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Copy from Samuel Grove to Jonathan Clempson, October 6, 1775
No full textThis is a copy of Samuel Grove\u27s letter from Beaufort to Jonathan Clempson, address unknown. The letter includes business about credit, cargo, and crop updates made in ledgers. Products include hay, rice, and indigo.
Names included: Grove and Davies, Richard Shubrick, Shubrick and Clempson, John Kean and Company, John Howell, Nicholas Lecheme, Miller, Hanson Clark, Lane, and possibly others.
Places mentioned: Hambral, Rotterdam, Savannah, Charles Town.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1770s/1013/thumbnail.jp
Samuel A. T. Walker 1881 Diary on the Forest Grove Indian School
No full textThe 1881 diary of Samuel A. T. Walker (also known as "Saturday Sam" Walker), a resident of Forest Grove, Oregon. He was a shoemaker by trade with a significant side business as a fiddler at dances. At the time he was writing this diary, he was the shoemaking instructor at the Forest Grove Indian School. The diary has brief summaries of his daily activities, often just 1-3 sentences long. It provides insight into the everyday work done by Native students at the school. The diary is written into a blank booklet that was given away as a promotional freebie by Alanson 'Lant' Hinman Jr., who was selling insurance at the time. The diary is accompanied by a transcript of the text related to the Indian School
Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers
No full textThe Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers contain the professional and personal records of archaeologist, journalist, and author Samuel Dorris Dickinson
Jane Grove and John Kean on behalf of Samuel Grove to John Faucherand Grimke, January 1, 1778
No full textThis legal document is for the sale of enslaved people from the estate of Samuel Grove, deceased, to John Faucherand Grimke. Samuel Grove was the husband of Jane Grove and stepfather to John Kean, the executrix and executor of his estate. Names of the enslaved people: London, Cuffy, Cudjoe, John, Sancho, Ocra, Gloster, Celia, Doll, Cloe, Hannah, Betty, Ceasar, Chance, Sarah, Bess, Cato, Edinborough, Primus, Sampson, Peter, June, December, Sandy, September, October, Billy, Guinea Peter, Kate, Affy, Flora, Minnah, Moll, Pender, Venus, Bella, Lettice, Ben, Rinah, Bess, Little Venus Mariane, Bosan, and Joe. This indenture was signed in the presence of William Frinr.
The transcription is attached below, separately from the scanned image.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1770s/1000/thumbnail.jp
'Former Indian Student Revists Forest Grove' news article on Albert Minthorn
No full textA brief news article from the Forest Grove 'News-Times' describes a visit by an alumnus of the Forest Grove Indian Training School, Albert Minthorn, to Samuel A. Walker, who was a former teacher at the school. Minthorn is described as a 'wealthy farmer living on the Umatilla reservation.
J. Clempson to Samuel Grove, circa 1775
No full textJonathan Clempson wrote to Samuel Grove in Beaufort, South Carolina. Clempson informed Grove that Mr. RS sold the Indigo consigned to him which yielded Grove a large profit. Also included an invoice. Discussed shipping Grove’s goods, exportation prices, and business concerning plantation life. This document is undated.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_undated/1001/thumbnail.jp
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Locust Grove Plantation Ledger
No full textLedger contains the names, marriages, births, and deaths of enslaved persons on a plantation which internal evidence suggests was Locust Grove Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Ledger also contains cotton harvest data for each enslaved person. Some pages include newspaper clippings discussing agricultural and domestic techniques and advice. The plantation was founded in 1777 under the name Mount Locust, and the name was changed by Samuel Postlethwait when he purchased the plantation. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)\u27s Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South project.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/deeplyrooted/1004/thumbnail.jp
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