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1845ref. 42448Amite County Mississippi 1845. Folio leaf folded to 8" x 12-3/8." Entirely in ink manuscript . Several fold separations with minor effect on one or two letters. Signed on the middle of page two by Jane Torrence with her mark and attested by Barttel W. Smith on 16 December 1845. On page 3 Robert L. Torrence Clerk of the Circuit Court writes that he witnessed the acknowledgement of Jane Torrence. Docketed on page 4. Good plus. Jane Torrence borrowed money from Crawford's Estate Margaret Crawford as the estate's executor. She signed a promissory note obliging her to repay it with 8% interest. She also mortgaged four slaves which mortgage would be released upon payment of the debt. Like other forms of property slaves were involved in all sorts of transactions recognized by law. If Torrence failed to pay her debt the slaves would become the property of Crawford as Executor. unknown books
1857ref. 37204Claiborne County MS 1857. 4to. 4 pp entirely in ink manuscript. Signed with a flourish by the Clerk Dan McDougall and the Deputy Sheriff G.R. Girault. Daniel McDougall 1813-1863 born in Schenectady migrated to Port Gibson Claiborne County. He was appointed Clerk of the Claiborne County Circuit Court in 1853 and served as such until his death. Colonel George Rogers Girault c.1815-1857 also of Port Gibson was a farmer owning 11 slaves as of 1850 and was also a County Deputy Sheriff. He died two months after this writ was issued. Stanhope Posey c.1813-1859 full name John Stanhope Posey a Wilkinson County lawyer owned 38 slaves as of the 1850 census. He was elected District Attorney of the Third District of Mississippi in 1839 and a Judge of the First Judicial District Circuit Court in 1845. We don't know who "Everett a Slave" was or what happened to him. We can guess that a jury of slaveholders was not sympathetic to him. unknown books
1859ref. 64413Chicago IL: Press and Tribune Print 1859. First edition. 8vo. 203 51 pp. Folding plate tables. "On the question of whether the railroad bridge from Rock Island Illinois to Davenport Iowa was a hazard to the navigation of the Mississippi River" OCLC. "James Ward a St. Louis steamboat owner filed a bill praying that the bridge be declared a nuisance and ordered removed; in 1866 Congress finally passed an act requiring that the bridge be replaced by another half the cost to be paid by the United States" "The Mississippi River: St. Louis' Friend or Foe" by James Lemly Cambridge U. Press online. Drop-title: "District Court United States. Southern District of Iowa. James Ward vs. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company." Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 413: "Not located title from Heartman Cat. No. 187 June 1926 No. 300." OCLC locates eight copies New York Public Yale Chicago History Museum Harvard-Baker Missouri-St. Louis Cincinnati/Hamilton County Public Library of Congress Newberry. Very good. Original printed olive wrappers some soiling lacking rear wrapper rebacked with archival paper. 10747. Press and Tribune Print unknown books
1871ref. 40107Jackson Miss.: Kimball Raymond & Co. State Printers 1871. Original printed pale green wrappers lightly spotted. Stitched. 67 1 blank pp. Clean text. Very Good plus. Contemporary ownership inscription in pencil "W.H. Bullard." Alcorn 1816-1894 born in Illinois Territory was Governor of Mississippi from March 1870 through November 1871. He was active in Mississippi politics from about 1845. During the Civil War he served as a Confederate. After the War as a "Scalawag" he supported the 14th Amendment and votes for freedmen. Nevertheless he clashed with his new Republican friends by opposing federal intervention against the Klan and federal laws abolishing segregation in public facilities. Alcorn addresses "what remains to be done of the work of reconstruction" thus focusing on "the restoration of our social and material ruin." With tables and data he demonstrates the disastrous economic effects of the War. But his data also give "encouragement to the practicability of educating the great body of our labor to the moral level of freedom." Marriage licenses are up; extreme "sexual license" is down. Preachers teachers schools property ownership and trades for the freedmen are all on the increase. Denouncing vigilantism he says that "A class of lawless violence the most cruel and cowardly proceeds in a few quarters in the person of the masked assassin; and so far has succeeded in evading punishment if not detection." OCLC 28758840 3- Columbia Yale LSU as of June 2024. Not at online AAS. Kimball, Raymond & Co., State Printers unknown books
