Finding Aids @ Georgia Archives

This series consists of a list of persons who made contracts with freedmen and provide documentation of similar information. It is not known where these contracts are located but they presumably were recorded in the Clerk's office. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of employer; (2) name of freedman (surname usually not given); (3) date contract was recorded, and (4) number of contract (or page).

This series consists of one bound volume which documents the names of the litigants appearing in this court. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) names of plaintiffs and defendants and (2) the box numbers of the Woodruff boxes (supposedly) in which the loose case files are located.

Indexes to the names of the mortgagees and mortgagors recorded in Butts County mortgages. Information recorded includes: (1) the names of mortgagees and mortgagors; (2) type of transaction, that is, mortgage, lien or note; (3) date of transaction; (4) date recorded and, (5) book and page number. Please see RG 118-01-001, Butts County Mortgages.

Issue dockets (sometimes called Bench or Bar dockets) are used to document civil cases docketed for trial by the Court. This series consists of bound volumes that document the civil complaints filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) names of the principal parties involved; (2) date and term of court; (3) names of attorneys; (4) case number, and (5) disposition of case.

This series is composed of bound volumes which contain declaratory statements, appraisements of property, bills of complaint, promissory notes, petitions, land plats and similar records that were accepted or declined by the court as evidence presented to the court to document a civil complaint.

This series consists of a bound volume which documents the criminal charges filed in the court for the date span listed and the supoenas issued by the court as a result of such charges. Information presented in this volume includes: (1) name of the defendant; (2) names of witnesses; (3) designation of either plaintiff or defendant or both requesting subpoena be issued; (4) date subpoena was received; (5) date subpoena was served, and (6) name of person serving subpoena.

Hammack wrote his father, describing the countryside around Camp McCulloch, 200 miles west of Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was doing business under Dr. Massie(?) "for General Pike's Brigade."

Accounting record of the firms Bell and Williamson and Crawford and Williamson. Names of accounts, services, and fees are recorded.

Includes 1863 list of enslaved people and year end settlements with them; 1868 farm accounting narrative entries and other narratives about farming plans, the Masonic Templar's Pledge, and temperance; and other entries and notes about legal cases handled by Crawford, probably in Baldwin County, Georgia.

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 Civil War letters run from 1864 - 1865 and discuss William's camp life outside of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the Battle of Nashville, and the success of an African American regiment. Other letters are mostly incoming from family members in other states, including the Hammontree family, W. M. Phillips of Arkansas, and W. U. Griffith.

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.

Records of general contractors and builders who supplied lumber, mouldings, shingles, rails, store fronts, and furniture for public spaces. One folder is correspondence with the Columbian Iron Works of Chattanooga, Tennessee, who supplied the company with a sawmill.

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.

The collection includes business papers pertaining to Thigpen's many ventures (he was a railroad agent, automobile dealer, and a parter with L.C. Thigpen and Company), including his work as Washington County Ordinary. Personal papers are from family and friends or are personal business (banking, insurance, etc.). Included is Senator Thomas Hardwick's correspondence regarding the 1918 senatorial election. Also references to World War I and the 1918 flu epidemic.

The book is a record of men examined for service in the Confederate army, citing date, name, place of birth, age, profession, and remarks. Many of latter state "capable of bearing arms;" others are brief descriptions of medical conditions.

Letters from Ross, a Confederate soldier in 2nd Battalion Georgia Volunteers, Company C, serving in Petersburg and Norfolk, Virginia, to his sister Ella C. Ross.

"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.

Photographs from Judge Worrill's early life in the 13th Regt. U.S. Cavalry, Fort Riley, KS, and from his judicial career, 1931-ca. 1958, in the Pataula Judicial Circuit, the Georgia State Court of Appeals, and on the Georgia Supreme Court. Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1926-1953. Incoming letters, 1960-1972, to Worrill in a Virginia nursing home from many old acquaintances, such as Herman E. Talmadge, Marvin Griffin, George C. Wallace, and lesser-known figures.

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.