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Lenoir Plantation records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-585
Scope and Contents
The Lenoir Plantation records contain the personal and business records of the extended Lenoir family in Mississippi and Texas. There is a small amount of correspondence with family and friends, including some Civil War letters, along with other personal material. The largest proportion of the collection materials is concerned with the family’s business activities including financial correspondence, accounts and invoices, deeds, legal materials, and other documents pertaining to the land...
Dates:
1792 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1930
Found in:
Manuscripts
Nannie Herndon Rice Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-24
Dates:
1824 - 1963
Found in:
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Mrs. Mary C. Rambo Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-256
Scope and Contents
Bill of sale for enslaved persons, 1 Civil War letter, permit for supplies and statement of purchases, 2 letters from Texas, 1 contract for share-cropping, letters concerning a War of 1812 pension which was cancelled because of sympathy with the Confederacy. Chiefly Tennessee.
Dates:
1843 - 1866
Found in:
Manuscripts
West Point, Mississippi, Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-296
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers about West Point, Mississippi, collected in WPA days by Mrs. Ed Joiner. Contents: An account of Grierson's Raid; also interviews with ex-enslaved persons.
Dates:
undated
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- Slavery -- Mississippi. 3
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3
- African-Americans. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 2
- Aberdeen (Miss.) 1
- Bills of sale -- United States -- Forms. 1
- Bills of sale. 1
- Clay County (Miss.) 1
- College students -- Mississippi -- History. 1
- Correspondence. 1
- Cotton farmers -- Mississippi. 1
- Family life -- Mississippi. 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848. 1
- Mississippi State University. 1
- Pensions (compensation) 1
- Permits. 1
- Sharecropping -- Mississippi. 1
- Slave narratives. 1
- Slavery -- Mississippi -- History. 1
- West Point (Miss.) 1 ∧ less
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- Blanchard family. 1
- Joiner, Marcella Rose 1
- Lenoir Plantation (Monroe County, Miss.) 1
- Lenoir family. 1
- Rambo, Mary C. 1
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