1. Correspondence, 1813-1910, undated box folder Request box 1 1 Peter Keith regarding payment and British Chesapeake Campaign (War of 1812), 1813 1 2 Peter Keith regarding payment, illness, and political situation, 1815 1 3 Peter Keith's death from yellow fever, 1817 1 4 Estate of Robert Jones, 1833 1 5 Indenture between David and Susan James and Isham Keith; payment to Isham Keith from Marshall Keith, 1836 1 6 Business letters, 1840
Includes mention of the Panic of 1837 and continuing financial crisis 1 7 1841 Letter from P. H. Delane to William Jones regarding enslaved people, 1841 November 9 1 8 Business and family correspondence, 1842
Includes a letter on treating Bleeding Piles. 1 9 Business and family correspondence, 1843 1 10 Business and family correspondence, 1844
Includes a bill of sale for an enslaved gift named Minta. Letter from Thomas A. Keith to William Jones regarding a bill of sale for an enslaved woman named Minta, 1843 April 27 1 11 Business and family correspondence, 1845
Includes correspondence with John Wilkinson (Triana, Alabama) and Isham Keith to William Jones 1 12 Business and family correspondence, 1846
Includes a letter from Philip Delane who is accused of stealing a slave. Several letters about cotton seed. 1 13 Business and family correspondence, 1848 1 14 Land to Elizabeth Gardner in Columbia County , 1849 1 15 Business and family correspondence, 1850 1 16 Business and family correspondence, 1851
Includes letters from Sarah Jones at school; mention of small pox and vaccination 1 17 Letters from Sarah Jones, 1852 1 18 Business correspondence, 1853 1 19 1854 1 20 1857 1 21 1860 1 22 Letters from Charles at 96 Reg. Penna Vol. Headquarters, 1862 1 23 Letter from W. F. Berry, 1863 1 24 Letters from Frank in Washington, D.C., 1864 1 25 Letters from Frank and others, 1865 1 26 1866 1 27 1867 1 28 1868 1 29 Court summons, 1870 1 30 1871 1 31 [missing], 1872 1 32 1874 1 33 1877 1 34 How can we bets promote the Temperance Reforms?, 1880 1 35 1881 1 36 1882 1 37 1883 1 38 1884 1 39 1885 1 40 1887 1 41 1888 1 42 1889 box folder Request box 2 1 1890 2 2 1891 2 3 1892 2 4 1893 2 5 1894 2 6 1895 2 7 1896 2 8 1897 2 9 1898 2 10 1899 2 11 1900 2 12 1901 box folder Request box 3 1 1902 3 2 1903 3 3 1904 3 4 1905 3 5 1906 3 6 1907 3 7 1908 3 8 1910 3 9 Undated 3 10 Fragments
3. Financial records box folder Request box 5 1 Marshall Keith - tax receipt, 1813 5 2 Ann Jones - tax receipt, 1815 5 3 Cotton sales, 1816 5 4 Estate of Peter G. Keith including bill for coffin, sexton, washing at quarantine ground, 1817 5 5 Estate of Peter Keith, 1818 5 6 Estate of Peter Keith, 1819 5 7 Purchase of bay horse, 1833 5 8 Estate of Peter Keith, 1836 5 9 Estate of Peter Keith, 1837 5 10 List of personal property and shipping expenses List of property including number of enslaved people, 1838 Mentions enslaved persons Expenses for shipping goods from New York and Augusta 5 11 1839 5 12 Receipts for shipping, 1840 5 13 Receipts for shipping, cloth, and taxes, 1841 5 14 Receipts for cotton, daughters at County Line Academy, shipping, and cancelled checks, 1842 5 15 Financial documents, receipts, 1843 Accounts -- William Jones to Baker and Hart, 1844 Mentions purchase of shoes for an enslaved man named Jim Receipt of payment --William Jones to H. Young, 1844 Payment for one year of service as an overseer [enslaver] 5 16 1844 5 17 Financial documents, estate records, receipts, and others Includes receipts for County Line Academy; estate of Marshall Keith; receipts for cotton, cloth, buggy repairs Accounts payable -- estate of Marshall Keith to James Clanton and G. W. Crawford, 1846 Mentions transfer of an enslaved woman Matilda and her two children, Albert and Siber 5 18 Receipts for cotton and bacon, 1846 5 19 1847 5 20 Includes a check to the Washington Lodge, IOOF, Augusta; miscellaneous receipts, 1849 5 21 1850 5 22 1851 5 23 1852 5 24 1853 5 25 Financial documents, receipts, and others, 1854 William Jones to J. W. E. Bealle for hire of an enslaved