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Duval, William Pope, 1784-1854. Collection of Florida history : documents & letters, 1822-1892.

Title: Collection of Florida history : documents & letters, 1822-1892.

Includes 28 manuscript and printed items "to illustrate the official life of the State [of Florida], from the courts to the post office, from the banks to a tailor's apprentice indenture" (prelim. sleeve [i] recto). Florida governors represented include William Pope Duval, James E. Broome, and Richard Keith Call. Businesses represented include the Apalachicola Land Company and the Pensacola & Georgia Rail Road Company. Also included are 17 business-related letters. Reflected in the documents are the economic transition of the state from cotton-based and slave-labor plantations to land development by Northerners and the rise of winter-grown produce. The early histories of major cities in the state -- Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and Apalachicola -- are also represented.

ArchivalResource: 1 notebook (49 items) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85823319 View

Lewis family. Papers, 1853-1967.

Title: Papers, 1853-1967.

The collection contains the papers of the Lewis family of Tallahassee, Florida from 1853 to 1967. It includes photographs of the Lewis family and acquaintances, as well as some views of the Tallahassee area. The financial records include correspondence, receipts, bonds, tax materials, deeds, and bank account records of various family members. There are related materials pertaining to the family banking business.

ArchivalResource: 11 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32413241 View

Cabell family. Papers, 1774-1941 (bulk 1831-1879).

Title: Papers, 1774-1941 (bulk 1831-1879).

Chiefly correspondence, 1833-1879, accounts, 1847-1879, bonds, deeds, agreements, and land, legal, and estate papers of Henry Coalter Cabell (1820-1889) of Richmond, Va., while a student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, as a Confederate Army officer, and relating to his law practice and his land and real estate interests. Subjects mentioned in the correspondence include the estate of James Alston (1774- 1850), the Coal Valley Coal Company of Richmond, Va., the James River and Kanawha Company, the Kanawha Salt Company of Charleston, W. Va., the Kentucky and Great Western Railway Company, Norwood High School and College in Nelson County, Va., and the Richmond and York River Railroad Company. Some of the accounts concern visits to mineral springs in Virginia and West Virginia. Also included in the collection are letters, 1831-1838, and commonplace books, 1840-1850, of William H. Cabell (1772-1852) of Richmond, many concerning repairs to his home, "Grey Castle"; correspondence, 1835-1876, and legal papers, 1848-1851, of Edward Carrington Cabell (1816-1896) of Attatulga plantation, Jefferson County, Fla., and Tallahassee, Fla., while a student at the University of Virginia, president of the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad Company, and while serving in the U.S. House of Delegates, including correspondence with his overseer and lists of slaves, and correspondence concerning the Tredegar Company, Richmond, Va.; and estate materials of Ephraim Stanfield (d. 1841) of Hanover County, Va., and John D. Webster (1816?-1873) of Richmond.

ArchivalResource: 886 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30385395 View

Florida. Comptroller's Office. Railroad bonds, 1856-1863.

Title: Railroad bonds, 1856-1863.

The series contains copies of the railroad bonds issued by the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund from 1856 to 1863 which were required by law to be recorded in the Office of the Comptroller. The bond copies for the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, the Florida Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad, and the Florida Rail Road contain the following information: the bond number; the name of the purchaser; the number of coupons attached to the original bond; the signature of the Internal Improvement Board; plus certification that the bonds were recorded in the Comptroller's Office. The Tallahassee Rail-Road bonds contain the same information except for the purchaser's name. On the back of all the bonds is recorded the date of the bond's destruction.

ArchivalResource: 11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32414232 View