Box 4267.004

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This file contains a letter from Liverpool written by a representative of Alston, Finlay, and Company to Mazyck and Bell in Charleston. The letter discusses cotton and tobacco sales, and is written on the same paper as the company's list of "Prices Current of American Produce."

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This file contains a letter from William Mancott of Utica, Ohio, to Henry(?) Woodward, describing in detail a tract of land seven miles from Mill Creek. Mancott refers to questions about whether Woodward's infant daughter can legally own the land in question.

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This file contains one letter addressed to the comptroller of the state of New York, prepared by Hiland Hill Jr., treasurer of the Catskill Mountain Association, listing real estate valuations in the Catskill, New York, area.

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This file contains a letter from Chester Walbridge in Toledo, Ohio, to Adolphus Kreamer in Hartford, Ottawa County, Ontario, inquiring about prices in a land speculation there and requesting repayment of money owed from a prior business transaction. Walbridge says he has already written to Kreamer three times about the matter, and has still received no answer.

Scope and Contents This file contains two letters on the same sheet of paper. The longer of the two was written by John A. Norr from Russellville, Alabama, on January 8, 1844, and concerns the debts and land transactions of a Colonel Jones and James E. Jones. This letter was notarized on May 18, 1844, by Felix G. Norman. The letter by Richard Jones was written from Aberdeen, Mississippi, and dated January 18, 1844. It asks the recipient to "make such disposition of my business as you may deem proper ... ."...

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This file contains a document describing the sale of a parcel of land in Cahaba, Alabama, from Robert and Lucinda Sharp to Peter Mastin, who paid them four hundred dollars for it. The official document, called a "Deed with Warranty and Relinquishment of Dower," was printed in Montgomery, Alabama.

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This file contains the deposition of George Buckner, taken in the town of Hopkinsville, to be read in the Trigg County Circuit Court, Cadiz, Kentucky. The deposition was certified by Isaac H. Caldwell, examiner for Christian County, Kentucky. Buckner answers the court, certifying that certain papers and articles of agreement between William M. Buckner and John Mabry were correct and signed under his supervision.

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This file contains three letters sent to D. McCulloch and Sons in Louisville, Kentucky, from the Swift Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Georgia; the Glencoe Mills, in North Carolina; and A. Martin, Pelican, Saw, and Planing Mills, in New Orleans. The letters discuss samples of cloth ("plaids") and molasses.