Holloway family scrapbook, 1806-1974.

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Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913,. Holloway family scrapbook, 1806-1974.

Holloway family scrapbook, 1806-1974.

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Disbound scrapbook contains legal documents, personal and business correspondence, receipts, ephemera, clippings, and photographs pertaining to the Holloway family. Legal documents include deeds (1806, 1821, 1871), a conveyance (1811), Richard Holloway's will (1842), a photograph of a 1797 Charleston document declaring Richard Holliday (Holloway) a free mulatto man from Maryland, a bill of sale (1829) for the slave Betty, an agreement (1829) to apprentice the slave boy Carlos in the carpenters and house joiners' trade, and exhorter licenses to preach. Personal and business correspondence primarily of Elizabeth, Richard, and James H. Holloway include letters concerning the hiring out of slaves, an offer (1837) to buy the Holloway Negroes, a letter from Samuel Benedict of Savannah about his preparations before leaving for Liberia (1833), and information about the Brown Fellowship Society, the Century Fellowship Society, the Minors Moralist Society, and the Bonneau Literary Society. Receipts are for taxes, clothes, and other items. Also included are invitations, Confederate war tax receipts, and Confederate scrip. Clippings, including articles and letters to the editor written by James H. Holloway, concern Negro taxes, Negro slaveholders, the Liberia movement, the African Methodist Episcopal Church Home, and related topics. Photographs are of family members, a cemetery, and the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Home.

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