William Hughes and Horace Bertrand Folsom family papers, 1753-1951.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

William Hughes and Horace Bertrand Folsom family papers, 1753-1951.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84841544

This collection consists of the papers of William Hughes and his great-grandson, Horace Bertrand Folsom. The collection also includes a few papers of George Hughes, father of William Hughes. The William Hughes papers consist of his correspondence, 1816-1884, miscellaneous personal papers, and his surveys of tracts of land in several Georgia Counties. There are also some county deeds, grants, and warrants which were used for some of his surveys. The surveys are largely rough drafts upon which the finished surveys were based. Most of them are undated. In cases where the counties are not designated on the surveys the name has been supplied from internal evidence. Some large surveys from this collection have been added to the library's map collection. The Horace Bertrand Folsom papers contain his correspondence, 1924-1951, and many of his writings. Of special interest among these are articles on cotton, the culture of tea, sugar, tobacco and olives in Georgia, paper making, petroleum in Georgia, a German philanthropic colony at Perry's Mills, Georgia, which began in 1870, early roads, stagecoach travel, transportation by rivers. In addition to the Hughes and Folsom papers, there are the papers of Peter Fiveash, 1862-1864; Henry Taylor, 1869-1891; Thomas J. White, 1864; records of Liberty County and Montgomery County.

4 boxes (2.0 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8329550

Georgia Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Hughes, William, 1793-1825

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xg9zts (person)

William Hughes was born in Sunbury, Georgia and attended the Sunbury Academy. He was the last surviving pupil of Dr. William McWhir, the long-time principal of the Academy. He taught at Sand Hills School from 1816 to 1817, and again in 1819. He also taught at the Sunbury Academy in 1818; both of these schools were in Liberty County. He was elected surveyor of Liberty County in 1844 and continued in that capacity into the 1880s. In 1847 he was also Deputy Surveyor of Bryan County. He made surveys...

Folsom, Horace Bertrand, d. ca. 1952.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v72bx0 (person)