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Leatherbound notebook containing the manuscript diary and cash accounts ledger of an unnamed itinerant Baptist minister, active in the American Southeast. Diary entries describe visits to locations in Florida, including Crawfordville, ...
The notebook is a small book consisting of 33 leaves (6 blank) and 7 partial leaves. The major portion contains business transactions between Lewis Gregory and various other persons whose names or family names are found in early Gadsden...
Typed transcription of the original manuscript will of John Hollingsworth. This will contains the names of enslaved people and their children and outlines how to divide enslaved people amongst inheritors along with financial valuations.
Biographical notes on Gamble Family members including Maj. Robert Gamble, Col. Robert Howard Gamble, Dr. Cary Breckenridge Gamble, Angelica E. Gamble, and James Brecenridge Gamble.
No. 68 "Necessity of being always prepared for death"
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For the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. St. Mark, 13ch. 33. to 36v. "Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is. For the Son of man is as [?]. Being from the Second Lesson[?] from the morning.
Accounts page, U.S. Marshal sale of lands in Wakulla County, Florida
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An accounts page about the title of George W. Ladd of Bangor, Maine, to lands in Wakulla County, Florida, purchased at U.S. Marshal sale which is undated.
Ledger for payments in kind from May Williams, Noble Roberts, William Denmark, Luke Ammons, Henry Merrit, Wylie Hawkins, Charles Fottman, and Henderson Lawrence for cotton, coin, or hay paying rent. Some of these names appear throughout...
Typed copy of letter by Mr. M. C. Stephens to his daughter, Sarah, at Newburn, North Carolina. Mr. Stephens came to Florida and acquired a plantation at Rosanna, near Quincy, Florida, and was in the process of building a house which he...
Death, and eternal life. On Roms. 6ch. & 23v. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gifts of God, [For serving his in eternal life] is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Being post[?] for the Epistle for that Day.
Manuscript documenting F.A. Byrd’s purchase of an enslaved woman, Jane, aged 25, her 3 year old child Augustus, and her unnamed 7-month old child for $1, 050 in Tallahassee, Florida.
Manuscript quitclaim or bill of sale by John Brett, Jr., Jackson County, Florida, January 18, 1848 to William Damiel. The instrument was notarized by "acting Justice of the Peace, Lunday, witnesses by Sarah Daniel and F. G. Lunday....
Division of Robert K. Shaw's estate probate in Gadsden County, Florida. Valued the total 47 enslaved people at $29, 275. Split into 3 lots "as nearly as could be done without separating families..." Names and ages of enslaved people...
"The lightness of Present sufferings compared with future glory." On Romans 8ch. 18. [?] that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that should[?] be [?] in us." Being post[?] of the Epistle for...
Incomplete original manuscript will of John Hollingsworth. This will contains the names of enslaved people and their children and outlines how to divide enslaved people amongst inheritors along with financial valuations.
United State Senate Vote regarding Slavery in Territorial Florida
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Manuscript of a contemporary copy of the Senate Journal, page 169, undated and unsigned, concerning the Senate's vote on March 6, 1822, regarding slavery in territorial Florida. "No slave or slaves shall, directly or indirectly, be...
Documentation of Bradford's business practices including those pertaining to cotton sales, the purchase of enslaved people and other business transactions.
For the Tenth Sunday after Trinity. On I Coriths. 12c. 6v. And there are[?] diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all." Being post of the Epistle for that Day.
The Day Book from R.F. Van Brunt’s store in the Iamonia Community documents the quotidian financial transactions of the store and its customers, many of whom sharecropped on Van Brunt’s plantation. The Day Book shows documentation about...
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