“Bibliography” in “Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia: Their Rise and Decline”
Bibliography
I. BOOKS
Abernethy, Thomas Perkins, The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815-1828. Publication of the Alabama State Department of Archives and History. Historical and Patriotic Series, No. 6. Montgomery: The Brown Printing Co., 1922.
Andrews, Garnett, Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer. Atlanta: Franklin Steam Printing House, 1870.
Asbury, Francis, Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, from August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815. 3 vols. New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason, 1821. For a new edition see Elmer T. Clark, below.
Bailey, Hugh C., John Williams Walker . . . University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1964.
Bartram, William, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. . . . Dublin: J. Moore, W. Jones, R. M’Allister, and J. Rice, 1793.
Betts, Edward Chambers, Early History of Huntsville, Alabama, 1804 to 1870. Revised edition. Montgomery: The Brown Printing Co., 1916.
Bowen, Eliza A., The Story of Wilkes County Georgia. Reprint edition. Marietta, Ga.: Continental Book Company, 1950.
Boykin, Samuel, History of the Baptist Denomination in Georgia. . . . Atlanta: Jas. P. Harrison & Co., 1881.
Brantley, William H., Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860. Vol. I, more in prospect. Birmingham: Privately printed, 1961.
Butler, John C., Historical Record of Macon and Central Georgia. . . . Macon: J. W. Burke & Co., 1879.
Butler, Pierce, Judah P. Benjamin. American Crisis Biographies, edited by Ellis Paxon Oberholtzer. Philadelphia: George W. Jones & Company, 1906.
Calhoun, Ferdinand Phinizy, The Phinizy Family in America. Atlanta: Johnson-Dallis, Printers, 1925?
Chapman, John A., History of Edgefield County from the Earliest Settlements to 1897. Newberry, S. C.: Elbert H. Aull, 1897.
Clark, Elmer T., J. Manning Potts, and Jacob S. Payton, eds., The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury. 3 vols. Published jointly: London: Epworth Press and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958.
Clark, John, Considerations on the Purity of the Principles of William H. Crawford, Esq. . . . Augusta: Printed at the Georgia Advertiser Office, 1819.
Coulter, E. Merton, Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold-Mining Town. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1956.
Craven, Delle Mullen, ed., The Neglected Thread. A Journal from the Calhoun Community, 1836-1842, by Mary E. Moragne. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1951.
Dow, Lorenzo, The Dealings of God, Man, and the Devil; as Exemplified in the Life Experience and Travels of Lorenzo Dow. . . . 2 vols. in one. Middletown, Ohio: Glasner & Marshall, 1849.
Drayton, John, A View of South-Carolina, as Respects her Natural and Civil Concerns. Charleston: W. P. Young, 1802.
Ewan, Joseph and Nesta, eds., John Lyon, Nurseryman and Plant Hunter, and his Journal, 1799-1814. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. . . . New Series, Vol. 53, Pt. 2. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1963.
Gamble, Thomas, Savannah Duels and Duellists, 1733-1877. Savannah: Review Publishing and Printing Company, 1923.
[Gilmer, George R.,] Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia, of the Cherokees, and of the Author. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855.
Gray, Lewis Cecil, History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1933.
Green, Constance McL., Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology. Library of American Biography, edited by Oscar Handlin. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956.
Hanna, A. J., Flight into Oblivion. Richmond: Johnson Publishing Company, 1938.
Hays, Louise Frederick, Hero of Hornet’s Nest. A Biography of Elijah Clark[e], 1733 to 1799. New York: The Hobson Book Press, 1946.
Hill, Lodowick Johnson, Sr., The Hills of Wilkes County, Georgia and Allied Families. Atlanta: Johnson-Dallis Company, 1922?
Hillyer, S. G., Reminiscences of Georgia Baptists. Atlanta: Foote & Davies Company, 1902.
Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters American Revolution. 5 vols. Places and printers vary, 1902-1929.
Jones, Charles C., Jr., The Dead Towns of Georgia. Vol. IV of Collections of the Georgia Historical Society. Savannah: Morning News Steam Printing House, 1878.
Jones, Charles C., Jr., The History of Georgia. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1883.