man named Ceasar, 1854 William Jones to A. Amaker, 1854 Payment for one year of service as an overseer [enslaver] 5 26 1855 5 27 1856 5 28 1857 5 29 1858 5 30 1859 5 31 1860 5 32 1861 5 33 1862 5 34 1865 5 35 Includes cotton sales, Richmond Factory, grocers, and National Bank of Augusta cancelled checks, 1866 5 36 1867 5 37 1869 5 38 1870 5 39 1871 5 40 1872 5 41 1873 5 42 1874 box folder Request box 6 1 1875 6 2 1876 6 3 1877 6 4 1878 6 5 1879 6 6 1880 6 7 1881 6 8 1882 6 9 1883 6 10 1884 6 11 1885 6 12 1886 6 13 1887 6 14 1888 6 15 1889 6 16 1890 6 17 1891 6 18 1892 6 19 1893 6 20 1894 6 21 1895 6 22 1896 6 23 1897 6 24 1898 6 25 1899 6 26 1900 6 27 1901 6 28 1902 6 29 1906 6 30 1907 6 31 1908 6 32 1909 6 33 1910 6 34 Undated box folder Request box 7 1 Ledger, 1856-1888 Includes financial and harvesting information, hiring of enslaved persons, drafts of agreements with freed persons, land rents, list of poor soldiers families 7 2 1866-1868 7 3 1863-1894 7 4 1880-1886
4. Legal documents box folder Request box 7 5 Crop Lien 1872 7 6 Freedmen contract between John McSeed/Wade Glover and W. H. Jones, Columbia County, 1879 Access Online 7 7 Guardianship papers (Judith Keith.) 7 8 Insurance policy 7 9 Invitations 7 10 Keith, Marshall. (Estate papers) Receipt for hiring an enslaved blacksmith named Henry, 1842 Receipt for Marshall Keith estate sale for enslaved people [unnamed], 1842 Receipt for enslaved persons -- from William Jones and Turner Clanton to John Keith and Joseph Keith, 1842 January 15 7 11 Land papers 7 12 Miscellaneous 7 13 Guardianship papers for Isham Keith, Jr. and James Keith, 1841 7 14 Walton, Whann, & Co's pocket book diary and calendar, 1873 7 15 Road Overseer Commission appointing W. H. Jones as overseer of Washington Road from Haws Gate to Reds Creek 7 16 Financial papers and letters of Ishmael, Minny, and Elizabeth Keith, freed people of color, 1843-1851 Access Online
Ishmael, and his sisters Minny and Elizabeth, were enslaved by Marshall Keith and freed at his death. The letters document their lives in Ohio Receipt on bank stock dividends -- William Jones to Edward Keith (Old Ned), 1842 November 7 Receipt on bank stock dividends -- Executors of Marshall Keith to Thornton Keith, 1844 April 13 Signed for Thornton by Ishmael Keith. Four hundred and forty dollars in full of five shares Letter -- from Thornton Keith and Lucy Keith (and possibly other family members) to William Jones, 1843 October 18 From Cincinnati, Ohio. Thornton and Lucy (and others) send regards and news back to William Jones and others in Georgia. William Jones is a member of the Keith family by marriage. The Keith family are the former enslavers of Thornton and Lucy Keith, and other related people who relocated to southern Ohio after being manumitted or otherwise released from slavery Receipt of shares of Mechanics bank stock, 1843 October 3 To Minny Keith from Turner Clanton, one of the executors of the estate of Marshall Keith Amount of Commissions from Dividends ("Paid on the Negroes Bank Stock"), 1842 Amount of commissions is $586.70. Specifically names Minny Keith Letter -- affidavit of Ishmael Keith, authorizing executors to sell his land in Georgia on his behalf, 1844 April 17 "Being desirous of concentrating all of my interest in the State where I reside, it is my wish that you, (the executors of my late owner Mr. M Keith decsd) would make titles to Mr. Wm Jones, or his representative, for all the land left to you in trust for me; being Two hundred [and] Seventy Six acres, lying on the east side of the Furies [?] Ferry road" Letter -- from Edward (Old Ned) Keith to William Jones, 1844 April 20 "I have now a better opportunity of giving you further accounts of this Country than I had in other letter. This climate is two colde for me I wants to come back to Georgia again and bring my family if I could be permitted to return."Despite descriptions in this letter, Ned does not return Georgia Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1844 