Theodore L. Gourdin papers, 1822-1866.

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Theodore L. Gourdin papers, 1822-1866.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35953552

Papers consist of estate and slave records, plantation papers, financial records, correspondence, and other items. Estate records of Theodore Gourdin (1764-1826) consist of accounts and inventories for Murray's Ferry, Red Clay, and other Williamsburg County plantations. Much of Gourdin's papers (mostly letters, receipts, and survey notes) concern debts, rentals, title and boundary disputes, and transactions involving properties inherited, acquired, or sought by Theodore L. Gourdin. Correspondents include members of the Gourdin, Gaillard, Michaux, and DuBose families. There are also letters from Samuel Gaillard Barker and others regarding the estate of Theodore Gourdin (1764-1826); and letters (1854-1861) from South Carolina emigrant John I. Russell concerning plantation costs in Mississippi, South Carolina debts and creditors, and slave sales to Theodore L. Gourdin. Correspondence, accounts, receipts, labor contracts, slave lists, and other papers concern Theodore L. Gourdin's slave purchases (1836-1838), slave mortgages (1846-1849), slave medical expenses (1859-1865), and postwar relations with black freemen workers and tenants, the Freedmen's Bureau, and U.S. military authorities. There are also letters, bonds, forage and tax receipts pertaining to money, fodder, and other goods and services requisitioned or otherwise obtained from Theodore L. Gourdin by the C.S.A., including slave labor for fortifications of Charleston, S.C. Letters (1865-1866) from Gourdin's nephew Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure concern a property dispute, postwar economic conditions in Charleston, President Andrew Johnson, and the Radical Republicans.

ca. 300 items.

South Carolina Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7376061

South Carolina Historical Society

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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 ...

Russell, John I.

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DeSaussure, Wilmot G. (Wilmot Gibbes), 1822-1886

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Lieutenant Colonel Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure (1822-1886) of the 1st Artillery Regiment of the South Carolina Militia, which was later absorbed into the Army of the Confederate States of America, commanded Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, December 1860-January 1861, and artillery at Morris Island, March-April 1861, in the harbor of Charleston, S.C. He served in the South Carolina legislature, 1848-1864. From the description of Wilmot G. DeSaussure order-book, 1860-1861. WorldCat rec...

Gourdin, Theodore Louis, 1790-1866.

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South Carolina state legislator and plantation owner of St. Stephen's and St. John's Berkeley Parish, S.C. He was the son of Theodore Gourdin (1764-1826) and Elizabeth Gaillard. Theodore L. Gourdin owned plantations and other properties in several counties including Georgetown, Williamsburg, and Clarendon. From the description of Theodore L. Gourdin papers, 1822-1866. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35953552 ...

Gourdin, Theodore, 1764-1826

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