Box 5
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Texas: Receipts and invoices: Tax: Falls County, 1879 - 1934
Collection — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Content
From the Series:
The business records series is the largest, comprising the financial correspondence and receipts and invoices documenting the business activities of Absalom Blanchard and his son William A. Blanchard, William T. Lenoir and his wife Mary, and their children. The family being cotton planters, there is extensive documentation on the cotton trade in their correspondence. There are also various documents, including bills of sale, related to the slaves the family owned. Along with receipts and...
Dates:
Other: 1879 - 1934
Utility bills and log, Mobile Cotton Exchange visitor's ticket, 1886
Collection — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Scope and Content
From the Series:
The business records series is the largest, comprising the financial correspondence and receipts and invoices documenting the business activities of Absalom Blanchard and his son William A. Blanchard, William T. Lenoir and his wife Mary, and their children. The family being cotton planters, there is extensive documentation on the cotton trade in their correspondence. There are also various documents, including bills of sale, related to the slaves the family owned. Along with receipts and...
Dates:
Other: 1886
Land deeds and related matters: Mississippi: monroe and Clay counties, 1841 - 1902
Collection — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Scope and Content
From the Series:
The legal documents series is primarily related to land. These documents include deeds to property in Mississippi and Texas from the 1840s to the 1940s, and they show how the family acquired their plantations and how these were later divided with the passing of the generations. Of particular interest are the land grant to a member of the Chickasaw tribe, Ki-am-ma, in 1840 by President Martin Van Buren and two centesimal or hundredth deeds in the names of William A. Blanchard and William T....
Dates:
Other: 1841 - 1902