Z 0980.000 Gullage (John) Papers

Xerox copy of a typescript of the original account book and journal kept by John Gullage of Cheraw, South Carolina, and Jaynesville; also letters and indentures. The first seventeen pages of the journal are accounts due and payable for goods, services, taxes, and postage. The entries concerning his journey from Society Hill, South Carolina, to Smith County (ca. 1847), give his route through Camden and Columbia, South Carolina; Augusta, Warrenton, Milledgeville, Macon, Talbotton, and Columbus, Georgia; Tuskeegee, Mount Meigs, Cahaba, and Linden, Alabama; and Enterprise, Pauling, and Raleigh, and his arrival at Judge McLarren's [McLaurin's]. The accounts paid for ferries, toll bridges, fodder, corn, food, clothing, repairs to equipment, with his comments on the weather, condition of the roads, and distances traveled are of interest.

The last portion of the journal lists accounts receivable for work performed, goods purchased, cures for ailments in man and beast, and the ritual for an apparent secret society or lodge. One letter dated March 26, 1848, from Thomas G. McCall to his uncle, John Gullage; one letter to John Gullage from I. D. Wilson, Society Hill, South Carolina, dated May 26, 1848; one letter to John Gullage from his sister, Margaret Byrd, dated June 11, 1860; and indenture dated July 22, 1861, signed by John Gullage, and a land deed signed by T. G. McCall, dated September 23, 1897. Thomas G. McCall was the nephew of John Gullage and the great grandfather of John Halbrook, Jr. The volume was copied and edited by John C. Halbrook, Jr., Belzoni, present owner of the original.