August 10 Ishmael sends regards to the Jones family (and enslaved people of the plantation) in Georgia, describing his present circumstances and the circumstances of other Ohio Keith family members. "... the rainy season continued so long that the wheat crops has been cut short in our section of the country at least two thirds in other parts they estimate half crops in Indiana and the Northern parts of this state the crops will be an entire failure ... I shall therefore make Cincinnati my future home if I should be compelled to remain in this state."Mentions Minny, his mother [Nancy], and the health of Old Ned.Discusses financial business. "I shall conclude by asking you to remember my love to the Doctor and family like wise to all friends in part of the world both white and Black" Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1844 December 2 Discusses financial matters."I wanted you to have those notes that I left with you collected. If you has not collected them you will be so kind as to have them collected as early as you possibly can and to transmit it on to me as soon as you can and also the dividend that has been declared on our Bank Stock, and likewise what the balance you may have in your hands of mine after paying over Sister Minny's portion" Receipt -- one hundred shares on the Mechanics Bank stock , 1844 December 28 Received of Turner Clanton one of the executors of Marshal Keith, signed Minny Keith Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1845 January 18 "Dear Sir, your favor of the first Containing a check on New York for 875 dollars and 68 3/4 cents was duly rcd on the 11. I am thankful to you for putting yourself to the trouble to collect those Notes"Again states desire to have more direct control of his bank stocks, beyond powers of the executors. "It is a Matter of importance to Me to know how or what the consequences would be relative to my Bank Stock if either or all of the [executors] were to die as I was subject to their Executor attorneys" Receipt for dividends, shares of the Mechanics Bank Stock of Augusta, 1845 April 19 to Ishmael Keith. Total amount of dividends is $685 (for a period of six months) Shares of the Mechanic's Bank Stock -- to Minny Keith, 1845 May 1 from Turner Clanton one of the Executors to the Will of Marshall Keith Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1845 August 12 Discusses financial matters, intention to sell shares of bank stock. Mentions finished construction of Miami-Erie Canal. Describes facts of family members in Ohio, and requests information of people in Georgia Receipt, shares of Bank Stock, 1845 October 29 "Received of William Jones of Columbia Georgia by check six hundred seventy seven dollars [and] sixty seven cents in full for dividend declared on our Bank Stock this Oct day 180 shares" Letter -- from Henry H. Cumming to William Jones , 1846 May 23 on behalf of legal entitlements of Minny Keith Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1848 May 23 Describes creating legal written "instruments" to authorize William Jones to sell land and also possibly the enslaved person Hannibal"Dear Sir I received your letter of the 20 yesterday requesting me to make out an instrument of writing [and] send it there soon as I could, I have had an instrument drawn up relative to the land" Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1848 April 15 Describes sending legal doucments (deeds) to William Jones. Describes legal proceedings in contest with "Hiller [or Hibler ?] and Lance" Affidavit -- A relinquishment from the Heirs at law in Virginia, 1848 July 17 "The undersigned, heirs at law, of the late Marshall Keith deceased, of Columbia County in the state of Georgia, being willing that his executors may speedily conclude this administration by paying the remnant of the estate of said deceased now in their hand devised to certain free persons of color residing in the state of Ohio ..."Signed:
Mary P. Keith
Fanny R. Keith
Isham Keith senior
Harriet Plinker [?]
