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- Expense records kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826
- Expenses include food, supplies, and pack horses; room and board; ferriage; and labor and services (for example, washing and shoeing horses, or "Cherokee man to show the Cherokee line"). Transcripts are included.
- 2011-10-12
- Report from the Georgia representatives of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission, describing their activities and route from Milledgeville on June 26 to Nickajack on August 17.
- 1826-07-26
- The commissioners discuss the towns through which they traveled; the points marked on the proposed boundary line; and the landscape in northeastern Alabama and northwestern Georgia. They also refer to the conflict between themselves and the...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Governor George M. Troup in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Joel Crawford, Richard Blount, and E. Hamilton of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-08-30
- In the letter Troup discusses the conflict between Georgia and Alabama over the boundary, including the extra commissioner Alabama appointed. He approves the report that Crawford, Blount, and Hamilton submitted; warns that they "will have to...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Thomas H. Terrell in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, to John D. Terrell in Marion County, Alabama.
- 1835-07-15
- In the letter Thomas discusses sickness in the area; the death of a couple of relatives from the disease; and the unnecessary expense of current lifestyles: "We live in a world of exstravegancy [sic] of dress & eating which cant [sic] be kept up...
- 2009-06-25
- Letters from Littleton W. Tazewell in Norfolk, Virginia, to Henry Semple and others in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1848-06-29
- After the nomination of Lewis Cass as the Democratic candidate for president in 1848, a committee of men from Alabama asked Tazewell to run against him. In the first letter, Tazewell declines the invitation, though he also disagrees with the...
- 2011-05-24
- "No Removal of the Capital."
- 1861-05-22
- This article refutes rumors that the Confederate capital will be moved from Montgomery, Alabama to Richmond, Virginia, mentioning the expense and loss of stability such a move would cause: "We can hardly conceive that a body composed as is the...
- 2010-01-25
- Letter from Captain Henry Semple to Major General Simon Buckner.
- 1864-03
- During the Civil War, Semple served as a captain of an artillery battery organized in Montgomery (known as Semple's Battery). He was later appointed a major and transferred to Mobile. In the letter he reports the misconduct of another captain:...
- 2011-07-06
- Sharecropping contract between James G. Tait and Thomas Hill, a freedman.
- 1868-00-00
- In the contract Tait rents a piece of his land in Wilcox County, Alabama, to Hill for a year: "...Hill is permitted to clear land & build houses, without expense to said Tait excepting nails & flooring." In exchange, Tait will receive one-fourth of...
- 2010-11-12