Dec 27, 2014 | Sample Documents
The Home Colony at Davis Bend, Mississippi was established by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1863-64 on land formerly owned by Jefferson Davis and his brother. Residents of the colony farmed some 5,000 acres on the site of the former Davis Bend Plantation, and in 1864...
Dec 22, 2014 | Sample Documents
Although this affidavit of identity was made in Memphis, Tennessee, it reveals that the former slaveholders for Peggy Wells and her son David Wells were Morgan and Mary An Wells of Tippah County, Mississippi. The document also reveals that the former slaveholder of...
Dec 21, 2014 | Sample Documents
Brookhaven, Miss,. November 12th, 1865 I have this day joined in lawful matrimony, James Shields, colored, of 58th USC Inftry, and Elvira Shields, colored, of Brookhaven Miss. James G. Witted Chaplain 58th USC Inf Witness: S.M. Preston Col 58th US Colr’d Inftry...
Nov 23, 2014 | Sample Documents
This register of schoolchildren in Camden, Ouchita County, AR records the names of freed children enrolled in school in February, March, April, May and June of 1867. Within the journal, the record format is quite variable. The first few pages of the register list the...
Nov 23, 2014 | Sample Documents
Within Roll 84 of South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau records is a register of patients at the hospital at Hilton Head, SC. The register records the date of treatment, name of patient and ailment. Although there are column headings for race, age and gender, the...
Nov 22, 2014 | Sample Documents
“Mithel Roberson and Tabaitha Roberson freedman and freedwoman haveing lived together as husband and wife the Rits of Marriage were legally Solemnized by me between them in the Town of Bowling Green Warren County Kentucky Jan 10th 1866 N R Davis Min”...
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