Lucy was the widow of naturalist John Audubon. In the letter she mentions that her granddaughter, Harriet, will be taking a position as a governess with a family. Lucy and Harriet had been teaching in their own school, but they could not enroll...
Mary was married to William Riley Jones, who served in Company G of the 41st Alabama Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. In the letter John and Nancy thank Mary for her letter, ask for more news, and send their "love and respectes to all...
Also included are historical and genealogical notes dealing with Portland, Alabama (in Dallas County), and the Boykin and Hall families. A partial transcript is included.
Caller was living in Washington County of the Mississippi Territory (later the Alabama Territory) when the Murphees hired him "to take two Negros Namely Remus & Frank which Thomas Bates and others stold away from us." [Original spelling retained.]
Chieves purchased the slave, a boy named Emanuel, for $600 on November 25, 1815. On the back of the receipt are two further transactions involving Emanuel: first, he was transferred to Green Wood on April 18, 1818, and then he was given to Bolling...
The correspondence was written in regard to Pickett's research for his book HISTORY OF ALABAMA AND INCIDENTALLY OF GEORGIA AND MISSISSIPPI FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES.
In the letter Dockney give news of acquaintances and family members; discusses the school she oversees; and mentions that the legislature has appropriated money to rebuild the state capitol, which had burned down the year before. She also describes...
In the letters, Hall's son and wife discuss family illness, weather, crops, livestock, and slaves on their plantation. Mary also mentions her husband's possible attendance at the convention of delegates from proslavery states in Nashville,...
In the letter Mary Ann offers her son advice on corresponding with young ladies: "I hope you will never ask a lady (unless a relative) for her narrative untill [sic] you are engaged...young people oftentimes become interested and then attached...