Scope and Content Note The collection contains correspondence, legal documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other materials relating to the Samuel and Hosea Bragg family. Family correspondence includes letters written during the era of the antebellum South as well as the Civil War. Included in Folder 12 is a list of birth dates, and in some cases death dates, of persons enslaved by Hosea Bragg. Also included is correspondence during the period 1866-1911, as well as letters written during the First...

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Land patent on Theodorick [sic] F. Sorrell's bounty lands, assigned to James R. (Rucks) Toney June 3, 1851; two patents issued to Toney November 1, 1852 and April 2, 1860; receipt, August 1, 1871. Documents pertain to lands in T12S, R17W, in vicinity of Camden, Arkansas.