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Duncan and Blackwell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-726
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the papers of various family members stemming from the Duncan and Blackwell family line. This includes materials from the Bias, Beane, Fontaine, Mitchell, and Tardy families as well as other connections. Materials include correspondence, diaries, family bibles, business papers (e.g., sale of cotton receipts), ledgers, estate records, bills of sale for enslaved persons, photographs, and other miscellaneous objects. The bulk of these materials come from the middle- to...
Dates:
1800-1950
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Wallace Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-682
Scope and Content
Farm and estate records of the Wallace family of Noxubee and Winston Counties, Mississippi include a journal which was kept by Isaiah Wallace in the 1830s. The balance of the collection includes account statements, promissory notes and other financial records, and modern history writings. In addition, an 1859 agreement mentions slave Harriet and an 1861 promissory note documents the hire of slave Barthuney. A cased tintype and photographic copy of same depicts James R. Wallace in April 1862...
Dates:
1939 - 2009
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Manuscripts
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- Bias, Elizabeth Duncan, 1858-1937 1
- Bias, Warwick Gatewood, 1853-1921 1
- Blackwell, Nicholas, Dr., 1838-1910 1
- Duncan, Andrew Jackson, 1821-1865 1
- Duncan, William M. , 1816-1858 1