Minor Family Papers (Z/1876)

Dates: ca. 1800s-1900s.

Biography:

Stephen Minor Family

Stephen Minor, who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, on February 8, 1760, first ventured to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1779. He joined the Spanish army and participated in a military expedition against Fort Charlotte, located near Mobile in British West Florida. Arriving in the Natchez District in the early 1780s, Minor received a commission as a captain in the Spanish army, and he served as the adjutant of Fort Panmure at Natchez. During this time, Minor also assisted Spanish governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos in various administrative duties. He also provided the Anglo-American settlers and Natchez Indians of the district liaison with the Spanish officials, who often referred to him as "Don Esteban." After Gayoso was appointed as governor of Louisiana, Minor briefly served as acting governor until the Spanish evacuated Natchez prior to April of 1798, when the Mississippi Territory was created by the United States Congress.

Minor was next appointed as one of the Spanish commissioners responsible for establishing the boundary between Florida and the United States during 1798 and 1799. He was in command of the Spanish forces in Vidalia, Louisiana, when the United States acquired this territory with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Minor was also a Spanish boundary commissioner for Louisiana during 1804 and 1805.

Owning plantations on Sandy and Second creeks in Adams County, Minor initially produced indigo and tobacco. Following the example of Governor Gayoso, he began planting cotton around 1795, and by 1797, just one of his plantations was yielding twenty-five hundred bales of cotton annually. Minor also owned forty thousand acres of land east of the Pearl River in Louisiana.

Stephen Minor purchased Concord, the former residence and plantation of Governor Gayoso, after the latter departed Natchez. Minors first wife was Martha Ellis, who was the daughter of Colonel John Ellis of White Cliffs, located south of Natchez on the Mississippi River. There were apparently no children from this union. After the death of his first wife, Minor married Katherine Lintot (b. August 4, 1770), who was known as the "Yellow Duchess" because of her reputed fondness for all things golden. The Minors had six children: Martha (died young); Mary (b. July 4, 1787); Frances (b. February 5, 1795), later Mrs. Henry Chotard; Katherine (b. June 20, 1799), later Mrs. James C. Wilkins; Stephen, Jr. (b. 1803); and William John (b. January 27, 1808). Stephen Minor died in Natchez on November 29, 1815. Katherine Lintot Minor died in Natchez on July 9, 1844.

William John Minor Family

William John Minor was privately educated until he entered the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in the 1820s. There, he became acquainted with Rebecca Ann Gustine (b. May 17, 1813), who was the daughter of James and Mary Ann Duncan Gustine of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the niece of wealthy Natchez planter and investor Stephen Duncan. Rebecca Ann Gustines sisters, Margaret and Matilda, were married to brothers Charles and Henry Leverich, who were successful cotton factors and commission merchants in New York and New Orleans. William John Minor and Rebecca Ann Gustine were married in Philadelphia on July 7, 1829.They returned to Natchez in the 1830s, living at Concord. The Minors had eight children: Duncan, Francis, Henry, James, John, Katherine, Stephen, and William.

As a hedge against declining cotton prices, Minor sought to diversify his holdings by investing in sugar-cane production in Louisiana. He acquired Hollywood Plantation (1,400 acres) and Southdown Plantation (6,000 acres) in Terrebonne Parish and Waterloo Plantation (1,900 acres) in Ascension Parish. Prior to the Civil War, these three plantations were producing an average of more than twelve hundred hogsheads of sugar annually. Although Minor was largely an absentee owner, entrusting the management of his plantations and slaves in Louisiana to overseers, he was meticulous in the administration of his holdings. His net worth, including hundreds of slaves, was estimated to be more than one million dollars in 1860. Minor also found time to serve as a captain in the Natchez Hussars, a local militia unit, and as president of the Agricultural Bank in Natchez.

Nationally recognized in the breeding and racing of horses, William John Minor owned at least sixty thoroughbreds during his lifetime. Under the pseudonym, "A Young Turfman," Minor authored more than seventy articles on horse racing for the Spirit of the Times, a New York sporting-life newspaper, between 1837 and 1860. He also published a pamphlet entitled Short Rules for Training Two Year Olds, which was published by The Picayune in New Orleans in 1854. Minor was also instrumental in founding local cricket and jockey clubs in Natchez.

