Letters, 1851-1854.

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Letters, 1851-1854.

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Letters from planters and at least one store located in interior counties of Alabama and Mississippi served by steamboats on the Tombigbee River. Topics are cotton sales, the cotton market, insurance on cotton being transported, economic conditions, bills of exchange, and orders for supplies, provisions, and other goods. Counties include especially Kemper in Mississippi, and Sumter, Perry, and Pickens in Alabama.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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John Anthony Winston was born on September 4, 1812, in what is now Alabama. After attending college at La Grange College and Cumberland College, Winston began a cotton farm in Sumner County, Alabama. After the 1842 death of his first wife, Mary Agnes Walker, Winston married Mary Longwood. The marriage, however, was a troubled one, and Winston shot and killed Mary's lover in 1847. Winston escaped punishment on claims of self defense, but his marriage never healed and the couple divorced in 1850. ...