Microfilm records, Black history

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Microfilm
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Black
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Microfilm Records Black History
Compiled By Cynthia Platto
Georgia Departnlent of Archives and History Office of the Secretary of State Atlanta t Georgia 73-ML- 1

A LIST OF SPECIFIC MICROFILM RECORDS -~:!-
RELATING TO BLACK STUDIES
IMPORTANT NOTE: This list of materials relating to Black studies is by no means definitive. It represents only those records on microfilm which specifically state that they concern Negroes. Counties not mentioned on the list may have kept similar records interspersed with those of whites. An actual check of the films for unlisted counties will be necessary to determine the existence of any other material relating to Blacks.

Official Records of Georgia Counties
Appling County Free Persons of Color, 1843-1856

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

186

78

Baker County Marriages, 1905-1925 1925-1943 1943-1953

191

48

191

49

191

50

Baldwin County

Free Persons of Color, 1832-1864

139

64

Trials of Slaves, Inferior Court Minutes

1812-1838

139

62

1812-1826

199

25

Berrien County Marriages, 1905-1927 1927-1949

60

39

Bibb County Marriages, 1828-1839 1865-1871

86

70

87

64

-~:!-
Bibb County (continued) Marriages, 1869-1874
1874-1882 1882-1888 1888-1897
and 1909
1892-1895 1895-1899 1899-1911 1902-1908 1906-1910 1910-1913 1913-1919 1917-1919 1919-1921 and 1934 1921-1925
and 1929,
1936, 1963, 1964
Index to Marriages
1823-1963
Brooks County Marriages, 1894-1904
1904-1913 1911-1925 1924-1937 1937-1949 1949-1966
Bryan County Marriages, 1870-1897
Bulloch County Marriages, 1912-1925
1925-1939 1939-1966 1952-1969

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

87

64

87

65

87

66

87

67

87

68

87

69

87

70

87

71

87

72

87

73

86

62

86

63

86

64

86

65

86

66

86

67

86

68

86

69

175

74

175

75

175

76

175

77

175

78

175

79

24

32

25

52

198

55

198

56

198

57

Burke County Slave List, 1798 Second District C

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

32

21

Butts County Marriages, 1882-1903 1903-1929 1929-1948

7

48

7

49

7

51

Calhoun County Marriages, 1880-1908

143

43

Camden County

Affidavits of persons bringing slaves into

71

23

the State, 1818-1847 (Ordinary)

Affidavits of persons bringing slaves into

27

14

the state, 1818-1847 (Superior Court)

Free Persons of Color, 1819-1843

27

11

71

23

Marriages, 1931-1949

27

40

1949-1952

27

41

Campbell County Harriages, 1898-1928

185

41

Carroll County Marriages, 1892-1906

173

23

Chatham County

Free Persons of Color, 1780-1865

81

4

1837-1849

1861-1864

1826-1835

79

28

20

54

I,ist of Negroes Freed (Superior Court)

18

20

Privately compiled by General Robert J.

Travis.

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

Chattooga County

Indentures of Freed Children, 1866-1907

16

6

Clarke County Free Persons of Color, 1847-1862 Marriages, 1909-1916 1916-1943 1943-1956

97

24

100

7

100

8

100

9

Clay County

Indentures for Free Persons of Color, 1866-1867 159

79

Marriages, 1905-1918

159

67

1922-1933

159

68

Clinch County Marriages, 1922-1965

142

41

Colquitt County Marriages, 1942-1946 1946-1950 1950-1962 1962-1967

190

46

190

47

190

49

190

50

Columbia County

Affidavits of Persons bringing slaves into

48

80

the State, 1818-1835

Free Persons of Color, 1819-1836

48

80

Marriages, 1914-1943

192

2

1943-1952

192

3

Coweta County Index to Marriages, 1827-1966
Crawford County Marriages, 1909-1943

142

68

142

69

122

56

Decatur County Voters Registration (Superior Court) 1902

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

130

22

DeKalb County Marriages, 1893-1908

178

16

Dodge County Marriages, 1893-1940 1905-1919 1919-1937 1937-1952 1952-1966 Index to Marriages, 1871-1958