Jones, Charles C., Jr. and Salem Dutcher, Memorial History of Augusta, Georgia. . . . Syracuse, N. Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1890.
Knight, Lucian Lamar, Georgia’s Landmarks, Memorials and Legends. 2 vols. Atlanta: The Byrd Printing Company, 1913, 1914.
Lambert, John, Travels through Canada and the United States of North America, in the Years 1806, 1807, & 1808. . . . 2 vols. 2nd edition. London: C. Craddock and W. Joy, 1814.
McIntosh, John H., The Official History of Elbert County, 1790-1935. Elberton, Ga.: Stephen Heard Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1940.
McLendon, S. G., History of the Public Domain of Georgia. Atlanta: Published by the author, 1924.
McMillan, Malcolm C., Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1789-1901. . . . Volume 37, The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1955.
Meriwether, Robert L., The Expansion of South Carolina, 1729-1765. Kingsport, Tenn.: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1940.
Michaux, F. A., Travels to the Westward of the Allegheny Mountains in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and Return to Charlestown, through the Upper Carolinas. . . . “Faithfully translated from the original French by B. Lambert.” London: J. Mawman, 1805.
Miller, Stephen F., The Bench and Bar of Georgia: Memoirs and Sketches. . . . 2 vols. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858.
Mills, Robert, Statistics of South Carolina, Including a View of its Natural, Civil, and Military History, General and Political. Charleston: Hurlbut and Lloyd, 1829.
Mirsky, Jeannette and Allan Nevins, The World of Eli Whitney. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952.
Moffat, Charles Hill, The Life of Charles Tait. Ph. D. dissertation in manuscript at Vanderbilt University, 1946.
Moore, Albert Burton, History of Alabama and her People. 3 vols. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1927.
Morange, Mary E. (See Craven, above).
Morse, Jedidiah, The American Geography, or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. Elizabethtown: Shepard Kollock, MDCCLXXXIX.
Olmsted, Denison, Memoir of Eli Whitney, Esq. First published in the American Journal of Science, 1832. New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1846.
Paschal, George W., Ninety-Four Years. Agnes Paschal. Washington: M’Gill & Withrow, 1871.
Patrick, Rembert T., Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944.
Pendleton Farmers’ Society. Atlanta: Foote & Davies Company, 1908.
Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, A History of Transportation in the Eastern Cotton Belt to 1860. New York: The Columbia University Press, 1908.
Pickett, Albert James, History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period. 2 vols. Third edition. Charleston: Walker and James, 1851.
Ramsay, David, The History of South-Carolina, from its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808. 2 vols. Charleston: David Longworth, 1809.
Saunders, James Edmonds, Early Settlers of Alabama. With Notes and Genealogies by his Granddaughter, Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs. New Orleans: L. Graham & Son, Ltd., 1899.
Seabrook, Whitemarsh B., “Memoir on the Cotton Plant. . . . Read Before the State Agricultural Society, on the 6th December, 1843.” Pages 113-168 in Proceedings of the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina, 1839-1846.
Shipp, J. E. D., Giant Days or the Life and Times of William H. Crawford. Americus, Ga.: Southern Printers, 1909.
Sibbald, George of Augusta, Notes and Observations, on the Pine Lands of Georgia, Shewing the Advantages they Possess, Particularly in the Culture of Cotton. . . . Augusta: William J. Bunce, 1801.
Simkins, Francis Butler, Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1944.
Smith, George G., The History of Georgia Methodism from 1786 to 1866. Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1913.
Smith, George G., The Life and Letters of James Osgood Andrew. . . . Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883.
Sparks, W. H., The Memories of Fifty Years. . . . Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872.
Sprague, W. B., Annals of the American Methodist Pulpit. . . . Volume 7 in “Annals of the American Pulpit.” New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861.
Tompkins, D. A., Cotton and Cotton Oil. . . . Charlotte: Published by the author, 1901.
[Vickers, Geo. Morley,] Under Both Flags. . . . Philadelphia: People’s Publishing Company, [1896].
Waddel, John N., Memorials of Academic Life: Being an Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family. . . . Richmond: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1891.
Wade, John Donald, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet. A Study of the Development of Culture in the South. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924.
