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41 Title:   John Hall family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hall, John  
  Dates:   1806-1958  
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The collection consists of correspondence, wills and deeds, and accounts of various family members. There are numerous accounts of the settlement of the John Hall estate, of which James M. Hall was executor. Of special interest are the bills of sale for enslaved people, freedmen contracts, and accounts of plantation overseers [enslavers]. The accounts show the growth of the plantation, including purchase of enslaved people and supplies and land, operation of a sawmill, sales of cotton, and labor dealings with the Georgia Penitentiary after the Civil War. There is also a Civil War letter from John W. Shinholster on April 23, 1863 from his camp near Port Hudson, Louisiana.
  
  Identifier:   ms3667  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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42 Title:   Jones County slave trade documents  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Kitchens, Bose  
  Dates:   1854-1863  
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The collection consists of documents regarding slave trade. One letter documents the sale of a enslaved man named Amos from Boze Kitchens of Sumter County to John Humphries of Jones County, Georgia. A group of three documents details the dispute of a transfer of slaves from Jones County, Georgia to Mississippi in the settlement of a debt. Included is a letter from A.H. Broach to his brother Calvin asking him to take care in the sale or resale of his former enslaved man, Peter.
  
  Identifier:   ms4010  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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43 Title:   Decatur County liquor license  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1849 October 2  
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Contains a license for retailers to sell spiritous liquors in Decatur County for one year issued to Jared Z. Jones and James D. Wooten. Restrictions on sale to enslaved and free persons of color is included
  
  Identifier:   ms4220  
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44 Title:   Dugas du Vallon family document  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Dugas family  
  Dates:   Unknown  
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The collection consists of a detailed inventory of: land owned in Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti), family papers, a list of revenues, debts in Saint-Domingue and France, and a list of property and assets, including enslaved people considered personal property of the family. Although the document is not dated, it is believed to have originated after 1807, the year that Louis Rene Adrien Dugas de Vallon died. The document is handwritten in French.
  
  Identifier:   ms4245  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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45 Title:   Mayo G. Livingston Jr. collection of land and legal records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Livingston, Mayo G., Jr.  
  Dates:   1823-2020  
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This collection contains land grants, legal and estate documents, correspondence, inventories and receipts. The majority of records concern land in Early County, Bainbridge and Cyrene, Georgia.
  
  Identifier:   ms4486  
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46 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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47 Title:   Bills of sale for enslaved people, Pompey (50) and Milly (13)  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia. Superior Court (Clarke County)  
  Dates:   1848, 1850  
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The collection consists of two bills of sale to John C. Greer: dated Clarke County, Georgia, January 4, 1848, for enslaved man, Pompey, who belonged to the estate of James Jennings, for $185.00; dated Clarke County, Georgia, February 5, 1850, for enslaved woman, Milly, sold to satisfy a mortgage claim of Edward P. Clayton on Philip Clayton, for $550.00.
  
  Identifier:   ms535  
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48 Title:   Letter -- J. Young to Jonathan Burroughs  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Young, J.  
  Dates:   1836 September 3  
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The collection consists of one letter from J. Young to Jonathan Burroughs
  
  Identifier:   ms594  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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49 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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50 Title:   Seaborn J. Mays papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Mays, Seaborn J., d. 1883  
  Dates:   1824-1879  
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The collection consists of receipted bills, promissory notes, and tax receipts of Seaborn J. Mays,including a bill of sale for an enslaved man named Phil, purchased from Thomas R. R. Cobb by Mays, and an enslaved woman named Caroline. A fi fa against William Moon for a dept owed to Mays. Also included is a record book of the Athens Benevolent Society.
  
  Identifier:   ms803  
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51 Title:   Broadside collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Hargrett Library  
  Dates:   1710s-2014  
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This collection consists of broadsides and other printed ephemera that were purchased or pulled from Hargrett collections. Topics include advertisements, acts and laws, theater, publishing, railroads, and economics.
  
  Identifier:   ms4299  
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52 Title:   Michael Dennis account book  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Dennis, Michael  
  Dates:   1855-1867  
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The collection consists of an account book of Michael Dennis for his general store, sawmill, and grist mill in Eatonton, Georgia from 1855-1867.
  
  Identifier:   ms165  
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53 Title:   Mary Barnard Nix collection  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Nix, Mary Barnard  
  Dates:   1807-1911  
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The collection consists of a variety of material inherited by Mary Barnard Nix which dates from 1807-1911. Includes correspondence, land grants, legal documents, Confederate money, a scrapbook, and two notebooks. Many of the land records relate to Mary Poythress and Francis A. Poythress who married Caroline (Carrie) Ware. After the death of Francis Poythress, Carrie marred John Thomas Gay who died in 1865. Of particular interest are Civil War letters by Eugene Ware and John T. Gay, who served in the 4th Georgia Infantry Regiment and T.K. Coleman (unit unknown).
  
