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Collection Number: 01697

Collection Title: James Allen and Charles B. Allen Papers, 1788-1869

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Size 300 items (1 reel of microfilm)
Abstract James Allen was a planter of Warren County, Miss. Charles B. Allen was his son. Personal, family, and business correspondence of James Allen and Charles B. Allen, including European correspondence in the 1850s, mostly from Paris and the Hague, where James was apparently conducting business, and from European schools Charles attended; Civil War letters from Charles while a Confederate soldier in Mississippi and Alabama and from James in Richmond, Mobile, and other places, while he was involved in a variety of enterprises, including salt manufacture; James's official correspondence as provost marshall of freedmen in Warren County, 1865-1866; and some post- war plantation papers, mainly concerning land transactions and the sale of cotton. Also included is a notebook, 1788-1796, of Garret Rapalje of Alabama, containing accounts, records of Indian words, etc. (incomplete typed transcription of an original manuscript at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History).
Creator Allen, James, fl. 1856-1866.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the James Allen and Charles B. Allen Papers #1697, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Lent for filming from Mrs. Ralph Haxton of Greenville, Miss., in April 1950.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, July 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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James Allen was a planter of Warren County, Miss. Charles B. Allen was his son.

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Personal, family, and business correspondence of James Allen and Charles B. Allen, including European correspondence in the 1850s, mostly from Paris and the Hague, where James was apparently conducting business, and from European schools Charles attended; Civil War letters from Charles while a Confederate soldier in Mississippi and Alabama and from James in Richmond, Mobile, and other places, while he was involved in a variety of enterprises, including salt manufacture; James's official correspondence as provost marshall of freedmen in Warren County, 1865-1866; and some post- war plantation papers, mainly concerning land transactions and the sale of cotton. Also included is a notebook, 1788-1796, of Garret Rapalje of Alabama, containing accounts, records of Indian words, etc. (incomplete typed transcription of an original manuscript at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History).

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Reel M-1697/1-2

M-1697/1

M-1697/2

James Allen and Charles B. Allen papers

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