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Dr. F. A. Byrd Papers
Biographical Note:
Flavius Augustus Byrd, Miccosukee, Fla. (1819- 1892). A physician and
surgeon, Dr. Byrd's records show that he also had a farm. Dr. Byrd was
born April 16, 1822, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and died in Tallahassee,
Leon County, Florida, December 26, 1874.
Scope and Content:
Personal, family, and business correspondence, land deeds, letter of
testamentary, papers of the administrator of the estate of Dr. F.A. Byrd.1.
1848-1875. Business and personal papers, certificates of membership, licenses
to practice as Physician and Surgeon, 13 early envelopes (some with stamps
attached); business correspondence, statements, invoices, and one bound
account book. Orders and invoices for marble slabs and headstones for family
graves (with names, etc.); declaration of taxable property, tax receipts,
note payable to Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida; certificate of "Amnesty
Oath;" codicil to a Last Will, letter testamentary. Sales of land,
land deeds, bill of sale, sales of land at public auction, contacts; sales
of Negro slaves, custodian of Negro children, etc. Civil War letters, charter
of Home Guard organization with list of names of volunteers; "Hints
for the consideration of White Men," (relates to problems with slaves)
etc. Florida politics, including one newspaper clipping. Family correspondence
(one letter pertains to yellow fever in Florida, one to travel by vessel
from St. Marks to New Orleans, and one to early development of St. Teresa);
philosophy, poetry, and a recipe for making "Hard Soap."
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