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Notebook kept by Dr. Thomas Fearn of Huntsville, Alabama, from about 1852 to 1863.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Description

The notebook contains records of accounts and supplies for a plank fence on his plantation "to be made by the M & C R. Road Co. and Thomas Fearn"; information on cotton crops, supplies at home and at his plantation, and lands he owned in Mississippi; notes on his journey to attend the First Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery; a register of the birth dates and death dates of his slaves; and accounts that he kept with the slaves. The notebook also includes an index to the records in it.
Type:
Text
Format:
600 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1852 1863 1852
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130