Francis Surget letters, 1860 [manuscript].

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Francis Surget letters, 1860 [manuscript].

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Letters, 1860, of Frank Surget to Charles P. Leverich of New York. The letters, written in February, April, and May 1860, request Leverich to purchase blankets and shoes for slaves on Surget's Chiripa and Cholula plantations and instruct him to make investments for Surget. The letters also include information about mutual acquaintances among several other Mississippi planter families, including mention of how they were going to spend their vacations in the North despite the tense political situation.

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Surget family.

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Leverich, Charles P., 1803-1876

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Charles P. Leverich was a businessman with businesses both in New Orleans, Louisiana and New York. The family had mercantile and banking interests. From the guide to the Charles P. Leverich business letters MS 222., 1833-1851, bulk dates 1836-1843, (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX) Charles E. Leverich, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, served as Sergeant in the 2nd Company of the Battalion Washington Artillery. In 1863, he was disch...

Surget, Francis

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Francis Surget was a highly respected planter and slave owner living in Adams County, Mississippi, with extensive land holdings in the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi and in Arkansas. John F. H. Clairborne credits Surget as being "the most extensive and successful planter in Mississippi" who was "the first to introduce circular or horizontal plowing, to preserve the hill land from washing". From the guide to the Daybook of Highland Plantation, Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, and...