Active in Whig politics in the years before the Civil War, William John Minor lobbied against secession throughout the South. He was convinced that secession and war would lead to economic ruin for the planter class. When war did come, Minor remained loyal to the Union despite the social ostracism and economic losses that his family would suffer during and after the war. Although the majority of William John Minors sons remained loyal to the Union, at least one son served in the Confederate army against his fathers wishes.

William John Minor died in Terrebonne Parish on September 18, 1869. Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor died in Cayuga Lake, New York, on July 14, 1887.

John Minor Family

John Minor was born at Concord in 1831. He was privately educated until he entered the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1848. Although frequently ill at school, Minor completed his education and returned to Natchez in the early 1850s. He soon became involved in local equestrian life, including fox hunting and high-stakes racehorse gambling, and attending rounds of social gatherings such as dinner parties and fancy-dress balls. Minor also began a courtship with Katherine (Kate) Surget, daughter of wealthy planter James Surget, Sr. They were married at Surgets plantation, Cherry Grove, on March 6, 1855. The Minors had five children: James Surget (1855-1864); Mary Grace (1858-ca. 1859); Katherine Surget (b. 1860); Duncan Gustine (b. 1862); and Jeanne Marie (b. 1868).

Following a severe bout of yellow fever, James Surget, Sr., died intestate on August 27, 1855. His children, James Surget, Jr., and Kate Surget Minor, divided the elder Surgets estate, which was estimated at around three million dollars. Kate Surget Minors inheritance included Carthage Plantation (2,095 acres) in Adams County and Palo Alto Plantation (2,560 acres) in Concordia Parish, as well as hundreds of slaves and considerable agricultural stores and livestock.

At the time of John Minors marriage to Kate Surget Minor, his father gave him $10,000 for the purchase of Oakland, an estate near Natchez. His wife supplied an additional $5,000 to complete the purchase of this property in 1857. Kate Surget Minor also acquired Wannacutt Plantation (1,217 acres) in Concordia Parish in 1857. The deed to this plantation was recorded in the name of John Minor, and the income from it was apparently intended for his personal use. John Minor acquired no additional real property with his own funds during the course of his fourteen-year marriage to Kate Surget Minor.

Although the Minors shared the burden of plantation management during the early years of their marriage, it became increasingly necessary for Kate Surget Minor to shoulder more of this responsibility on the eve of the Civil War. In her role as plantation mistress, Kate Surget Minor was also responsible for supervising many aspects of domestic life at Oakland and on the working plantations.

As the threat of secession and war became imminent, John Minor enlisted as a first lieutenant in the Adams Troop, a local cavalry company organized by attorney William T. Martin in 1860. Its recruits were mainly from wealthy families in Adams County. The cavalry company was intended to counter potential lawlessness in the county. However, when Mississippi ratified the Confederate constitution in March of 1861, the Adams Troop also began to prepare for war. When war came in April of 1861, John Minor resigned his commission and publicly declared his support for the Union.

Fearing forced conscription in the Confederate army, John Minor eventually paid a man $5,000 to serve in his place. His decision to support the Union cause would also have social and economic consequences that would adversely affect his family during and after the war. Many of Minors friends and acquaintances considered his behavior to be dishonorable and therefore openly censured him. His wife was also spurned by many of her friends and acquaintances, including her best friend, Margaret Conner Martin. The Minors further alienated themselves by entertaining Union officers at Oakland after Natchez was occupied in July of 1863.

The Unionist sympathies of the Minors initially made them more vulnerable to the expropriation of cotton, horses, livestock, stores, and supplies on their Louisiana and Mississippi plantations by Confederate officers. However, their Unionist position would not shield them from later expropriations by Union officers, which were far more severe in terms of economic loss. Emancipated slaves and itinerant whites later plundered what the Confederate and Union armies failed to take.

