Farish Carter papers, 1794-1868 (bulk 1830-1860) [manuscript].

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Farish Carter papers, 1794-1868 (bulk 1830-1860) [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22612599

The collection is primarily business papers, 1830-1860, and some family correspondence. Most papers relate to Carter's buying, selling, and renting land in Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee; his financial interest in New Hope, a sugar plantation in Louisiana; his part ownership of the Coweta Falls Manufacturing Company, a textile mill in Columbus, Ga.; his buying, selling, and hiring out of slaves; his investments in railroads, banks, gold mining, steamboats, toll bridges, ferries, mills, and other ventures; and his and his sons' operations of plantations in Georgia and Alabama.

About 2800 items (2.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7079015

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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McDonald, Charles James, 1793-1860

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Charles James McDonald (1793-1860) graduated at South Carolina College in 1816 and was admitted to the bar in 1817. He served in the Georgia Assembly and was elected governor of Georgia in 1839. He is credited with saving the Western and Atlantic Railroad and improving the financial condition of the state government. From the description of Charles James McDonald papers, 1834-1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517417 Governor of Georgia, jurist, and public official of G...

Carter, James Farish, b. 1821.

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Carter, Benjamin Franklin, d. 1856.

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Carter, Samuel McDonald, fl. 1851-1860.

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Coweta Falls Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ga.)

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Carter, Eliza McDonald, fl. 1820-1862.

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Carter, Farish, 1780-1861.

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Farish Carter was a planter, land speculator, and entrepreneur of Scottsborough Plantation, near Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Ga., and owner of a plantation at Coosawattee, Murray County, Ga. Carter married Eliza McDonald, sister of Charles J. McDonald (1793-1860), and had five children: Mary Ann (d. 1844), Catherine (d. 1851), James Farish (b. 1821), Samuel McDonald, and Benjamin Franklin (d. 1856). From the description of Farish Carter papers, 1794-1868 (bulk 1830-1860) [manuscri...