White, George, Historical Collections of Georgia: Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes. Etc. . . . New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854.
White, George, Statistics of the State of Georgia: Including an Account of its Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical History, together with a Particular Description of Each County. . . . Savannah: W. Thorne Williams, 1849.
Williford, William Bailey, Williford and Allied Families. Atlanta: Published privately, 1961.
Wylie, Lollie Belle, ed., Memoirs of Judge Richard H. Clark. Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1898.
II. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT
A. United States
Aggregate Amount of Each Description of Persons within the United States of America, and Territories thereof, Agreeable to Actual Enumeration Made According to Law in the Year 1810. Book I of the Third Census.
Carter, Clarence Edwin, ed., Territory of Mississippi, 1798-1817. Volume V of Territorial Papers of the United States. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937.
“Letter from the Postmaster General Transmitting a Statement of the Nett Amount of Postage Accruing at Each Office, in Each State and Territory of the U. States, for the Year Ending 31st March, 1827,” being House Document No. 60 of the 20 Cong., 1 sess. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828. Serial number 170.
Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States, According to [Act of Congress] . . . Passed February the twenty eighth, One Thousand Eight Hundred. Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. (No other information given).
Statistics of the Population of the United States . . . From the Original Returns of the Ninth Census, (June 1, 1870,). . . . Volume I. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872.
United States Manuscript Censuses: 1850 Census Population Schedules, Georgia, Microcopy T-6, Roll 63, Roll 71; ibid., 1860, Microcopy T-7, Roll 33. (These microfilms are in the University of Georgia Library.)
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 127 books, listed by volumes and parts in four series. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
All of the items listed above are printed except as indicated.
B. Georgia, State
Act for the Inspection of Cotton, February 21, 1796. Separate leaflet in the De Renne Collection, University of Georgia Library.
Act to Amend an Act for Regulating the Inspection of Tobacco, and for Other Purposes therein Mentioned, February 10, 1787. Separate leaflet in the De Renne Collection, University of Georgia Library.
Act to Establish and Regulate the Inspection of Tobacco, February 21, 1785. Separate leaflet in the De Renne Collection, University of Georgia Library.
Act to Regulate the Toll to be Taken at Mills, January 26, 1786. Separate leaflet in the De Renne Collection, University of Georgia Library.
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia . . . November and December, 1799; ibid., 1831; ibid., 1834; ibid., 1837; ibid., 1840; ibid., 1841; ibid., 1842; ibid., 1845; ibid., 1847; ibid., 1859. The places, publishers, and dates of the above items vary.
Candler, Allen D., comp., The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia. 26 volumes, Vol. XX never having been published. Atlanta: Printers vary, 1904-1916.
Candler, Allen D., comp., The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia. 3 vols. Atlanta: The Franklin-Turner Company, 1908.
Clayton, Augustin Smith, A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia . . . 1800 to the Year 1810, Inclusive. . . . Augusta: Adams & Duyckinck, 1812.
Davidson, Grace Gillam, comp. and abstracter, Early Records of Georgia, Wilkes County. 2 vols. Macon: The J. W. Burke Company, 1932.
Davidson, Grace Gillam, comp., Historical Collections of the Georgia Chapters Daughters of the American Revolution. Volume III. Records of Elbert County, Georgia. Atlanta: Stein Printing Company, 1930.
Dawson, William C., A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, . . . since the Year 1819 to the Year 1829, Inclusive. . . . Milledgeville: Grantland and Orne, 1831.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, at the Biennial Session of the General Assembly of 1849 & ’50. Milledgeville: Richard M. Orme, 1849.
Lamar, Lucius Q. C., A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, . . . since 1810 to . . . 1818, Inclusive. . . . Augusta: T. S. Hannon, 1821.
Marbury, Horatio & William H. Crawford, Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia . . . 1785 to 1800. Inclusive. . . . Savannah: Seymour, Woolhopter & Stebbins, 1802.
Prince, Oliver H., A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia . . . to Dec. 1837. . . . Athens: Published by the author, 1837.
Watkins, Robert & George, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia. From its Establishment as a British Province down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799. . . . Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1800.
