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Deeds.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Documents ; Indentures

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

AM10-65, 1721-2009

 Accession
Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Large collection of books, printed material, and memorabilia related to Mississippi and other subjects.

Dates: 1721-2009

AM22-019, 1856-1920s

 Accession — Box 6 SAFE
Abstract

Items documenting several generations of the Roe/Graham family of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Oklahoma from 1856 to the 1920s.

Dates: 1856-1920s

AM86-16, 1646

 Accession
Form of Material

Handwritten English deed or chronological record, 1646.

Dates: 1646

AM87-25, 1866-1980

 Accession
Form of Material

The collection includes:

Land deeds.

Insurance and financial documents.

Photographs.

Materials related to India, Mexico.

Dates: 1866-1980

Batson Family Deeds

 Collection
Identifier: M139
Abstract

Photocopies of deeds for land now in Stone County, Mississippi.

Dates: 1841 - 1908

Carter-Fancher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M305
Abstract

Family letters and deeds of land in Noxubee County, Mississippi.

Dates: 1845-1889

Choctaw Indian Land Transfer

 Collection
Identifier: M201
Abstract

Certificate transferring title to 320 acres of land originally acquired by a Choctaw Indian Land Grant to five individuals.

Dates: July 26, 1897

Cooper-Chapman-Thompson Letters

 Collection
Identifier: M302
Abstract

Letters from military camp sites, family letters, and deeds of land in Newton County, Mississippi.

Dates: circa 1783-1893

L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company Collection

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM18-46
Form of Material

L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company records.

Dates: circa 1840-1965

Flinn-Pegram Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M453
Abstract

The collection contains various receipts, deeds, and items of correspondence from the Finn Pegram families, and materials range in date from 1830 to 1903. There are also a few samples of 19th century advertising included: “Dr. Clark’s Pocket Memorandum Book” and an Arm & Hammer brand booklet that contains a series of stereotypical depictions of African Americans from that time period.

Dates: 1830-1903

Waverly D. Hanley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M429
Abstract

This collection contains personal and business correspondence, documents, photographs, and miscellaneous materials kept by Waverly Dunlap Hanley.

Dates: 1859-1991; Majority of material found within 1908-1985

Charles F. Heartman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M94
Scope and Contents This collection consists of approximately 24 cubic feet of materials that document the life and career of Charles F. Heartman from about 1893 until his death in 1953. His wife, Martha, continued to run the bookselling business after her husband's death, and some materials in the collection relate to that time period. This collection should be of interest to researchers of antiquarian books, rare Americana, or the rare book and manuscript business. In addition it provides insight...
Dates: circa 1893-1990; Majority of material found within circa 1913-1963

Holmes Family Land Deeds

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM2000-29
Form of Material

Land deeds of the Holmes family of Scott County, Mississippi, ca. 1869-1926. Most of the documents are in the names of David S. Holmes and his daughter, Mary L. Holmes.

Dates: 1869-1926

Horn Family Land Documents

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM99-33
Form of Material

Photocopies of land deeds and related documents pertaining to land in Jasper County, Mississippi, (1895, 1919, 1927, 1936), plus related documents.

Dates: 1895-1936

Hector Holbrook “H.H.” Howard, Jr. Collection

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM21-015
Form of Material

Items relating to the life of Jackson area physician, Dr. H.H. Howard (1873-1960).

Dates: circa 1857-1980

Alexander Melvorne Jackson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M16
Scope and Contents The Alexander Melvorne Jackson papers contain correspondence and records pertaining to a wide variety of subjects. These include family concerns, Mississippi politics, the Mexican War, the New Mexico Territory, the Arizona Campaign of the Civil War and Texas Politics.A substantial portion of the collection consists of correspondence between Jackson family members. Dated between the years of 1846 and 1878 are 134 letters written by Alexander to his wife, Cordelia. The...
Dates: 1846-1892

L. Clinton Kirkland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M244
Scope and Contents

The papers of L. Clinton Kirkland consist of correspondence, an autobiography, other writings, financial records, deeds, estate papers, and collected family papers, documenting Kirkland's life and work as a farmer in Jones County, Mississippi, and the history of the Kirkland family in the southern Mississippi Piney Woods region.

