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Alabama historical documents collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0037
Overview
Miscellaneous deeds, certificates, bills of sale, legal suits, court orders, and bonds pertaining to various regions or persons in Alabama. Includes a copy of the post-Civil War loyalty oath.
Dates:
1826-1866
John Gorman Barr papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0116
Abstract
Contains correspondence to and from John Gorman Barr, as well as other papers of this University of Alabama student, Tuscaloosa attorney, and United States Consul in Australia, known for his humorous writings.
Dates:
1840-1858
Francis Bugbee papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0228
Overview
Consists principally of personal correspondence from Francis Bugbee's family and close friends concerning family and personal news. as well as genealogical materials relating to the Bugbee family and many other Massachusetts and Connecticut families. There is very little business correspondence or any information concerning his years as trustee, judge, or legislator.
Dates:
1818-1879; Majority of material found within 1818 - 1820
John Cocke Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0328
Overview
Business correspondence, accounts, legal documents, and other materials (including the selling and purchasing of slaves) of this 19th century Marengo County, Alabama, plantation owner.
Dates:
1810-1899
Thomas S. Jordan Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0791
Abstract
Papers of this Birmingham, Alabama, dentist and his family.
Dates:
1884 - 1928
Stephen N. Noble Legal Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1050
Abstract
Deeds for land in Calhoun County, Alabama, a United States Land Office document, and West Anniston Land and Improvement Company deeds. The collection also contains administrator's records for Stephen Noble Sr. and papers pertaining to land in Haralson County, Georgia.
Dates:
1888 - 1911
Wilcox County, Alabama Court Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1554
Abstract
This collection consists of a bound volume, containing a listing of cases, judgements, commissions, and fees for the county, circuit, and chancery courts in Monroe, Montgomery, Mobile, and Wilcox counties, with the bulk of entries relating to Wilcox Count. Also contains entries from the Wilcox County Circuit Court execution docket, 1840-1844.
Dates:
1841 - 1844
Ashville Railroad Company Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0090
Abstract
Photocopies of resolutions about the formation of the company, legal documents, printed maps, certificates of incorporation, and board meeting notices related to the Ashville Railroad Company, 1882-1884.
Dates:
1882 - 1884
James Austin Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview
A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates:
1898-1941
State v. Orr and Stovall Depositions
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1338
Abstract
Unsigned depositions of James B. Tatom and Dr. Henry Pendleton regarding the death of a slave, Jerry, belonging to John Tatom. Location unknown.
Dates:
1848
United Daughters of the Confederacy, Arkansas Division, Confederate veterans' documents
Collection
Identifier: W-0034
Overview
Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.
Dates:
1848-1941
Captain Slick collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0274
Overview
Numerous legal papers pertaining to the slander case of John Berry versus James Latham, in Jackson and Madison Counties, Alabama, 1830-34, and that of Alanson Huff versus Cowart et al., Madison County, 1831-1833. These appear to have been collected by James W. Bragg for a paper delivered to the Alabama Historical Association in 1957. A photocopy of Bragg's paper, "Captain Slick, Arbiter of Early Alabama Morals," and another by Jack K. Williams, "Crime and Punishment in Alabama, 1819-1940" are...
Dates:
1830-1834
Henry De Lamar Clayton Sr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0313
Abstract
The personal, legal, military, and administrative papers, of this Alabama politician, Confederate general, and University of Alabama president.
Dates:
1840-1925
James White McClung Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0945
Abstract
This collection includes the personal and business papers of James White McClung (1798-1848), an attorney in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, and state representative for that county, as well as correspondence of various members of his family.
Dates:
1820 - 1891
Ralph Wyckoff Libel Suit Legal Files
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3636
Overview
The legal papers of the lawyer hire to represent the New York Times in defense of the libel suit stemming from an article by Harrison Salisbury , published on 12 April 1960, entitled "Fear and Hatred Grip Birmingham."
