David Ashby Stuckey bills of sale, receipts, and correspondence
Collection Overview
Bills of sale, receipts, and correspondence of cotton farmer David Ashby Stuckey. Materials include bills of sale from Worth and Worth General Shipping and Commission Merchants (Wilmington, North Carolina), Ducker and Bultman (Sumter, South Carolina), and W.R. Scarborough (Bishopville, South Carolina). Also included is correspondence from the office of Worth and Worth to David Ashby Stuckey regarding the sale of three bales of cotton, bale pricing, and credit balances.
Dates
- Creation: 1873-1899, undated
Creator
- Stuckey, David Ashby, 1849-1932 (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
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Biographical Note
David Ashby Stuckey (1849-1932) was a cotton farmer in the Manville area of Lee County, South Carolina. His grandfather, Edmund Stuckey, settled the area circa 1800.
Extent
2 folders
Abstract
Bills of sale, receipts, and correspondence of David Ashby Stuckey, a cotton farmer from Lee County, South Carolina.
Acquisitions Information
Materials donated in 2009 by Rachael Bowman Bradbury
Processing Information
Processed by Joshua Minor, July 2011.
- Title
- Inventory of the David Ashby Stuckey Bills of Sale, Receipts, and Correspondence, 1873-1899, undated
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by: Joshua Minor; machine-readable finding aid created by: Joshua Minor
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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