The Minors survived the Civil War with their plantation holdings essentially intact. They soon applied for pardons from President Andrew Johnson in 1865, since amnesty ensured that they would have full control over the management of their plantations. The Minors gradually adjusted to a wage-based labor system supervised by the Freedmens Bureau, which approved labor contracts between planters and black workers. It was necessary to mortgage Carthage and Palo Alto plantations in order to raise sufficient capital to rebuild, make necessary repairs, pay wages, and harvest a marketable cotton crop. It was also necessary to sell the heavily mortgaged Wannacutt Plantation to the Louisiana State Bank. Declining cotton prices, family illness, flooding, insect damage, labor problems, and yellow-fever epidemics often confounded the Minors attempts to produce a successful cotton crop during Reconstruction.

The health of John Minor worsened in the late spring of 1869. Hoping to recover, he traveled to New York for the summer. However, a short time after arriving at his New York hotel, he sustained a serious head injury in a fall. Minor died the following day on June 26, 1869. Survived by his wife, Kate, and three young children, Katherine Surget, Duncan Gustine, and Jeanne Marie, John Minor was interred at Oakland. He was later reinterred in the Natchez City Cemetery.

The finances of Kate Surget Minor began to improve toward the end of Reconstruction. After the 1869 death of wealthy uncle Jacob Surget, she inherited several plantations jointly with her brother, James Surget, Jr., and $26,000 in securities. Kate Surget Minor and her brother also formed a partnership to administer their properties, which lasted until the death of James Surget, Jr., on May 1, 1920. During the post-war years, revenue from her plantation holdings was primarily generated from annual leasing or sharecropping agreements with tenants. Initially, James Surget, Jr., assisted her in the management of the jointly held plantations, but in later years her son, Duncan Gustine Minor, would assume full responsibility for the management of her properties.

Kate Surget Minor filed a petition with the Southern Claims Commission in the summer of 1871. The mandate of this commission, which was created by Congress in March of 1871, was to determine the validity of monetary claims of loyal southern Unionists whose property had been confiscated by the Union army during the Civil War. Her claim for losses on Carthage and Palo Alto plantations totaled $64,155. However, after nearly a decade of litigation, the commission disallowed the majority of her claim and awarded only $13,072.

Kate Surget Minor had regained much of her former wealth and status by the 1880s. At the time of her death on February 17, 1926, she owned the estate, Oakland; Blackburn, Carthage, Magnolia Place, and Palo Alto plantations; and a half-interest in Brighton Woods, Cole Hill, Fatherland, Hunters Hall, Hurricane, Jane Surget White, and Mount Hope plantations, which were jointly held with her brother, James Surget, Jr. Kate Surget Minor died intestate, and her estate was equally divided among her three surviving children. Duncan Gustine Minor served as administrator of the estate. However, litigation among the three heirs delayed the final settlement of the estate until 1941.

Katherine (Tassie) Surget Minor married Frederick Schuchardt, a grandson of the Leveriches, at a lavish wedding and reception at Oakland in 1882. The Schuchardts had three children: Frederick, Jr., Katherine, and Mary Ann, and they lived in New York. Frederick Schuchardt, Sr., died in 1894, and Katherine Surget Minor Schuchardt died in 1934.

Duncan Gustine Minor continued to live at Oakland. He remained a bachelor but had a close relationship with Jennie Surget Merrill for many years, apparently in defiance of his disapproving family. Minor would later become linked to scandal when Merrill was murdered in the woods behind her home, Glenburnie, on August 4, 1932. The eccentric and impoverished Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery, who lived in squalor next door at Glenwood (Goat Castle), were initially implicated in the murder, which received considerable local and national press coverage of a highly sensational nature. However, a deceased black itinerant worker, George Pearls, was ultimately blamed for the murder, and Dana and Dockery were cleared of suspicion. Merrill bequeathed her entire estate to Duncan Gustine Minor. The legacy included Glenburnie, two plantations in Louisiana, and $250,000 in cash. Minor died at Glenburnie in 1939. His inheritance from Merrill reverted to the Merrill family, and the remainder of his estate was equally divided among Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell, Frederick Schuchardt, Jr., Katherine Schuchardt Robertson, and Mary Ann Schuchardt Scott.

Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell was married to Seaborn McDowell but had no children. Spending the majority of her life at Oakland, McDowell died there in 1949. Frederick Schuchardt, Jr., inherited her estate.

