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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
- Accounting records of the Oconee Navigation Association.
- Most of the reports were prepared by Richard Blount, a commissioner of the association who also served as treasurer for a time. Documents are arranged in loose chronological order. An incomplete transcript is included; records may not be presented...
- 2010-11-17
- Blank table for recording the guns and ammunition used in engagements.
- The table records the types of guns and ammunition used; the length of the fights; and casualties (soldiers, horses, and equipment).
- 2011-07-06
- Transcripts of military records related to the command of Brigadier Joseph Graham during the Creek War.
- 1814-05
- During the war Graham was a member of the North Carolina Militia in the 6th Military District; his forces participated in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The transcripts consist of military orders and correspondence between generals in the 6th and...
- 2009-09-04
- Copies of slave records created by members of the Creek Nation.
- 1821-00-00
- Most of the documents deal with either the emancipation of slaves or the transfer of slave ownership to other family members. In addition to these records, there is a resolution (dated June 29, 1825) in which leaders of the Broken Arrow Council...
- 2010-05-12
- Letter from Thomas Lovett to James Dellet in Claiborne, Alabama.
- 1821-03-23
- In the letter Lovett discusses a dispute over a slave from the estate of John Bell; because Dellet had been involved with Bell's purchase of the slave, Lovett asks him to supply any available records related to the transaction.
- 2009-06-25
- Charge to the grand jury by Judge Charles Tait.
- 1825-06-20
- In his introduction, Tait reminds the men of the jury that they are performing a vital civic duty: "We should never forget that true patriotism consists in devotion to our constitutions and the laws emanating from them - that there is no true...
- 2009-09-28
- Account and memorandum book kept by James A. Tait from 1831 to 1844.
- 1831-00-00
- In the book Tait records financial matters, including his account with J. & E. Austill; expenses incurred by his son, Charles, while attending the University of Alabama; the cost of supplies used to build a new house; the purchase of slaves; and...
- 2011-09-12
- Account book kept by Minor Winn Gracey while administering the estate of his brother, Robert Sinclair Gracey.
- 1842-00-00
- Robert Gracey died in 1841. The book is divided into three sections. The first notes the payment and collection of debts from 1842 to 1845. The second section deals with the accounts of Minor and his brother John Ivey Gracey; it records the...
- 2009-09-04
- Bill of lading and letter from Edward Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Victor Audubon in New York.
- 1843-02-08
- Victor was the son of naturalist John Audubon, who was a close friend of Edward Harris. The bill of lading records the shipment of packages from Harris to Victor and John; the items will travel by steamboat from Philadelphia to New York. In the...
- 2010-07-15
- Notebook kept by Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alabama, from about 1852 to 1863.
- 1852
- The notebook contains records of accounts and supplies for a plank fence on his plantation "to be made by the M & C R. Road Co. and Thomas Fearn"; information on cotton crops, supplies at home and at his plantation, and lands he owned in...
- 2012-01-27
- Plantation book kept by D. H. Smith in 1858.
- 1856-00-00
- Smith served as an overseer on Willis P. Bocock's Waldwick Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama. The book records births and deaths among the slaves; time lost for sickness and visits by the doctor; articles sold from and purchased for the...
- 2009-09-04
- Records of the Alabama constitutional convention of 1861.
- 1861-00-00
- These records consist of ordinances, resolutions, committee reports, and correspondence from January through March of 1861. The material documents the secession convention held in Montgomery, Alabama, which established Alabama as an independent...
- 2011-09-09
- Records of the 59th Alabama Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
- 1863
- This volume contains records of the company, including a muster roll; records of deaths during various periods of time; clothing accounts of individual members of the company, as well as those who received transportation; and other items of...
- 2011-10-25
- "Table of Ranges" for the guns used by an artillery unit.
- 1863-10-17
- Details are given for twelve-pound Napoleon cannons, ten-pound Parrott rifles, and twenty-pound Parrott rifles. The table records powder and projectile type, elevation, range, and time.
- 2011-07-06
- Copies of correspondence from Colin J. McRae to Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederate secretary of state in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1864-00-00
- The book contains six letters and a postscript McRae sent while serving as a financial agent for the Confederate government in Europe; also included are copies of relevant correspondence from James Williams to McRae, as well as a few accounting...
- 2009-09-28
- Records of the Alabama constitutional convention of 1865.
- 1865
- The constitutional convention of 1865 met from September 12 to 30 to restore Alabama to the Union. These records consist of ordinances and resolutions passed during the gathering.
- 2011-10-12
- Records of the Alabama constitutional convention of 1867.
- 1867
- The constitutional convention of 1867 met from October to December; it was held as a result of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which made Alabama part of the Third Military District under General John Pope. These records consist of ordinances and...
- 2011-10-12
- Promissory note from W. W. West of Uniontown, Alabama, agreeing to pay W. D. Burford $200 on October 1, 1871.
- 1871-01-19
- West borrowed "necessary provisions and money" from Burford in order "to procure the necessary teams, provision and farming implements to make a crop" for the year. A handwritten note on the back records that West repaid the debt on the required...
- 2009-09-28
- Excerpt from the record book kept by Kate Burke Simpson, a first grade teacher at West End School in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1904
- The page included here records students who received corporal punishment during the school year. It lists the name of the student, the date of the punishment, and the offense.
- 2010-04-23