Dates:
1960 - 1964
Garnett Stancil Bibb County, Alabama, Court Record
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1335
Scope and Contents
Stancil's "Criminal Docket and Fee Book" from the Bibb County, Alabama, Justice Court, 1945-1950. It includes a Justice of the Peace docket, 1950, records, one case, and a list of marriages, 1947-1948.
Dates:
1945 - 1950
Early Alabama Land Grants and Applications for Purchase
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0465
Overview
Applications for grants and for the purchase of land, mainly in Marengo and Washington counties in Alabama. There are also a few other legal documents pertaining to disputed applications.
Dates:
1812 - 1846
Perry County, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0139
Abstract
Letters and other documents donated by a source in Perry County, Alabama. The collection consists of eight letters to Elias Benson. There is also one summons order included in the Elias Benson series. Another series contains the will of Philip Smith of South Carolina. The Thomas and Mary Jones series contains three statements of debt made to John E. Cook, along with an indenture statement and draft. The final series includes miscellaneous documents including deed certification, court records,...
Dates:
1796 - 1898
Collection pertaining to the death of Martin, enslaved earthworks laborer for the Confederacy in Charleston, South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4341
Scope and Contents
Eleven documents dated between September 14, 1863, and January 21, 1864, related to the conscripted labor and death of Martin, an enslaved man, and the evaluations and repayment to Thomas W. Chiles, a slaveowner. Martin, 24 years old, was conscripted by the Confederate government to build earthworks at a strategic location on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. Provided out of obligation to the Confederate Army, Martin suffered intensive labor and poor, disease-ridden conditions that caused his...
Dates:
1863-09-14 - 1864-01-21
Charles Wiggins Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1553
Abstract
A collection of a Jasper, Alabama attorney's correspondence and legal documents, 1916-23.
Dates:
1916 - 1923
Isaac Cannon and Mordecai F. Doughty legal documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0268
Overview
Photocopies of court documents from the Tuscaloosa County (Alabama) Probate Court, regarding the estates of Isaac Cannon and Mordecai F. Doughty
Dates:
1876-1890
Five Certificates Attesting to the Service of African American Sailors during the Civil War
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4149
Overview
The affidavits in this collection confirm the service of African American sailors during the Civil War
Dates:
1866-1869
John W. Jones Legal Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4197
Overview
Photocopies of court documents concerning the sale of property at auction in Fayette County, Alabama.
Dates:
1901 March 22
Septimus D. Cabaniss papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0252
Abstract
Legal and personal papers of the Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, attorney, S.D. Cabaniss, who served as executor for the estate of Samuel Townsend. Also includes materials of other Huntsville attorneys and of the S.D. Cabaniss family.
Dates:
1820-1937
Buford Boone papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0187
Abstract
Correspondence, scrapbooks, litigation papers, speeches, editorials, etc., of this Pulitzer Prize winner and long-time Tuscaloosa News editor.
Dates:
1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968
Edward F. McCrossin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0950
Overview
Contains personal papers and company records.
Dates:
Unknown
Eddy Lanier King Gilmore papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0572
Overview
Compositions, scrapbooks, correspondence, and clippings of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Eddy Lanier King Gilmore, of Selma, Alabama, and his Russian-born wife, Tamara Kolb-Chernashovaya, a ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. The bulk of material is from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Dates:
circa 1940 - 1967
Woodward Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1577
Overview
An extensive collection, including business and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, and other materials of this Birmingham, Alabama, family, which owned and operated the Woodward Iron Company.
Dates:
1829 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1866 - 1950
Austin family collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0095
Abstract
A collection of genealogical information on the Austin, Hutto, Lambert and Knox families. It also contains family correspondence, photographs, and legal documents.
Dates:
1887-1980
Barton and Stewart law firm records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0121
Abstract
Daybook and docket, 1827-32, of this Tuscaloosa law firm.
Dates:
1827-1832; Majority of material found within 1827 - 1829
Nimrod E. Benson deeds
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0140
Abstract
Two deeds recording the conveyance of land in Montgomery County, Alabama, by Nimrod E. Benson to George Whitman, 19 February 1830 and 2 April 1832.