Scope and Content Note:

This collection consists of correspondence, financial records, legal records, a Pharsalia Association membership list, literary papers, a memory book, photographs, postcards, printed materials, social papers, school papers, thoroughbred-horse records, Daughters of the American Revolution papers, World War II ration books, genealogical records, recipe books, a scrapbook, a botanical specimen book, and newspaper clippings relating to various members of the Minor, Surget, and allied families of Natchez, Mississippi.

Series Identification:

Series 1: John Minor (b. 1768) Will. 1827-1832. 1 folder.
The papers of John Minor (b. 1768), brother of Stephen Minor, consist of a typewritten transcript of his May 10, 1827, will.

Box 1, folder 1

Series 2: Stephen Minor Papers. 1811-1816. 3 folders.
The papers of Stephen Minor include a May 11, 1813, letter from A. G. Lintot of Huntington, Connecticut, to Stephen Minor in Natchez, Mississippi Territory, regarding various Lintot family matters. Minors financial papers consist of scattered accounts dating between 1811 and 1813. Of further interest is a typewritten transcript of the will of Stephen Minor (d. 1815). The transcript is dated January 8, 1816, apparently the probate-filing date of the will.

Box 1, folders 2-4

Series 3: Katherine Lintot Minor Estate Inventory. 1844-1845. 1 folder.
The papers of Katherine Lintot Minor (d. 1844) consist of a typewritten transcript of the inventory and appraisal of her estate. It provides a very detailed listing of household goods and furnishings at Concord, along with cotton, livestock, and slaves, between 1844 and 1845.

Box 1, folder 5

Series 4: William John Minor Letter. 1860. 1 folder.
The papers of William John Minor consist of an October 29-30, 1860, letter that he wrote to his son, John Minor, at Oakland, Natchez. His letter concerns family matters, illnesses, the Louisiana sugar crop, and thoroughbred horses.

Box 1, folder 6

Series 5: Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor Papers. 1869-1887. 2 folders.
The papers of Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor include an August 20, 1868, letter that she wrote from Southdown Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to her niece, Frances Wilkins Chotard. The letter concerns the death of her son, John Minor, in New York and his return to Natchez for burial at Oakland. The Reverend Charles Bacchus Dana, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Natchez, preached Minors funeral. There is also a manuscript copy of the August 8, 1887, will of Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor.

Box 1, folders 7-8

Series 6: James G. Minor Estate. Special Power of Attorney. 1903. 1 folder.
Box 1, folder 9

Series 7: John Minor Papers. 1856-1870. 4 folders.
The papers of John Minor include a March 3, 1856, letter that was written by R. F. Dunbar at the Forest, near Natchez, to Minor at Cherry Grove Plantation, near Natchez, regarding an upcoming fox hunt. His financial papers include an October 10, 1867, receipt from Steele and Pinckard of New Orleans for goods that were sent to Carthage Plantation in Adams County. Minor's legal papers include a January 29, 1859, summons issued by the Adams County Probate Court to John Minor and James Surget, Jr., co-executors of the estate of James Surget, Sr. There is a March 25, 1903, special power of attorney authorizing John McDougall of New Orleans to attempt to identify and recover property in Texas belonging to the children of John Minor, who were also the heirs of James G. Minor, deceased. Of additional interest is Minor's leather-bound membership list of the Pharsalia Association, a local turf club. It contains the names of prominent Natchez-area turfmen and notes paid-up members in 1860.

Box 1, folders 10-13

Series 8: Katherine "Kate" Surget Minor Papers. 1851-1925; n.d. 15 folders.
The papers of Kate Surget Minor include many letters from Stephen Duncan, Jr., who lived in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries His letters were often written from fashionable resorts on the Continent. Other correspondents include L. B. Blackburn, Kate B. Davis, S. B. Duncan, Samuel P. Duncan, Mary A. Flanagan, M. A. Gustine, George Hoyt, Caroline K. Martin, William T. Martin, Ayres P. Merrill, Jr., Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor, Thomas Nelson Page, C. S. Sargent, Frederick Schuchardt, Sr., Frederick Schuchardt, Jr., Mary Ann Schuchardt Scott, Catherine Elizabeth Linton Surget, and Ellen Yznaga.

