Z 0794.000 Freeland (Thomas) Papers

Ledger sheets and letters referring to the business transactions of Thomas Freeland of Rodney, Mississippi. The collection includes a typed price list, noting the price of cotton in New Orleans, Louisiana for January 15, 1853; a letter addressed to the Trustees of Oakland College, inquiring as to the sale of land in Yazoo County; and several personal letters. One letter, dated Clear Water, Florida, June 2, 1889, is addressed to Miss Nora Freeland from her sister and notes the health of the family and the fact that they are living on $40.00 a month. There are several account sheets from business ledgers, itemized and kept on a yearly basis.

Also contained in the collection are a photostatic copy of a land grant for Thomas Augustin Freeland dated March 1, 1822, and signed by President James Monroe; a photostatic copy of the commission of Thomas Freeland as Justice of the Peace of District 1, Claiborne County, dated December 7, 1875, and signed by Adelbert Ames, Governor, and James Hill, Negro Secretary of State; and two letters dated respectively, Executive Department, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2, 1871 and December 22, 1871. Both of these letters are signed by Henry Clay Warmoth, Reconstruction Governor of Louisiana (1868–1872) and refer to a horse taken by Warmoth in the campaign against Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.