Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

Collection includes minutes and a few pages of membership lists in the first volume.

Bostwick's letter to "Aunt and Granma."

Hopkins' account book (1857 - 1872), a Civil War letter (1862), and a teacher's contract (1876) make up this collection. Most of the volume was used as a mathematics copybook, for personal accounts, as a brief diary (1861, 1862, and 1870), and records of the DeKalb Mills (1870 - 1872).

Contains data for each weekly pay period, citing date, name of employee, number of hours, wages per day, and weekly wages. Employees' names are listed by department.

Letters from Twiggs County, Georgia, Washington County, Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama among the Grist, Bryan, and Grimes families, mainly by Frederick Grist in North Carolina and a Sarah Bryan of Washington County, Georgia, probably his wife's niece. Some letters mention slaves and freedmen. Early letters describe settling in Twiggs County, Georgia, in 1813 and traveling through Alabama in 1828. There is also genealogical information.

Record of meal ground by this unnamed company in Hancock County, Georgia, citing date, name of account, description of amount and type of goods milled, and cost.

Record of cotton insured. Cites policy number, name and residence of assured, date of policy, amount insured, rate, amount of premium, and description of cotton and warehouse buildings. The undated index pages were used as a museum visitor register, probably for the Tallahassee, Florida, Junior Museum.

The Gum Creek Primitive Baptist Church minute book also lists members and some death dates.

Two letters from Griswold to a Merrit Camp in Logansville, Georgia, about a cotton gin Camp bought from him. The letters were written for Griswold by A. N. Gunnison. In addition there is a three-page undated biography of Gunnison written in the 20th century by Cecil W. Anderson.

Letters from a War of 1812 soldier to his wife, describing military camp life. Family information is filed in the Library.

Slack's LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia, medical account book gives the name of patient, address, age, date of treatment, general health, symptoms, prescriptions, changes in condition, and payment. African-American patients are identified by race, and the volume is indexed.

A work agreement between the above farmer and a group of freedman in the Freeman, May, and Middleton (?) families in Early County, Georgia, witnessed by agent James H. Wade of the Freedman's Bureau.

Record of general merchandise sold, citing date, name of account, type of goods, and cost. Each page bears the heading "Iron Works" and the date.

The collection contains two letters from Francis Marion Hail to his wife Laura during his Civil War service in 1863 and 1864, the last written Feb. 25, and describing the battle 20 miles east of Lake City, Florida. Later letters are by F. P. Singleton to J. W. Hale with an undated cure for mad dog bite written on the back by Flora E. Hale; Emma Cowan to her mother, Lucy Hale; and Nettie or Nellie Cowan to her grandmother Hale.

Most of the letters are from Albany, Georgia, with one from Augusta and an early one from Quincy, Massachussetts. Mary A. Hamilton Kendall wrote to her father and sisters about daily life in Georgia in the 1850s. Topics include weather, both white and African American neighbors, her husband's business, their health, and her first pregnancy. There are also a few letters by siblings and in-laws about her death and the custody of her children.

The papers include a series of letters written during the Civil War between James E. Hancock (of the 5th Regiment, Georgia Militia, Company J), and his wife, Martha Gay Hancock, of Colquitt County, Georgia, during June and July of 1864, during the time of the battles around Atlanta. There are also a great many documents of family land transactions and other legal matters in Colquitt, Lowndes, Irwin, and Thomas Counties, Georgia.

The collection combines the personal letters of the Harden family from Watkinsville, Clarke County, Georgia, and the Pruitts of Franklin County, Georgia. Letters give information about family relations, business and trade, and medicine. Slaves are listed in the legal papers, and Phi Delta post office records document the business of a dead hamlet. Other surnames found in the records are: Stokes, Connally, Neal, Georgiauvain, Murray, and De LaPerriere.

The interview describes Harmon's World War II experiences as a cavalry officer who fought in an infantry capacity in the South Pacific islands and the Philippines and then was sent, after the Japanese surrender, to secure part of the coast of the bay where General MacArthur was to conduct the shipboard signing of surrender terms.

Letters by Harvey (one by his brother, Seaborn Johnson or S. J.) to his sister, Martha S. Hightower, about his life in the Civil War. He enlisted in the 20th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Company G; was elected second lieutenant in 1864, and was wounded shortly afterwards at Wilderness, Virginia.

Letters addressed to Alice and Mrs. Fletch Hawkins from family and friends, most in Vanns Valley, Floyd County, Georgia.

The letter was written on August 21, 1864 in the midst of the siege of Atlanta.

Most papers concern sale of various land lots in Atlanta, but also included are records of the Steiner and Emery [Real Estate] Company, the Edgewood District Sunday School Association (Methodist), the Atlanta City Railway, and the Kirkwood Graded School.