1898ref. 40873N.P.: Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press 1851. 1898. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" in light peach wrappers though missing the front wrapper. 15 pp. Illustrations. Map. Although it eventually became a transcontinental railroad the railroad that became the Milwaukee Road began as the Milwaukee and Waukesha Railroad whose goal was to link the developing Lake Michigan port city of Milwaukee Wisconsin with the Mississippi River. The company incorporated in 1847 but changed its name to the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad in 1850 before construction began. A report to the Board of Directors explaining that the railroad is not completed to Waukesha as was expected and offering reasons for the delay in its completion. "Considering our small beginning only a little over one year ago - that we have relied solely on the resources of the people of Wisconsin for the means of prosecuting this enterprise - without seeking foreign aid - with only the small contributions of each of our thousand Stockholders and the credits based on the securities of our city and citizens we have in that time completed the grade of our Road for twenty and a half miles laid the Track and brought into actual use the half of that distance - and will have the whole completed and in successful operation by the middle of February next." Information on estimated and actual costs of the First Division extending the road from Milwaukee to Waukesha. It appears that actual costs far exceeded estimates "but that has been the result of peculiar circumstances under which the work has been performed and by the adoption of a rail of greater weight than that estimated." It was determined that the contractors to whom jobs had been given at lower costs were inexperienced and inefficient resulting in their work having to be re-done. Furthermore the delay was caused by some stockholders not promptly paying the small installment of only 5% every three months thus leaving a deficit. Also a bank in a marsh sunk and had to be built back up. Th cost of constructing the first twenty and 1/2 miles is only $9495 per mile. Report ends with the reassurance that the Road will be complete by February and if weather permits perhaps even earlier. 8 1/4" x 21 1/2" map of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail-Road. Map is neatly torn in half at one fold and has 1 1/2 - 2" closed tears to tops of a couple folds. Front wrapper missing along with 3" split to toe of spine and with light wear to the extremities. Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press, 1851]. unknown
1782ref. PHO-1554Moutard, Paris, 1782. 2 vol. in-8 de 432 pp. et 272 pp. illustré de 10 planches dépliantes, relié plein basane époque, dos lisse avec titre et tomaison (reliures différentes), frottements, coins et coiffes usés, bord des planches usé.
1840ref. 32117New Orleans: E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins Philadelphia 1840. xii 885 pp with the half title. A very clean text with minor exceptions. Bound in worn contemporary sheep hinges starting spine chipped institutional bookplate on front pastedown institutional rubberstamp on title page. Else Very Good. The origins of the State of Mississippi are recounted in the printing of the Cession from Georgia the Act admitting Mississippi into the Union and the Act establishing its northern boundary. The complete set of laws organized by subject and the constitutions of the United States and the State of Mississippi with a detailed Slave Code and other subjects are printed. Jumonville 1156 noting that it is "not a New Orleans imprint". Sabin 33282. OCLC records mostly Kirtas Technologies reprints. E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall [verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia] unknown
1840ref. 32117New Orleans: E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins Philadelphia 1840. xii 885 pp with the half title. A very clean text with minor exceptions. Bound in worn contemporary sheep hinges starting spine chipped institutional bookplate on front pastedown institutional rubberstamp on title page. Else Very Good. The origins of the State of Mississippi are recounted in the printing of the Cession from Georgia the Act admitting Mississippi into the Union and the Act establishing its northern boundary. The complete set of laws organized by subject and the constitutions of the United States and the State of Mississippi with a detailed Slave Code and other subjects are printed. Jumonville 1156 noting that it is "not a New Orleans imprint". Sabin 33282. OCLC records mostly Kirtas Technologies reprints. E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall [verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia] unknown books