166

58

166

59

166

60

166

61

166

63

166

55

Deoly County Marriages, 1852-1875 1868-1890 1885-1891 1890-1899 1899-1908

182

41

182

42

182

43

Douglas County Marriages, 1894-1941

15

54

Elbert County

Affidavits of persons bringing slaves into

2

76

the state, Volume A, 1822-1847

Free Persons of COlor, 1819-1859

2

78

Marriages, 1882-1891

93

2

1889-1899

1898-1909

93

3

Slave Trials, 1837-1849

2

76

Emanuel County Free Persons of Color, 1855 Marriages, 1905-1917 1917-1933 1933-1947 1948-1961 1952-1961

32

73

125

24

125

25

125

26

Fayette County Superintendent of Schools School Census 1928 1933 1938
Forsyth County Marriages, 1895-1900
~"ranklin County Importation of Slaves, 1818-1831 Marriages, 1893-1938
Fulton County Marriages, 1866-1878 1878-1884 1884-1889 1889-1893 1893-1896 1896-1900 1900-1902
Glascock County Marriages, 1871-1920 1921-1945 1945-1966
Glynn County ~~rriages, 1898-1905 1905-1918
Gordon County Marriages, 1908~1965
Greene County Marriages, 1866-1875 1875-1877 1878":1883

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

70

27

172

26

200

12

178

11

111

68

111

69

111

70

111

71

111

72

111

73

111

74

158

58

159

59

82

3

134

69

34

29

34

28

34

30

Hall County Marriages, 1866~1900 1900-1920 1920-1953

DR. , NO.

BOX NO.

146

55

146

59

Hancock County

Free Persons of Color, 1855-1862

122

11

Slave Trials, 1843-1850 (Inferior Court)

121

46

Harris County Marriages, 1859-1872 1870-1883 1890-1923

163

43

156

43

Hart County Marriages, 1867-1899 1899-1923

177

33

Henry County Marriages, 1851-1885 1881-1892 1885-1916 1916-1933 Index to Marriages, 1821-1939

8

34

8

35

8

38

8

39

8

32

Houston County

Licenses to sell spiritious liquor to

free persons of color, 1834-1862

157

4

Irwin County Marriages, 1854-1874 1904-1917 1917-1954

99

62

99

64

99

65

Jackson County

Affidavits of persons bringing slaves into

the State, 1818-1830

168

26

Marriages, 1895-1911

162

48

Jefferson County Free' Persons of'.Color, IS18.:!,
1820-1822 1840-1859
Marriages, 1866-1890
1889-1917 1896-1917 1918-1930 1929-1958 1942-1956

DR. , NO.
22
22 22 22 22 22 22

Johnson County

Marriages, 1907-1928

157

1928-1952

1952-1966

157

Jones County

Index to Slave Deeds (Superior Court)

154

Grantor and Grantee, 1791~1864

Laurens County

Marriages, 1897-1907

120

1907-1915

120

1915-1933

120

1921-1929

120

Lee County

Marriages, 1867-1905

184

Liberty County

Bonds of Apprenticeship, 1866-1873

29

Free Persons of Color, 1852-1864

29

Marriages, 1819-1896

29

1897-1909

1909-1937

29

1936-1956

29

1867-1872

29

Lincoln County

Docket of Slaves indicted for Capital Crimes

1814-1838 (Inferior Court)