C. Georgia Counties
Elbert County (courthouse in Elberton) Deed Record, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, U, W, X, EE; Minutes of the Inferior Court, 1791-1801, 1804-1806, 1807-1815; Minutes of the Superior Court, 1790-1800; Retailers’ not to Sell or Give Whiskey to Slaves or Free Men of Color; Will Book, M; Writs of the Superior Court, 1799-1803.
Oglethorpe County (courthouse in Lexington) Annual Returns on Estates, 1798-1814, 1815-1830; Deed Record, B, C, D, E, G, I, M, N, EE; Docket, 1800-1805, 1806-1811, 1811-1816; Inventories and Annual Returns on Estates, 1811-1826, 1815-1831; Inventories and Appraisements, A (1794-1799), B (1796), C (1796-1802), G (1802-1805), H (1802-1803), I (1803-1804), J (1804-1805), L (1806-1809) ; Minutes of the Superior Court, A (1794-1799), B (1800-1807) ; Tax Digest, 1800-1805, 1806-1811, 1811-1816; Will Book, A, A-B, B, C.
Wilkes County (courthouse in Washington) Appraisements and Sales, 1806-1807; Deed Record, CC, DD, GG, LL; Will Book, 1806-1808.
D. South Carolina
Statutes at Large of South Carolina, I. Columbia: A. S. Johnston, 1836). IV. Columbia: A. S. Johnston, 1838. V. Columbia: A. S. Johnston, 1839. IX. Columbia: A. S. Johnston, 1841.
III. MANUSCRIPTS, OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICAL
A. In Alabama Department of Archives and History (Montgomery) : William Wyatt Bibb Papers; Charles and James A. Tait Papers; John W. Walker Papers.
B. In Duke University Library (Durham, N. C.) : Larkin Newby Collection.
C. In Federal Records Center (East Point, Ga.) : Records of the United States District Court and of the Circuit Court relating to suits brought by Miller and Whitney.
D. In Georgia Department of Archives and History (Atlanta) : Shaler Hillyer Collection (on microfilm, Box 21, Reel 17).
E. In Medical College of Georgia Library (Augusta) : Store Account Book of 178 pages, without identification of firm or location; but internal evidence makes it unmistakably Petersburg.
F. In private possession of
E. M. Coulter: Keith-Jones Collection (plantation documents relating to a plantation in Columbia County, Ga.) ; Letters from Mrs. Grace Lewis Miller of St. Louis, 1958-1960.
Mrs. Daniel Hicky (Madison, Ga.) : Collection, containing four letters relating to Petersburg.
Mrs. William Ray (Athens, Ga.) : Collection, containing one letter relating to Petersburg.
Mrs. D. Mercer Sherman (Albany, Ga.) : Collection, containing two letters relating to Petersburg.
G. In the University of Georgia Library: “Memoirs of the Early Life and Times of Junius Hillyer [1807-1886]” (a typed copy of the original manuscript) ; Letter Book of Shaler Hillyer for the period 1805-1820; Dionysius Oliver Collection; Store Book of William S. Stokes, 1818; Telamon Cuyler Collection (folder, “Letters, 1819”).
IV. MAPS
“Map of the Former Territorial Limits of the Cherokee ‘Nation of Indians Exhibiting the Boundaries of the Various Cessions of Land Made by them to the Colonies and to the United States . . .,” Plate VIII in Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. . . . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. This is the C. C. Royce map of 1884.
“Map of the Lands Ceded to His Majesty by the Creek and Cherokee Indians at a Congress held in Augusta the 1st June 1773. . . .” This is a manuscript map in the Department of Archives and History, in Atlanta.
Mills, Robert, “Atlas of the State of South Carolina.” A New Facsimile Edition of the Original Published in 1825. With an Introduction by Francis Marion Hutson. Columbia, 1938.
“A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States. . . .” London: Published by Lowrie & Whittle, 12th May, 1794.
V. NEWSPAPERS
Athens Daily Banner, 1882.
Athens Georgia Express, 1809-1810. Title changed in 1810 to Foreign Correspondent & Georgia Express.
Atlanta Constitution, 1888 (weekly), 1946 (daily).
Atlanta Journal, 1934.
