Creator
Bailey, David Jackson, 1812-1897
Grantland, Seaton, 1782-1864
Grantland, Seaton, II, 1847-1919

Date of Original
1818/1966

Subject
Butts County (Ga.)--Genealogy
Butts County (Ga.)--History
Genealogy; Georgia--Genealogy
Politicians--Georgia--Correspondence
Politicians--Georgia--History--19th century
Politicians--Georgia--Milledgeville--Correspondence
Politicians--Georgia

Location
United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, 33.06928, -83.24959
United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
United States, Georgia, Butts County, 33.28785, -83.95717
United States, Georgia, Jackson County, 34.13388, -83.56635
United States, Georgia, Spalding County, 33.26087, -84.28416

Medium
family papers

Type
Text

Description
The Grantland and Bailey families are from Baldwin, Butts, and Spalding counties, Georgia. Seaton Grantland was a U.S. Congressman (1835-1839), an attorney in Milledgeville, Georgia, presidential elector (1840), and planter. David Jackson Bailey was a U.S. Congressman (1851-55), state senator, an attorney in Jackson, Georgia, president of state senate (1861), colonel of the 30th regiment, Georgia, volunteer infantry, and planter. Seaton Grantland II was a businessman in Griffin, Georgia, a member of the state legislature, and owner of the Griffin Manufacturing Company. The collection consists of papers pertaining to the Grantland and Bailey families, ranging from around 1818-1966. Notable items include extensive genealogy research and biographical information, Georgia land grants, and political correspondence including, Joseph E. Brown, Howell Cobb, Herchel V. Johnson, Alexander H. Stephens, and P.M. Compton. Other letters relate to the Second Seminole War and early settlers in Florida, letters from Dr. James S. Gilliam, surgeon, U.S. Navy, aboard the U.S.S. Macedonian on one of the Commodore Perry's trips to Japan and the U.S.S. Levant exploring the South Pacific and South America, 1849-1850.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_4186

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights