James Glen papers, 1738-1777.

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James Glen papers, 1738-1777.

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Chiefly government documents and business papers re relations with Indian nations, records re his rice plantation, and correspondence between Glen and John Drayton Jr.; including speech, 1750, Glen to the S.C. Assembly, re agreement with Indian trader Charles MacNair, and MacNair's activities among the Choctaws; 2 documents, 26 Dec. 1749 and 8 July 1752 re surveyor's report and deed of land in Fredricksburg Township, Craven County, N.C.; land grant and plat, 5 Sept. 1750, George Brown, signed by James Glen. Speech, 11 July 1753, by Glen to King Malatchi, the Redcoat King, the Wolf King, the Otafee King, and other Indian chiefs; manuscript re Glen's leadership instructions signed by King George II; undated letter, from six Cherokee Indians, re future Indian/white relations; treaty, including seventeen articles regulating Indian affairs; documents, 1755, Ninety Six, S.C. [Saluda Old Town], re Glen's meeting with the Cherokees. Memorandum, c. 1773, listing Glen's annual income, yearly expenses, and his financial affairs since returning from S.C.; letters, 1761-1775, J. Drayton Jr. and Glen, re yearly crop accounts, Glen's income and expenditures for plantation supplies, slaves'clothing, and overseers' wages; letters, re injuries, runaways, and deaths among Glen's slaves, and record of payment to Thomas Woodward, constable, for apprehending the man who stole Glen's slave Savannah. Letter, from J. Drayton Jr., re his son, Charles Drayton's conduct, Glen's investment earnings, and current political and economic developments; letters, J. Drayton Jr. and Glen, re disagreement over financial accounts, and Glen's berating Drayton over his criticism of his sons; letter, 1772, Linlithgow, Scotland, to J. Drayton Jr., re death of wife of J. Drayton Jr., with insinuation that Drayton had not provided necessary provisions for her, and the end of their friendship. Also including manuscript, 29 Sept. 1938, re Glen Family genealogical notes copied from A history of the Glen family of South Carolina and Georgia, by J.G.B. Bulloch.

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Woodward, Thomas, 1801-1852

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Dr. Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch was born in Roswell, Cobb County, Georgia, October 12, 1852, and is the son of the late distinguished physician and surgeon, Dr. William Gaston Bulloch and Mary Eliza Adams Lewis, both natives of Savannah, Georgia. Dr. J.G.B. Bulloch was brought up at his home in Savannah, Georgia, and attended the schools in that city, thence went to Yorkville Military School, Yorkville, S.C., thence to Bryant Stratton's and Sadler's Business College, Baltimore, Ma...

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