Boulware family. Boulware family papers, 1824-2009.
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Boulware family papers, 1824-2009.
Correspondence, bills and receipts, account ledgers, and promissory notes generated by the descendants of Muscoe Boulware (1758- 1825) and Nancy Pickett Boulware (1762-1836), in particular the family of their second son, Muscoe Boulware, Jr. (1798-1832). Correspondence documenting relations with family members in Mississippi and Virginia, including letters, 1824-1826, from Mark Boulware, Caroline County, Va., re the purchase of slaves. Materials, 1845-1847, re the education of Thomas and Nancy, children of Muscoe Boulware, Jr., and his wife, Elizabeth McCullough Boulware, at Davidson College and Limestone Springs Female High School. Civil War letters, 1861-1862, of Thomas McCullough Boulware, Co. A, 6th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, to his wife, Mary Jane Vinson Boulware, with references to the disposition of Union prisoners taken at Manassas, sickness and disease in camp, and the lack of coffee and shoes. Other wartime papers document Boulware's work as agent for the Confederate government receiving and weighing corn at Blackstock, S.C., after his discharge from military service on medical disability. Reconstruction materials document T.M. Boulware's relations with freedmen and Freedmen's Bureau officials at Chester, S.C., his efforts to secure reparations for wartime damage to his property, the rental of his plantation lands, and attempts to collect debts. Other items include papers re the education of T.M. Boulware's son, Tommie, at King's Mountain Military School; correspondence between T.M. Boulware and R. Patterson & Co., Philadelphia, re the rental of plantation lands and advances for plantation supplies; and World War I letters of Pvt. Marshall Gray Boulware. Account book (1858-1861, 1880, and 1889-1891) kept by Thomas McCullough Boulware and James R. Watson, including "Expences of moving to Ark[ansas]" listing costs, ca. 1858-1861, of relocation during late antebellum period; and genealogical notes, reputedly in the hand of Mary Mobley Woodward Boulware, wife of Thomas McCullough Boulware II. Genealogical correspondence between A.P. Vinson and T.M. Boulware II, 17 Sept. 1921, re the Patterson and Vinson families, and between Sally Brockenbaugh Martin and Mary Mobley Woodward Boulware, 14 June 1924, re the descendants of Mark Boulware; and cover letter, 16 Sept. 2009, from Barrett Boulware Sutton to Henry G. Fulmer, South Caroliniana Library, transferring the papers.
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