Bailey family papers, 1801-1876.

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Bailey family papers, 1801-1876.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477561

This collection consists of letters, invitations and a household account slip of the Bailey, Simonton and Prudden families of Hancock and Greene Counties, Georgia. Many of the letters were written from Montgomery, Alabama. Of interest in the collection is a letter dated 1813 that mentions Colonel Benjamin Hawkins and Indian troubles and another written in 1866 by William Gibbs McAdoo to Miss Prudden in which he describes his trip by water from Savannah, Georgia to St. Marys, Georgia and gives a history of the area. This collection is arranged chronologically.

2 folders (.10 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7404267

Georgia Historical Society

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Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816

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Benjamin Hawkins (August 15, 1754 – June 6, 1816) was an American planter, statesman and a U.S. Indian agent He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from North Carolina, having grown up among the planter elite. Appointed by George Washington in 1796 as one of three commissioners to the Creeks, in 1801 President Jefferson named him "principal agent for Indian affairs south of the Ohio [River]", and was principal Indian agent to the Creek Indians. Born on his f...

McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941

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Lawyer, business executive, Democratic Party leader, U.S. secretary of the treasury, Director General of Railroads, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers of William Gibbs McAdoo, 1786-1941 (bulk 1880-1941). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063506 McAdoo was born near Marietta, Cobb County, GA, on Oct. 31, 1863; attended the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; admitted to TN bar in 1885 and began law practice in Chattanooga, TN; moved to NYC, 1892; devel...

Simonton family.

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Prudden family.

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Bailey family.

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