Mathews-Ventress-Lawrason family papers, 1772-1934 (bulk 1820-1933).

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Mathews-Ventress-Lawrason family papers, 1772-1934 (bulk 1820-1933).

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Personal and business correspondence, printed items, financial records, and legal documents. Records relate to planting activities on family plantations. Mathews family correspondence relates to international and domestic tensions over the Louisiana territories; antebellum issues of family, plantation operation, crop conditions, and slavery, including possible insurrections. Civil War letters concern plantation operation, cotton selling, slaves' flight from Louisiana plantations, and sugar impressment by Confederate Army. Post-war letters regard family financial difficulties and issues of labor and labor negotiations. Financial papers include statements with cotton factors, notes, receipts, and bonds. Legal documents concern finances and estates. Ventress-Lawrason correspondence, primarily received by Sallie Mathews Ventress, concerns family news, genealogy, finances, and the Depression. Business correspondence relates to Ventress-Lawrason Investment Company. Printed items primarily include family related newspaper clippings. Financial papers are comprised of stock and bond certificates, tax returns, receipts, bulletins, and records of Santa Maria Apartments in New Orleans. Legal documents include land surveys of Sallie Mathews Ventress land. Manuscript volumes record municipal bond, Louisiana stock and utility company investments.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7155436

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Mathews, George, 1739-1812

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