Galphin family papers, 1737-1952

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Galphin family papers, 1737-1952

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191821166

Collection focuses chiefly on legal and economic issues resulting from the 1850 resolution of the "Galphin claim" which was originally presented, 6 June 1775, by George Galphin (ca. 1710-1780), to Governor James Wright (1716-1785), at Savannah, Georgia, for money owed him by the British Crown dating from a 1773 treaty with area Indians of the Creek and Cherokee Nations. After the Revolution the claim was pressed against the American government . Land papers and legal documents (plats, bonds, conveyances, mortgages, deeds, receipts, agreements, promissory notes, wills, and documents relinquishing rights of dowry; an undated circular re a subscription to The People's Literary Companion [ca.1880s?]; a widow's pension, 1879, to Ann H. Galphin (1822-1899) for the military service of her husband [Dr. John] Milledge Galphin (1794-1857) in the War of 1812. Poems and personal letters, including a letter containing advice from [Dr. Thomas Sumter Mills (1783-1832)] to his children, recorded Oct. 1832 from his deathbed by his daughter, Ann Helen Mills Poag (b. 1822), telling them that, "I am... going to leave you in a troublesome world" and encouraging them to "meet you all again in Heaven . . ." Handwritten discharge from Confederate Army service, 29 Mar. 1863, from the First South Carolina Volunteer Cavalry, Company C, recipient S.S. Galphin; and a Civil War poem titled "Fall of Vicksburg," written July 1863, by [Samuel] Catawba Lowry (1845-1864) while at the Arsenal Academy (Columbia, S.C.) Last will and testament of George Galphin (1893 copy); and an agreement, 12 Jan. 1952, with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for the purchase of land for the Savannah River Operations.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959186

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Savannah River Plant (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company)

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Mills family.

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Poag, Ann Helen Mills, b.1822.

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Savannah River Operations Office

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Galphin, Ann H., 1822-1899.

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United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...

Galphin, George, -1780

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George Galphin (ca. 1709-1780), a native of Ireland, emigrated to South Carolina in 1737. He established an Indian trading post at Silver Bluff on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, a few miles below Augusta, Ga. By the 1740s he had obtained a trading license from the President of Georgia and began trading with the Creek and Cherokee Indians in both South Carolina and Georgia. Through the next several years Galphin became involved in Indian affairs and assumed some importance as an u...

Galphin, John Milledge Galphin, 1794-1857.

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Galphin family

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Descendants of George Galphin (d. 1780), who lived in the vicinity of Beech Island, S.C., near the Savannah River. From the description of Galphin family papers, 1737-1952 (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 191821166 ...

Mills, Thomas Sumter, 1783-1832

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Lowry, Samuel Catawba, 1845-1864

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Confederate soldier, 2nd Lt., Co. F., 17th Regt., S.C. Volunteers; native of Yorkville, S.C. From the description of Journal : typescript, 1861-1864. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 34609244 ...