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United States -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mississippi Estate and Business Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 3201
Abstract

About two-thirds of this collection consists of Hinds County, Mississippi probate records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, pertaining to the settlement of 12 local estates. The remainder includes miscellaneous 19th-century court and business records from elsewhere in Mississippi, and from Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Dates: 1821-1902; Majority of material found in 1836-1872

Samuel Preston Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 8012
Abstract

A manuscript journal of the Pennsylvania Quaker Samuel Preston, describing a 19-day trip on horseback through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, February-March 1788.

Dates: 1788