Atlanta Weekly Intelligencer, 1869.
Augusta Chronicle, 1786-1822. Title changes variously. Was originally called The Georgia State Gazette or Independent Register, the name changing April 11, 1789 to Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State.
Augusta Constitutionalist, 1856 (weekly).
Augusta Herald, 1800-1821 (with gaps).
Augusta Mirror of the Times, 1809-1814.
Lexington Oglethorpe Echo, 1874-1925.
Milledgeville Georgia Journal, 1815-1823.
Milledgeville Southern Recorder, 1832.
Petersburg Georgia & Carolina Gazette, 1805-1806.
Savannah Georgia Gazette, 1798-1802.
Savannah Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser, 1803.
Washington Monitor, 1809.
Washington News, 1822-1825.
(All of these newspapers were published in Georgia.)
VI. PAMPHLETS
Gilmer, George R., The Literary Progress of Georgia. . . . Athens: Wm. N. White & Brother, 1851. Much of this work was included in his later Georgians.
Tompkins, Alma Cole, Charles Tait. Alabama Polytechnic Institute Historical Papers, 4th Series, 1910.
VII. PERIODICALS
Allen, Elsa G., “John Abbot, Pioneer Naturalist of Georgia,” in Georgia Historical Quarterly, XLI (June, 1957), 143-57.
Ashmore, Otis, “The Story of the Confederate Treasure,” ibid., II (September, 1918), 120-38.
Ashmore, Otis, “The Story of the Viriginia Banks Fund,” ibid., II (December, 1918), 171-97.
Bailey, Hugh C., “John W. Walker and the ‘Georgia Machine’ in Early Alabama Politics,” in Alabama Review, July, 1955, pp. 179-95.
Bailey, Hugh C., “The Petersburg Youth of John Williams Walker,” in Georgia Historical Quarterly, XLIII (June, 1959), 123-37.
Coulter, E. Merton, “A Famous Duel That was Never Fought,” ibid., XLIII (December, 1959), 365-77.
Coulter, E. Merton, “Francis Meson, an Early Georgia Merchant and Philanthropist,” ibid., XLII (March, 1958), 27-43.
Coulter, E. Merton, “Madison Springs, Georgia Watering Place,” ibid., XLVII (December, 1963), 375-407.
Ellis, L. B., “Two Georgia Judges,” in Green Bag: An Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers, XXI (1909), 20-22.
Few, William, “Autobiography of Col. William Few of Georgia,” in Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, VII (November, 1881), 340-58.
Green, Fletcher M., “Georgia’s Board of Public Works, 1817-1826,” in Georgia Historical Quarterly, XXII (June, 1938), 117-37.
Hitz, Alex M., “The Earliest Settlement in Wilkes County,” ibid., XL (September, 1956), 260-80.
“King Cotton and his Gin,” in Atlantic Monthly, XL (August, 1877).
“Letters from Sir James Wright,” in Collections of the Georgia Historical Society, III (1873), 157-378.
Niles’ Weekly Register . . ., XIX (1820-1821) ; XLI (1831-1832). Baltimore.
Starnes, Hugh N., “The Cotton-Gin; its Invention and Effects,” in Southern Bivouac, New Series I (December, 1885), 385-95.
Swallon, W. H., “Retreat of the Confederate Government from Richmond to the Gulf,” in Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, XV (January-June, 1886).
VIII. REFERENCE WORKS
Baldwin, Thomas and J. Thomas, A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States. . . . Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854.
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1927. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1928.
Fisher, Richard Swainson, A New and Complete Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America. . . . New York: J. H. Colton, 1953.
Georgia and South-Carolina Almanac, for the Year of our Lord, 1808. Augusta: Hobby & Bunce, no date.
Palladium of Knowledge: or, the Carolina and Georgia Almanac, for the Year of our Lord, 1798. . . . Charleston: W. P. Young, 1798.
Sherwood, Adiel, A Gazetteer of the State of Georgia. Charleston: W. Riley, 1827. Second Edition. Philadelphia: J. W. Martin and W. K. Boden, 1829. Third Edition. Washington: P. Force, 1937. Fourth Edition. Macon: S. Boykin, 1860.
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