Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of Civil and criminal case files involving: (1) bail bonds, (2) misdemeanors, (3) debts, (4) fi fas,(5) attachments, and (6) assumsits.

This series consists of a bound ledger, the last 4 pages of which contain lost or strayed livestock. The information consists of: (1) county and district, (2) type and size of animal, (3) branding marks appearing on body, (4) whom the animal was appraised by and for how much, (5) date of the court appearance, and (6) judge residing in the case.

This series includes records of minor civil cases brought before the court. Information found in this series includes: (1) names of litigants and verdicts; (2) discussion of county business (building roads and bridges, courthouse construction and repairs, appointment of commissioners, etc.), and (3) listings of jurors.

This series contains estate records submitted to the Wilkes County Court of Ordinary for recording as the official probate records of estates. Records may include: annual returns, inventories & appraisements, appraisals, guardian bonds, letters of administration, administrator's bonds, letters of guardianship, returns on sale of property, and wills. An asterisk next to a folder number in the inventory indicates a will in the file.

This series consists of a bound ledger containing: (1) the names of the attorneys' for parties in litigation, (2) case numbers, (3) parties in litigation, (4) types of cases, and (5) brief data on disposition of cases. The types of cases appealed were assumsits, ejectments, bills in equity and debts.

This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of civil and criminal case files involving: (1) Assumsits (2) Debts (3) Appeals (4) Misdemeanors (5) Fi fas (6) Attachments (7) Trespass in ejectments (8) Petitions (9) Judgments (10) Covenants (11) Promissory notes (12) Interrogatories (13) Garnishments (14) Affidavits and (15) Claim bonds.

This series consists of ledgers containing: (1) the parties in litigation, (2) witnesses for the plaintiff and/or defendant, (3) substitutes (if any), and (4) date of the case.

This series consists of bound ledgers containing: (1) the names of the attorneys for parties in litigation, (2) case numbers, (3) parties in litigation, and (4) whether or not the case was satisfied.

This series consists of a bound ledger that contains: (1) the parties in litigation with the state, (2) the state's witnesses, (3) charges against the defendant, (4) the jurors' names after being sworn in, (5) the foreman's acknowledgement of the case being a true bill, (6) the pleading by the defendant, (7) the findings of the jury, and (8) the fine or punishment levied.

Minutes for 1778 to 1780 and those after 1787 have been microfilmed and are available in the microfilm library.

This series consists of bound ledgers containing: (1) case number (2) date of subpoena (3) person subpoenaed (4) for what parties they were subpoenaed (5) who delivered the subpoena and (6) number of days served. Among the cases tried were assaults, debts, assumpits and slander. The records are in general decay, uncleaned and in the same condition as they were taken from the courthouse (except 1852 - 1853 which has been laminated and bound).

Records relating to the pension of William Oaks or Oakes, 13th Regiment United States Infantry, Company D, and that of his wife, Larcenia, of Clara in Fulton County, Georgia. Contains some correspondence with her lawyer, H. H. Walker of Bellton, Hall County, Georgia, concerning the increase in widows' pensions and an insurance policy for H. N. Oakes.

The letter, signed "Asbury," was sent to William Asbury's mother, Mrs. I. C. Dodge, in Augusta, Georgia, from James Island, South Carolina. It concerns religious affairs in the army camp of the GA 23rd Regt.

A letter to Brooks' brother that his wife was ill and he should return home if there were a "chanch for you to git off." The date of the letter appears to be March, either 30th or 31st. It seems more likely from content to be March 30; and the only period when William was at home and a married brother (Benjamin married to Julia) was in service was September 1861 - May 1862.

Documents pertain to the granting of land east of Sapelo River to Clark by King George in 1757; the subsequent deeding of that land to James Nephew in 1799; and the further transfer of land, according to Nephew's will, involving Joseph and Caroline C. Nephew Stiles and Henry and Ann Atwood in 1834. Land located in McIntosh County.

This collection includes letters by Davies, 4th Regt. GA Vols, Co. H, to his mother. One letter is by brother Addison R. (b. 1837), probably in the 4th Regt. GA Cav., to their brother Theodosius.

Most of the papers are incoming letters to William E. Morris, many from his brother and sister-in-law, Hansel P. and Nancy E. Peeples Morris, who moved to Texas by 1874 and later to Oklahoma. William Morris's ordination records and some unattributed verses are included. The collection also contains the Civil War letters of William Washington Knight to his wife while he was serving in the 29th Regiment Georgia Volunteers., Company D.

