Palfrey family papers, 1776-1918 (bulk 1806-1875).

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Palfrey family papers, 1776-1918 (bulk 1806-1875).

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Items related to John Palfrey consist chiefly of personal and business papers which document the operation of Forlorn Hope Plantation and the education of his sons, particularly John's education at Harvard. Topics discussed in the letters include the Embargo, the West Florida Controversy (including the capture of Baton Rouge), the War of 1812, slavery, cotton and salt manufacturing, and banking. Activities of William T. Palfrey and wife, Sidney Conrad Palfrey, are well documented their plantation records. Family papers include correspondence of John Palfrey's sons and some of his grandchildren. Topics include accounts of Civil War battles, plantation economics, Confederate government, and Reconstruction in Louisiana. Letters of William T. and Edward Palfrey describe fighting in St. Mary Parish and the Siege of Vicksburg in which Edward died. The correspondence of John Gorham Palfrey covers the anti-slavery movement and conditions at Harvard University. In letters (1832-1868) to his brother, William T., he relates his literary and historical activities, negotiations for borrowing money, emancipation of slaves inherited from his father, and estrangements from family over his abolitionist sentiments. Eleven account books, two plantation diaries, and a register of slave births document the operation of William T. Palfrey's Ricahoc Plantation and his partnership with his brother-in-law, David Weeks. Topics include accounts of Civil War battles that occurred on Ricahoc Plantation, Apr. 1863, and details about the Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company (1841-1842). Four volumes contain records of George D. Palfrey's business interests including accounts of the Jeanerette General Store, Iberia Parish, and the Franklin Brick Yard that he managed. The collection includes land documents of William T. Palfrey in St. Mary Parish, the will of David Weeks (1834), and marriage certificates from St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Franklin and the Church of the Epiphany in New Iberia.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Church of the Epiphany.

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Palfrey, William Taylor, 1800-1868.

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Palfrey, George D., b. 1860.

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Jeanerette General Store.

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Palfrey, William Gorham, 1796-1881.

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Franklin Brick Yard.

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Clinton and Port Hudson Railroad Company.

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Palfrey, John, 1768-1843.

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John Palfrey was born in Boston where he operated various businesses and had a family. He moved to New Orleans in 1803 and worked as a ship chandler. Later, he managed his brother-in-law's plantation near New Orleans. In 1809, he assumed control of it and sold it in 1810. Palfrey then moved to Bayou l'Albaye near St. Martinville where he operated Forlorn Hope Plantation. His eldest son, John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881), a Harvard graduate in theology, remained in Boston. ...

St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Franklin, La.)

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Palfrey, Sidney Conrad, 1806-1839.

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Weeks, David, 1786-1834

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David Weeks was a planter, plantation owner, and sugar manufacturer of New Iberia, La. The son of William Weeks and Rachel Hopkins Swayze, Weeks was born in Feliciana, Spanish West Florida, in 1786. He purchased Parc Perdu Plantation and assumed management of the Weeks family estate upon his father's death in 1819. In 1825 he purchased the site of Shadows on the Teche Plantation in New Iberia but did not move into the completed house until 1834, the year of his death. Weeks owned a ...