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to James Duane

Writes to his son-in-law with family news. Discusses being "greatly pestered with a band of robbers." Requests news from the southern front in the American Revolution, specifically if Nathanael Greene was successful against Lord Cornwallis and...

GLC02537.03

[Authorization for payment of a Posse Comitatus]

Also signed by Andy McDavid and J.H. Lauderback. James Churchill and J.W. Harrul signed as clerks. John Speaker signed as a witness. Fagan, as the U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, authorizes J.H. Lauderback to hire Andy McDavid...

GLC02656

to unknown recipient

The author accidently came across a young deserter named Samuel Young and was in the process of taking him back to camp when the author was accost by a sergeant named Whitney. On the back of his document is a side note about the amount of money...

GLC02669.022

[Certification that Robert Taylor is not married]

This document is a response to the claim that Robert Taylor is married and has abandoned his with and children, stating that neither is true to the best of the authors knowledge. On the back of the document there are notes about day work that appear...

GLC02669.076

Cedartown standard. [Vol. 10, no. 2 (January 20, 1896)]

Features column titled an artist in crime, which is about a detective. Report from the Chairman of the Polk County Exposition on the Cotton States Exposition which took place in Atlanta, an article about elephants and multiple advertisements.

GLC02691.12.14

to William E. Jones

Refers to the deaths of "Pink"; cousin Minerva Henderson, who died of consumption; Jimmy Robinson; and the rumor of the murders of two local families by robbers. Also reports various local weddings. Addressed to Liet. William E. Jones, Fort Merrill...

GLC02711.17

to Nancy E. Jones

Their orders to leave were countermanded. The graves on the battlefield sadden him to think of all the brave men lost on behalf of their country. The mail was robbed and this letter was taken but he found it floating in the river the next morning.

GLC02739.042

to Nancy E. Jones

He was detailed as a Provo guard and sent to protect the Roberts, a slaveholding Confederate family, from being robbed. The women there do no work and he credits their intelligence to the luxury of time to study. He has a room to himself but has...

GLC02739.103

to Joseph Jones and family.

"Our country is Getting very Bad Some Will Steel and Some Will take the Bankrupt law and too lasy to Work."

GLC02739.108

[Receipt for money owed to John G. Blount by North Carolina]

Countersigned by John Clitherall. Expenses billed to the "Publick of North Carolina" include costs of delivering proclamations discontinuing assemblies in various counties and costs for transporting a suspected counterfeiter named James Mansfield.

GLC02450.02