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Two framed Arkansas Territory plat maps. One is of Township 7 South, Range 2 West; the other is of Township 7 South, Range 4 West; both are in present-day Arkansas County.

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Land and allied papers dealing with property in Southwest Arkansas (Red River).

Correspondence, deeds, mortgages, maps and plats, and other material pertaining to land ownership and to the sale and purchase of lands in Arkansas, particularly in Lafayette, Hempstead, and Pulaski Counties. Correspondents include James Chestnut, Jr.

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Deed from David Gillespie of New York, NY, conveying to Israel Foote[?] of New York, NY, in consideration of $20.00, 160 acres of military bounty land in T8N, R8W, Arkansas Territory; executed at New York Aug. 16, 1823, and filed for record by Pulaski County, Ark. recorder Aug. 8, 1824.

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William and Mary Fulsom to Governor of Territory of Missouri, May 28, 1819, in estate of Ebenezer Fulsom, and James Jackson to John Pope, Governor of Territory of Arkansas, August 19, 1829, in estate of Elijah H. Barton.

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Handwritten legal notice, signed by Charles Kelly, calling for a court-ordered sale of enslaved persons owned by James Rupell to take place at Batesville on October 27, 1824. Judgment in favor of the estate of Patrick McMannis, deceased. Enslaved persons in the sale were Moses, an approximately 40-year-old man, Lew, and approximately 40-year-old woman, and Mel, an approximately 22-year-old man.

Scope and Content Note Five original business papers, 1824-1831, and photocopies of material Maggie Smith used in preparing her article, "The Nicks and Gibson Papers and Lovely County" (Benton County Pioneer, vol. 12, no. 4, October, 1967, pp. 86-95). The collection includes legal documents, descriptions of parcels of land, correspondence, inventories, accounts, and advertisements. The papers pertain to the business of merchants Nicks & Gibson, to the estate...

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The Halsey Prudden Correspondence contains biographical information about the Prudden family, and correspondence discussing Arkansas frontier life, and religion. Additional the collection contains two sets of transcribed correspondence; one created by Emma Carmen, Prudden's niece and one provided by Jane Bradford, Prudden's great-great niece.

Scope and Content Note Materials include correspondence, court documents, scrapbooks, diaries, physician appointment books, photographs, drawings, etc. An avid collector of Arkansas-related historical materials, Margaret Smith Ross assembled a collection that includes her personal papers, historical and genealogical research materials, and the original records of the Pulaski County Circuit Court dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her personal papers include correspondence,...

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Correspondence and papers

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H. R. 238. December 21, 1818.... A bill establishing a separate territorial government in the southern part of the Territory of Missouri. 1 item, 6 pages.

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Military bounty land warrant number 23448, awarded to Harmon Wart for his service during the War of 1812. The warrant was for "160 acres being the north east quarter of section 18, township 6 north, range 9 west" in Arkansas Territory.

Scope and Content Note The Hiram A. and Granville Whittington Materials contain correspondence between Hiram and his brother, Granville, back in Massachusetts revealing the conditions and his experience in the new Arkansas territory. Granville, a book binder by trade, preserved the letters in a bound volume. These letters that were neatly bound were found in Granville’s attic when his house in Mount Ida was torn down in 1913. The letters begin in 1824 when Hiram was writing from his home in Nantucket,...