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1 Title:   The State versus Andy, Eleck (or Alexander), Marion, and Samson  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Lumpkin County (Ga.)  
  Dates:   1856 June 1  
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  Identifier:   ms3538  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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2 Title:   William Jones family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jones, William, active 1833-1857  
  Dates:   1813-1910  
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The collection consists of papers of the William Jones family of Augusta, Georgia from 1813-1910. Includes correspondence; account books, financial records, and receipts relating to Jones' cotton gin business (1833-1857); freedmen contracts; and legal papers relating to Jones' duties as executor of Marshall Keith's estate and guardian of the Keith children. The correspondence, mainly to William Jones, pertains to business matters, his guardianship of the Keith children, and family matters. Correspondents include Sarah Jane Jones Griffin, Arthur W. Jones, William H. Jones, and Sophie Jones. The early materials (1813-1863) pertain to the Isham Keith family and contain correspondence between Isham, Marshall, and Peter Keith.
  
  Identifier:   ms1749  
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3 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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4 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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5 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  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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6 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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7 Title:   Bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Catherine  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Glass, Joshua S., 1818-1879  
  Dates:   1850 December 11  
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The collection consists of one bill of sale for an enslaved girl named Catherine exchanged from J. S. and J. D. Glass of Bethel, North Carolina to Ross Crane of Athens, Georgia. The girl is described as being a light-complexioned ten-year-old girl.
  
  Identifier:   ms3899  
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8 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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9 Title:   B.F. Coleman receipt for enslaved people  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Ayer & Harrison  
  Dates:   1857 January 7  
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The collection consists of one receipt: dated Columbus, January 7, 1857, for $810.00 paid by B.F. Coleman for the purchase of two enslaved people, witnessed by C.S. Harrison for Burnett Ingram. The receipt is written on a printed form provided by the firm of Ayer & Harrison.
  
  Identifier:   ms3228  
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10 Title:   Theodore G. Sledge estate document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Sledge, Theodore G.  
  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.
  
  Identifier:   ms4094  
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11 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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12 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. 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
  
  Identifier:   ms3687  
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13 Title:   Baldwin County legal proceeding against Rodney, an enslaved person  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 enslaver 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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14 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. Personal property includes an enslaved woman named Modina (36) and her children Horace (14), Charlotte (5), Amy (2), and Caroline (16). It also lists Caroline's children Sidney (2) and Abram (3 months). Other items of property include a piano, spectacles, and personal items.
  
  Identifier:   ms2391  
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15 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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16 Title:   Samuel B. Clark papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Clark, Samuel B., 1812-1865  
  Dates:   1787-1869  
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The collection consists of papers of Samuel B. Clark, from 1787-1869. Included are indentures, a land survey, legal documents, and a plantation journal (1841-1869) containing business records pertaining to the Richmond County homestead, the Burke County (Georgia) farm, and land in Dooly County (Georgia). Entries include information on slave values, outlays for crops and household supplies, tax returns for Richmond and Burke counties, financial reports on building the McBean canal, and cotton sales.
  
  Identifier:   ms1497  
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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:   Slave trade documents  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Richardson, John L.  
  Dates:   1843, 1865  
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Two documents related to enslaved people owned by John L. Richardson, including a bill of sale and a sharecropping agreement with freed Blacks.
  
  Identifier:   ms3241  
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19 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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20 Title:   Ebenezer Kellogg diary  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kellogg, Ebenezer, 1789-1846  
  Dates:   1817-1818  
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The collection consists of the diary of Ebenezer Kellogg from 1817-1818 written to Chester Dewey, Professor of Mathmatics. Kellogg describes his journey from Williamstown, Massachusetts to Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and towns along the Georgia coast. Most of the entries pertain to Georgia and discuss the people and towns Kellogg visited. Kellogg writes about plantations and farming practices, particularly cotton and rice; and slavery, including how enslaved populations lived, their treatment, and religious instruction.
  
  Identifier:   ms516  
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