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- "Alabama Needs John Patterson for Governor."
- 1958
- Comic book created for John Patterson's gubernatorial campaign.
- 2012-01-27
- "Iron Works and Manufatory of Salt Pans, &c., By John Miller, Burnsville, Alabama."
- 1863-05-24
- Advertisement for the goods produced by the ironworks in Burnsville, specifically directed at salt manufacturers who might be interested in "Salt Pans of a superior quality and durability." Miller is "prepared to do all kinds of jobbing in his...
- 2010-01-25
- "Petition Against Sending Our Young Men to War in Europe," signed by 112 Alabama citizens and sent to Senator John H. Bankhead in Washington, D.C.
- 1917-05-10
- The petition advocates "absolute neutrality" regarding the war in Europe, and it suggests that it would be unconstitutional for the federal government to call for troops or enact conscription legislation.
- 2010-12-07
- Account between John McGillivray and Daniel McGillivray.
- 1779
- Daniel McGillivray lived at Hickory Ground (in present-day Wetumpka, Alabama). He was a trader and also worked as a messenger for Alexander McGillivray. A transcript is included.
- 2012-01-27
- Affidavit by Eliza H. Coleman of Butler County, Alabama, requesting to purchase three bushels of salt from John P. Figh & Co. at the state saltworks in Clarke County, Alabama.
- 1862-04-28
- In the statement she attests that the salt is "for her own consumption, and not for sale, or speculation."
- 2010-12-07
- Affidavit by T. Stamp of Wetumpka, Alabama, requesting to purchase two bushels of salt from John P. Figh & Co. at the state saltworks in Clarke County, Alabama.
- 1862-04-05
- In the statement he attests that the "salt is intended specially for my own familly [sic] use."
- 2010-12-07
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by John Butterworth of Petersburg, Virginia, from Robert Spiers.
- 1818
- Butterworth purchased the slave, a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old young woman named Fanny, for $500 on April 6, 1818. On the back of the receipt are two further transactions involving Fanny: first, she was transferred to Green Wood on April 18, and...
- 2012-01-27
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Presley Davis from John A. Stringer.
- 1848-10-02
- Davis purchased the slave, an eight-year-old boy named Pinkney, for $300 in Pike County, Alabama.
- 2009-06-25
- Bill of sale for slaves bought by James Caller of Warren County, North Carolina, from John Murrell.
- 1805-00-00
- Caller purchased ten slaves (male and female, ranging in age from three to forty), a wagon, and ten horses for 900 pounds Virginia money.
- 2010-11-12
- Brief and argument by Attorney General John Patterson in response to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.
- 1956-08-10
- King had been convicted on March 22 for his leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 2009-09-04
- Contract between the trustees of Cotton Port and John Coffee, who has just purchased a plot of land.
- 1818-03-17
- Coffee owes the company $310, which he will pay over the next two years. After full payment is made, the trustees will give him the deed to the lot; if they do not honor their part of the contract, they will owe Coffee twice the amount he will pay...
- 2010-06-09
- Contract between the trustees of the Cotton Port Company and John Coffee, who has just purchased forty acres of land.
- 1825-03-04
- Coffee owes the company $408.40, which he will pay over the next two years. After full payment is made, the trustees will "convey the before mentioned lot of land containing forty acres...by a deed of conveyance with a general waranty [sic]"; if...
- 2010-06-09
- Contract for John Henry and his aunt, Elizabeth, both freedmen, who will be working a year for Washington Wallace of Lowndes County, Alabama.
- 1867
- For their work they are to receive $225, rations, and medical care.
- 2009-06-25
- Copy of a letter from John Coffee and James Bright in Huntsville, Alabama, to John McKinley.
- 1821-07-24
- In the letter Coffee and Bright explain that Clemens and Keys of Mooresville is responsible for removing a bridge at Cotton Port: "That bridge had been built by the Cottonport Company for which they paid $1650 and esteemed it as a very valuable...
- 2010-06-09
- Correspondence from governors of Southern states to Alabama Governor John Patterson, regarding the upcoming Civil War centennial celebration in Montgomery.
- 1961-01
- Governor Patterson had invited his colleagues to attend the event. Of the eight governors responding here, only two accepted the invitation.
- 2009-09-04
- Deed of gift from John D. Terrell to his daughter, Alpha Neal, giving her a young slave woman "and her issue."
- 1828-01-01
- The deed specifically protects the gift from the control of Alpha's husband: "...the said John Thomas Neal, may have the use of the said negroe [sic] girl while he lives, as a husband to his wife and a father to his children, but that is all he...
- 2009-06-25
- Deed of gift from John D. Terrell to his son, Edward G. Terrell, giving him the slave woman Delilah and her daughter, Abba.
- 1840-12-15
- The gift is conditional, however: "That if myself or Edwards [sic] mother my wife should in the events of life consider that either of us should stand in need of said negroes--then either of our own judgements [sic] shall rule and take the said...
- 2009-06-25
- Diary kept by Edward Harris while on a nature expedition with John Audubon along the Missouri River.
- 1843
- The diary includes detailed descriptions and lists of wildlife, especially birds, seen on the trip. Harris also gives accounts of the animals hunted and killed by the men on the expedition.
- 2011-10-12
- Draft of a letter from John D. Terrell in Pikeville, Alabama, to President James K. Polk.
- 1846-07-04
- In the letter Terrell expresses his strong negative feelings about the Mexican War: "Is this right--will it end well. Sir the Mexicans have rights well as America....The line between Teaxas [sic] and Mexico should by honest nigotiation [sic] be...
- 2009-06-25
- Excerpts from A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, compiled by John G. Akin.
- 1833-00-00
- Included here are the title page and the slave code of 1833, which also gives laws governing "free persons of color."
- 2010-11-12