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Burke County legal records & correspondence
This collection is comprised of miscellaneous legal records and correspondence relating to individuals and families in Burke County, Georgia. The majority of documents relate to the buying and selling of real estate, and includes deeds, trust deeds, and plot maps describing property lines. Also included are indentures, and letters related to these legal arrangements.
Miscellaneous legal papers
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
Reminiscences of the Old South
Reminiscences of Old South, a typed speech by an unkown author. Some poems included.
Richmond County slave records
Records of individuals owning enslaved persons. Many records note the names of the enslaved persons.
Slave bills of sale and inventory
One document, dated Augusta, Apri 26 1834, records a payment of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for 5 slaves; Richard - 15 years old,Tabby and her three children, a boy [?roy] - seven years, a girl Laura - five years, and a boy [suckling] James, from L.B. [Morrisore] to B.B. Miller. One document, dated 1840, no location. [Leaving] to S.A. [ ] Memorandum of Negro [ ] for 1840. A list of names and prices are given. Both items are affixed to mats.
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