Dates: 1850 - 1917; 1957.
MDAH only has microfilm. (MF Roll # 36204)

This collection consists of one roll of microfilm containing the ledger and papers, mainly of Archibald Smith of Jefferson County, Mississippi. 

The following items are contained thereon:

  • a ledger (Shadyside Plantation) of Archibald Smith and Angus Washington Smith, March 23, 1850–January 16, 1868, December 23, 1915–April 24, 1917
  • a letter of Mr. Converse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. to Archibald Smith, of December 3, 1851
  • a Civil War pass, July 11–July 31, 1862
  • a list of the Buie family births and deaths, January 19, 1868
  • accounts of T. Fairman, J. A. Hunter, Robert Prichard, David Smith, and A. C. Snider, n.d., 1864–1866
  • letter to J. I. Herring from Carl A. Ray, October 16, 1957
  • eight miscellaneous items of J. I. Herring