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Hammond, Bryan and Cumming families papers, 1737-1976.

Title: Hammond, Bryan and Cumming families papers, 1737-1976.

Chiefly personal correspondence of related Ga. and S.C. families re social life, politics, and economic conditions during the 19th and early 20th centuries; accounts of travels in the U.S. and in Europe; and history of Silver Bluff plantation, the Redcliffe house and plantation, and other properties owned by the Hammond family. Correspondence, ca. 1880 to 1930, provides information on domestic, economic, and social life in the vicinity of Augusta, Ga., and Beech Island, S.C., through the letters of Harry and Emily Cumming Hammond and their children. Family life in New York City during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century is revealed in the letters of Katharine Hammond Billings and her husband John Sedgwick Billings. Correspondents represented in the papers include John Sedgwick Billings, Katharine Hammond Billings, Henry Harford Cumming, Julia Bryan Cumming, Emily Cumming Hammond, Harry Hammond, Henry C. Hammond, James H. Hammond, Maria Bryan Harford and Julia Hammond Richards. The papers also contain genealogical information of the Clay, Cumming, Fox, Hammond, Spann, and Woolsey families.

ArchivalResource: 45 v.

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Cumming family. Cumming family papers, 1794-1954 (bulk 1815-1864).

Title: Cumming family papers, 1794-1954 (bulk 1815-1864).

The collection consists of papers of Thomas Cumming and the Cumming family of Augusta, Georgia from 1794-1954. The earliest letters are between Thomas and Anne Cumming and their relatives and children, particularly Joseph who resided in Savannah. Letters after 1830 concentrate on Henry Hartford and Julia Bryan Cumming and their children. Of particular interest are letters (1857) from their son Alfred, a West Point soldier, who was in the Utah (Mormon) Expedition. Alfred describes his journey to Salt Lake City; meeting Brigham Young and his followers; and encounters with his uncle, Alfred Cumming, the new territorial governor. Joseph Bryan, on a three-year grand tour of Europe, also wrote to his parents describing his travels. During the Civil War, the correspondence contains letters from Alfred Cumming (10th Georgia Infantry Regiment) mainly from Virginia, Joseph Bryan Cumming (5th Georgia Infantry Regiment) mainly from Mississippi, and from Julien (48th Georgia Infantry Regiment) in Virginia during the Peninsula Campaign, Seven Day's Battles, and later as a prisoner of war on Johnson's Island (Ohio) where he died. Julien's prison letters are addressed to family members and to Henry W. Hubbell of New York and discuss prison life, his health, and supplies he needs.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477427 View