81

Free Persons of Color, 1819-1863

88

BOX NO.
63
9 10 11 12 13 14
58 59
62
55 57 59 60
7
37 41 18 19 20 21
23 56

Lowndes County Marriages, 1904-1910 1909-1916 1916-1921 1921-1929 1925-1934
Lumpkin County Free Persons of Color, 1848-1864
McDuffie County voters Register (Ordinary) 1886-1894
Marion County Voters List (Superior Court) 1898, 1900, 1903, 1906
Meriwether County Superintendent of Schools School Census 1898 1903 1913
Miller County Marriages, 1939-1953 1965-1966
Mitchell County Marriages, 1909-1917 1915-1924 1924-1935

192

35

192

36

192

37

192

38

192

39

166

27

119

47

141

80

159

45

60

63

191

20

191

21

Mitchell County (continued) Marriages, 1935-1943 1943-1952
Montgomery County Marriages, 1893-1946
Morgan County Marriages, 1866-1891 1891-1904 Slave Register (Ordinary) 1818-1824 Tax Digests 1890-1910 1895
Oconee County Marriages, 1932-1966
Oglethorpe County Marriages, 1873-1894 1897-1908 Harriage Licenses issued to Freedman 1865-1873
Polk eount.y Marriages, 1917-1919 and 1928 1916-1947 1947-1965
Pulaski County Free Persons of Color, 1840-1865 Marriages, 1894-1910 1910-1919 Slave Records (Ordinary)

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

191

23

191

25

106

18

41

52

41

53

41

48

60

21

145

65

46

8

46

9

223

44

133

60

133

63

38

9

38

.6

38

7

38

46

Putnam County Trials of Slaves, 1813-1843

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

1

17

Richmond County Slave Requisition (Superior Court) 1818-1820 1822-1830 1835-1837

146

45

146

46

Rockdale County Marria.ges, 1891-1902

152

42

Screven County

Docket for trials of Slaves and Free

Persons of Color, 1844~1848 (Inferior Court)

37

32

Spalding County Marriages, 1893-1898 1898-1903 1903-1910 1910-1917 1917-1923 1923-1934 1933-1942 1942-1951 1951-1952

163

79

163

80

163

78

164

55

164

56

164

57

164

58

164

59

164

60

Sumter County Marriages, 1888-1897 Voters Register 1909 1911-1913

135

13

135

48

Taliaferro County

Free Persons of Color, 1796-1865, Book A

142

50

Free Persons of Color, 1829-1864, Books A & B

109

8

Marriages, 1866-1929

119

49

1875-1905

119

50

Trials of Free Persons of Color, Vol. A

109

8

1857-1858

Tattna11 County Marriages, 1866-1872 1910-1950
Terrell County Marriages, 1869-1888 1888-1906 Voters Registration 1895-1909
Thomas County Free Persons of Color, 1858-1862 Marriages, 1868-1874
Troup County Marriages, 1892-1908
Upson County Marriages, 1866-1876 1893-1908
Walton County Marriages, 1896-1908 1905-1919
Warren County Free Persons of Color, 1844-1863 Marriages, 1888-1902 Slave Owner's List (Superior Court) 1798
Wayne County Marriages, 1907-1955

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

85

14

85

15

135

7

135

28

145

40

6

63

6

16

156

12

159

22

128

12

128

13

104

12

104

16

32

20

81

39

Webster County Marriages, 1914-1960

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

53

77

Wilcox County Voters Registration 1897-1898 1908

159

7

Wilkes County

Affidavits of persons bringing slaves into

the State, 1818-1822

45

20

Free Persons of Color, 1819-1824

45

20

1823-1826

Marriages, 1875-1882

45

1

1882-1905

45

2

Worth County Marriages, 1908-1920 1920-1934 1934-1948 1948-1966 1952-1967

171

67

171

67

171

9

171

10

Cemeteries
Baldwin County Central State Hospital Cemetery Records 1880-1951, Negro: Male and Female Contains name, date of burial (?), grave number, section number, and remarks.
Chatham County Laurel Grove Cemetery Records 1853-1876, Volumes 1 and 2 1877-1904, Volumes 3 and 4 1904-1942, Volumes 5 and 6 1899-1912, Volume B 1852-1876, Burials, Volumes 1 and 2 1877-1904, Burials, Volumes 3 and 4 1904-1942, Burials, Volumes 5 - 7 1852-1959, Record of Titles to Lots 1899-1912, Record of Titles to Lots
Sumter County Oak Grove Cemetery Records 1903-1959, Index (A-Z)
Thomas County Old Negro Cemetery Transcribed records, histories, loose notes, etc., relating to cemetery.