1941ref. 64396n.p.: n.p. 1941-1945. Oblong 4to. 11.25 x 8.25 in. 78 pp unpaginated. 93 original photos and Real Photo Postcards sized from 2.25 x 3.5 to 6 x 9 in. all tipped-in w/ corners. Original limp suede leather post-binder photo album colour image of USS Mississippi on front cover leather ties some scuffing minor edgewear minor bumping to corners a few images w/ minor creasing still a VG exemplar. This excellent souvenir photo album assembled by an unknown USS Mississippi officer during World War II begins with souvenir RPPC images and photos of Iceland where the battleship voyaged from June to September 1941 escorting convoys to Europe in the North Atlantic. These include two snapshot photos of the crew skiiing in Iceland and spread out on a glacier. After Pearl Harbor the Mississippi was immediately dispatched to the Pacific with four photos showing the Battleship sailing through the Panama Canal a horsedrawn carriage in Panama and the canal. Upon arrival in San Francisco the Mississippi was assigned to escort convoys to Fiji with photos included here showing native huts Fiji Islanders and scenery. Afterwards they returned to Hawaii which is evidenced by snapshot photos of Honolulu hula girls and 5 large pin-up photos 1 bare-breasted hula girl. The USS Mississippi was then assigned to aid in pushing the Japanese out of the Aleutians beginning with shelling Kiska Island on July 22 which resulted in the Japanese withdrawing their forces from the Aleutians by the end of July. The images of Alaska include a series of Real Photo Postcards with images of an Eskimo fisherman and his kayak Northern Eskimo Family a young Eskimo boy Pa-Ruck by F.H. Nowell 1905 Obleka original Inuit Woman of Nome 1907 Eskimo Natives with sled reindeer Alaskan Totem Poles and more. Of particular interest are the series of striking combat snapshots which show battle damaged ships fire control operations loading & unloading of military invasion personnel and starburst shells exploding over a beach landing during combat operations during the invasion of the Gilbert Islands in October 1943 as part of the Marshall Islands Campaign from January through March 1944 and later assisting in the liberation of the Philippines. There is even a photo showing the damage to the Mississippi at the waterline by a Kamikaze plane suicide attack in January 1945. The Mississippi is best remembered as firing the last salvo in history by a US battleship against other warships during the massive naval battle of Surigao Strait. n.p., hardcover
1698ref. PHO-1936Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1698. In-12, (35) ff. de titre, épitre, préface et table, 389 pp., veau fauve granité, armes dorées au centre des plats, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées (Reliure de l'époque) ; frottements, coiffes absentes avec petits manques aux caissons, coins élimés, ors du 1er plat ternis, petit manque de papier sans atteinte au texte à un feuillet (pp. 159/160). Exemplaire relié SANS les 3 figures h.-t. et la carte. Exemplaire aux armes d’Usson de Bonac
18083 vols. (328, 292, 310 p.) Hardcover Very good condition, in later maroon cloth Howes A - 352
1801ref. 35410Washington. 1801. Early Laws of Mississippi Territory A very early work on Mississippi territorial law printed in Washington in 1801 and containing ten laws that were eventually published "by order of the House of Representatives" after some local controversy over their content. The laws from the second half of 1799 range in subject matter from distempered cattle to divorce. These were added to the twenty-five laws already passed by the territorial legislature. The House of Representatives published this volume to assist in the "enquiry into the official conduct of Winthrop Sargent governor of the Mississippi territory" p.1. Thomas Jefferson removed Sargent from office later that year. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Very light foxing. Near fine. SABIN 49519. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1515. LC MISSISSIPPI. A SESQUICENTENNIAL OF STATEHOOD 1967 60. GOODSPEED 141:351 161:683. hardcover
