Joseph Addison Montgomery and family papers, 1806-1886 (bulk 1866-1868).

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Joseph Addison Montgomery and family papers, 1806-1886 (bulk 1866-1868).

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Papers consist chiefly of letters of the Montgomery and Smylie families, Presbyterians of southwest Mississippi. Letters (1806-1845) of James Smylie pertain to his early settlement in Mississippi, local, personal, and plantation matters, in Mississippi, and financial, political, and church affairs in New Orleans, including Clay Clubs (Henry Clay) there. Letters by Joseph A. Montgomery from New Orleans concern financial matters and his work as a broker associated with C.C. Lathrop, and as an independent broker. Family correspondence also includes those of children at school. Letters (1859-1861, 1865-1870) by Amelia Montgomery were written from Belmont Plantation and relate to family matters, rumors of the coming Civil War, Negro laborers, shortages of provisions and clothing, and plantation management during Reconstruction. A manuscript volume contains cash accounts (ca. 1820s-30s) of Jame Burke, a Natchez publisher and agent of the Mississippi Statesman.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Montgomery, Amelia, fl. 1829-1870.

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Smylie, James, 1780-1853

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Rev. James Smylie was a planter and Presbyterian minister of southwest Mississippi. His daughter, Amelia, married Joseph Addison Montgomery, a Natchez merchant, a Mississippi planter and a New Orleans commission merchant. Montgomery was the son of Rev. William Montgomery, the pastor of Ebenezer and Union Presbyterian churches in Jefferson County, Miss. From the description of Smylie-Montgomery family papers, 1807-1919 (bulk 1807-1869). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id...

Montgomery, Joseph Fauntleroy, 1812-1883

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Merchant of Natchez, owner of Belmont Plantation near Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Miss., and commission merchant in New Orleans. In 1829, he married Amelia Smylie, the daughter of James Smylie (1780-1853), Presbyterian clergyman of Mississippi. Smylie was sent to Mississippi in 1805 to organize Presbyterian churches in Mississippi. He was also an educator and planter. From the description of Joseph Addison Montgomery and family papers, 1806-1886 (bulk 1866-1868). (Louisiana State ...