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

223

24

69

52

69

53

69

54

'69

66

69

52

69

S3

69

S4

69

54

69

66

70

80

181

65

Churches
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Baptist First Baptist Church for the Colored Macon, Bibb County, Georgia Church History, 1866-1947

DR.

BOX

.-NO-.

NO

90

29

Baptist Jordon Grove Baptist Church Lee County (Palmyra District) Newspaper Item: In Albany Herald, April 17, 1938, page 5.

15

79

Baptist

Sandy Creek Baptist Church

Morgan County, Georgia

Minutes and Membership Roll, 1808-1866

56

61

Minutes and Membership Roll, 1904-1950

160

50

Baptist Bethlehem Baptist Church Appalachee, Morgan County, Georgia Minutes, 1859-1896

169

47

Episcopal st. Anthanasius Episcopal Church Brunswick, Camden County, Georgia will of Mary Rhinelander King of New York. will shows bequeath to the above named church. Worth, monthly publication of Church School and a short sketch of chLlrch, 1915-1924

49

59

49

64

Episcopal St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church Chatham County, Georgia Records of Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Memberships, etc. 1877-1925

49

21

Methodist Bethel Methodist Church Screven County, Georgia Appointments and List of Members 1836-1878
Presbyterian Hebron Presbyterian Church Banks County, Georgia Church Records, 1847-1884
Presbyterian New Hope Presbyterian Church Madison County, Georgia Minutes, 1838-1861 contains brief history of church (1788-1838), Baptisms, Marriages, and List of Members (1849-1859).
Presbyterian Independent Presbyterian Church Chatham County, Georgia Minutes of the First African Sabbath School 1826-1839 Colored Sunday School, 1844 Colored Marriages and Members, 1829-1887

DR.

BOX.

!2.=..

NO.

21

62

171

54

187

17

186

51

186

50

Cities
Atlanta 1890 Tax Digest Includes Negro property for all of Fulton county.
Milledgeville Census of 1911 Contains: Name, Age, Color, Residence, street, and Remarks. Treasurer Tax Digests 1859-1867 1869 Contains List of Tax Payers.
Savannah Free Persons of Color Register 1817-1829 1860-1863

DR

BOX

-NO.

NO.

199

56

200

11

200

4

117

45

Confederate Records
Official Request for use ofSl~ve of J.J. Jones of Burke County, Georgia from Confederate states Engineering Department, Office Enrolment (sic) of Slaves, Savannah, Georgia, December 9, 1863
Two Forms: "Military Impressment of Negroes for the Defense of Georgia," August 5, 1862, for use of Slaves from Estate of S.A. Jones.

DR.
-NO.
150

BOX NO.
117

150

117

Manuscripts

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

Bacote, 'Clarence A.~

The Negro in Georgia Politics, 1880-1908

155

55

Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of

the Division of the Social Sciences in

Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of

Philosophy, University of Chicago,

September, 1955.

Typescript. 533 pages

Calendar of the Manuscripts in the Schomburg

160

80

Collection of Negro Literature

Compiled by the Historical Records Survey,

Works Project Administration, New York City,

1942(3). Index. 495 pages.

Newspapers and Periodicals

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

The Voice of the Negro

188

73

Volumes I - IV

January, 1904 - February, 1907

Ceased publication on March 19, 1908.

The Voice of the People

60

22

February 1, 1901 - February 1, 1904

Published in Atlanta by Bishop H.M.

