- Title:
- Telamon Cuyler collection, series 1. historical manuscripts, 1609-1942
- Creator:
- Cuyler, Telamon Cruger Smith, 1873-1951
- Date of Original:
- 1609/1942
- Subject:
- Georgia. Adjutant-General's Office
Cherokee Indians
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Georgia. Comptroller General's Office
Georgia. Office of the Governor
Enslaved persons--Georgia
Georgia. Militia
Boundaries, State
Indians of North America--Southern States
Military administration--Georgia
Military administration--Confederate States of America
Shipping--Southern States
Confederate States of America
Slavery--Georgia--History
Governors--Georgia
Creek Indians--Georgia
Land grants--Georgia
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Georgia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Georgia--Boundaries--Alabama
Georgia--Boundaries--Florida
Georgia--Boundaries--North Carolina
Georgia--Boundaries--South Carolina
Georgia--Boundaries--Tennessee
Jones County (Ga.) - People:
- Cobb, Howell, 1815-1868
Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856
Wayne, Henry C. (Henry Constantine), 1815-1883
Waters, H. H
Foster, Ira R. (Ira Roe), 1811-1885
Whitaker, Jared I. (Jared Irwin), 1818-1884 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Jones County, 33.02513, -83.56052
United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027 - Medium:
- court records
land grants
indentures - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
application/pdf - Description:
- Series 1. Historical Manuscripts consists of manuscripts relating to Georgia history collected by Telamon Cuyler covering the period 1754-1905. The series includes correspondence; bonds; county records, particularly for Jones County (Ga.); court records; indentures; inventories; documents naming enslaved persons; land grants; newspaper clippings; and official Georgia government records for the office of the Adjutant General, Comptroller General, Governor, and Treasurer from 1754-1905 (with gaps). Topics documented within the collection include the Georgia militia; the Revolutionary War; Indian affairs in Georgia during the 1830s (particularly treaties); shipping (1770s-1780s); and boundary disputes between Georgia and Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The series also contains administrative records and correspondence pertaining to the activities of the Confederate government and the Georgia military troops during the Civil War. These records include materials of Ira R. Foster (Georgia Quartermaster General), H. H. Waters (Executive Secretary, Dept. of Georgia), Henry C. Wayne (Georgia Adjutant General), and Jared I. Whitaker (Georgia Commissary General).
Telamon Cruger Smith Cuyler (1873-1951) was born in Rome (Ga.) to Captain Henry Hunter Smith and Estelle Cuyler Smith. He legally changed his surname from Smith to Cuyler in 1905. In 1893, he received a Bachelor of Law degree from the Univeristy of Georgia. In 1900, he married Grace Barton and they had two children. Between 1895 and 1905, he served as special counsel for the governements of Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, and Chile. Cuyler authored sixty privately printed works on Southern, Confederate, and Georgia history. Upon his death in 1951, his large collection of historical documents and photographs were willed to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
For the rest of the Telamon Cuyler Collection MS 1170 at the Hargrett Library, see also: Series 2. Family Papers; Series 3. Personal Materials; Series 4. Correspondence; and Series 5. Writings, Notes, and Photographs.
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online as part of America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia and Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_1170
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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