Papers, 1790-1896.

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Papers, 1790-1896.

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Chiefly correspondence of the Saye family. Early letters trace James Saye's progress through the Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga. Other correspondence details his pastorships in Henry County, Ga., in Unionville and Fairforest, S.C., then in Chester County, S.C. Several letters are from fellow ministers, and discuss Presbyterian Church matters and national politics. Later correspondence is chiefly between the six Saye daughters and their mother, Rebecca Saye (McJunkins), and concern domestic issues and Reconstruction in the South. A letter by Rebecca details the genealogies of the Saye and McJunkins families. One letter (1883) addressed to James Saye from a professor at Davidson College recounts college affairs. Other documents include legal papers, including one Freedmen's Bureau document of 1866 which indentures an orphaned African-American boy to Rev. Saye for fourteen years.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Saye, James Hodge

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James H. Saye lived in Sharon, SC. From the description of James H. Saye collection 1766, 1790, 1797, 1805-1866, 1870, 1872-1874, 1880, 1888, 1916-1917. (Clemson University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 44439206 Presbyterian minister and educator active in vicinity of Chester and Union Counties, S.C.; born, 1808, in Franklin County, Ga. son of Richard Saye (b. 1777) of Union District, S.C.; graduate, 1834, of University of Georgia, and later graduated from Columbia Theolog...

Columbia theological seminary

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Davidson College

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Saye, Rebecca.

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McJunkins family.

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Saye family.

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