Theodore Samuel Gourdin papers, 1846-1861.

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Theodore Samuel Gourdin papers, 1846-1861.

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Papers consist of legal and business papers, correspondence, financial records, and other items. Legal papers (1848-1853) include correspondence concerning debt collections and commitment of Mary Pyatt Allston to the State Hospital (including her letters requesting release) with supporting documents. Correspondents (on Allston's case) include James L. Petigru, R.F.W. Alston, and others. Other legal papers (1847-1857) include unpaid promissory notes and bills to be collected by Gourdin; writs; and correspondence regarding Gourdin's clients. A group of documents including accounts, correspondence, and legal documents concern Gourdin & Waring's investigation of titles to properties in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi on behalf of creditors of the estate of M.T. Mendenhall. Business papers include a deed of partnership (1852) for Theodore S. Gourdin, Tandy Walker, and Samuel Gourdin establishing their paper manufacturing business in Cobb County (Ga.); accounts, balance sheets, legal documents, and correspondence concerning the Kennesaw Paper Mill (Marietta, Ga.) and Gourdin's paper manufacturing mill. Financial records (1823-1861) include receipts, bankbooks, and bills and accounts for food, clothing, and other personal expenses and related correspondence. Other items include Gourdin's certificates of appointment to various courts and offices; deputy-sheriffs' bonds (1853-1857) issued to Gourdin as sheriff; stock certificates; conveyances of stocks and insurance policies; mortgages; bonds; deeds for properties in Charleston (S.C.); and correspondence and accounts (1858) regarding the dissolution of the firm of Gourdin & Waring.

ca. 700 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7386467

South Carolina Historical Society

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Allston, Mary Pyatt.

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Gourdin, Theodore Samuel, 1823-1861.

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Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, solicitor in equity, and sheriff. The son of Dr. Theodore Gourdin (d. 1859) and Elizabeth Frances Allston Gourdin (d. 1834), Theodore Samuel Gourdin was born in Georgetown, S.C. and married Mary Jane Walker (1828-1908), daughter of Tandy Walker, in 1847. He was the grandson of William Allston (1772-1848) and Mary Pyatt Allston. For a period he practiced law with Paul Hamilton Waring in the firm of Gourdin & Waring in Charleston, S.C. From...

Kennesaw Paper Mill (Marietta, Ga.)

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Mendenhall, M. T., 1798-1852

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Gourdin, Samuel, d. 1865.

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863

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Lawyer of Charleston, S.C.; Union Party supporter and opponent of nullification and secession; Attorney General of S.C., 1822-1830; unsuccessful Unionist candidate for the S.C. Senate, 1830; code commissioner, 1859-1863; graduate, S.C. College, 1809; son of William Pettigrew (1758-1837) and Louise Guy Gibert Pettigrew; husband of Jane Amelia Postell; father of artist Caroline Petigru Carson (b. 1820-1892). From the description of James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948. (University of ...

Gourdin & Waring (Charleston, S.C.)

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Walker, Tandy, -1842

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Choctaw Indian and operator in 1858 of the Skullyville station on the Butterfield overland mail route between St. Louis and San Francisco. That same year, Walker was apparently acting governor of the Choctaw Nation. From the description of Letter : Executive Dept., Choctaw Nation, Skullyville, [Indian Territory], to Hon. Henry A. Wise, 1858 Dec. 21. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 35662814 ...

Allston, Robert F. W. (Robert Francis Withers), 1801-1864

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Robert F. W. Allston was a rice planter and civil engineer; surveyor general of South Carolina, 1823; member of the General Assembly, 1828-1832; state senator, 1832-1856; and governor, 1856-1858. From the description of Robert F. W. Allston letter, 1843 September 5. WorldCat record id: 22758135 Georgetown County, South Carolina plantation owner and politician. He graduated from West Point in 1821, leaving the army in 1822. Allston lived at Matanzas Plantation, later called C...