Early Jefferson and Grainger County Tennessee archive of approximately fifty (50) paper ephemera items related to William Graham (1786-1857, served circa 1807-1815 in the Sixth Regiment in the Tennessee State Militia), including slave bill of sale, dated 1858. 1st item: Slave and land title bond bill of sale between William Graham's daughters and their husbands […]
Lot 639: 1859 VA Letter Written by Slave named Mariah (2 items)
Two (2) Pre-Civil War slave related letters, including one (1) written by Mariah, a female domestic slave of James Vincent Musgrove (1814-1890), Prince Edward County, Virginia, to her daughter. 1st item: ALS. One page handwritten letter from Mariah to Winney, her daughter, dated March 30, 1859. The letter, written shortly after Mariah was sold to […]
Lot 637: 6 Ledgers, Likely Related to Cheeks Cross Roads, TN
Six (6) ledgers likely pertaining to Cheek's Cross Roads, Tennessee, or an earlier store, ranging in date from 1779-1877, including one (1) dated circa 1779-1781, beginning with Alexander Bean and ending with Samuel Crawford; one (1) dated circa 1819, beginning with John MacFarlane and ending with Dr. William Kear, with entries for members of the […]
Lot 635: Large TN & WV Taylor / Feamster Family Archive
Large early Tennessee and West Virginia archive of approximately four hundred (400) items related to the Taylor and Feamster families, including letters, postcards, empty envelopes, bills, tax receipts, photographs, and other ephemera, dated circa 1829-1934, including Civil War, Slave taxes, the 1918 Flu Pandemic, and World War I. The Taylors were a prominent family that […]
Lot 636: Early Washington County, East TN Archive, 45 items
Early East Tennessee archive of forty-five (45) documents, manuscripts and photographs related to the Bowers Family of Jonesborough and Boones Creek, Washington County, TN. 1st-3rd items: Three (3) land related documents, includingone (1) land survey plat, detailing the land belongingto the Bowers family and the Ellis family, dated circa March 9, 1822 – October 6, […]
Lot 634: Large Early Tennessee Legal Archive, 100 plus items
Approximately one hundred and forty (140) early Tennessee legal documents including sheriff summons, court filings, wills, land surveys, and land grants. Signatures include Colonel Francis A. Ramsey (1764-1820) and Major James Sevier (1764-1847). The documents, dated circa 1793-1871, pertain mainly to the Superior Court in Knoxville, Hamilton District, Jonesborough, Washington, County, Grainger County, and Greene […]
Lot 633: NC Governor and TN Related Land Documents, incl. Landon Carter, Stockley Donelson
North Carolina Governor archive including land grants signed by Landon Carter (1760-1800), Revolutionary War officer, State of Franklin official, and correspondent of George Washington; Colonel Stockley Donelson (1752-1805), brother of Rachel Donelson (wife of President Andrew Jackson), Samuel Ashe, 9th NC Governor (1795-1798), and Richard Caswell, 1st and 5th NC Governor (1776-1780) and (1785-1787), 11 […]
Lot 632: 2 Rare New Market, TN Ephemera Items
Two (2) Rare New Market, Tennessee paper ephemera items: Henry Clay presidential campaign related newspaper draft/mock up, and 1833 imprint, Dolph's Encomiastic Remarks by Rev. Joshua Lawrence, 1st item: Draft/mock up for The Plain Dealer newspaper, Vol. I, No. 5, dated February 1843, published by A.P. Aston and J. F. Lucas, edited by Simon Pure […]
Lot 630: Two (2) J.W.M. Breazeale, Life As It Is, 1842
Two (2) copies of LIFE AS IT IS; OR MATTER AND THINGS IN GENERAL, First Edition, by John William McNairy "J.W.M." Breazeale, printed by James Williams, Knoxville Press at the Office of the Post, 1842. 12mo, 256 pages each, one (1) hardbound in one quarter brown leather with marbledpaper sides, and one (1) rebound in […]
Lot 631: 17 Amer. Pubs., incl. Early TN/Civil War Imprints
Seventeen (17) historical American publications, including early Tennessee imprints, Civil War era Ohio Loyal Publications and Public Acts of The State of Tennessee imprints, House of Representatives imprints, railroad annual reports, almanacs,Smithsonian Institution annual reports, and more. 1st item: Acts Passed at the First Session of the Sixth General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, […]