Turner as the monthly organ of the

Colored National Emigration Association.

Priv:ate PaRers
Allen, Elisa A. Papers: Personal Correspondence, Business Papers, etc. 1841-1863 Burke County, Georgia
Cooper, Mrs. Mark Collection: Includes deed for slave Reuben Payne to Thomas Cooper, 1790.
Cooper, Mark Anthony Collection: Papers include deeds, warrants, plats, grants and slave deeds, 1794-1875
Cowan, Mrs. F .B. Collection: Includes receipt for Slave, December 1, 1837, Franklin County, Georgia.
Greene, Richard Appling t": Iiist of Slaves owned by Richard Appling Greene of Macon County, Georgia.
Jones, John J. Collection: Includes records relating to slavery, 1835-1865
Jones, William B., M.D. Collection: Includes bills of sale of slaves, l847(?) - l886(?)
Moye Collection Collection: Includes a bill of sale for a slave dated 1844, signed by Joseph and E.O. Forbes and Isaac Tull.

DR.
NO.
150 54
184
57
15 79 150 188 171

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BOX
NO.
107 64
80
65
78 78 117 25 40

Nephew, James Deeds: Includes deed for land and slaves, McIntosh County, Georgia
Orr, James M. Collection: Includes bills of sale of slaves, Gwinnett County, Georgia.
Turner, Daniel Letters: Includes economic, social and political situations.
Yancey, B.C. Account Book of B.C. Yancey, 1842-1866, for Coosa River Plantation (Cherokee County, Alabama) and Blue Spring Plantation (Dougherty County, Georgia). Contents include: birth and death dates of slaves on plantation; accounts with freedmen working on
rp~antation, 1865-1866, etc.

DR.
'NO.
71 193
21
150

BOX NO. 61 76
34
101

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Published Volumes

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

Cobb, Thomas Reed Rootes

An InSiuiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in

187

49

the united states of America. To which is

prefixed a Historical Sketch of Slavery.

Savannah: W. Thorne Williams, 1858.

358 pages

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Subject File

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

Slavery - Condition of Slaves Papers of John McPherson Berrien 1781-1856

186

5

186

6

186

7

Slavery - Condition of Slaves Letters of Daniel Turner 1805-1808 Physician at St. Mary's Georgia. Includes information about persons treated, nature of diseases, and medical trea'blent of slaves.

21

34

Slavery - Sale of Slaves Bill of Sale of Slave, Jacob, dated September 15, 1857, Coweta County, Georgia.
t',:
Slavery - Sale of Slaves Deeds, receipts, bills of sale, etc. relating to the sale of slaves by Barrington King of Darien and Roswell, Georgia and other members of the King and related families.

81

1

71

61

71

62

71

63

Slavery - Sale of Slaves Collection of papers relating to Slavery, 16 items. In: John J. Jones Collection 1848-1865, Part 4

79

78

Slavery in the u.s. - Georgia Newspaper article dated Sunday, August 2, 1932 by Jennie McMillan DeLoach, "Slavery Days in Georgia" In: Couper Family Scrapbook

223

15

Slavery in the u.S. - Florida

L\st of Slave OWners in Columbia County,

32

22

Florida, 1850.

United States Records

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

U.S. Adjutant General The Negro in the Military Service of the U.S., 1639-1886

1639 - 1857 Volume 1

231

1

1860 - 1862 Volume 2 (Starts page 383.)

1863

Volume 3 Parts 1 and 2

231

2

1864

Volume 4 Military Employment

231

3

Volume 5 Civil Status and Battle

Reports (Starts page 0645.)

