William Audley Couper papers, 1795-1955 (bulk 1850-1900).

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William Audley Couper papers, 1795-1955 (bulk 1850-1900).

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The collection includes correspondence and other papers, chiefly 1850-1900. Included are scattered early 19th-century business papers of Georgia planters John Couper (1759-1850) and William Page (d. 1827), maternal grandfather of Hannah Page King Couper; numerous letters in the 1850s between Anna Matilda (Page) King and her daughter, Hannah Page King Couper; letters of other King relatives, some of which deal with the slavery issue; letters from Henry Lord Page King, a student at Yale University, 1849-1852, to his sister, Hannah Page King Couper; Civil War letters from King family women on the homefront and men in the Confederate army in Virginia; post-Civil War letters from Hannah Page King Couper's sisters and from the children of Hannah and William Audley Couper; and papers and diaries of the family of Anna Couper Marshall, Hannah and William's daughter, who lived in Rome, Ga.

ca. 1700 items (3.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7088461

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Page, William, -approximately 1826

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Couper, J. Hamilton (James Hamilton), 1794-1866

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James Hamilton Couper of Glynn County, Ga., was a white manager and part owner of Hopeton, Altama, and Elizafield plantations that were based on a workforce of more than fifty enslaved people. Additionally, Couper was a scientific agriculturalist and some of the volumes contain extracts from agricultural journals and observations related to the crops grown at the plantations; chiefly cotton, rice, sugar cane, corn, and peas. James Hamilton Couper was born 4 March 1794, the son of John and ...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Yale University.

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Marshall, Anna Couper, d. 1928.

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Couper, Hannah Page King, d. 1896.

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Couper, John, 1759-1850

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King, T. Butler (Thomas Butler), 1800-1864

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Thomas Butler King, legislator, planter, and politician, was born August 27, 1800, in Palmer, Massachusetts, and died May 10, 1864, in Waynesboro, Georgia. He migrated to Glynn County, Georgia (1820s), married Anna Matilda Page of St. Simons Island (1824), and had three prosperous plantations by the mid 1830s. King was elected a Georgia senator from Glynn County (1832, 1859), and a United States Congressman (1838, 1840, 1844, 1846); was sent to California by President Taylor to urge the formatio...

King, Anna Matilda, 1798-1859

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Mrs. King of Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island, Glynn Co., GA, ran the plantation while her husband, Thomas Butler King, was in Congress and engaged in business away from home. From the description of Anna Matilda Page (Mrs. Thomas Butler) King plantation record book, 1842-1871 (bulk 1853-1864). (Georgia Department of Archives and History Library). WorldCat record id: 145567732 From the description of Anna Matilda Page (Mrs. Thomas Butler) King plantation record book, 18...

Couper, William Audley, 1817-1888.

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William Audley Couper, son of John Couper (1759-1850) and younger brother of James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866), married Hannah Page King (d. 1896), daughter of Thomas Butler King (1800-1864) and Anna Matilda (Page) King (d. 1859). Couper managed Hamilton, a plantation on St. Simon's Island, Ga., from the early 1840s until 1861, and later lived at Carteret's Point and in Ware County, Ga. From the description of William Audley Couper papers, 1795-1955 (bulk 1850-1900). WorldCat record ...