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Florida, British East, West and Territorial, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi miscellaneous documents, 1773-1868.

Title: Florida, British East, West and Territorial, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi miscellaneous documents, 1773-1868.

Papers, correspondence, advertisements and voter depositions. Grace (a schooner), South Carolina rice, St. Augustine harbor, trade, Robert Chatherwood, St. Augustine judges, J.W. Haley, John Dollar, John Grau, Savannah, Georgia, the Commission for Draining Long Savannah, Charles Drayton, Thomas O. Cliett, J. Mathews, R. Wainright, William Stephens, Seaborne Jones Esq., Augusta, Georgia, Georgia Continental Artillery, land, Governor Houston of Georgia, Joseph Lewis, Colonel John Becker, South Carolina, Martin Armstrong, Joseph Kershaw, John Chesnut, Ely Kershaw, William Ancrum, Aron Loocock, Old English, voter depositions, Mississippi, Congress, Brandywine, Mississippi, D.M. Dickinson, Jefferson Hotel, Mississippi, W.A. Gordon and the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50671540 View

Jethro Sumner Papers, 1775-1791, (bulk 1781-1782)

Title: Jethro Sumner Papers, 1775-1791 (bulk 1781-1782)

Jethro Sumner (1733?-1785) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army. Sumner served in the Virginia militia,1755-1761; was justice of the peace, 1768, and sheriff, 1772-1777, of Bute (now Warren) County, N.C.; and was colonel of the 3rd Battalion, North Carolina Continentals, 1776-1778, and brigadier-general 1779-1780. The collection contains Revolutionary War military correspondence of Continental Brigadier General Jethro Sumner. The bulk of the collection relates to the period 1781-1782, when Sumner was raising troops for General Nathanael Greene, whom he reinforced at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, and while he was in charge of forces in North Carolina. Letters are chiefly concerned with strategic matters including reports on engagements and the movement of British forces, procurement of arms and supplies, and issues of manpower including drafting of men and desertion. A few items pertain to his earlier service in the North. Among the correspondents are Martin Armstrong, Reading Blount, Thomas Burke, John B. Ashe,Baron Steuben, Alexander Martin, Benjamin Lincoln, Nathanael Greene, John Alexander Lillington, William Christmas, William R. Davie, Thomas Eaton, Joseph Hewes, Willie Jones, Nicholas Long, James Cole Mountflorence, Benjamin Seawell, H. Tatum, and Hugh Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 390 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00705/ View

Armstrong, Martin, fl. 1739-1808. Collection, 1784-1806.

Title: Collection, 1784-1806.

Consists of correspondence and reports of Martin Armstrong, entry taker for the government of North Carolina, before and after statehood for Tennessee. Contains land grant information for Middle Tennessee.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28204626 View