Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Records consist of minutes, correspondence, membership lists, publicity, fiscal records, and reports.

Record of repairs and sales of jewelry, watches, spectacles, and other goods, recording date, name of account, type of service, and cost.

Record of blacksmithing services, citing name of account, description of work, and cost.

Sketches of the layout and of the north view of the fort.

Account books document purchases of goods and work done by customers. Some of the accounts are those of Dr. J.S. Beazley's patients; others are possibly of tenant farmers.

Items in this collection include Burke County, Georgia, land deeds. Few of these are likely to be recorded in the courthouse.

Letter of February 23 from LaGrange, Troup Co., GA, accepting students' invitation to become an honorary member of the Polymnian Society but giving his regrets at being unable to give the commencement address at Bowden Seminary as he had already committed to delivering one at Mercer University.

Two alphabetical files arranged by surname, correspondence, 256 looseleaf notebooks of research also arranged by family name, and copies of documents and charts. Chastain is the major surname in the collection. Others of note are Baker, Elliott, Head, Jones, Norman, Peterson, Ragsdale, Quarterman, Thweatt, and Way.

The legal records of this notary public run from pp. 8 - 53 and include the judgments he handed down in minor court cases. The rest of the book contains home recipes, land plats (pp. 54 - 86), bylaws for the Emmanus (?) Baptist Church (pp. 87 - 113) with an index (p. 114), Masonic records - York rite - with membership lists (pp. 142-176), weather reports (pp. 179 - 194), and accounts (pp. 195 - 218). Records cover both Upson and Pike Counties, Georgia.

A bill for $625 paid by Jefferson to Robert L. Perry, for "Negro Man named Gloster about forty years of age," Columbus, Georgia.

These are private business receipts and a few letters removed from his official county records.

Record of work done, citing date, type of work, name of account, and cost. Arranged by name of account and indexed.

Seven letters by and to the Bentleys in Georgia, some from J. R. Bentley and his wife, one from J. R. in service, 1862. Also included is E. M. Bentley's Oath of Allegiance, 1865, and a later list of Bentley births. John Kytle, a minister in Ayersville, GA, is mentioned in the letters and may have supported abolitionism.

Letters among Berry, his wife, Jane, and his brother, Dennis, during 1863 - 1864. Jane wrote about farming and family. Dennis enclosed a war song. Rountree family information is included.

Original record book reguarding the constitution of the church and the ensuing 28 years.

This series consists of an Order Book for the City of Macon and provides documentation of what goods and services the municipal government ordered during the period listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) the number of the order; (2) from whom goods or services were purchased and specifically what they consisted of; (3) the amount of money involved in each transaction, and (4) which department of the government was charged for the order.

This series is composed of bound volumes which provide documentation of the property values for taxable purposes of the residents of Macon for the dates listed. These volumes provide information similar to that found in RG 309-1-1. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) name of resident and valuation of each resident's home or business property, and (2) a map showing the address of such property.

This volume provides documentation of the transfer of property for the City of Macon for the dates listed and is, in effect, an index to the deed records. Information provided includes (1) name of grantor; (2) name of grantee; (3) book in which deed was recorded; (4) amount of money involved in transaction; (5) date of transaction; (6) address of property, and (7) remarks.

"An exhibition of expenses paid by the Board of Trustees of Bowdon College from the fund appropriated by the State of Georgia for the Education of Indigent Maimed Soldiers for the year 1867." Includes the names of 97 students, listed alphabetically, giving date of entry and itemizing by calendar quarter.

Records consist of faculty registers, class record books, absentee lists, account books, directories, surveys, student maps, school programs, publications, and photographs.

Legal documents relate to Jane, Wright, Charles I., Albert, Mimnet, and Eula B. Brady. Includes one letter from S. Y. Jameson in Shady Grove, Georgia, about land.

The account book records receipts and disbursements for food and supplies for the missions, staff, and Indian agents at both Brainerd and the Carmel Mission. Includes also post office accounts. Entries after 1838 are for sawmill accounts and freight accounts with the Georgia Railroad.