The correspondence of Kate Surget Minor also includes a June 11, 1878, letter from John J. Brower of New York regarding accrued interest on her $26,000 legacy from the estate of Jacob Surget; a September 24, 1880, letter from the New Orleans Female Orphans Asylum; letters from George B. Hopson regarding the genealogy of the Mansfield family; a September 22, 1891, letter from Julia Dunbar Greene of the Forest, enclosing manuscript copies that she made of Griffiths Indian stories, "The Natchez Bride" and "The Wolf of Homochitto"; a March 10, 1894, telegram from Duncan Gustine Minor advising of the death of Frederick Schuchardt, Sr.; an August 1, 1913, letter from Harris Dickson of Vicksburg regarding books and papers from the library of Stephen Duncan, Sr., of Auburn, Natchez, which had recently been dispersed; a May 4, 1920, letter from Mary S. Ker regarding the death of James Surget, Jr.; letters from John L. Johnston of Morgantown, West Virginia, regarding the genealogy of the Minor family, especially in Greene County, Pennsylvania; an April 10, 1925, letter from the John Wanamaker Company of Philadelphia regarding a set of Blue Willow-patterned dishes; and an undated letter from Z. Carpenter of Dunleith, Natchez.

The literary papers of Kate Surget Minor include miscellaneous unsigned essays, poetry, and stories, one of which is entitled "Kate's Party." There are circa 1891 manuscript versions of Griffith's Indian stories, "The Natchez Bride" and "The Wolf of Homochitto," which were copied for Kate Surget Minor by Julia Dunbar Greene of the Forest. Kate Surget Minor received the postcards from family and friends between the 1890s and 1910s. The printed materials are from the Worlds Columbian Exposition (1893) in Chicago and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco. The memory book of Kate Surget Minor contains manuscript copies of essays, poetry, and letters that were written by Emily Yznaga to her sister, Consuelo, dowager duchess of Manchester, concerning Yznaga's travels to Scandinavia and Russia in the 1890s and early 1900s. Of interest are her descriptions and impressions of court life in imperial Russia.

Box 1, folders 14-26
Box 4, folders 1-2

Series 9: Duncan Gustine Minor Papers. 1878-1929. 5 folders.
The papers of Duncan Gustine Minor include a November 3, 1881, letter from Louis Hansen of New York, regarding custom-tailored clothing, and a letter from S. L. Elam, Vidalia, Louisiana, concerning Outpost Plantation. His financial papers contain scattered invoices and receipts for clothing, glassware, hotels, lumber, shoes, etc. Minor's legal papers concern the division of jointly owned plantations in Adams County, timber sales, chattel mortgages, and sharecropping agreements. His school papers consist of exercises in English grammar and Greek. Of additional interest are certificates from the Jockey Club of New York concerning the registration of thoroughbred horses belonging to Minor.

Box 1, folders 27-31

Series 10: Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell Papers. ca. 1879-1945; n.d. 13 folders.
The papers of Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell include letters from Frederick Schuchardt, Jr., regarding the Minor estate and other business matters; letters from her cousins, Adrienne and Pacquerette Forrester, discussing social life in Great Britain during the Edwardian period; a letter from Alice Quitman Lovell of Monmouth, Natchez; letters from Elizabeth Brandon Stanton of Windy Hill Manor, Natchez; letters from John L. Johnston of Morgantown, West Virginia, concerning Minor family genealogy; a letter from Harry Worcester Smith of Lordvale, Worcester, Massachusetts, regarding thoroughbred-horse racing; and letters from Susanna Cocroft, president of the Physical Culture Extension Society, Chicago, Illinois, instructing her in various aspects of physical fitness.

McDowell's Daughters of the American Revolution papers include an 1896 membership application tracing her lineal descent from Colonel Samuel Postlethwaite and her 1896 membership certificate. Her financial records include a detailed inventory and valuation of Minor and Surget family silver and a circa 1906 financial statement regarding her inheritance from the estate of Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor. McDowell's literary papers include a manuscript copy of a play entitled "Place aux Dames" and manuscript and typescript copies of Natchez-related articles and stories. She received postcards from various family members and friends between the 1890s and 1940s. McDowell's printed materials include James Monteith's Introduction to the Manual of Geography (1867) and an undated booklet entitled My Flag that was published by the John Wanamaker Company of Philadelphia. Her ration books for commodities in short supply during World War II are also present.

