Ernestine Strong Alberti family letters

Descriptive Summary
Title: Ernestine Strong Alberti family letters
Creator: Alberti, Ernestine Strong, 1811-
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1845
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 folder(s)
Collection Number: ms3539
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Scope and Content

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.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Ernestine Strong Alberti family letters, ms3539, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2016.

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Correspondence, 1840-1845

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to Eliza Strong, 1840 December 2

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her sister, "Mrs. John Clapp", 1841 April 14

Sent from "St. Mary's" to Binghamton, New York

From E. R. Alberti (with a post script by Ernestine Alberti) to John Clapp, 1841 December 16

Sent from St. Mary's, Georgia to Binghamton, New York

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her sister, "Mrs. John Clapp", 1842 January

Sent from Woodstock, Georgia to Binghamton, New York.

Ernestine describes "housekeeping" duties, including managing labor of unnamed enslaved people. Also describes establishing, "my school for the negroes." "We all black and white ... assemble on Sunday mornings in our parlor, have prayers ... in the afternoon, we are to have the school"

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her niece and nephew -- addressed to "Mister Cyrus S. Clapp", 1842 May 14

Sent from St. Mary's, Georgia to Binghamton, New York.

Names an enslaved person, Maria. Also describes a party hosted for a young white boy, where two enslaved people played music. "Two negroes one with a fiddle & the other with a 'Banjo,' played for them ... the negroes of the house and some of the neighboring ones, taking advantage of the music and [with] Mrs. Wooley's permission, danced the whole evening"

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her sister, "Mrs. John Clapp", 1842 June 20

Sent from Woodstock, Georgia to Binghamton, New York

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her sister, "Mrs. John Clapp", 1842 August 25 - 29

Sent from Woodstock, Georgia to Binghamton, New York

From Cyrus Strong to John Clapp, 1843 January 9

From E. R. Alberti to John Clapp, 1843 March 9

From Ernestine Strong Alberti to her sister, "Mrs. John Clapp", 1843 March 30

From Cyrus Strong to John Clapp, 1844 March 29

Addressed to Binghamton, New York, from Woodstock, Georgia.

Discusses planting of rice crop by enslaved people. And names an enslaved newborn baby, Lucy

From Cyrus Strong to John Clapp, 1845 April 8

Describes business activities in Georgia.

Names a man, Patherick [Patrick], to be "retained to attend" to matters of gardening in Binghamton.