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Richardson family. Correspondence, 1861 June 6 - 1861 September 14.

Title: Correspondence, 1861 June 6 - 1861 September 14.

Nine of these items are letters from Private George R. Richardson, Company I, 20th Regiment of Virginia Infantry, to his father or mother in Brunswick County. The remaining three items are letters to Richardson's family from Captain Joseph Jones, commander of Company I, R.L. Chichy, who served with Richardson, and Caroline E. Mayo, nurse in a private hospital in Richmond where Richardson died in September, 1861, at age 19.

ArchivalResource: 12 items (28 p.)

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Papers of the Richardson and Nelson families, 1765-1935.

Title: Papers of the Richardson and Nelson families, 1765-1935.

Chiefly consisting of land papers, wills, tax receipts, and business papers from firms in Charleston and Sumter, S.C., documenting ownership and management of land and slaves, and antebellum economic activities. Also including genealogical information and corresspondence with the Murray, Bonneau, Smith, Screven and Hart families. Undated plat, for three hundred acres of land of John James documenting the Jamesville Race Course Field, the Nelson Ferry and Old Mill roads; letters, 1829, James B. Richardson with John P. Richardson, re settlement of a brother's estate including the Sand Hill land; stock certificate, 1 Jan. 1840, S.C. Canal and Railroad Company, signed by James Gadsden; stock certificate, to James M. Nelson, re five shares for construction of the Camden branch of the South Carolina Railroad Company. Family history, 16 Feb. 1935, by Mary Thomson Nelson, re family activities during the Civil War; plat, 24 Sept. 1845, Sumter District, S.C., re showing survey of 8,754 acres of land granted to John P. Richardson, certified by S.H. Boykin. Also including 4 volumes, ca. 1821-1909, diary interleaved in an 1854 almanac, including "Our Marriage Vow," 17 Feb. 1909, of Vanderhorst Guignard Nelson and Mary Thomson Richardson; and school atlas, inscribed Woodville Academy [Greenwood, S.C.], "William B. Richardson."

ArchivalResource: 296 items.

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