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Eli Rushing will
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Rushing, Eli, 1783-1839 |
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1839 |
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Content Description
This collection contains the will of Eli Rushing, which was written March 15, 1839 in Crawford County, Georgia. The will provides
an inventory of Rushing's assets, including an enslaved person
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ms4657 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Emmanuel Episcopal Church records
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Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Athens, Ga.) |
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Dates: |
1850-1956 |
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This collection includes church registers from the Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Athens, Georgia. The registers include parishioners,
baptisms, conformations, communicants, marriages, and deaths with a number of enslaved people named. Some of the registers
list cause of death and location of burial.
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ms4661 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Drury Murray property appraisement
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Murray, Drury, 1787-1862 |
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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. Appraisement lists 19 enslaved persons, their perceived monetary value, and
the name of the enslaver to whom they are being transferred. Names of enslaved persons as follows: Hamp, Amanda, Ann, George,
Cheny, Dick, Mary, Sally, Isaac, Eliza, Silva, Warren, Ada, Elizabeth, Marian, Lucinda, Rose, George Edmund, Martha
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ms3687 |
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Hargrett Library |
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John M. White shop book
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White, John M. |
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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.
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ms3698 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Theodore G. Sledge estate document
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Sledge, Theodore G. |
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Dates: |
1864 October |
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The collection consists of documents pertaining to the estate of Theodore G. Sledge. Sledge died leaving behind six enslaved
men and women, Maria, Lucinda, Spencer, Hester, Minerva, and Francey, and fifteen hundred and thirty six dollars of Confederate
currency. Several family members sought legal action, but the case was dismissed in November 1864.
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ms4094 |
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Hargrett Library |
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R.T. Trible diary and Bible
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Trible, Richard Thomas, 1822-1894 |
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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.
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ms4542 |
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Hargrett Library |
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William J. McCalley collection
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McCalley, William J., 1817-1877 |
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Dates: |
circa 1855-1860 |
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This collection consists of one document that outlines instructions for the care and maintenance of William J. McCalley's
plantation.
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ms4622 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Upshaw family papers
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Upshaw family |
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Dates: |
1808-1880 |
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The collection consists of papers relating the the Upshaw family of Elbert County, Georgia from 1808-1880. Includes correspondence,
bills, receipts, deeds, land grants, Upshaw genealogy, and other legal papers relating mainly to George and James Upshaw.
Collection also includes information concerning persons enslaved by the Upshaw family and other enslavers.
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ms18 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Baber-Blackshear family papers
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Baber-Blackshear family |
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Dates: |
1796-1939 |
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The collection consists of the papers of the Baber, Blackshear, and Baber-Blackshear families from 1796-1939 and includes
correspondence, journals, ledgers, news clippings, invitations, programs, speeches, and newspapers. The early part of the
collection relates to Dr. Ambrose Baber and contains information on the 1802 William Hunter-David Mitchell duel (Savannah,
Ga.); Baber's term as Charge'd Affaires to Sardinia, including correspondence from John MacPherson Berrien (1842-1844); and
the establishment of the Montpelier Institute in Monroe County, Georgia.
The bulk of the collection falls after 1846. It contains correspondence and journals of George Francis Burleigh Baber during
his naval service on the John Adams, Germantown, Dale, and Porpoise. Also included is Civil War correspondence consisting
of letters from Joseph William Blackshear of Jackson's Artillery from Camp Brown, St. Simons Island, Georgia, as well as George
Dunbar Sweet Smith, who served in South Carolina and Virginia. The remainder of the collection consists of personal correspondence
between Marion and William Blackshear; their children Ella, Paul, Birdie, and Minnie Baber-Blackshear; relatives; and friends.
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ms11 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Noble Jones family papers
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Jones, Noble Wimberly, 1723-1805 |
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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 volume.
The last will and Testament of Noble Jones includes the bequest of Wormslow [Wormsloe] and enslaved people.
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Identifier: |
ms1127 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Jacob Waldburg papers
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Creator: |
Waldburg, Jacob |
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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).
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ms1194 |
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Hargrett Library |
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Inventory of people enslaved by Henry Bourguin
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Creator: |
Unknown |
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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 preceived monetary value, and is divided
into three columns showing the division of his estate by his three daughters.
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ms1205 |
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Hargrett Library |
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