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- Section 7 of A. J. Pickett's "Letters from Various Distinguished and Well Informed Persons."
- 1846
- 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.
- 2012-06-22
- Section 8 of A. J. Pickett's "Letters from Various Distinguished and Well Informed Persons."
- 1846
- 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.
- 2012-06-22
- Statement by J. Crawford and E. Hamilton, appointing Richard Blount as treasurer of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-06-26
- 2010-11-17
- Executive order from the governor of Georgia, appointing Joel Crawford, John Irwin, and Richard Blount as commissioners to "examine, survey and report...the practicability, the distance, depth and probable expence [sic] of cutting a canal, from the...
- 1819-05-21
- A transcript is included.
- 2010-11-17
- Bill of sale for a slave bought by Reuben Bennett from Richard Cooper.
- 1833-01-10
- Bennett purchased the slave, a nineteen-year-old young man named Willis, for $600 in Selma, Alabama.
- 2010-11-12
- Letter from Richard Blount to Major Charles Lewis in Bellefonte, Alabama.
- 1826-09-19
- Both men served on the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; Lewis represented Alabama, and Blount represented Georgia. In the letter Blount reports that the commissioners have "clos'd the boundary line." He describes specific points along the line,...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Margaret McCalla to her husband, Richard.
- 1864-08-11
- During the Civil War, Richard McCalla served as a captain in the 3rd regiment of the Confederate Engineer Troops.
- 2009-09-11
- 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
- "A Sketch of the Adventures of Richard Blunt [sic]," personal diary kept by Blount from 1794 to 1797.
- 1794
- In the diary, Blount discusses contemporary life, education, and family relationships. He also gives detailed accounts of his extensive travels during the period. A partial transcript is included.
- 2011-10-12
- Letters between Thomas M. Owen, director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, and Sergeant Richard J. Pahnke.
- 1919
- In the first letter, written February 17, 1919, Owen thanks Pahnke for the material he has sent, and he asks him to gather postcards, pamphlets, weapons, and uniforms to add to the collections at the Archives. He also discusses events in...
- 2009-09-14
- Handwritten copies of three letters from Secretary of War Henry Knox to Major Richard Call.
- 1791-03
- In the first two letters (written March 17 and May 25, 1791), Knox discusses gathering troops "for the purpose of marking the line next October mentioned in the treaty of the Creeks" (referring to the new boundary lines agreed upon in the Treaty of...
- 2010-11-12
- Journal kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-06
- 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.
- 2011-10-12
- Letter from Richard Blount in the "Cherokee Nation 165 miles on our course," to John W. A. Sanford in Milledgeville, Georgia.
- 1826-08-12
- In the letter Blount reports on the progress of the Georgia-Alabama Survey Commission; although the team is having difficulty finding its next point, his "prospects have brightend" and his "hopes strengthend lately"; the commissioner from Alabama...
- 2010-11-17
- Copy of a letter from Richard Blount in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Governor George M. Troup.
- 1827-03-15
- In the letter Blount, who had been the treasurer of the Oconee Navigation Association, discusses the settlement of the organization's accounts.
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Richard L. Day of Forest Hills, New York, to Judge Eugene W. Carter in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1956-03-23
- In the letter Day expresses his hope that the white citizens of Alabama "will be touched by the struggle of your negro fellow citizens to be treated like other human beings." He warns that reputation of the whole country is harmed by the injustices...
- 2009-09-04
- Letter from Judge Richard Ellis of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Alabama, to Governor Israel Pickens in Greene County, Alabama.
- 1822-04-00
- In the letter Ellis discusses the case of Adam Lowry, who was tried and convicted twice, first for stealing a hog and then for stealing a horse. After the second offense Lowry's right hand was branded with the letter "T" and he was put in jail. The...
- 2010-12-07
- Letter from George R. Gilmer in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Richard Blount, chairman of the board of commissioners for the Oconee Navigation Association.
- 1830-01-08
- In the letter Gilmer informs Blount that Richard K. Hines has been appointed as a state agent to investigate the association and "to collect the public money in your hands & to receive of you the public property." He encloses the recent legislative...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from George R. Gilmer to Richard Blount, chairman of the board of commissioners for the Oconee Navigation Association.
- 1829-12-24
- In the letter Gilmer informs Blount that the state-owned slaves ("public hands") who are working for him on the Oconee River should be taken to Milledgeville, Georgia, where they will be put to work on "the improvement of the roads and rivers in...
- 2010-11-17
- Letter from Secretary of War Henry Knox to Major Richard Call.
- 1791-09-27
- In the letter Knox explains the process Call must follow to obtain supplies for the troops he commands. He then discusses provisions to be given to Creek Indians who will be involved in drawing the new boundary lines agreed upon in the Treaty of...
- 2010-11-12
- Letter from Richard Blount and E. Hamilton in the "Cherokee Nation," reporting on the work of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
- 1826-08-02
- In the letter the men explain the causes of the commission's "apparent slothfulness": their "progress has been greatly retarded by frequent recurrences of local attraction" and the trees and uneven landscape have made it "almost impossible to be...
- 2010-11-17