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1 Title:   Lumpkin County (Ga.) commitment of enslaved people to jail  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lumpkin County (Ga.)  
  Dates:   1856 June 1  
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The collection consists of one commitment of enslaved people to jail, signed June 1, 1856, by James Cantrell, J.P., James Barnes, J.P., and Isaac J. Elliott, J.P. (State of Georgia, Lumpkin County), detailing the custody of four enslaved boys detained for suspicion of breaking, entering, stealing, and arson. The four named in the letter "…belonging to and the property of Jacob Martin of the county of Forsyth by the names of Andy and Eleck or Alexander…belonging to and the property of Samuel Julian of Forsyth County, by the names of Marion and Sampson…"
  
  Identifier:   ms3538  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   Drury Murray property appraisement  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Murray, Drury, 1787-1862  
  Dates:   1864 December 21  
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This collection consists of the appraisement of the personal property in the estate of Drury Murray done by J. F. Miller, James Lasseter, J. F. Market, and Joseph Thomas. Nineteen enslaved people are listed, along with their monetary value and the person to whom they are signed.
  
  Identifier:   ms3687  
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3 Title:   Catharine Elbert letter to Martha Doolittle  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Elbert, Catharine  
  Dates:   1849 February 2  
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A letter written by Catharine Elbert, "old Mama", to Matty, Martha Doolittle Dunaway, from St. Marys. Elbert discusses how she is doing and talks about some local residents including Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Curtis, Dr. Henry Bacon, Major Clark, and Rev. Williams. It is believed that this letter, likely written by someone else, is from an enslaved woman or house servant who cared for Martha as a child.
  
  Identifier:   ms4479  
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4 Title:   McIntosh County, Georgia bill of exceptions  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia. Supreme Court  
  Dates:   1848  
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A bill of exceptions in the Supreme Court of Georgia, at Savannah, January Term, 1848, for the recovery of three African American enslaved people "named Judy, Bella, and John her son...that were the property of Ann Cunningham," in the case Ann Grigg vs. Charles Spalding.
  
  Identifier:   ms2198  
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5 Title:   Indenture transferring four enslaved people  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Richmond County (Ga.)  
  Dates:   1833 December 28  
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The collection consists of one indenture: made December 28, 1833, in Richmond County, Georgia, between Samuel Hicks of Columbia County, Georgia, and James G. Stallings of Richmond County, Georgia, for payment of 200 dollars for four enslaved people whose names were Henry, Elsy, Dinah, and Jim.
  
  Identifier:   ms2369  
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6 Title:   Richard M. Johnston legal document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 1822-1898  
  Dates:   1859  
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The collection consists of a legal document transferring property from Richard M. Johnston of Hancock County, Georgia, to Willie Edwards Bonner. Property includes "a negro woman" and her children, piano, spectacles, and other personal items.
  
  Identifier:   ms2391  
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7 Title:   John Rodgers Goldsborough letter to his wife Mary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Goldsborough, J. R. (John Rodgers), 1808-1877  
  Dates:   1862 April 21  
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The collection consists of one letter regarding a Rebel fort on Jekyll Island, plans to make Saint Simons Island a self-supporting colony, slaves, the Pierce Butler estate, the abandoned estate of James Hamilton Couper, a visit to Frederica, and orders regarding Commander Sylvanus Godon.
  
  Identifier:   ms3430  
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8 Title:   John M. White shop book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   White, John M.  
  Dates:   1882-1885, 1898  
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The shop book contains accounts for customers (probably in DeKalb County, Georgia). It lists the customer name, date, cost, and services (such as sharpening a plow or repairing a wagon wheel or garden hoe). The accounts for 1884-1885 concern cotton sales. Also included are a few recipes from newspapers and an 1898 church program for the Mill District Sunday School Association Clifton Church. There are modern day notebook pages taped over some pages in the book. On these are handwritten transcripts of letters from an unidentified father to his son in Savannah, Georgia regarding the sale of enslaved people on a plantation.
  
  Identifier:   ms3698  
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9 Title:   Baldwin County legal proceeding against Rodney  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kenan, Thomas Holmes, 1771-1837  
  Dates:   1819 February  
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This collection consists of one legal proceeding, dated February 1819, describing the sentencing of an enslaved man, Rodney, who is accused of burning down the cotton gin house of the slave owner Major John A. Jones. Thomas Holmes Kenan (1771-1837), court clerk for Baldwin County, Georgia, records the sentence as death by hanging.
  
  Identifier:   ms3932  
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10 Title:   R.T. Trible diary and Bible  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Trible, Richard Thomas, 1822-1894  
  Dates:   1836-1865  
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This collection includes a diary or planting journal of Richard Thomas Trible, and a Bible given to him with family information in the back pages. The diary includes information on planting, activites of the enslaved population, visits to the Georgia Factory, Col. Billups, Mr. Dearing, and Dr. Morton.
  
