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Davies, Thomas Jones, 1830-1902. Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Title: Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Primarily business records and correspondence, including deeds, plats, and tranfers of land, 1784-1863, in Georgia and South Carolina; bills, receipts and other documents, 1814-1817, re settlement of John Davies' estate; promissory notes and other financial records, 1871-1875, re Davies' railroad enterprises in Alabama and Mississippi; and bills for materials purchased by Davies and the partnership of Davies & Hammond, including letter, 1 July 1869, from M[arcus] C[laudius] M[arcellus] Hammond, B[eech] I[sland], S.C., re crop prospects, the labor shortage, and plans to employ Chinese workers on his plantation; and undated manuscript, "Estimates for the graduation, bridging[,] trestling[,] track-laying &c. of the Port Royal Rail Road." Also includes broadside, Graniteville, S.C., 22 Feb. 1862, soliciting recruits for Capt. Davies Guards, Co. F, 7th Regiment, S.C. Volunteers; and by Davies' Civil War pardon, 23 Apr. 1866, signed by Andrew Johnson and William H. Seward; and materials re Mrs. Davies' her continuation of her husband's export business after his death. Bound volumes include plantation journal documenting joint ownership, 1857-1863, of a plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., by Davies and Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hammond, and its subsequent ownership by Davies and P.L. Whitworth, 1866-1867, with information re African American slaves relocated from South Carolina to Mississippi and a list of free laborers on the plantation of Whitworth and Davies, providing names, ages, wages, and remarks re work potential; account book, Palmetto Fire Brick Works and Bath Fire Brick Works, 1862-1865, and 1870-1871, with accounts of Davies' work as contractor for the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad and the Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad. Copy of genealogical information from a family Bible (filed in folder on-site) recording births, deaths, and marriages, ca. 1830 to 1865, of enslaved African American families working on properties in South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi owned by Thomas Jones Davies. Vital statistics document eighty-two births, thirty-six deaths, and eleven marriages of enslaved individuals identified by name. Bilbe (published 1841), stored offsite. Invoice book, 1874-1880, for shipments of clay from Beech Island to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Savannah; and scrapbook, 1849-1903, containing newspapers articles by Davies, obituaries, autographs of Wade Hampton, M.C. Butler and Alexander H. Stephens, and newspaper clippings, 6 and 13 June 1888, disussing the operations of the "The Nonpariel Kaolin Mine," owned by a group, and the "Paragon Clay works, " owned by Davies in Aiken County, S.C. Other Correspondents include James Henry Hammond, Lawrence M. Keitt, L.M. Bickford and E.M. Sergeant.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

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Hammond family. Papers of the Hammond and Walker families, 1787-1964.

Title: Papers of the Hammond and Walker families, 1787-1964.

Correspondence of three generations of the Hammond and Walker families, including letter, 2 Aug. 1806, New York, N.Y., from E. Hammond, to Catherine Fox Hammond, Edgefield County, S.C., re his travels; 2 letters to Cadet M.C.M. Hammond, West Point, N.Y., including letter, 22 Aug. 1834, West Hill, S.C., from John F. Hammond re brotherly love; and letter, 23 Oct. 1834, [from Caroline?], re impropriety of his romance with a married woman; poem, 1834, by Wyatt W[aties] Starke re countryside of Edgefield County, S.C. Letter, 15 Mar. 1847, Lawrenceville, N.J., from T[homas] Jones Davies, to S[arah] A[nn] Starke, Savannah, Ga., re expulsion of Davies and the entire sophomore class from Princeton University for staging a mock commencement; letter, 24 Apr. 1847, Newberry, S.C., from Caroline [Hammond Hyde], to Harriette Hammond, Augusta, Ga., re Hyde's activities at school; letter, c.1849, from W. Gilmore Simms to M.C.M. Hammond, re Hammond's literary pursuits and his contributions to the "Southern Quarterly Review." Article, 1859, re secession speech given by James Henry Hammond before the U.S. Senate; letter, 15 May 1861, Camp Davies, Richmond, Va., from T[homas] J[ones] D[avies], to "Dear Brother," re military life, officers, and dismal military outlook; letter, 5 Nov. 1861, to "Amy, Dear Sister, " re troop movements, slave conditions, Gen. P[ierre] G[ustav] T[outant] Beauregard, and military camp life. Letter, 1 Aug. 1862, Milledgeville, S.C., from [Henry] Wayne, to M.C.M. Hammond, re Confederate authorities, and actions of U.S. Congress; legal document, 1866, Richmond County, Ga., re estate of John F. Hammond; land grant, 28 May 1869, for 7 acres in Edgefield County, S.C., to M.C.M. Hammond; program, 14 Feb. 1936, "Edgefield Advertiser," centennial celebration; and 23 family photographs, ca. 1867, 1904, 1940 and undated.

ArchivalResource: 195 items.

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Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, 1814-1876. Papers, 1873-1874.

Title: Papers, 1873-1874.

Letters to Hammond from William Pinckney Starke discussing his impressions of Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio; politics in Ohio and elections of 1874; and racial attitudes in Ohio.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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