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Box 1

 Container

Contains 49 Results:

Account/Diaries, 1875 - 1876

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, item: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents From the File:

Consists of several combination books, accounts and diary events arranged chronologically by date. Entries show farm and household goods, children boarding bills while attending school, trade of sewing garments, and notations regarding medical ailments (i.e., smallpox and tumors). Also included are farm rentals and breeding records for his horses, which he often bred to jacks.

Dates: 1875 - 1876

Statements/Bill of Goods, 1847 - 1888

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1847 - 1888

Attorney's fees/statements, 1865 - 1872

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1865 - 1872

Bounty claims, 1868 - 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1868 - 1871

Court records, 1862 - 1887

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1862 - 1887

Discharge (Joshua Shiflett), 1864

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1864

Internal Revenue receipts One for "Keeper of Jack", 1863 - 1870

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1863 - 1870

Land deed/Missouri, 1865

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1865

Land rental receipts, 1857 - 1866

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1857 - 1866

Quitclaim deed, 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The life of the James Rankin Mason family of Madison County, Kentucky is documented through the papers in this collection. Much of the correspondence deals with Civil War times. Reference is made to hiring black people, desertion and loneliness of soldiers. Parental concerns are voiced in correspondence as women try to raise children alone. Other correspondence mentions trials concerning an army discharge as well as other matters during the war years. Of particular interest is a letter from...
Dates: 1871