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...
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