Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana papers, 1791-1912 (bulk 1827-1882).

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Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana papers, 1791-1912 (bulk 1827-1882).

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Financial records of the Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana, including banking papers, account books, legal documents, papers related to land and slave sales, diaries (1876-1881), letter books (1829-1887), plantation records, correspondence, and minute books (1829-1883). Early papers (1827-1835) concern the establishment of the institution and contain subscriptions for stock, applications for loans, minutes of meetings, letters from Louisiana sugar planters, and negotiations and correspondence with the London banking firm of Baring Brothers and Company, which sold state bonds guaranteeing the bank's loan. Also among the early papers are two letters signed by James Bowie (1829, 1831). Papers reflect the effects of the Panic of 1837 on New Orleans banks. They also relate the failure of the bank in 1839, establishment of state control in 1842, and means taken to re-establish the bank's credit. Among the bound manuscript volumes are diaries (1876-1881), journals (1852-1882), deposit books (1834-1884), letter books (1837-1887), bond books (1859-1867), index books, a legal record book (1838-1883), lists of stockholders, and a stockholders ledger (1848-1865). Reconstruction papers deal with liquidation proceedings (1876-1878) and business affairs of Kenmore, La Vacherie, and Home Plantations owned by the Association, included are payroll sheets and tax record. Later papers reveal attempts at re-organization and final liquidation process.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Baring Brothers & Co. (London, England)

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Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Francis Baring, with his older brother John Baring as a mostly silent partner. They were sons of John (né Johann) Baring, wool trader of Exeter, born in Bremen, Germany. The company began in offices off Cheapside in London, and within a few years moved to larger quarters in Mincing Lane. Barings gradually diversified from wool into many other commodities, providing financial services for the rapid growth of international ...

Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana

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Land bank of sugar planters, chartered by an act of the Louisiana Legislature in 1827; designed to aid planters in securing better credit facilities. From the description of Consolidated Association of the Planters of Louisiana papers, 1791-1912 (bulk 1827-1882). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 253524169 ...

Bowie, James, d. 1836

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The son of Reason (or Rezin) and Elve Bowie, James (Jim) Bowie (1796?-1836) moved around the southern United States in his early life, finally settling on a plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, in around 1809. During the War of 1812, James and his brother Rezin Pleasant Bowie enlisted in the Second Division, Consolidated, of the U.S. Army. After the war, the brothers bought slaves from Jean Laffite and traded them in St. Landry Parish, until raising $65,0000, which James and Rezin ...