  Identifier:   ms4542  
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11 Title:   Dixon family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Dixon family  
  Dates:   1848-1863  
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The collection consists of papers relating to the Dixon family of Meriwether County, Georgia including correspondence of John L. Dixon at Collinsworth Institute, Joshua L. Render and his wife Mary Jane (Dixon) Render, and John Tillman Dixon. One letter mentions the Charleston Convention (1860). Of particular interest are three letters from John Tillman Dixon, serving with the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment, to his sister Mary Jane, while stationed at Richmond during the Civil War. Includes an 1853 tax list for 84 enslaved people plus land, cattle, sheep, hogs, wagons, and carriage.
  
  Identifier:   ms2739  
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12 Title:   Jacob Waldburg papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Waldburg, Jacob  
  Dates:   1793, 1818, 1829  
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The collection consists of three items: a list of enslaved people owned by the family of Jacob Waldburg of Chatham County, Georgia (1793); a promissory note to Waldburg from John M. Harvey (1818); and a land grant to Waldburg for property in Lee County, Georgia (1829).
  
  Identifier:   ms1194  
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13 Title:   Grace Lucas letter to Mary E. Johns  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lucas, Grace  
  Dates:   1843 July 22  
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The collection consists of one letter: dated Athens, Georgia, July 22, 1843, to "My dear sister," Mary E. Johns, Davisborough, signed Grace Lucas, regarding illness, enslaved woman, and other family happenings. Much of the letter focuses on the misfortunes of their sister Betsey Howard and her family's and Cherry's, enslaved woman, illness.
  
  Identifier:   ms1690  
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14 Title:   Sale account of enslaved people  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1800-1810  
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The collection consists of one account of sales of enslaved people by Hamilton & Couper to James Moss, Bahamas. The document lists the price, buyer, and numbers of people sold.
  
  Identifier:   ms2120  
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15 Title:   William Stone estate administration document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Stone, Catharine Harris  
  Dates:   1860 January 12  
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A document dated 1860 January 12 in Warren County, Georgia. It lists the property in the estate of William Stone, deceased. The following minor children of William Stone received joint shares of 38 African American enslaved people and also received sums of money: Cordelia A. - $717.51; Cassanda M. - $718.34; Ellafara B. - $1642.85; William J. - $1999.91; Martha B. - $823.86. The enslaved people are listed by name and age and include Amos, 22; Ebbin, 25; Jefferson, 17; John, 1; Saphronia, 12; Charity, 3; and Antinett, 8. The administrators of the estate were Isaac Harris and Catharine Stone. The document is signed (with "X") by Catharine Stone.
  
  Identifier:   ms2927  
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16 Title:   Newsom deed and farming journal  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Newsom family  
  Dates:   after 1838  
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The collection consists of two items: a journal entitled "Plan. Experience of Farming of N. J. Newsom, 1885," pertaining to labor, fertilizer, fencing, mules, wages, and equipment involved in farming; deed signed in Washington County, Georgia, stating Joeday Newsom leaves two lots of "negroes" to his children, dated 1838. The reverse side contains valuation of the two lots of "negro slaves," and is dated 1843.
  
  Identifier:   ms630  
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17 Title:   Noble Jones family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805  
  Dates:   1754-1838  
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The collection consists of papers of the Noble Jones family of Savannah, Georgia from 1754-1838. Bound in a volume, the papers contain legal instruments including wills and indentures, business records, sales and dispensations of enslaved people, and correspondence documenting land transactions, legal matters, political matters, and family concerns. The materials document three generations of the Jones family including Noble Jones, Noble Wymberly Jones, and George Jones. The last will and Testament of Noble Jones includes the bequest of Wormslow [Wormsloe] and enslaved people.
  
  Identifier:   ms1127  
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18 Title:   Inventory of people enslaved by Henry Bourguin  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1779 December 11  
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The collection consists of a handwritten estate inventory created December 11, 1779, by Henry Bourguin's daughters. The inventory includes a list of the people enslaved by Bourguin, including name with approximate monetary value, and is divided into three columns showing the division of his estate by his three daughters.
  
  Identifier:   ms1205  
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19 Title:   Samuel Meeker letter to General James Winchester  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Meeker, Samuel, 1763-1832  
  Dates:   1804 December 27  
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The collection consists of a letter from Samuel Meeker writing from Philadelphia on 27 December 1804 to General James Winchester of Cragfont, Tennessee. The letter discusses slaves and their possible sale in New Orleans. The list of enslaved mentioned in the letter unfortunately is not present. However, Meeker goes on to mention aspects of shipping and overseas trade.
  
  Identifier:   ms1271  
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20 Title:   John B. Lamar plantation book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lamar, J. B. (John Basil), 1812-1862  
  Dates:   1847-1880  
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The collection consists of a plantation book of John B. Lamar, for his plantation in Sumter County, Georgia, from 1847-1880. The book includes lists containing names of enslaved people; a diagram of crop rotation for cotton, corn, oats, and rye; a map of the plantation; an inventory of plantation items; tax accounts; and food supplies. During the Civil War, entries become less comprehensive. From 1867-1872, entries list the date, employee's name, and item charged to the account, primarily food.
  
  Identifier:   ms131  
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