East Feliciana Parish collection, 1819-1867 (bulk 1826-1857).

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East Feliciana Parish collection, 1819-1867 (bulk 1826-1857).

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Financial papers (1819-1859) are primarily statements of merchant accounts. Legal papers (1824-1867) include citations, indictments, affidavits, and correspondence for civil and criminal cases heard at the courthouse in Clinton, such offenses as bad debts, keeping a gambling house and brothel, murder, and arson. Of special interest are documents relating to the trial of two slaves for arson and to a case against Centenary College in Jackson for payment owed to a Reverend William B. Lacy. Papers collected by Ellis Merton Coulter, southern historian and author.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Coulter, E. Merton (Ellis Merton), 1890-1981

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Ellis Merton Coulter (1890-1981), author, educator at the University of Georgia (1919-1958), and head of the History Dept. (1941-1958), resided in Athens, Georgia. From the description of E. Merton Coulter manuscript collection II, [ca. 1754-1920]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477251 Ellis Merton Coulter (1890-1981), author, educator at the University of Georgia (1919-1958) and head of the History Dept. (1941-1958), resided in Athens, Georgia. From the descri...