1865 - 1877 Volume 6

231

4

1862-1865 Volume 7 Treatment and Exchange of 231

5

Prisoners of War

1866 - 1886

Regular Army

U.S. Bureau of the Census Schedule of Slave OWners, 1850 and 1860 Available for all Georgia Counties 10 reels of microfilm

Census Drawer

U.S. Department of the Interior African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization, Records of 1854-1872

Sept. 8, 1858 - Feb. I, 1872

231

6

Letters Sent

Aug. II, 1858 - Feb. 3, 1872

231

7

Register of Letters Received

A~g. 13, 1858 - Feb. 3, 1872

231

8

Letters received from the President,

the Executive Department, and Congress

Dec. 20, 1858 - Feb. 3, 1871

231

9

Abstracts of State Laws pertaining to

Slavery, Miscellaneous Letters received

relating to Slave Trade

1854 - 1869

231

10

Letters received from U.S. Attorneys

1861 - 1862

Correspondence, Testimony, Exhibits

relating to case of Slave Bark Augusta

March 13, 1857 - March 9, 1869

231

11

Letters received relating to U.S. Marshalls

April 24, 1860 - Nov. 7, 1861

Correspondence pertainig to Claim of

Lucien Peyton

Janlfl 5, 1861 - Dec. 20, 1870

Letters received relating to Judges

231

12

and Arbitrators of Mixed Courts at

New York, Cape Town and Sierra Leone

DR.

BOX

NO.

NO.

April 18, 1862 - June 6, 1865

Miscellaneous Communications relating

231

13

to James Mitchell, Emigrations Agent

1860 - 1868

Miscellaneous Communications,' Contracts,

and Agreements relating to Colonization

Sept. 6, 1862 - Jan. 18, 1869

231

14

Communications relating to the Colonization

Project at Ile a Vache,

Haiti

1860 - 1865

Letters received from John Seys, U.S.

231

15

Agent for Liberated Africans in Liberia

1860 - 1865

Correspondence and Accounts relating to

the American Colonization Society

u.s. Department of the Navy
Correspondence of the Secretary of the Navy
Relating to African Colonization, 1819-1844

January 17, 1820 - May 19, 1844 Letters sent
January 5, 1819 - December 31, 1825 Letters received
January 1, 1826 - March 10, 1841 Letters received (3 volumes)
lntroduction precedes collection

231

16

231

17

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Countx.
Appling Baldwin Camden
Chatham
Clarke Clay Columbia Elbert Emanuel Hancock Jefferson
Libnrty Lincoln Lumpkin Pulaski Screven Taliaferro
Thomas Warren Wilkes

MICROFILMS OF FREE PERSONS OF COLOR

Years

Drawer No.

1843-1856

186

1832-1864

139

1819-1843

27

71

1780-1865

81

1837-1849

1861-1864

1826-1835

79

20

1847-1862

97

1866-1867

159

1819-1836

48

1819-1859

2

1855

32

1855-1862

122

1818

22

1820-1822

1840-1859

1852-1864

29

1819-1863

88

1848-1864

166

1840-1865

38

1844-1848

37

1796-1865 Book A 142

1829-1864 Book A,B 109

1858-1862

6

1844-1863

104

1819-1824

45

1823-1826

Box No.
78 64 11 23 4
28 54 24 79 80. 78 73 11 63
41 56 27 9 32 50 8 63 12 20

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE MATERIAL FOR THE STUDY OF NEGRO HISTORY AND RACE RELATIONS 1. History of the Walker Baptist Association of Georgia, 1899 by R.
J. Johnson. Drawer 233 Box 23. 2. Dr. Richard Furman's Exposition of the Views of the Baptists Relative
to the Coloured Population in the U.S. in a Communication to the Governor of South Carolina. 1833 Drawer 233 Box 25. 3. Speech of Reverend William Henry Bisbane delivered before the Female Anti-Slavery Society of Cincinnati, February 12, 1840. Drawer 233 Box 25. 4. An Address to Baptist Ministers in the U.S. Who Hold Slaves, 1845. Drawer 233 Box 25. 5. The Fourth Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the U.S., 1821 Drawer 233 Box 25.
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