The list includes the amount each paid. Among the purchasers were James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Coffee, Thomas Bibb, LeRoy Pope, James Jackson, and John McKinley.
In the journal Blount discusses the landscape; encounters with Cherokee Indians in the area; and problems the surveyors faced during their work. He also includes a list of Cherokee words with their Creek and English equivalents.
Craig was a captain of a Tennessee volunteer company, Jackson's Army, in the War of 1812, and he later served at Fort Claiborne, Alabama in the Creek and Seminole Wars. The scrapbook contains letters, inventories, military orders, accounts, muster...
The report gives revenue and expenses for the year. One source of income listed is the "Sales of captured African Slaves (being part of the proceeds of the sale of fifteen slaves)"; this earned the state almost $3,700. Among the expenses is a $300...
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.
The excerpts, from 1851 and 1853, include lists of slaves preached to; lists of "promiscuous places preached at" (Shores uses "promiscuous" to mean "irregular"; that is, locations not on his regular circuit); and annual summaries of his work. When...
The notebook contains poetry, notes, sketches, regimental rosters, receipts for supplies, loose letters, and the pass issued to Wilson at Appomattox Court House at the end of the war.
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...