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These documents chiefly concern his ministry, but also include one letter from William Willson, Eire, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1855.

Various documents include an 1861 voucher; Confederate bonds for four dollars, forty dollars and one hundred dollars, 1862-1863; news clipping concerning the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 July 7; Brigadier-General E.C. Mauran, Adjutant-General State of Rhode Island, to Bernice D. Ames, about confusion over his assignment,1863 August 15; and several 1864 Confederate documents, including a receipt for payment of a Confederate bond, receipt for 14 bales of cotton, payment of expenses on behalf of the Cotton Bureau, and one undated special requisition form for 50,000 pounds of iron which could not be filled.

Documents include: receipts, accounts, arrest warrant, certificates of redemption, indentures, various embossing seals of public notaries and other officials, court summons, bankruptcy documents, promissory note, check, and an order to constable to call a town meeting on the verso of a history of mills at Farmington Mills, Maine. Items come from the United States government, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Washington City, District of Columbia, and several unidentified. Notable items include a South Carolina summons from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825), to answer a complaint by Susannah Wilkinson, 1791 August 31; an annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States on the state of the finances by [Richard Rush (1780-1859)], 1827 January 1; and signature of A.G. Semmes, Notary Public, Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida, 1839 January 17.

Documents include: New Orleans reports, in French, concerning slaves, 1831 April 30 and October 1; an agreement signed by James Peter Freret (1800-1869), Livie Darensbourg Freret (1812-1876), Charles Barcantel, Phi. Lacoste, and witnessed by notary Louis La Caire, 1833 May; claim on behalf of the Chitimacha Indians for land on both sides of the Teche River in Attakapas County and Parish of St. Mary, 1835 April 24; cargo manifests, 1842; terms of an agreement between Henry M. Hyams (1806-1875) and Eleazar Levy Hyams (1810-1860) to establish a plantation at a place called Plaisance in the Red River Parish for a period of five years, which contains an extensive list of 57 slave names, with age, price and known relationships indicated, 1851-1855; and Office of the U.S Marshal, Louisiana District, vouchers, 1879.