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Boyd, S. S. S.S. Boyd letter, 1838 Aug. 15.

Title: S.S. Boyd letter, 1838 Aug. 15.

Letter to S.S. Boyd of Natchez, Miss., from a New York correspondent regarding commercial matters, the resumption of specie payments by banks, and the visit to New York of the Mississippi orator, U.S. Representative S.S. Prentiss.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter.

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852. Autograph letter signed : New Orleans, to S.S. Prentiss 1842 Dec. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Orleans, to S.S. Prentiss 1842 Dec. 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (4to)

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Stanton family. Stanton family papers, 1834, 1844.

Title: Stanton family papers, 1834, 1844.

Stanton family papers consist of an act of sale, dated Nov. 17, 1834, for two slaves purchased by William Stanton of Natchez, Miss., from slave traders Isaac and James R. Franklin of Sumner County, Tenn.; and an agreement, dated July 1, 1844, between the law firms of Montgomery & Boyd, Quitman & McMurran, and S.S. Prentiss stating the manner of distribution of fees for legal services in the case of the American Colonization Society vs. Isaac R. Wade et al. The court case concerned the execution of the will and codicil of Isaac Ross of Jefferson County, Miss., who had bequeathed his slaves and proceeds from the sale of his estate to the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1817 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa. Isaac R. Wade was the executor of Isaac Ross's estate. The validity of the will was ultimately sustained by the Supreme Court.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Prentiss, S. S. (Seargent Smith), 1808-1850. Seargent S. Prentiss papers, 1788-1851.

Title: Seargent S. Prentiss papers, 1788-1851.

Material used by Dallas C. Dickey in "Seargent S. Prentiss, Whig orator of the Old South," including correspondence between Prentiss and members of his family, newspaper articles, and material from the J.J. Crittenden Collection at the Library of Congress.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

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Prentiss, S. S. (Seargent Smith), 1808-1850. S. S. Prentiss letter, 1843 [manuscript].

Title: S. S. Prentiss letter, 1843 [manuscript].

Letter, 27 April 1843, from Henry Clay to Prentiss, confidentially discussing the political situation in Mississippi and the desirability of nominating Whig rather than Democratic candidates for state offices.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Claiborne, J. F. H. (John Francis Hamtramck), 1809-1884. J.F.H. Claiborne papers, 1818-1885.

Title: J.F.H. Claiborne papers, 1818-1885.

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, business records, legal and financial documents, genealogical charts, and other papers relating principally to Democratic Party politics at the state and national level prior to the Civil War, a visit to Washington, D.C. (1824-1825), Claiborne's work as editor of several Democratic newspapers, his role as a member of the U.S. Board of Choctaw commissioners in the settlement of claims by the Choctaw Indians, his service as U.S. timber agent for Louisiana and Mississippi, slave transactions and other business matters as a plantation owner in Adams County, Miss., and personal and family affairs. Correspondents include Azel Backus Bacon, Albert Gallatin Brown, William McKendree Gwin, Richard M. Johnson, James B. McRea, John A. Parker, Seargent S. Prentiss, and Robert J. Walker.

ArchivalResource: 600 items.1 container plus 4 oversize.2 microfilm reels.1.2 linear feet.

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Record, George L. George L. Record and family papers, 1845-1922 (bulk 1873-1899).

Title: George L. Record and family papers, 1845-1922 (bulk 1873-1899).

Miscellaneous family items include the 1873 burial notice for Arthur M. Record; papers related to Arthur's membership in the Freemason's of Hickory, Newton County, Mississippi; and receipts and letters from W. T. Kernan, an attorney in Clinton, Louisiana, regarding the tutorship of George N. Record's children, Charles F. and Robert M. Also present are two promissory notes signed by Seargent S. Prentiss, an attorney in Vicksburg, for loans of $700 and $800 from George L. Record, payable in 1845. Prentiss did not pay Record, as indicated in an 1848 letter Record wrote to Prentiss proposing four different methods of payment. Jesse L. Cravens' Civil War reminiscences are available in typewritten copy. This account describes Cravens' experiences in Company B, 16th Regiment, Arkansas Infantry; his imprisonment at Johnson Island, exchange at Petersburg, Virginia, return to Port Hudson, and escape following its surrender; and his capture near Baton Rouge, imprisonment at Ship Island, Fort Lafayette (New York), and Fort Warren (Boston), and return to Clinton, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1865. Cravens' relationship to the Records is unknown.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

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S. S. Prentiss Letter, ., 1843

Title: S. S. Prentiss Letter, . 1843

S. S. Prentiss was an orator and politician of Vicksburg, Miss. The collection is a letter, 27 April 1843, from Henry Clay to Prentiss, confidentially discussing the political situation in Mississippi and the desirability of nominating Whig rather than Democratic candidates for state offices.

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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