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Miscellaneous legal papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-006

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

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

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