- GEORGE WASHINGTON SIGNED DOCUMENT, 1787
Handwritten expense account from Jacob Moore for conveying a slave, Hugh Taylor, from Norfolk to Alexandria, to work for the Potomac Company, submitted October 26, 1787, and...
[more like this] - 2 NASHVILLE CIVIL WAR LETTERS + MS NEWSPAPER2
Nashville-related Civil War Documents, 1 signed by future U.S. president Andrew Johnson (Secretarial signed), the other written at Fort Confiscation, and 1 Mississippi Civil...
[more like this] - CIVIL WAR ARCHIVE OF JACOB K. LONAS,
KNOXVILLECivil War Archive of Jacob Kimberlin Lonas (earlier spelling Lones), Sergeant/Captain, 4th TN Infantry which later became the 1st TN Cavalry. He was born on July...
[more like this] - JOHN DAVIS AND FAMILY ARCHIVEArchive
of items related to John Davis (1770-1853), early surveyor of Nashville, Tennessee, and his family. Includes Davis's will, numerous land documents, survey maps and some slave...
[more like this] - SLAVE ARCHIVE INCL. 68 BILLS OF SALEArchive
of approximately 75 ephemera items, the majority related to slaves purchased by David Morris Harding (1795-1854) and his wife, Fanny Davis Harding of Nashville, Tennessee....
[more like this] - 2 SLAVE DOCUMENTS, NASHVILLE TN & NORTH
CAROLINA2 Slavery related items pertaining to Charles Ordway, Hardee Murfree, and Gen. Thomas Eaton of Tennessee and North Carolina. 1st item: Handwritten one-page inventory...
[more like this] - TN LUNSFORD BRAMLETT ARCHIVE, INCL.
POLK WHITE HOUSE IN...Archive of six (6) documents pertaining to Lunsford Meredith Bramlett, Esq. (1785-1858), Tennessee judge, planter and politician, 8 items total. 1st-2nd...
[more like this] - GROUP OF MIDDLE TN EPHEMERA INC. SLAVE
SALE, 1852 ALAMA...1st item: Slave receipt, recording $425 received from Daniel Montgomery for "Polly aged about 16 and George aged about 12 years," sold by John Fitzhugh,...
[more like this] - 1840'S SLAVE EPHEMERAFramed grouping
of four handwritten receipts for the sale of slaves, circa 1846. Comprising: 1) "Rec'd of Henry D. Smith the sum of three hundred dollars for the purchase of a negro man Davy.....John...
[more like this] - SLAVE DOCUMENT: 1842 BILL OF SALEThis
a handwritten "Bill of Sail (sic)" for a male slave from William Moore to Benjamin Hozettan for the sum of $550. It is dated July, 1842. The slave is named as Macom and is...
[more like this] - 1838 BILL OF SALE FOR THE WHALESHIP
“LEONIDAS” SHEET SIZE 16.75" X 10.5". "LEONIDAS", Pre-printed document with handwritten notations including a physical description of the vessel. Signed by William Henry...
[more like this] - THREE CONFEDERATE $100 INTEREST BEARING
NOTES T-39 G/VG June 24, 1862 Woman carrying water jug on left, Train vignette at center. CR-290 (?), Reverse has three interest paid stamps ?Interest paid to 1st January...
[more like this] - GROUP OF BOOKS ABOUT BLACK HISTORYIncluding:
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, 2010; The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American...
[more like this] - Vice Admiral David G. Farragut signed
carte de visite by Alexander Gardner circa 1865 seated portrait in uniform signed lower margin and verso D.G. Farragut Vice Admiral. Marked Alex. Gardner photographer to the...
[more like this] - Ben E. Green Politician & Colonel Unpublished
Handwritten Memoirs & Related Ephemera 406pp manuscript; 2 pamphlets. Ca 1900. It never ceases to amaze how so many arguments for the causes of the Civil come together combine...
[more like this] - 1783 Charleston slave document, handwritten
estate listing "Memorandum of the appraisement of the goods and chattels of Jole Rountree deceased…includes one negro wench and child, other holdings and cash", at base...
[more like this] - 1849 Georgia slave document, handwritten
letter dated July 5, 1849, sent from H.B. Troutman (Hiram Baldwin Troutman, dates unknown) of Knoxville, Georgia, and addressed to the Hon. E.A. Nisbet (Eugenius Aristides...
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