1801ref. 35410Washington. 1801. Early Laws of Mississippi Territory A very early work on Mississippi territorial law printed in Washington in 1801 and containing ten laws that were eventually published "by order of the House of Representatives" after some local controversy over their content. The laws from the second half of 1799 range in subject matter from distempered cattle to divorce. These were added to the twenty-five laws already passed by the territorial legislature. The House of Representatives published this volume to assist in the "enquiry into the official conduct of Winthrop Sargent governor of the Mississippi territory" p.1. Thomas Jefferson removed Sargent from office later that year. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Very light foxing. Near fine. SABIN 49519. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1515. LC MISSISSIPPI. A SESQUICENTENNIAL OF STATEHOOD 1967 60. GOODSPEED 141:351 161:683. hardcover books
1965ref. 162963Forest Hills NY: Photo-Graphics 1965. Vintage satin finish portrait photograph of influential country blues musician Mississippi John Hurt 1965. Stamp of photographer Bernard Gotfryd on the verso along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to same. Although Hurt's initial recordings with Okeh Records in the 1920s were commercial failures driving Hurt back into sharecropping he experienced a brief period of renewed interest in the early 1960s after his rediscovery by musicologist Dick Spottswood. He would travel and perform extensively recording for the Library of Congress in 1964 and recording four albums in as many years but would pass away in 1966 of a heart attack. Material recorded by Hurt has been covered by numerous artists including Bob Dylan Gillian Welch Beck Dave Van Ronk Taj Mahal Jerry Garcia and many others. Polish-American photographer Bernard Gotfryd worked as a staff photojournalist for "Newsweek" operating out of New York for over three decades. His photographs serve as a document of American popular culture politics and art in the 1960s and 1970s and his work is today held in the Library of Congress Brooklyn Public Library and the New York Historical Society. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 6.5 x 9.5 inches archivally matted in a 11 x 14 inch 8-ply white mat. About Near Fine with a small crease at the top left corner. Photo-Graphics unknown
1965ref. 162963Forest Hills NY: Photo-Graphics 1965. Vintage satin finish portrait photograph of influential country blues musician Mississippi John Hurt 1965. Stamp of photographer Bernard Gotfryd on the verso along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to same. Although Hurt's initial recordings with Okeh Records in the 1920s were commercial failures driving Hurt back into sharecropping he experienced a brief period of renewed interest in the early 1960s after his rediscovery by musicologist Dick Spottswood. He would travel and perform extensively recording for the Library of Congress in 1964 and recording four albums in as many years but would pass away in 1966 of a heart attack. Material recorded by Hurt has been covered by numerous artists including Bob Dylan Gillian Welch Beck Dave Van Ronk Taj Mahal Jerry Garcia and many others. Polish-American photographer Bernard Gotfryd worked as a staff photojournalist for "Newsweek" operating out of New York for over three decades. His photographs serve as a document of American popular culture politics and art in the 1960s and 1970s and his work is today held in the Library of Congress Brooklyn Public Library and the New York Historical Society. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 6.5 x 9.5 inches archivally matted in a 11 x 14 inch 8-ply white mat. About Near Fine with a small crease at the top left corner. Photo-Graphics unknown books
ref. 1282914A small group of material relating to the October 1962 riots at the University of Mississippi following the enrollment of the school's first Black student James H. Meredith. The highlight of this collection is a copy of the book INTEGRATION AT OLE MISS by Russell Barrett which is annotated by Ole Miss professor William B. Keith. Included is a xerox copy of an unpublished two-page typed letter by Keith detailing his experiences during the riot. The letter is addressed to his close friend Don Davis a high school history teacher and principal in Ohio. In the letter Keith recalls the trepidation of not knowing how Gov. Barnett would respond the the Federal government forcing the issue of desegregation at Ole Miss; his recollection of the Sept. 30 Ole Miss football game; and the subsequent beginning of the riots the following day. Keith and a friend then graduate students at Ole Miss went over the Lyceum where students were gathering. He notes there are actually pictures of him in the crowd included in the Barrett book and that he has marked them. He was still in the crowd when the first volley of tear gas was fired into the crowd. A State Patrol officer next to him was struck in the head and Keith and a Miss. patrolman carried the officer to safety. It