Box 1, folders 32-39
Box 2, folders 1-3
Box 4, folders 3-4

Series 11: Katherine Surget Minor Schuchardt Papers. 1872-1936; n.d. 2 folders.
The papers of Katherine Surget Minor Schuchardt include a July 12, 1872, letter from her grandmother, Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor, concerning family matters, and letters from Natchez attorney W. C. Martin, which offer advice on matters affecting family plantations between 1929 and 1931. The legal papers concern the settlement of Minor's estate, including the division of jointly owned plantations and personal property.

Box 2, folders 4-5

Series 12: Photographs. 1876-1930; n.d. 7 folders.
The family photographs include images of immediate Minor and Surget family members; images of allied Forrester, MacNeil, McKittrick, and Merrill family members; images of Oakland; images of extensive Mississippi River flooding in the Natchez-Vidalia area in 1912; images of the Samuel Minor Memorial Bridge near Pentress, West Virginia, in the 1930s; images of Minor family farms and homes in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s; images of family members and friends from out-of-state, mainly unidentified; images of various friends from Europe, some identified, some not; images of an unidentified castle in Great Britain and the chateau, Montchoisy, in Geneva, Switzerland; and several unidentified portrait photographs of men and women. For a detailed inventory of the family photographs, see the Minor Family Papers (Z/1876) Photograph and Postcard List.

Box 2, folders 6-12

Series 13: Postcards (Blank). n.d. 1 folder.
The postcards include scenes of Arlington, Concord, and Oakland in Natchez; scenes of Ascot, England, and Braemar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; scenes of the Cheat River area near Morgantown, West Virginia; and scenes of fashionable resorts such as Biarritz, France, and Newport, Rhode Island. For a detailed inventory of the postcards, see Appendix 1.

Box 2, folder 13

Series 14: Genealogical Records. 1923-1936; n.d. 5 folders.
The genealogical records include a lineage chart of the Minor family made by W. R. Minor, Jr., of Jacksonville, Florida, in 1936; notes on families allied with the Minors, including those of Bingaman, Duncan, Hubbard, Surget, and Wilkins; and a detailed genealogy of the Postlethwaite family that may have been compiled by Mary Postlethwaite of Natchez. Publications include a Genealogy of the Miner Family, from an original manuscript entitled "An Herauldicall [sic] Essay upon the Surname of Minor," which was written by Alexander Cunningham of London, England, in 1683, and Ter-Centenary Anniversary of the Minor-Miner Family in America, 1630-1930, Chicago, Illinois, June 1930.

Box 2, folders 14-18

Series 15: Recipe Books. ca. 1850s-1890s; n.d. 2 folders.
The family recipe books date from the 1850s to the 1890s. They both contain recipes for a variety of dishes that would have been served at Concord or Oakland.

Box 2, folders 19-20

Series 16: Scrapbook. n.d. 1 bound volume.
The scrapbook contains various newsclippings, poetry, home remedies, engravings, etc., dating from the 1860s. The individual who compiled the scrapbook is unknown.

Box 3, folders 1-2

Series 17: Botanical Specimen Book. n.d. 1 bound volume.
The botanical specimen book contains a variety of unidentified plant samples that were pressed and later glued onto sheets of paper. The collector who assembled the botanical specimen book is unknown.

Box 4, folder 5

Series 18: Newspaper Clippings. 1905-1937; n.d. 2 folders.
The newsclippings primarily concern Consuelo, dowager duchess of Manchester; her mother, Ellen Yznaga, who died in Natchez; and sister Emily Yznaga. Miscellaneous newsclippings include obituaries of Katherine Lintot Minor (Mrs. Stephen Minor), Annis Dunbar Jenkins, and John Duncan Minor (son of Henry C. Minor and grandson of William John Minor).

