Scope and Contents This collection consists of meeting minutes, correspondence, drafts of legal papers, newspaper clippings, informational booklets, working papers, and other materials related to the Augusta-Richmond County Merger Charter Committee that attempted to merge the city of Augusta and Richmond County into a single governmental entity during the 1970s. The collection tracks the development of the strategic plan to merge the city with the county, along with vital documentation that tracks the major...

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Collection of dockets and ledgers documenting Augusta and Richmond County court operations bewtween 1792-1925.

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The collection is a combination of photocopied documents and original photographs  Material is in English and Dutch

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This collection is comprised of the personal papers of Boykin Wright. Collection materials include business, financial, and personal correspondence, financial records, legal records from Wright's work as a judge, as well as maps and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection is comprised of Wright's correspondence with family members, particuarly during WWI.

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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.

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This collection comprises of correspondence, financial and estate records, court case transcripts, and miscellaneous materials that document the life of Charles Jones Jenkins, former Attorney General and Govenor of Georgia during the Confederacy. Collection primarily consists of materials ranging between 1856 and 1879, with most materails covering the latter half of Jenkins' life until his death in 1883.

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This collection is comprised of materials relating to the Coleman and Catlett families, collected by Dr. Warren Soleman in the course of geneaolgical research into the families. Collection materials include financial records, legal documents, and correspondence from various members of the Catlett and Coleman families, as well as the later materials of Dr. Warren Coleman, including his geneaology research materials, and correspondence relating to his genealogical research.

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A collection of letters, degrees and certifications, legal and financial documents, and general paperwork of the Davenport family.

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Augusta-based court docket that contains common law, equity, appeal, motion, Garnishes, Claims & Illegality Courts. From 1869-1870.

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A City of Augusta court docket that documents criminal cases, dates, and actions of the court.

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An indenture between Eli D. Whitaker and the state/county in which Whitaker paid $200 for a plot of land in Sumter County, Sc.

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This collection comprises of official documentation, governement and financial documents, land deeds, research materials, photographs, and tours and events ledger book relating to the Augusta Richmond County Historical Society's rehabilitation and acquisition of the Ezekiel Harris House "White House".

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This collection is comprised of a single Georgia Revolutionary War Claim, dated 1836. The document is a retrospective account of Matthew St. Clair Clarke's case, in which he demands to be compensated for the extensive damanges to his hosuse and property during the Revolutionary War.

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A collection of four financial and legal documents related to the African American settlement of Hamburg, South Carolina.

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This collection is comprised of a single folder of materials related to the Harris family, especially Sophia Harris. Materials include correspondence, certificates, and legal documents.

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This collection is comprised of a single item: a land grant from the United States of America to Henry M. Bry and John H. Kellam in Ouachita, Louisiana.

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A brief collection of financial, legal, and personal documents from the life and career of Henry C. Roney and Philip Pearce.

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This collection is comprised of the single land deed conveying lots of land from John Milledge to Thomas Flournoy.

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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

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This collection is comprised of three items of miscellaneous ephemera: a postcard addressed to Miss Bettie Nichols (1886), a court summons for the commonwealth of Kentucky (1868), and a novelty $500 dollar bill produced as a tourism item by the Charleston, S.C. Chamber of Commerce.