Dr. F. A. Byrd Papers

Business and Personal Papers
Box 516
1. Bills, certificates, deeds, account book. 1819-1892. 24 items.

Orders and Invoices
2. 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; papers of the administrator of the estate of F.A. Byrd. 1842-1879. 13 items.

Sales
3. Pertains to sales of land, land deeds, bills of sale, sales of land at public auction, contacts; sales of Negro slaves, custodian of Negro children. 1827-1892. 15 items.

Civil War Letter
4. 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.) 1861-1864. 7 items.

Florida Politics
5. Papers pertaining to Florida politics (including one newspaper clipping.) 1860-1872. 4 items.

Family Correspondence
6. 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 the making of "Hard Soap." 1819, 1835-1892. 11 items.

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