Record of merchandise sold by Freeman of Carnesville, Franklin County, Georgia. Includes name of account, date, goods sold, and cost.

Correspondence, business, and legal records of Henry Gray Turner, primarily from his tenure as a United States Congressman, 1880 - 1896. Also included in this collection are the papers of James O. Morton, Henry's father-in-law; Civil War letters of Simeon L. Morton, Henry's brother-in-law, who served in the 18th Georgia Battalion; Simeon Morton Turner, Henry and Lavinia's fourth child and member of the state legislature, 1913-1933; and E. A. Turner, a nephew of S. M. Turner.

This accounting volume consists of three parts: 1) 1822, "Account[s] in the Bar," citing also payments for meals and livery services, name of customer, date, number of servants, and cost in what was apparently a tavern; 2) 1828 - 1830, a record of Taylor's property surveying and Superior Court transactions, citing name of account (indexed), date, and cost; and 3) 1830 - 1839, subscription lists, citing names of subscribers and newspapers and cost.

This portion of a ciphering copybook contains Allegations (Alternate and Medial), Exchange, Loss/Gain, Single/Double Fellowship, Double Rule of Three, and other archaic calculations.

Pages 1 - 10 of the Account Book list amounts paid by each member for initiation, fines, and assessments, 1895 - 1899. Pages 79 - 82 list cash receipts and disbursements for the same years. It also contains an itemized statement for Andy McElroy's services as an 1898 delegate to the Augusta convention.

Hilliard L. Currier recorded elevations, distances and topographical sketches from the initial survey of the Western and Atlantic's route from the Tennessee border to the Chattahoochee River at what became Atlanta, Georgia. Recipes for preparing meat appear on p. 3. Also included is a Currier family history by the donor. See the records of the Western & Atlantic Railroad (RG 1-1-65) for more information.

This collection includes letters to Hiram Thomas Wade (Cousin Tom [H.T.]) of Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia, from Elijah C. Wade, a schoolteacher in Mississippi and Texas, about his work and family. Genealogical information in the form of notes, legal documents, and other letters.

This collection includes pages from board of directors and annual meetings minute books and company stock forms (cancelled). The company charter and correspondence were found loose in the books.

The minute book also includes membership lists of white and African American members.

Correspondence (1836 - 1840) between Georgia and Europe relating to a supposed Holmes estate in England. Photocopies and transcriptions (1972) included Wilson family pages from two Bibles, 1850 and 1873.

Turner entries beginning in 1843 record the sales of unspecified merchandise, citing date, name of account, and cost. The Hopkins entries are randomly arranged and include: 1857-1867, concerning churchgoing; 1865-1867 daily activities of John Riley Hopkins; his inventory of mechanical tools; accounts for turning wood; records of goods and equipment purchased in Atlanta; and accounts of fabrications at the Beaver Ruin Novelty Works.

The collection includes listings of purchasers and the items they purchased at the auction of Howell McLemore's effects in 1841; an account of the disposal of Howell McLemore's goods by the administrators of his estate; slave birth records (written after 1847); and a deed of gift from Howell's son Chesley B. to his own daughter by his first wife before he remarried in 1849. Some of these documents would have been recorded in Emanuel County official records.

Business letter book kept by Gordon while he worked in Atlanta as an attorney for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association and as lobbyist for various insurance companies.

Unpublished family history and genealogical notes, written in the early 1900s by Hugh Brock.

Two letters are by Hugh about his grandfather, Solomon D. Dorsey, and other genealogical matters. The third item is a "This is Your Life" composition written for and about Sallie Kate Cooper, a missionary to Korea who had retired back to Georgia after fifty years of service.

This collection includes handwritten histories, scrapbooks, and installation programs.

This collection includes a record book of goods sold by a general store, believed to be Hunter's Store in Morgan County, Georgia, citing date, type of goods, and cost.

Records include the constitution, bylaws, and rules of order of Oostanaula Tribe, no. 38; Official Report of Great Council of Georgia, 1951 and 1953; list of Past Great Sachems; correspondence and announcements of meetings. Also contain resolutions opposing the integration of Georgia schools. Records are from Floyd County, Hall County, and Atlanta, GA.

Material dealing with states' rights, integration, segregation, electoral politics, communism, anti-Semitism, and racism from the point of view of the political right wing. Documents are of the following types: broadsides, cartoons, newspaper clippings, newspapers [THE AUGUSTA COURIER (Augusta, Georgia) and THE CITIZENS COUNCIL (Jackson, Mississippi)], pamphlets, public correspondence, speeches, and tracts.

This collection includes correspondence relating to a petition to the national association permitting the Georgia delegation members to assemble periodically in Atlanta.

The bulk of the collection consists of the records of the state meeting: notes, minutes, correspondence, publications, news clippings, photographs, audio tapes, a computer printout, and a film.