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- Volume 3 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages 206 through 319.
- 1859-08-10
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Volume 2 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages 125 through 205.
- 1856-08-00
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Volume 1 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages 1 through 124.
- 1855-00-00
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Two letters to Bolling Hall, one from his oldest son, Bolling, and the other from his wife, Mary Louisa.
- 1850-06-02
- 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,...
- 2009-06-25
- Volume 4 of the Zillah Haynie Brandon diaries, including pages pages 320 through 387.
- 1862-01-11
- Diary entries are chronological but irregular (sometimes months apart, sometimes years). Topics discussed include family matters and health; religion; homes in northwest Georgia (near a settlement of Cherokee Indians) and Gaylesville in Cherokee...
- 2011-09-12
- Transcript of an excerpt of a letter from Mantaza to Reese D. Gayle in Cahaba, Alabama, describing William Rufus King taking the oath of office of Vice-President of the United States.
- 1853
- 2011-11-16
- Transcript of a letter from Charles Hunter in Cahaba, Alabama, to his brother, Thomas, in Shasta, California.
- 1852-01-04
- 2011-11-16
- Transcript of a letter from C. J. Fambro to Mary.
- 1859-05-31
- 2011-11-21
- The Dallas Gazette, volume 15, number 43.
- 1858-08-20
- The issue includes advertisements and articles on the following topics: goods and services offered by local businesses; death, marriage, and legal notices; local events; news about social, medical, agricultural, political, economic, and military...
- 2011-10-11
- The Dallas Gazette, volume 15, number 42.
- 1858-08-13
- The issue includes advertisements and articles on the following topics: goods and services offered by local businesses; death, marriage, and legal notices; local events; news about social, medical, agricultural, political, economic, and military...
- 2011-10-11
- Telegram from O. S. Jewett in Montgomery, Alabama, to Dr. George F. Pollard in Mobile, Alabama.
- In the message Jewett asks Pollard to inform Henry Semple that "his infant is very sick with cholera infantum." A note written on the back in pencil reads "Emily V. Semples [sic] little baby, Margaret Harris who died."
- 2011-06-01
- Statement by Daniel Sampson, a cashier, regarding payment for the hire of four slaves in Mobile, Alabama.
- 1857-05-14
- Sampson discusses the amount due to the slaves' owner and mentions two checks that have been sent from the Southern Bank of Alabama. Though no one is specifically addressed in the message, one of the checks was made out to E. E. Haywood.
- 2009-09-04
- SPEECH OF HON. J. F. DOWDELL, OF ALABAMA, ON THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BILL, an address delivered in the United States House of Representatives.
- 1854-05-10
- In the speech Dowdell argues in favor of a clause in the bill that would repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820. He objects to a provision of the act that prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36ø 30' latitude line: "This line...
- 2009-06-25
- Resolution regarding the restoration of Jeffrey, a slave of J. J. Craig, to the Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Dallas County, Alabama.
- 1857-07-21
- Jeffrey's membership had been suspended in 1848 because he was charged "with having been in the habit of visiting one of Mr. B. A. Glasses [sic] negrohouses occupied by a woman of loose character named Phillis."
- 2009-06-25
- Record from the Pisgah Presbyterian Church in Cahaba, Alabama, noting the baptism of several slave children and the appointment of four African American men as assistant elders of the congregation.
- 1858-07-04
- 2009-06-25
- Receipt for clothing purchased by Crenshaw Hall from William B. Taylor.
- 1857-09-25
- 2011-10-06
- 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
- Penmanship exercise book of Isaac S. Barr, who attended school in north Alabama.
- 1852
- 2009-09-30
- 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
- Naturalization record of John Dowe.
- 1856-03-24
- According to the record, John Dowe became a United States citizen on November 26, 1855, when he appeared before the circuit court of Montgomery County, Alabama.
- 2009-09-04