The early letters are written by Walter's two sisters, Georgiana and Eliza Brewster Peck, who were living in the northern United States. The later 1960s era material is genealogical.

Grants, plats, and indentures concerning land transactions among Isaac Brinson, Milburn Coward, Reuben Turner, Charles Clark, and others. Also included is the Mount Zion Select School Declamation Order of Exercises, n.d.

Genealogical history, news clipping, and letter (1946) about the Brooke, Georgiarrison, and Moore families. Also included in the collection are teaching records, a Mercer University report "card" (1858), an account of a dream (n.d.), a letter about a humorous baptism (1872), and a political stump speech (n.d.).

Material on Joseph Brown Connally, including a 1911 Glidden tour photograph album; scrapbooks of material on Governor Joseph E. Brown; Grisham and Brown genealogical notes; and the journal of Joseph Grisham when he traveled in 1826 from South Carolina to Louisiana through Native American settlements.

Glynn County, Georgia. Manuscript draft of directory of Brunswick residents (heads of households) citing name, occupation and address. Arranged alphabetically. See also published Brunswick 1890 City Directory on microfilm, also arranged alphabetically. Drawer 171, Box 30

Letters are largely by Cassie and her children with considerable correspondence by Clinton also. They describe family relations, domestic arrangements, and various lines of work, such as schoolteaching, journalism, and banking. Included are personal business records, a diary, and some photographs.

This collection includes Polk County, Georgia, dispositions, court cases, and deeds. Additionally, there is an 1868 copy of the DAILY INTELLIGENCER.

1807 Edmund Bugg tax list (including a list of enslave people by name), probably in the Richmond or Columbia County, Georgia area; 1823 Appointment of Benjamin Bugg as administrator of Edmund Bugg estate; 1860 William J. Steed, Thomson, Georgia, letter to Benjamin Bugg, requesting hand of his daughter Susan in marriage; and 1872 William P. Steed estate records (distribution of funds from sale of land and academy).

Claim dockets contain information which document the claims of individuals against the property of other litigants. These dockets are similar to other civil cases except they are limited to claims cases. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) names of plaintiffs and defendants; (2) case number; (3) date of judgment; (4) amount of principal and interest involved; (5) an enumeration of court costs, and (6) date Fifa (fieri facias) was issued.

This series is composed of bound volumes which provide documentation of the various individuals who were obligated to execute a bond for their later appearance before the Court to answer criminal charges against them. The information provided includes: (1) name of Principal and Security; (2) date of execution of bond; (3) date of trial or appearance, and (4) the crime the Principal was charged with committing.

This series is composed of bound volumes which document the criminal complaints filed in the City Court. Information presented in these dockets includes: (1) name of defendant; (2) names of plaintiff's witnesses; (3) date subpoena was issued to them; (4) to whom delivered (usually to the sheriff); (5) names of defendant's witnesses and date subpoena was issued to them; (6) to whom delivered (usually the sheriff), and (7) sheriff's remarks.

This series is composed of bound volumes which document the names of the plaintiffs and defendants who were involved in the civil complaints filed in the Court for the inclusive date spans listed and who are listed in Series 2, Civil Dockets, of this record group. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) names of plaintiffs and defendants; (2) case number, and (3) date and term of court in which case appeared.

Judgment dockets contain information which document civil complaints filed in the court and the judgment rendered for the date spans listed below. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of the plaintiffs and defendants; (3) names of the attorneys for plaintiffs; (4) the amount of principal and interest involved; (5) amount of court costs and attorney's fees, and (6) judgment rendered.

The bound volumes comprising this series are bank stub books that document the names of jurors who served on the juries for the date span listed and who received compensation from the City Court of Statesboro for such services. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) the name of the juror to whom the check was issued; (2) date of issue; (3) the amount of money involved; (4) the check number, and (5) the date and term of court in which the juror served.