Daniel R. Carroll and family papers, 1864-1948.

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Daniel R. Carroll and family papers, 1864-1948.

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Correspondence includes personal letters of Carroll family members, letters (1877) from J. R. Carroll (probably John Ryan Carroll, a brother or a cousin of Daniel Carroll) concerning the management of the Ackbar Plantation, and letters (1877-1880) by David Wallace, concerning accounts with Wallace and Company, importers and wholesale dealers in dry goods. Details of plantation management discussed in letters include sugarcane growing, rice planting, the construction of a sugar mill, Negro laborers, the purchase of provisions, and the sale of neighboring properties. Financial papers include items (1894) concerning the estates of Daniel R. Carroll and his wife, Louise Bendy, with itemized inventories of their property. Legal items include an oath of allegiance (1864) taken by Daniel R. Carroll and a pardon (1865). The collection contains genealogical notes on the Carroll and Parker families. A manuscript volume contains scrapbook materials including newspaper clippings, printed illustrations and obituaries, and some manuscript entries concerning orders for paper.

191 items.1 ms. v. ; 20 x 32 cm.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6693794

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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