Box 5751 Multiple Items

Series Description From the Series: Includes materials pertaining to the Greensboro Light Artillery Guard (including a damaged pamphlet of by-laws), letters of introduction for John Cocke and John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo, Virginia, a slave's witness certificate and a list of slaves sent to Alabama in 1840, newspaper clippings from West Alabama newspapers, Masonic certificates, and the funeral notice of John Cocke. Also contained are an 1857 manual for St. Mary's School, various memos and a memo book, a recipe, a cover-slip...

Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists of ledgers containing Land Commission correspondence; applications for land in Mississippi and Alabama territories; copies of land grants from England, France and Spain to residents in Mobile; marriage contracts; wills; and plats of grants, 1783-1813. Ledger 17 contains diary entries by James E. Henderson of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry, who was assistant provost marshall in Alabama in 1865. Several ledgers have been indexed by name.The collection also...