Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Record of general merchandise sold (daybook, 1826) and bought (invoice book, 1825 - 1826). Inserted in the daybook are several bound pages recording goods bought from H. Sayre and Company. Most of the goods in the invoices were bought from Jacob P. Turner and Company.

The scrapbooks cover from two (2) to eight (8) years per volume. They are filled with newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs and materials from the year's activities. The High School Good Citizens program begun in 1934 was initially awarded only to girls, but in 1975 boys were included. All students in good standing with the State Board of Education are eligible. A Clayton County history essay contest was the highlight of the annual February History month celebrations.

This collection includes the Avalona Church register, which contains lists of pastors, members, baptisms, and deaths.

Letter to Mason's mother, Mrs. Tamar Mason, in Buckeye, Georgia, January 4, inquiring about the effects of Sherman's march to the sea. Benjamin, stationed at Camp Rescue, Macon, Georgia, could get a furlough from the 6th Regiment Georgia Militia Company G, if their farm had been destroyed.

Record of goods sold by B.R. Herty, druggist and bookseller of Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia.

Record of daily merchandise sold, citing name of account, goods purchased, and cost. The top of each page bears the heading "Bachalors Retreat."

This collection mostly consists of World War I, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War military records and related materials. Also included are Bailey family photographs and personal correspondence. Items relate to the following individuals: Herbert H. Bailey, Henry J. Bailey, J.O. Bailey, Charles Lindberg Bailey, J.E. Bailey, Archie C. Odum, Joe Odum, Wallace Wildenradt Sr. and Jr., Annie L. Bailey, Fridich Andrew Rathman, Gary Odum, Dorothy Bailey, Joseph Lester Butterworth.

Record of Baldwin County, Georgia, 1821-1823, blacksmithing services, citing name of account, description of work, and cost. The end of the volume contains some 1863 entries.

Primarily lists of notes payable, possibly to the Bank of Darien, McIntosh County, Georgia, citing names of customers and amounts. Also included are "Bills of Exchange," possibly recording loans through other banks in Milledgeville, Savannah, Marion, and Sterling, Georgia, and New York, citing names and amounts, 2 pages.

Collections on accounts in the Milledgeville branch of the bank.

Record of customers' transactions with the Bank of Richland.

Land grants, deeds (mostly Meriwether County, Georgia), letters, and genealogical research of the Hinton family. Banning family letters contain one by George (1848-1916), written from a relative's house in Connecticut in 1868, about current political views.

This account book includes record of shoes, clothing, and fabric sold, citing date, name of account, goods sold, and cost. Some of the accounts include the Barnesville City Council and Barnesville Manufacturing Company. One page cites E.L. Rogers' account with the Barnesville Savings Bank.

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.

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.

"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).

The collection includes letters by John T. Burns, 1858 - 1863 and records of his wife's family: Jeptha V. Harris correspondence, early legal documents, and letters among Mrs. Burns, her sister, Sallie, and her daughter, Martha, which document the disintegration of the family after the Civil War. Records contain additional Johnstone, Dickson, and Sanders family information, names of slaves in early records, and many graphics.

Record of carriage shop work, believed to be in Hancock County, Georgia, citing date, name of account, work done, and cost. The front of the volume records sundries bought for the shop in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. The back of the volume contains entries for lodging and working and an inventory of stock and unfinished work belonging to Burritt and Turner. Some of the entries suggest that Jacob P. Turner and Mayfield and W. Burritt were major customers instead of proprietors.

This collection includes letters and legal documents from Burke, Pulaski, and Baldwin County, Georgia. In one, Robert, Sr., named five slaves in a deed of gift to Benjamin, 1829. Leroy Burton wrote about travel to Louisiana. Also included is a deed to Lewis Bond for Lee County, Georgia, property.

Twenty audiotapes and typescripts of oral interviews talk about mountain life in general, farm life, schools, religious affairs and other amusements, children, and the Blalock family in particular.