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The collection consists of the papers of Thomas Carr and his son, William A. Carr of Columbia County, Georgia from 1730-1891.
Includes correspondence, bills, receipts, land grants, court records, bonds, and slave records. The account records include
food, clothes, construction supplies, medical care, household goods, travel, church membership, and other goods. Materials
mainly related to late 18th and early 19th century land speculation in Camden County (Ga.), Augusta (Richmond County), and
Virginia, Yazoo purchase, and northeast Georgia. Correspondents include William Few, Ignatius Few, John Beddingfield (Bedingfield),
Oliver Towles, Seaborn Jones, Edward Telfair, Mordecai Sheftall, George Stubblefield, Richard Call, Jacob Weed, William Glascock,
James Jackson, Nicholas Ware, William Crawford, Black Point and Kiokee plantations.
Also includes some material relating to William Low (Mrs. Carr's grandson by her first husband). A portion of the correspondence
is with Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer at Chalky Level Plantation.
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