Susan G. James
David James
Judith Keith
James Payne
John W. Payne
Judith S Payne Letter -- Ishmael Keith to G. W. Crawford, 1848 December 25 "Dear Sir I hope you will perceive that I can appreciate a favor done for me. I have ever had every confidence in you and the other Executors that you would conduct our affairs for us as good or in the best manner you could ... I have had such papers made out as your letter direct [crossed out]"Also describes weather and state of typhoid and scarlet fevers in Cincinnati Letter -- from Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1848 July 29 Describes state of crops, and previous correspondence. Also writes, "The Liberty party [and] the Van Buren party are holding meetings daily throughout the state it is thought that the contest will be between Mr. Van Buren [and] G Taylor" Affidavit -- sale of land and enslaved persons, 1843 April From Ishmael and Minny Keith authorizing sale of land and enslaved persons by their agent, William Jones. Includes enslaved people named Hannibal and Blance (bequethed to Ishmael and Minny by their former enslaver Marshall Keith) Affidavit -- Ishmael Keith, 1848 April "I Ishmael Keith now of Cincinnati Ohio formerly of Colombia county Georgia do by these presents declare that under the will of Marshall Keith late of said Colombia County here deceased that I the said Ishmael Keith did in April in the year 1843 at Colombia County Georgia apply to George Crawford, William Jones [and] Turner Clanton the acting and the only acting executors of said last will of Marshall Keith deceased to sell that certain tract of land devised to me by said testator lying in the East Side of Fury's Ferry road ..."Ishmael received $2,100 from William Jones Affidavit to sell shares of the stock of the Mechanic's Bank, 1848 July 29 Authorized by Ishmael Keith, Minny Keith, and Elizabeth Keith. 230 shares of stock Receipt -- payment in full of all bequests, moneys and other dues of estate of Marshall Keith, 1849 January 11 States amount received as $25,849.25. Signed by William Jones for Ishmael, Minny, and Elizabeth.Also writte in pencil, "say to Ishmael that the above check is the entire amount, not, after deducting commissions that is coming to him and sisters. Acknowledge the [receipt]" Receipt -- "all monies property and other benefits ... to which [Ishmael, Minny, and Elizabeth] have in law been entitled under the last will and testament of the said Marshall Keith", 1849 March 19 "... which sum of twenty-nine thousand and three hundred And thirty-eight dollars [and] seventy-five cents includes all monies paid out by the said Executors to counselors and attorneys at law ..."Signed, Ishmael Keith, Minny Keith, Elizabeth Keith Refunding Bond -- signed by Minny Keith, Ishmael Keith, and Elizabeth Keith [includes three versions, respective each person], 1848 December 23 "... if the heirs executors or administrators of either of said executors above named shall hereafter incur any damage trouble debt charge vexation or expense by or in consequence of the making of the payments already made or the making of their payments hereafter or the delivery of said property real or personal, then [Minny, Ishmael, or Elizabeth] ... shall and will fully repay, indemnify, pay, reimburse, and save wholly free and harmless each and every of said executors their heirs executors" Financial statement -- accounts relative the Will of Marshall Keith, 1849 "All the dividends in Bank Stock having been paid out ... before the authoring concerning the legality of the Will of Marshall Keith in September 1847 -- since then the following amounts have been received and disbursed ..."Final sum received by Minny, Ishmael, and Elizabeth Keith is $29,338.75 Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones, 1851 April 8 "Dear Sir you letter, containing a check for $28,000 was duly received. I feel much obliged to you for collecting it for I had given up all hopes of ever getting it."Also mentions travel of Sarafina [an enslaved woman] and her children to Ohio from Georgia Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones , 1851 May 14 Again describes travel of Sarafina and her children, and describes related documents of manumission. Also mentions Alfred, a member of the Ohio Keith family Letter -- from Alfred and Minny Keith to William Jones, 1851 November 5 Describes arrival of Sarafina and her children (and the theft of their clothes). Also mentions an enslaved boy, Anderson. "I would wish to know if there was any chance of getting that little boy Anderson; I would like to let me have all particulars in your next letter" Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones , 1851 November 17 Ishmael describes arrival of Sarafina and her children Promissory note -- F.H. Tompkins, Sarah Tompkins (and others) to William Jones, 1843 received by Ishmael Keith. Ishmael also writes to Jones, "if John Smith has payed up his note you can also send it on at the same time that you send the dividend" Letter -- Ishmael Keith to William Jones [date destroyed on page] Ishmael requests to purchase Ingraham, an elderly enslaved man considered property of William Jones."I therefore ask you if you will sell me Ingraham, he being much afflicted for several years past I don't think he can be of much force on a farm. Now I am in hopes you will do in this as you would be done by" 7 17 Two bills of sale for enslaved persons -- (1) to Marshall Keith from Harriet Keith and Isaac Hibler; (2) to Tarlton Keith from his portion of Judith Keith's "dower", 1836, 1840 Access Online 7 18 Receipt for "balance of the negroes corn and cotton" -- from Judith Keith to William P. Sarbrough, 1844 February 18 Access Online 7 19 Will of William Jones
