Papers, 1786-1872.

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Papers, 1786-1872.

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Papers of George Noble Jones contain business letters concerning his Florida plantations; letters of Robert Habersham, Jones' business agent in Savannah; plantation journals and reports of overseers in the 1850s; a letter from Jones to his son on Reconstruction, 1867; and price lists of commodities on the Liverpool market, 1867. The papers of George Jones, grandfather of George Noble Jones, contain business letters concerning sea island cotton and letters from a student at Harvard University, 1807.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7001277

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Jones, George Noble, 1811-1876

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Plantation owner. From the description of Papers, 1786-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20770196 ...

Habersham, Robert A.

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