The small collection contains: two Oglethorpe county indentures and a plat (1805-1847); an annual return of T. R. Watkins and J. H. D. Colquitt, administrators of William H. Colquitt, deceased, 1870-1871; a signed receipt by Gilbert Colquitt, an African-American, for sharecroppers' payments, 1870-1871.

Letter written by Griffis from his home in Stewart County, Georgia, to Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Wilmot Allison, the daughter of his Civil War captain, Daniel Hicks Wilmot (ca. 1831 - 1882), whose life he had saved at the Battle of Lookout Mountain in 1863. "I managed to get him on the train by toating him nearly 3 miles . . . ." The men served in the 17th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Company A.

Hardman became captain of Company I, 55th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, was captured in 1863, and served 22 months at Johnson's Island Union prison in Ohio, from which this letter was written to his wife.

Bond of Ray, captain of the barque CORONET, of Mayor James Blain of Brunswick, Glynn Co., GA, for 15 black seamen who had sailed with the ship from London and Plymouth, England. The bond was to insure that the seamen not come ashore without the permission of Mayor Blain.

There are about 100 papers in this collection, almost all promisory notes to William Harper. Several items concern the rental of property and five concern the hiring of slaves.

This collection consists of William Henderson Wood's diary, spanning nearly two years of farming in Bartow County, Georgia. Most of the entries are one line long and give information about weather, land preparation, sowing, harvesting, milling, and slaughtering as well as church going and other neighborhood news. Many entries are barely legible.

The letters cover the period up until his capture and including the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Includes a receipt for stock in the Campbell County Salt Manufacturing Company, 1863, and an Oath of Allegiance signed by Perryman in September 1865 in the same place.

The collection includes 24 letters from William to his wife during the war and two letters relating to her pension application in 1891.

Record of general merchandise sold by William L. Jett of Morgan County, Georgia. Entries include cites date, type of goods, and cost.

A diary and narrative describing Jones' service in the 50th Regiment Georgia Volunteers and his subsequent imprisonment in Point Lookout Prison. Correspondence with Nannie (Nancy O.) Foy, who later married him, and newspaper clippings of United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) - Waycross meetings where Jones' diary was featured are also included.

This Thomas County, Georgia, record lists money paid to poor and physically disabled Civil War veterans and their widows. Information includes age, residence, occupation, regiment and service, type of injury, and money disbursed.

Letter from Maltbie to his sons describing his journey to New York by train and steamship from their home in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia. Considerable detail about the train and the city of New York in 1847. The end of the letter is missing. Included is a 1974 newspaper article from GWINNETT LIFE about Maltbie and his descendants.

This collection includes letters, a bond, a petition, an oversized muster roll, a transfer, a pass, and a report, all records of the company, most correspondence with Arnold.

Written August 18 from Atlanta, the letter gives news of William Newton's position in the war.

William Orrie Tuggle's diary entries while serving in Morgan's Cavalry including a roll of members of 4th Regiment Georgia, Company G, lists of the sick, valuation of Company G horses, lists of horses lost, killed, or captured and records of equipment and weapons. The diary also includes personal entries and poetry written to Clara of LaGrange, Georgia.

Correspondence from William G. Bulloch, recorder of the Army Medical Board, and other officials of the Confederate Army; also from A. S. Clay, candidate for the Georgia General Assembly, 1884.

The "Autobiography of Reverend William R. Talley," a south Georgia Methodist clergyman, was written in 1925 but gives family information from the 1700s up to 1947 when Eunice Talley Watkins added some notes to her father's history. Much of the memoir covers William's years in the Civil War, 14th Battalion Georgia Light Artillery. Although the story is primarily a Talley Family history, information concerning race relations, economics, and agriculture after the war is included.

Receipts and other business records for Smith, probably in Warren County, Georgia. Other names are James Neal, James Cody, J. Draper, and Jeremiah Butt.

This collection includes biographical information, correspondence, newspaper writing and clippings (1928-1961), personal documents, and photographs. Most relate to the career of William T. Anderson.

Letter from Johnson to Mrs. Elizabeth Weaver on business matters while serving in the 27th Regiment Georgia Volunteers.

Five of these letters are from Knight to his wife, Mary, while he was serving as a private and then a sergeant in Company D (which later became Company K) of the 29th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. He described camp conditions and the health of fellow soldiers as they moved from Georgia to Mississippi and back to Georgia. He died in Milltown, Berrien County, GA, of disease. There is also an 1863 letter by S. S. Siler and a military receipt.

Bill of expenses (signed by Thomas Burton, Justice of the Peace), receipt for prisoners, and letter all relating to Murphy transporting felons, Gilshot Thomas and John Black, from Burke County, Georgia, to the Savannah jail, administered by Frederick Long. Murphy is addressed as captain on one of these documents.