Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

These are letters and invoices from various Atlanta manufacturers and stores concerning goods for the hardware company. Many of the letterheads are engravings of the businesses.

These are the records of the administration of a large estate established by steel magnate Thomas Morrison Carnegie, Sr., and his wife, Lucy Coleman. They include letters, letterbooks, account books, loose financial papers, legal documents, banking records, maps, architectural drawings, photographs, invoices, insurance certificates, and publications.

The collection includes various copies of an account by Catherine Huey, a white woman, of the execution of Henry Jackson, an enslaved man owned by William Jackson, in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, on November 3, 1858. The actual date of the written accounts is unknown. It was apparently intended for publication.

The volume contains a list of 142 men who purchased shares in the fair. Most of the book is empty.

World War I and other papers of Moran, including records of awards and honors.

"Form of the estimate and assessment of agricultural products...to lay taxes for the common defence and carry on the government of the Confederate States," showing amounts of wheat, corn, cured fodder, and wool raised by Col. C. M. Jones.

This series contains registration books for voters in elections for officers of the City of Savannah. Usually the managers of elections certified the names included in such books. A typical volume might contain for each of the relatively few voters included: (1) name; (2) age; (3) place of nativity (state or foreign nation only); (4) city ward; (5) street; (6) house number (if any), and (7) nearest cross street.

This series consists of Chatham County unbound marriage licenses. There is also a small number of marriage license applications included in the collection.

These digests have been microfilmed. Please use the film for reference purposes.

This series consists of a bound volume which documents some of the official activities of the Road Commission. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) names of road hands; (2) name of road to which employees were assigned to work; (3) name of overseer; (4) number of Georgia Militia Districts in which roads were located; (5) names of road defaulters and the amount of their fine (rarely listed), and (6) date.

This series contains unbound writs of fieri facias (fi fas) or tax executions. These records show the person in tax arrears, the amount of money owed and the date. They were usually signed by a justice of the peace or the tax collector. These records were found in the sheriff's office of the courthouse since one of the sheriff's duties at the time was to serve the fi fa upon the tax defaulter so named on the record.

See Vol1-579 in record group 126/1/7

This series consists of a bound volume which documents the criminal complaints filed in the court for the inclusive dates listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) the name of the defendant; (2) the type of complaint charged; (3) the disposition of the case, and (4) an enumeration of court costs. Complaints charged against defendants include those of adultery, drunk and disorderly conduct and burglary.

This series consists of a bound volume which documents the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date listed. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of attorneys involved; (3) names of litigants; (4) type of charge complained of, and (5) judgment rendered. Some of the complaints filed include those of suits on promissory notes, real estate profits and assumpsits.

The book is composed of dated chemistry lectures (numbered 9-44) on various subjects. Pages 1-17 (and lectures 1-8) of this probable copybook are missing. The last eight pages are filled with copied verses from such poets as Byron.