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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  
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43 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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44 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  
  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:   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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47 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  
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48 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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49 Title:   Account sheets of sales of enslaved persons  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1802  
  Contents:  
No description available
  
  Identifier:   ms2120  
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50 Title:   Tax list for Georgia counties  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Unknown  
  Dates:   1900-1950  
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The collection consists of a bound manuscript containing listings of taxes for Georgia counties. Counties included are Appling, Baker, Bulloch, Carroll, Cherokee, Coweta, Decatur, Dooly, Early, Effingham, Emmanuel, Fayette, Franklin, Habersham, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jefferson, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Meriwether, Montgomery, Muscogee, Rabun, Screven, Stewart, Tattnall, Telfair, Thomas, Twiggs, Walker, Wayne, Ware and Wilkinson. The manuscript is seventy-seven pages, but pages 7-18 and 47-54 are missing.
  
  Identifier:   ms2134  
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51 Title:   Godwise, Ludlow, and Company vs. Benjamin and John Brown (Agenoria ship records)  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Agenoria (Brig)  
  Dates:   1797-1798  
  Contents:  
No description available
  
  Identifier:   ms2114  
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52 Title:   Affidavit regarding importation and sale of enslaved people  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Savannah (Ga.)  
  Dates:   1801 July 3, August 26  
  Contents:  
No description available
  
  Identifier:   ms2599  
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53 Title:   Battle family papers (Marion County, Ga.)  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Battle family  
  Dates:   1818-1878  
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The collection consists of documents related to the Battle family (Marion County, Georgia) including a promise of payments, a list containing names of enslaved people, the will of Joseph J. Battle of Marion County, and two indentures.
  
  Identifier:   ms2677  
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54 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 that itemizes number of enslaved persons plus items of land, cattle, sheep, hogs, wagons, and carriage
  
  Identifier:   ms2739  
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55 Title:   Jennie Smith letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Way, William  
  Dates:   1852-1884  
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The collection consists of correspondence written to Jennie (Emily Jane) Smith from family, friends, and soldiers in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Georgia, from 1852-1884. Correspondence regards family news, social events, Quaker farm life, marriages, and deaths. Some letters regard marriage proposals and matchmaking for Jennie. Smith's uncle, William Way, in Pennsylvania, writes about his views on marriage, causes of the Civil War, slavery and Abolitionism, and post-war problems.
  
  Identifier:   ms3155  
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56 Title:   Ernestine Strong Alberti family letters  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Alberti, Ernestine Strong, 1811-  
  Dates:   1840-1845  
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The collection consists of letters from Ernestine Strong Alberti and her husband, Edwin R. Alberti, to their family members in Binghamton, New York. Correspondence describes their lives in Georgia, including the acquisition of enslaved people to labor on their newly acquired plantation and mill. The collection also includes letters from Cyrus Strong, Jr., Ernestine's brother, and her husband's business partner, to John Clapp.
  
  Identifier:   ms3539  
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57 Title:   Johnston family papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Johnston family  
  Dates:   1836-1862  
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The collection consists of papers of the Malcolm Johnston family. Included are correspondences; two small account books; and Certificate no. 2457, for the purchase of a tract of land in Montgomery, Alabama, by Arthur B. Davis of Muscogee, Georgia. The collection also includes documents concerning enslaved people perceived to be property of the Johnston family: bill of sales for enslaved persons received by Richard Johnston; wills of Malcolm Johnston and E. L. Johnston; "List of property belonging to M. Johnston," listing 800 acres of land, and the name, sex, age, and monetary value of enslaved people
  
  Identifier:   ms1629  
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58 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 Confederate fort on Jekyll Island, plans to make Saint Simons Island a self-supporting colony, enslaved persons, the Pierce Butler estate, the plantation of T. Butler King, the abandoned estate of James Hamilton Couper, a visit to Frederica, and orders regarding Commander Sylvanus Godon.
  
  Identifier:   ms3430  
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59 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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60 Title:   Malcolm Bell's Major Butler's Legacy papers  Requires cookie*
  Creator:   Bell, Malcolm, 1913-2001  
  Dates:   1974-1997  
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This collection contains research notes, drafts, illustrations, and correspondence regarding Malcom Bell's publication of his book Major Butler's Legacy.
  
  Identifier:   ms4170  
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