Miscellaneous legal papers
Scope and Contents
Collection includes: slave bills of sale, Georgia land deeds; including Cherokee, Wilkes, Richmond, Columbia, Greene, Wilkinson, Jefferson, Burke, Screven, Washington, and Early Counties, and cities Augusta and Savannah, South Carolina land deeds; including Edgefield, Granville, Effingham, Barnwell, and Aiken Counties and Beech Island and Newberry District, Georgia Legal Papers, South Carolina Legal Papers, and Confederate and Military Papers
Dates
- Created: 1732-1922
- Other: Majority of material found in 1800-1893
- Other: Date acquired: 02/14/1978
Conditions Governing Access
Use of digital surrogates encouraged when available. The collection has no restrictions unless the Special Collections Librarian or their representative deems otherwise due to preservation concerns. Copies can be made by flashless digital photography
Conditions Governing Use
This work identified by University Libraries Augusta University is free of known copyright restrictions
Biographical or Historical Information
It is assumed that these documents were transferred from the Museum of Augusta History sometime in the 1970’s. Documents have since been stored in no discernable order and are described here as found in the boxes. Number identification is retained and assumed to have been assigned by the Museum. Some of these items may also be identified as oversize Langdon Papers.
Note written by Carol Waggoner-Angleton
Extent
4.00 boxes
Language
English
Arrangement Note
Items are arranged in boxes by type of housing in numerical order. Boxes one and two contain items that are housed in file folders. Box 3 contains items that are housed in two-flap folders. Box 4 contains items that are housed in four-flap folders. Three items are housed in the map cases.
Source of Acquisition
Augusta Richmond County Museum
Method of Acquisition
This material was donated to Reese Library Special Collections, Augusta University by the Augusta Richmond County Museum on February 14, 1978. Acc# 1978.11
- Aiken County (S.C.)
- Atkinsons District (Ga.)
- Barnwell County (S.C.)
- Beech Island (S.C.)
- Burke County (Ga.)
- Butts County (Ga.)
- Chatham County (Ga.)
- Cherokee County (Ga.)
- Columbia County (Ga.)
- Confederate States of America
- Coweta County (Ga.)
- DeKalb County (Ga.)
- Early County (Ga.)
- Edgefield County (S.C.)
- Edgefield District (S.C.)
- Effingham County (Ga.)
- Fayette County (Ga.)
- Granville County (S.C.)
- Greene County (Ga.)
- Jefferson County (Ga.)
- Johnson's District
- Lexington District (S.C.)
- Lincoln County (Ga.)
- Matthews District Jefferson County (Ga.)
- McLinn's District (Ga.)
- Newberry District (S.C.)
- Ogeechee River (Ga.)
- Old Town Augusta (Ga.)
- Richmond County (Ga.)
- Saint Paul's Parish (Ga.)
- Savannah (Ga.)
- Screven County (Ga.)
- Slave records--United States.
- South Carolina--Militia.
- Stevens Creek Columbia County (Ga.)
- Washington County (Ga.)
- Wilkes County (Ga.)
- slavery--Georgia--Augusta region
- Title
- Inventory of the Miscellaneous legal papers
- Author
- Carol Waggoner-Angleton, Owen Angleton
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Reese Library Archives Repository