Dates: 1866-1983

United States....Land Patent-Mississippi, 1841

 Collection
Identifier: M164
Abstract

For 40 acres of land in Covington County, Mississippi.

Dates: January 5, 1841

United States...Land Patents-Alabama, 1837; Mississippi, 1841

 Collection
Identifier: M143
Abstract

Patents for land in Alabama and Mississippi.

Dates: Majority of material found within March 20, 1837; March 30, 1837; and January 5, 1841

Thomas Little Journal

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM91-21
Abstract

Farm or business journal and deeds of trust of a Copiah County, Mississippi farmer.

Dates: 1891-1907

Charles A. Marx Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M313
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, files, magazines documenting his career with the Mississippi Highway Patrol and as an attorney.

Dates: 1939-1997

Mitchell, Little, and Armstrong Families

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: M149
Form of Material

Miscellaneous accounts, deeds, receipts, promissory notes, and letters of the Mitchell, Little, and Armstrong families in Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas.

Dates: 1862-1944

New England Mississippi Land Company, Reports in Congress

 Collection
Identifier: M230
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eight printed reports which originated in committees of the United States Congress in the years 1823 to 1840. They concern the petition of the directors of the New England Mississippi Land Company to obtain, through Congressional redress, a portion of the money alloted for payment to the Georgia Mississippi.Three commissioners, Thomas Swann, Francis S. Key, and John Law, had been appointed by Congress in 1814 to settle Yazoo land claims. Their original...
Dates: February 11, 1823-May 18, 1840

Abner & Ida Chambers Polk Family Papers

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM03-43
Form of Material

A collection of correspondence, estate documents, certificates, newsletters, genealogical materials and other items pertaining to the families of Abner Polk and his wife, Ida Chambers Polk. Abner Polk was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi in 1860, and Ida Chambers was born in Washington County, Alabama in 1867. Abner and Ida were married on February 13, 1890, and lived in Marion County, Mississippi until approximately 1898, when they moved to Hattiesburg.

Dates: circa 1841-1998

James A. Riley Collection of Mississippi Documents, Newspapers, and Letters

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: M23
Scope and Contents

Large collection of books, printed material, and memorabilia related to Mississippi and other subjects.

Dates: 1646-to date

Stovall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M497
Abstract

The Stovall Family Association records and research material.

Dates: unknown

S. G. Thigpen Sr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M446
Abstract

S. G. Thigpen, Sr. of Picayune, Mississippi, was an area entrepreneur, historian, and writer who operated from his hardware store from 1919 to his death in 1981. The collection contains financial records, personal papers, essays, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings and newspaper articles of Thigpen's life and the Pearl River County, Mississippi area.

Dates: 1899-1996; undated

Joseph Irving Thompson Land Abstracts

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM2000-100
Abstract

Land abstracts of properties in Greene, Lamar, Jefferson Davis, Covington, Perry, and Forrest Counties in Mississippi.

Dates: circa 1857-1956

Melvin R. L. Tingle Mississippi History Collection

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM2000-105
Form of Material

Photocopies of the following originals in Mr. Melvin Tingle's Okla Museum in Decatur, Mississippi:

1. Business ledger (ca. 1837-1839) of the James Ellis General Store, which operated in Decatur, Mississippi. Decatur, Mississippi

2. Land deed in Newton County, Mississippi (December 8, 1837) between Isham and Jane Dansby and Benjamin F. Tingle.

3. Affidavit regarding the character of B. F. Tingle (November 27, 1908).

Dates: 1837-1839; 1908

W.H. Watkins Letter

 Collection
Identifier: M303
Abstract

Letter regarding sale of land.

Dates: April 24, 1861