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Watts, Richard M. Receipt for overseer's services [manuscript], 1863 March 17.

Title: Receipt for overseer's services [manuscript], 1863 March 17.

Include receipt which reads,"Received March 17th 1863 of Wm H. Sims Six Hundred dollars in full for my Services as an overseer for the years 1861 and 1862."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647818443 View

Sims, William H., 1820-1890. William H. Sims diary and papers, 1857-1865 [manuscript].

Title: William H. Sims diary and papers, 1857-1865 [manuscript].

Papers include instructions, 1857, to an overseer in Alabama concerning the management of slaves and a fragment of minutes of the first meeting of the Tombigbee Rangers, C.S.A., of which William Henry Sims of Mississippi was 1st sergeant. The diary was kept by William Henry Sims during his imprisonment in a Union Army hospital and military prisons in Tennessee and Kentucky. There are almost daily entries concerning prison conditions, groups interned there, soldier attitudes at the war's end, arrangements for taking loyalty oaths, and so forth. In addition to the diary, there are a few poems, addresses, and miscellaneous notes.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27188722 View

Bailey, William. Papers of William Bailey [manuscript], 1773-1888 (bulk 1800-1888).

Title: Papers of William Bailey [manuscript], 1773-1888 (bulk 1800-1888).

The papers contain correspondence, legal and financial papers primarily re Bailey's tobacco and general store business, Halifax Court House, Va., 1820-1860, as well as his mill, and land and slave sales, his duties as treasurer of Halifax Academy, overseer of the poor, and executor for several estates. There are pertinent receipts, notes, accounts, ledgers, deeds of trust, bonds, partnership articles, deeds, wills, tax lists, summonses and court orders. Considerable material on slaves is present including sales, hiring, 1804-1828, birth records, 1822, 1834-1853, tobacco production and a daily work record from two farms owned by William H. Sims. The collection also contains student material from Episcopal High, 1871-1875, a 1773 land plat from a tract owned by John Randolph, medical prescriptions, an account of a visit to the 1876 Centennial in Philadelphia, an 1826 oration before an academic association, blacksmith accounts and a commonplace book, 1855-1856. Of special note is an 1864 letter from R.H. Fitzhugh, General Ewell's chief engineer, mentioning the evacuation of Atlanta and a conference with Jeremy F. Gilmer, John C. Pemberton and George Washington Custis Lee on changes in Lee's troop dispositions. Other topics include the Roanoke Navigation Company, a Danville mill, and the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 800 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647818513 View

William H. Sims Diary and Papers, 1857-1865

Title: William H. Sims Diary and Papers, 1857-1865

Papers include instructions, 1857, to an overseer in Alabama concerning the management of slaves and a fragment of minutes of the first meeting of the Tombigbee Rangers, C.S.A., of which William Henry Sims of Mississippi was 1st sergeant. The diary was kept by William Henry Sims during his imprisonment in a Union Army hospital and military prisons in Tennessee and Kentucky. There are almost daily entries concerning prison conditions, groups interned there, soldier attitudes at the war's end, arrangements for taking loyalty oaths, and so forth. In addition to the diary, there are a few poems, addresses, and miscellaneous notes.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Sims,William_H.html View