  Identifier:   ms20  
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54 Title:   Rebecca Foy diaries  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Foy, Rebecca  
  Dates:   1778-1864, 1933, 1936  
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The collection consists of two diaries kept by Rebecca Foy consisting of handwritten accounts of marriages, births, deaths, illnesses, and remedies for illnesses and nosebleeds. The earliest birth recorded is "Anne Dasher, born Sept. 21, 1778." The final entry ("My ducks began to lay"), dated 1864. The collection also includes Book I – Vol. I, dated 1936, titled Fay Family of Effingham County, Georgia. Assorted family papers include: Biography of Edward Edwin Foy (1842-1907), written by Eloise Eugenia Foy Ward; one letter dated Jan. 31, 1933, addressed to Mrs. Ella Cordona, regarding a letter she had written attempting to locate George Foy, who had enslaved Cordona; and miscellaneous handwritten accounts of births and deaths of Foy family descendants. The diaries mention the purchase of the following enslaved people: Reuben, 1853, age 9; Jake, 1853; Lawrence, 1855; Elbert, 1855, age 12; Monroe and Sam, 1856; Stephen, 1856, age 10; Sam, 1857; Lewis, 1857, age 12. There is also mention of a few incidents of 'runaways' between 1858 and 1861.
  
  Identifier:   ms2787  
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55 Title:   Agreement between Angus McQueen and Ellen  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Ellen  
  Dates:   1864-1865  
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The collection consists of a bill of sale from Savannah, Georgia for the purchase of an enslaved woman, Ellen, and her child, Caroline, and an agreement made between Ellen and Angus McQueen. The bill of sale shows that Jackson Hodges paid $3,700 dollars to Samuel Hauser. The bill of sale also notes that Ellen has a burn. A year later after the end of the Civil War, an indenture agreement was made between Angus McQueen of Montgomery County, Georgia and the "now freed woman," Ellen. In the agreement, Ellen agrees to continue working on McQueen's plantation. McQueen "promises and agrees to feed, clothe, and give medical attention to" Ellen and her child. These terms are considered to be Ellen's "just compensation for the labor performed." McQueen agrees to these terms as long as Ellen "will obey all orders" and "will be respectful, submissive, and obedient."
  
  Identifier:   ms4146  
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56 Title:   Carhart and Roff letterpress copybook  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Carhart, Elijah H., 1827-1885  
  Dates:   1853-1886  
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This collection contains one letterpress copybook of the Carhart and Roff merchant company containing business correspondence between March 25th and September 1st, 1858, as well as two original letters dated March 8, 1853 and September 6, 1886. The letters discuss shipments, payments, and remittance of goods traded around Georgia and Savannah in particular. In addition a few letters to plantations mention enslaved people.
  
  Identifier:   ms4337  
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57 Title:   C. Mildred Thompson papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Thompson, C. Mildred (Clara Mildred), 1881-1975  
  Dates:   1786-1838, 1937-1938  
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The collection consists of papers collected by Clara Mildred Thompson. Early papers include correspondence and depositions relating to Native American depredations in Georgia from 1786-1838. Letters, addressed mainly to Georgia governors, are from citizens who discuss Native American raids and violence to settlers. Correspondents include Joshua Inman, John Twiggs, Caleb Howell, Jared Irwin, Elijah Clarke, Benjamin Hawkins, John Clark, Stephen Hawkins, and C. Stephens. Depositions are of Abram Mordecai, John Burnett, Owen Bowen, Henry Carvel, Nathaniel Howell, and Isaac Green. The collection also consists of letters from Margaret Mitchell to C. Mildred Thompson from 1937-1938. Letters discuss Mitchell's admiration of Thompson's "Reconstruction of Georgia," her desire to meet the author, and Thompson's request for information about the Ku Klux Klan.
  
  Identifier:   ms606  
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58 Title:   Jackson County court records  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Georgia. Superior Court (Jackson County)  
  Dates:   1787-1924  
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The collection consists of loose papers numbering several thousand official court records of Jackson County, Georgia. Included in these records are bonds, petitions, fi fas, pleas, and wills.
  
  Identifier:   ms68  
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59 Title:   Isaiah T. Irvin, Sr. will  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Irvin, Isaiah T., Sr.  
  Dates:   1856 October  
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The collection consists of the last will and testament of Isaiah T. Irvin, Senior of Wilkes County, Georgia
  
  Identifier:   ms859  
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60 Title:   Andrew Maybank Jones family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Jones, Andrew Maybank  
  Dates:   1803-1874, 1939  
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The collection consists of papers of Andrew Maybank Jones and Jones family members from 1803-1874. Materials relating to Andrew Maybank Jones include correspondence, reports of the University of Georgia, bills of sale of enslaved persons, promissory notes, a prayer book, and an account book of Jones's plantations. Further correspondence are between Charles West and Joseph Jones, Joseph Jones and Charlton Hines, W. Fleming and Captain Joseph Jones, and Mrs. Electra Dodge and Mary Ann Dodge. The collection also includes records of cotton sales for Joseph Jones, Confederate States of America money, and newspaper clippings concerning the Confederacy.
  
  Identifier:   ms1289  
  Repository:   Hargrett Library  
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