Turnbull-Allain family papers, 1784-1941 (bulk 1820-1890).

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Turnbull-Allain family papers, 1784-1941 (bulk 1820-1890).

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Correspondence, financial papers, legal documents, plantation management papers, personal papers, photographs, and printed items. Some papers of the related Stirling and Lobdell families are included. Most of the Turnbull family correspondence, financial papers, and legal documents relate to the commercial partnership of Turnbull & Joyce, a firm trading in slaves, furs, livestock, dry goods, cotton, indigo, and other produce. Many of the Turnbull family papers are annotated by Charles Norwood who settled the estates of John Turnbull and John Joyce after their deaths. Some testamentary documents of Francisco Bouligny and Luis Duret are included (Duret left his estate to his African-American wife). Allain family papers document the lives and activities of members of the Stirling, Lobdell, and Allain families. Correspondence, financial papers, and legal documents of Lewis Stirling, John L. Lobdell, Sarah T. Allain (nee Lobdell), Villneuve Francois Allain, and others reflect work and daily life on Wakefield, Tally Ho, Pecan Grove, Belmont, Maryland, and Virginia plantations. Financial papers include commission merchants' letters. Among Financial papers are items pertaining to interests of African-American businessmen, Charles Henry Stocker and Theophile T. Allain, in Virginia, Maryland, and Hard Times plantations. Plantation management papers include lists of slaves and plantation laborers. Personal papers include genealogical notes and over 1 linear foot of braille writings of Helene Allain. Some were written while she studied and taught at the Louisiana Institute for the Blind, Baton Rouge. Printed items include a political broadside which outlines John L. Lobdell's stance on Abolition. Sheet music, advertisements, catalogs, circular letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera are included. Receipts from the Civil War period record provisions supplied by Lewis Stirling to Confederate troops.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7122084

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Allain, Helene Aspasie.

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Turnbull family.

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Allain, V. F. (Villneuve Francois), d. ca. 1873.

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Sterling family.

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Allain, Sarah Turnbull, 1845-1926.

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Bouligny, Francisco, 1736-1805.

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Norwood, Charles D. 1910-1980

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Allain, Theophile T., 1846-1921.

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Louisiana Institute for the Blind.

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Lobdell family.

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Turnbull, J. W. (John W.)

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Stocker, Charles Henry.

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Allen family.

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Stirling, Lewis, 1786-1858.

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Lewis Stirling, son of Alexander and Ann Alston Stirling, was a Louisiana sugarcane and cotton planter. Among his plantations were Arbroath Plantation in West Baton Rouge Parish, La. and Solitude and Attakapas Plantations in St. Mary Parish. He and his wife, Sarah Turnbull, resided at Wakefield Plantation in West Feliciana Parish, La. with their six children. Stirling served as a lieutenant during the War of 1812, and his son, Lewis, served as a Confederate officer in the Civil War. During the w...

Lobdell, James L.

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Joyce, John, d. 1798.

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John Joyce fought on the side of the British during the American Revolution and subsequently traded goods and slaves in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. From the description of John Joyce diary and memoranda book, 1776-1791. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122411262 ...