Scope and Contents According to Callie B. McGinnis' article in volume 4 of Muscogiana (1993) and also on the website Rootsweb on Ancestry.com, the Hatcher & McGehee Negro Book was part of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Collections in the Columbus State University Archives. It was donated to the Archives by Mrs. Lenora Woodall Nilan. The book is a record of the purchase and sale of slaves from 1858 to 1860 by Hatcher & McGehee, one of three slave trading companies that operated in Columbus,...

Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection deals with the financial transactions of (and especially debts owed to) Seaborn Jones, the records of his (and to a lesser degree Benning's) law practice, and the Civil War correspondence and records of Henry L. Benning. T he legal papers contain copies of suits and various estate proceedings for a wide variety of individuals; these items reflect other aspects of antebellum life in Georgia, particularly the institution of slavery. Jones's papers included a leather...