Z 0586.000 Robinson (William J. and Family) Papers

The papers consist mostly of indentures pertaining to the transfer of certain properties in Rankin County, and of the ledger sheets from the boots of the Robinson, Reynolds Company, a mercantile company, of Brandon, Mississippi. Notes, statements of accounts, bills of Williams J. and E.M. Robinson, his wife; one letter from Jeannette E. Dowd to Mrs. Robinson, July 1, 1858, concerning a remark about "Mr. Brooks" and the "sloughs of discord that the Baptist Church is now going through at this place". Two interesting but undated pieces are: (1) an incomplete petition in which seventeen people register a protest in a church matter against an action of the "majority" which they considered not in accordance with the "principles of truth and justice as set forth in the Word of God" and in which they declare themselves "to be the regular and scriptural church"; (2) a paper (writer unknown) explaining the Stamp Act, the oppression which followed, its effects and resulting rebellion among the colonies.