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Dr. F. A. Byrd Papers
Description:
Business and Personal
Papers. Arranged alphabetically. 1819-1892. Includes bills, certificates,
deeds, one bound accont book, licenses to practice as physician and surgeon,
13 early envelopes with stamps attached and certificates of membership.
Civil War Letters. Arranged alphabetically.
1861-1864. 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).
Family Correspondence.
Arranged chronologically. 1819, 1835-1892. Family correspondence includes
one letter pertaining to yellow fever in Florida, one to travel by vessel
from St. Marks to New Orleans, and one to early development of St. Teresa.
Also includes philosophy, poetry, and a recipe for making "Hard Soap."
Florida Politics. No discernible
arrangement. 1860-1872. Papers pertaining to Florida politics, including
one newspaper clipping.
Orders and Invoices. No discernible
arrangement. 1842-1879. Includes invoices for marble slabs and headstones
for family graves (with names); Declaration of Taxable Property, tax receipts,
note payable to Harrison Reed, Governor of Florida; certificate of "Amnesty
Oath."
Sales. No discernible arrangement. 1827-1892.
Sales of land, deeds, bills of sale, sale of land at public auction, sales
of slaves, custodian of slave children.
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Created by Aimee Reist and John Nemmers. Send comments to FSU Libraries Special Collections
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