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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Douglas Watson Porter Papers #607, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of the Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, Series J.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Charles Thach, of New Orleans, Louisiana, prior to 1940.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Morgan County (Ga.)--History.
• Plantations--Georgia.
• Poplar Grove Plantation (Ga.)
• Porter, Annabella Burwell Dawson Watson, 1785-1835.
• Porter, Douglas Watson, 1786-1823.
• Smith, Otis D., fl. 1860.

Douglas Watson Porter (1786-1823) was a Morgan County, Ga., planter. His wife was Annabella Burwell Dawson Watson (1785-1835).

Financial records, 1819-1834, relating to the Porter family of Morgan County, Georgia, and their agricultural enterprises, presumably centering on a plantation called Poplar Grove. Records consist of bills for household and agricultural supplies and receipts, chiefly for the sale of cotton and corn; and inventories, deeds, and other legal and financial items, relating chiefly to Douglas Watson Porter and his wife, Annabella Burwell Dawson Porter. William Porter appears often in the other items.

One letter is included. It is from Otis [D.?] Smith, a Confederate soldier, and is dated 20 April 1862. It describes a train accident, recent encounters with Union forces, and other experiences near Richmond. The writing is very faint, but, for the most part, legible.