Steele family volumes, 1801-1876 (bulk 1854-1876).

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Steele family volumes, 1801-1876 (bulk 1854-1876).

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The first three volumes are receipt and account books kept by William Steele (1763-1821) of the Pendleton District, SC, and his grandsons, William Davis Steele and Robert A. Steele, to record expenditures and estate transactions. Eleven other books are William's son James Steele's daybook and diaries, the latter covering 1860, 1863, and 1867-1875 and giving the reader a detailed view of an elderly farmer who had migrated from South Carolina to Cherokee Co., GA, on the eve of the Civil War.

.5 cubic ft.

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6837495

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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