Box 2, folders 21-22

Box List:

Box 1
folder 1: will (John Minor), 1827-1832.
folder 2: correspondence (Stephen Minor), 1813.
folder 3: financial records (Stephen Minor), 1811-1813.
folder 4: legal records (Stephen Minor), 1816.
folder 5: estate inventory (Katherine Lintot Minor), 1844-1845.
folder 6: letter (William John Minor), 1860.
folder 7: correspondence (Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor), 1869.
folder 8: legal records (Rebecca Ann Gustine Minor), 1887.
folder 9. special power of attorney (James G. Minor estate), 1903.
folder 10: correspondence (John Minor), 1856-1866; n.d.
folder 11: financial records (John Minor), 1867.
folder 12: legal records (John Minor), 1859-1870.
folder 13: membership list (Pharsalia Association), 1860.
folder 14: correspondence (Kate Surget Minor), 1851-1856; n.d.
folder 15: correspondence (Kate Surget Minor), 1866-1899.
folder 16: correspondence (Kate Surget Minor), 1901-1925.
folder 17: correspondence (Kate Surget Minor), n.d.
folder 18: correspondence (Stephen Duncan, Jr.), 1886-1899.
folder 19: correspondence (Stephen Duncan, Jr.), 1900-1908.
folder 20: correspondence (Stephen Duncan, Jr.), January-November (no year).
folder 21: correspondence (Stephen Duncan, Jr.), n.d.
folder 22: financial records (Kate Surget Minor), 1870-1925.
folder 23: literary papers (Kate Surget Minor), 1861-1909; n.d.
folder 24: postcards (Kate Surget Minor), ca. 1890s-1910s.
folder 25: printed materials (Kate Surget Minor), 1893-1915; n.d.
folder 26: social papers (Kate Surget Minor), 1854-1897; n.d.
folder 27: correspondence (Duncan Gustine Minor), 1881-1903.
folder 28: financial records (Duncan Gustine Minor), 1878-1881; [191?].
folder 29: legal records (Duncan Gustine Minor), 1916-1929.
folder 30: school papers (Duncan Gustine Minor), 1879-1880.
folder 31: thoroughbred-horse records (Duncan Gustine Minor), 1915-1917.
folder 32: correspondence (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1895-1906.
folder 33: correspondence (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1921-1929.
folder 34: correspondence (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1930-1941.
folder 35: correspondence (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), n.d.
folder 36: Daughters of the American Revolution papers (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1896.
folder 37: financial records (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1906-1932.
folder 38: literary papers (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), n.d.
folder 39: literary papers (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1893; n.d.

Box 2
folder 1: postcards (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), ca. 1890s-1940s.
folder 2: printed materials (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), n.d.
folder 3: World War II ration books (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1945; n.d.
folder 4: correspondence (Katherine Surget Minor Schuchardt), 1872-1931; n.d.
folder 5: literary papers (Katherine Surget Minor Schuchardt), 1927-1936.
folder 6: photographs (Minor family), 1876-1888; n.d.
folder 7: photographs (allied families), 1884; n.d.
folder 8: photographs (Oakland), n.d.
folder 9: photographs (Mississippi River flood), 1912.
folder 10: photographs (out-of-state), 1911-1912; 1930; n.d.
folder 11: photographs (Europe), 1901; 1914; n.d.
folder 12: photographs (miscellaneous), ca. 1914-1918; n.d.
folder 13: postcards (blank), n.d.
folder 14: genealogical records (Minor family), 1923; 1936; n.d.
folder 15: genealogical records (Minor family printed materials), ca. 1928-1930; n.d.
folder 16: genealogical records (allied families), n.d.
folder 17: genealogical records (Postlethwaite family), n.d.
folder 18: genealogical records (miscellaneous), n.d.
folder 19: recipes book (Minor family), ca. 1850s-1880s.
folder 20: recipes book (Minor family), ca. 1880s-1890s.
folder 21: newsclippings (Consuelo, dowager duchess of Manchester, and the Yznaga family), 1905-1908; n.d.
folder 22: newsclippings (miscellaneous), 1906-1937; n.d.

Box 3
folders 1-2: scrapbook, n.d.

Box 4
folder 1: literary papers (Kate Surget Minor), [ca. 1891].
folder 2: memory book (Kate Surget Minor), ca. 1890s-1910s.
folder 3: Daughters of the American Revolution papers (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), 1896.
folder 4: printed materials (Jeanne Marie Minor McDowell), ca. 1879.