Nathaniel Evans family papers, 1791-1932 (bulk 1800-1850).

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Evans, Nathaniel, 1776-1819. Nathaniel Evans family papers, 1791-1932 (bulk 1800-1850).

Nathaniel Evans family papers, 1791-1932 (bulk 1800-1850).

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Papers consist of business and family correspondence, financial and banking records, legal documents, printed items, writings, photographs and plantation records. Early business correspondence primarily concerns Nathaniel Evans and Nathaniel Evans and Co. of Fort Adams, Miss., including accounts for cotton sold and merchandise ordered. Later correspondence relates to cotton trade and supplies and merchandise purchased by Sarah Evans and John Evans. The bulk of personal correspondence (1800-1860) deals with such topics as family matters, economic conditions, local news and politics, slaves, hostilities with Spain and England, yellow fever, Indian treaties, destruction of cotton crops, Aaron Burr Conspiracy, and General Wilkinson and his court martial. Personal correspondence, post Civil War period until 1924, refers to family matters, prohibition, electric street cars in New Orleans, Mississippi River disasters, and mineral deposits in Alabama. Also among the correspondence are the James Sterrett letters, an army captain and close friend of Nathaniel Evans. Letters discuss his personal and financial situations, New Orleans social life, enmity with Creoles, politics, yellow fever, Aaron Burr Conspiracy, and the trials of Aaron Burr and General Thomas Butler. Financial records are comprised of invoices, receipts, statements of account, and drafts concerning cotton sold and shipped. Also included are deeds for land transactions, promissory notes, and plantation records. Banking records, in French and English, of the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana and of the Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana contain questionnaires for loans, mortgages and stockholders' oaths. The majority of legal documents date prior to 1860 and concern land transfers, Sarah Evans' will, contracts, powers of attorney, successions, and items related to the estates of Cornelia DeHart and John DeHart of Orange Grove Plantation. Later documents include sheriff's seizures and sale of property, bank seizures of property, sale of bank stock, and leases. Miscellaneous writings contain notes of Albert S. Evans, Louisiana legislator, concerning railroads, assessors, Sunday Law, lottery and the 15th amendment in addition to writings on Reconstruction, agriculture, recipes, and religion. Photographs include portraits of John Evans and Sarah Evans, and photographs of Oakland Plantation house. Printed items are comprised of various magazines, pamphlets, catalogs, and booklets relating to agriculture, family, and almanacs and proceedings of the Anti-Lottery Democratic Convention of 1890, and newspapers. Among the manuscript volumes are cash books, daybooks, journals, ledgers, memorandum books, plantation diaries, plantation record books, scrapbooks, and books of sheet music. The majority of volumes are those of John Evans and concern his personal and business expenses as well as those of Oakland and Hazelwood Plantations.

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