   1792-1936  
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note This collection consists of the papers of Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar from 1792-1936 and includes correspondence, scrapbooks, certificates, engagement books, invitations, speeches, and telegrams pertaining to Joseph Lamar's service on the Georgia and U.S. Supreme Courts; Clarinda Lamar's involvement with the Colonial Dames of America; and the Lamars' personal and public life in Augusta, Georgia and Washington, D.C. Correspondents of Justice Lamar, many of whom also continued to correspond with Mrs. Lamar after his death, included Augusta friends W. H. Barrett, J. C. C. Black, E. H. Callaway, Ed. B. Hook and Andrew J. Cobb of Athens. Other notables included Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James A. Garfield, William Jennings Bryan, and Octave Thanet (pseudonym of author Alice French). Mrs. Lamar also corresponded with Helen Taft, Mary Custis Lee, Edith Bolling Wilson, Martha Berry, Daisy Low (Juliette Gordon), and Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 
  Identifier:   ms22  
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