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Alex M. Hitz papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS854
Scope and Content

This collection contains many of Alex Hitz's business and personal papers. Included are sociel security records, tax return, military records, and general business papers, both private practice and city commission. Hitz also assembled a "Compilation of the State's Grantees to All Land Lots in Fulton County." A family history and genealogy records are also included. The collection also contains Hitz's collection of programs from various Atlanta Theaters.

Dates: 1893-1972

Alexander Pope land grant

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Collection number: ahc.MSS710f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a land grant awarded to Alexander Pope of Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, for 160 acres. The document is signed by U. S. President John Quincy Adams.

Dates: 1828 April 10

Alfred Austell papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS29
Scope and Content These papers consist of various business and legal documents related to Alfred Austell's numerous business ventures. Included are land deeds, bookkeeping notes, checks, property insurance policies, bills, receipts, and photocopies of pages from Austell's letter book dealing with banking business, sale of cotton, and property acquisition and payment of personal notes. This collection also contains two pocket files, which are listed by month. The contents of these files have been left in...
Dates: 1833-1962; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1889

Alston and Glenn family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS1262
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from the Alston and Glenn families of Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. These families were joined by marriage when Jack Glenn married Anne Amanda Alston in 1935. The Alston family papers include correspondence and legal documents pertaining to several generations of Alstons. Correspondence features discussions regarding finances, land plot purchases, education, historical society applications, and legal documents such as wills and estate planning. Also...
Dates: 1612-2017, undated; Majority of material found in 1900-1975

Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad land grant documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS935f
Scope and Content

This collection contains a binder of official documents issued by the United States War Department concerning land-grant equalization between the federal government and railroad companies. Also included is a map of land grant and bond-aided railroads.

Dates: 1937-1945

Charles and Annie Haden papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS108
Scope and Content This collection contains the personal and business papers of Charles J. Haden and his wife, Annie Bates, including correspondence, land grants, clippings, maps, speeches, and printed material. Topics include genealogy, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, the state Democratic Party, the Cherokee Slate Company, and the Cyclorama. Of particular note is a speech by Haden on cotton production in the South and the effects of various New Deal policies on southern economy, the Atlanta Convention...
Dates: 1847-1966, undated; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1950

Cherokee County land grant

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Collection number: ahc.MSS553f
Scope and Content

Contains a land grant to Daniel Mathrin (?) of Newton, Georgia in Cherokee County, Georgia on February 12, 1833.

Dates: 1833

Childress-Bryant family papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS56
Scope and Content These papers document the ownership history of several tracts of land in District 14 of Atlanta, Georgia, between 1822 and 1925. Including land lots are 119, 197, 198, 231, and 232. The collection consists of land grants, deeds, and papers primarily of the Childress and Bryant families. There are also papers regarding the land transactions of the White, Thomas, Mangum, Mitchell, Wooten, Thrasher, Guyton, Willis, and Suttles families. The land stayed within the Childress and Bryant families...
Dates: 1822-1925

Daniel and William A. McDougald papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS229f
Scope and Content

This collection contains land deeds from Macon County, Muscogee County, and Meriwether County in Georgia, receipts, business records, and legal documents. Of particular note is a bill of sale for enslaved people in Muscogee County, Georgia; a list of enslaved people with ages and brief descriptions; and correspondence relating to land transactions on the part of William A. and Daniel McDougald.

Dates: 1825-1889, undated

Finley Family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS853
Scope and Content This collection is divided into two series. Series I is primarily correspondance, both business and personal, spanning from the 1770s into the 1880s. Included are indentures, land grants, surveys, store accounts, a scrapbook and a funeral notice. Series II is from the twentieth century and is the collected mementos of Robert S, Lowrence from Atlanta, Georgia. Included are scrapbooks, photograph albums, diplomas, certificates, correspondence, church bulletins, music programs,...
Dates: 1778-1992

Greene-Hopkins-Wadkins Land Grants

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Collection number: ahc.MSS686f
Scope and Content

This collection contains three land grants for land lots 230, 231, and 244, adjoining properties in the 17th District in Henry County, Georgia (later Fulton County, Georgia). Lot 231 was registered by Alston H. Greene of DeKalb County, Georgia in 1833 and had an irregular lottery size of 183 acres. Lot 230 was registered by John Hopkins of Emmanual County, Georgia in 1823, and lot 244 was registered by Barnett R. Wadkins of Franklin County, Georgia in 1823.

Dates: 1823, 1833

Kirkpatrick family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS779
Scope and Content

This collection contains personal letters written by and to the Kirkpatrick family, mainly Nettie Kirkpatrick and her sister Keren Kirkpatrick Lindley. Also included are many death notices for the immediate Kirkpatrick family. Tax records from the 1860s are included. Bill of sales for several slaves are also included. There are several newspaper clippings on various subjects along with several books and pamphlets.

Dates: 1778-1920, undated

Lorenzo James land grant

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Collection number: ahc.MSS708f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of a land grant awarded to Lorenzo James for eighty acres in Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama. U.S. President John Quincy Adams signed the document.

Dates: 1828 April 10

Thompson and Glover Families Papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS204
Scope and Content This collection documents the activities of various members of the Thompson and Glover families who lived in Madison, Monticello, and Atlanta, Ga., primarily Catherine Thompson, Will Glover Thompson, Emily Fish Glover, Sallie [Sarah] Glover, and Eli Glover. Materials include correspondence of Sallie Glover with friends and family regarding school, sicknesses, clothes, and family visits. A few letters reference the commotion and disturbance of the Civil War. Correspondence of Catherine...
Dates: 1839-1961

William N. Gantt papers

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Collection number: ahc.MSS601f
Scope and Content

This collection contains an original land grant, indentures, and land warranty deeds. This collection also includes a will dated 1901.

Dates: 1869-1901

Wilson family documents

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Collection number: ahc.MSS761f
Scope and Content

This collection contains documents pertaining to the Wilson family from 1825-1899. Documents include a marriage license, land lot certificates, military discharge certificates, receipts, geneological papers, a letter, and a will.

Dates: 1825-1880

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