Dates:
1830, 1832
Alabama Circuit Court, 17th District, Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0055
Overview
A collection of court records from the Alabama Circuit Court's 17th District, including minutes and trial, appearance, and subpoena dockets, 1815-1835.
Dates:
1815-1835
Alabama Circuit Court, 23rd District, records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0056
Overview
Primarily records of suits for debt, arranged chronologically, by circuit court and county court, including judge's dockets.
Dates:
1809-1926
William and Crawford L. Brown family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3759
Overview
Documents relating to the Mississippi and Alabama plantations of the Brown family, including bills of sale for slaves; receipts for tool repair, clothing, dry goods; tax receipts listing the number of slaves; business letters; and various legal agreements and other court documents.
Dates:
1834-1861
Kennedy, Alabama, Mayor's Docket
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3997
Overview
Docket from the Kennedy, Alabama, mayor's office
Dates:
1903-1942
Cunningham Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4011
Overview
Correspondence, maps, newspapers, and photographs of this West Alabama family
Dates:
1834-1979
Marlin Thrasher Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4107
Overview
Legal documents and receipts, primarily from Fayette and Lamar Counties of west Alabama, covering much of the nineteenth century.
Dates:
1837-1905
James Q. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1290
Overview
Contains a certificate from the Marion Military Institute, 1898, letters of correspondence 1892 -1939, financial receipts, newspaper clippings, telegrams 1918, legal documents from his election time period as Attorney General of Alabama 1918-1930, personal papers, notes and remarks as his time as judge 1930-1940's.
Dates:
unknown
St. John family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1330
Overview
Legal papers related to property, as well as personal and business letters
Dates:
1852-1907
John S. Lackey papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1780
Abstract
Five legal documents, dated 1821-67, from or about Lawrence County, Alabama, three of which pertain to John. S. Lackey.
Dates:
1821-67
Allen Howison papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2321
Overview
Letters, business records, and bank receipts from the late 1800s to the early 1900s
Dates:
1900s
Bogy and Smith Families genealogy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0180
Abstract
A miscellany of materials related to the Bogy and Smith families. The former were French immigrants of the early nineteenth century who appear to have settled, variously, in the Vine and Olive Colony of Alabama (Demopolis), around Arkansas Post, and around New Madrid, Missouri, while the latter were the families of Steven and Mary Jane Pitt Smith of Green and Choctaw Counties, Alabama, and Ivy Furman Smith and Mary Jane Morrison Smith of Green and Marengo Counties, Alabama.
Dates:
undated
Bootlegging Court records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0188
Abstract
One ledger containing court records of cases relating to bootlegging and illegal distillery operations.
Dates:
1871-1881
James Boykin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0196
Abstract
Papers of an important Dallas County, Alabama, planter family, including correspondence, household and plantation records, materials regarding James Boykin’s cavalry unit during the Civil War, and papers of Boykin's descendants down to the mid-twentieth century.
Dates:
1833-1967; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1870
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands labor contract
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0230
Overview
Labor contract dated 16 June 1865 with estate of Greene Underwood of Dallas Co., Alabama, binding former slaves to plantation in return for food, clothing and medical care
Dates:
1865 June 16
John H. Caldwell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0258
Overview
Business correspondence, legal papers, and reports of land agent for state of Alabama. Does not cover his entire term, 1879-1902.
Dates:
1886-1902
Proctor Carlisle legal papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0276
Overview
The draft of a claim and an answering paper, dated June 1861, relative to the seizure of the British schooner "Tropic Wind" by the U.S.S. Monticello
Dates:
1861 June
T. O. Harris Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0304
Abstract
Materials saved by the chief of Marion, Alabama, police including legislative reports, police reports, photos, newspaper articles, letters, affidavits concerning demonstrations in Marion, Selma, and Montgomery, Alabama.
Dates:
1959-1966
Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0314
Overview
The majority of this collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence. It also contains speeches, newspaper clippings, legal documents, personal letters, and a scrapbook related to Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr's death.
Dates:
1887-1952
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