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Stirling, Lewis, 1786-1858. Lewis Stirling family papers, 1791-1938 (bulk 1830-1860).

Title: Lewis Stirling family papers, 1791-1938 (bulk 1830-1860).

Personal and business papers of four generations of the Stirling family comprise this collection. Papers relating to Alexander Stirling (1805-1819) include personal and business correspondence, slave bills of sale and estate documents. The bulk of the collection relates to Lewis Stirling and the management his plantations, personal property, and land holdings; papers also reflect antebellum plantation life, plantation economy, education, health, social activities, and travel. Papers contain land grants, land surveys, slave bills of sale, wills and successions. Financial papers consists of bills of sale concerning cotton and sugarcane production, promissory notes, bank drafts, lists of taxable property, and receipts for travel, goods, services and state and parish taxes. Papers also contain lists of personal items allocated to slaves, a sharecropper record book (1904-1908), labor time books (1865-1884), ration books (1828-1874), calling cards, advertisements, death notices, newspapers clippings, and small artifacts (pen holder, leather memo pad, and embroidery). Collection also contains registers of slaves, crop conditions, operating expenses, weather conditions, travel expenditures, and relations with overseers and factors. Papers after 1860 consist primarily of bills for plantation, household and personal items, along with family correspondence describing the migration to and life in Texas during the Civil War and labor problems with freedmen.

ArchivalResource: 4.24 linear ft.

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