then occurred to Keith to go over to the biology building to lock up the dangerous acids kept there a smart move as rioters did break into the building to search for flammable acids. His account then ends as he watched the rest of the action on television. The letter is included in a copy of Russell Barrett's Integration at Ole Miss Chicago: 1965 1st ed which is inscribed from the author to Don Davis the recipient of Keith's letter. Also included is a two-page ALS from Keith to Davis discussing hopes they can visit soon. Keith became a long-time Professor of Biology at Ole Miss until his death in 2007. The whereabouts of the original of the letter if it still exists are unknown. Also included: James W. Silver. Mississippi: The Closed Society NY: Harcourt Brace 1964. Inscribed to Davis by Bill Keith along with an original one-page typed letter signed from Keith to Davis. James W. Silver. Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi. Inscribed from Keith to Davis. A four-page typed document which was distributed on the Ole Miss campus in late Sept. 1962 by the school's Board of Trustees. The first page is a statement from the Trustees that they are complying with the Federal Court order to enroll James Meredith. The remaining three pages are a copy of the official court order. The document is is signed by Wm. B. Keith on the first page. unknown
1908ref. 40737Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1908. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the Gulf coasts of Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana including the Keys Fort Myers Sarasota Tampa Panama City Destin Pensacola Gulf Shores Mobile Biloxi Gulfport New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coasts Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana along the Gulf of Mexico and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1908ref. 40737Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1908. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the Gulf coasts of Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana including the Keys Fort Myers Sarasota Tampa Panama City Destin Pensacola Gulf Shores Mobile Biloxi Gulfport New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coasts Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana along the Gulf of Mexico and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown books
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1804ref. 1502190017City of Washington : A. & G. Way 1804-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Ocatvo. 7 109 p. ; 22 cm. Bound in publisher's paper wraps. In custom made box. Small stain to front wrap. Wear to extremities. Library stamp to second page from NYPL dated 1902. Contemporary owners name to head of title page of Thomas Dwight Massachusetts representative during the 8th Congress. Dwight's notations to some pages. Shaw & Shoemaker 7540. Sabin 52708 OCLC 1484388 An extremely important Yazoo document. The Yazoo land scandal was a massive fraud perpetrated from in the mid-1790s by Georgia governor George Mathews and the state legislature. They sold large tracts of land in the Yazoo lands in what are now portions of Alabama and Mississippi to political insiders at very low prices in 1794. With the end of the American Revolutionary War most of the states of the new Union attempted to extend their territorial claims from the Proclamation line of 1763 to the lands towards the Mississippi River. The Yazoo scandal began after the Bourbon County Act was dissolved in 1788 under pressure by the federal government a secret society was formed called the Combined Society formed with purpose money by land speculation. The group gained power in the state legislature and in the following year three companies The South Carolina Yazoo Company The Virginia Yazoo Company which was headed by Patrick Henry and the Tennessee Company built by the society's interests formed to buy land from Georgia. These venture were exposed and the deal for the land fell through in 1792 though the members of the Society still wished to develop Georgia lands. In 1794 four companies were formed with several principal being from the original members of 1789 purchases and high ranking Georgian politicians to purchase 40 million acres of land for $500000. On January 7 1795 Governor Mathews signed into law a bill authorizing the sale of the 40000000 acres known as the Yazoo Act. When the details of the sale were revealed public outrage was widespread and people protested to federal officials and Congressmen. Jared Irwin and U.S. Senator James Jackson led the reform efforts: Irwin was elected Governor of Georgia and less than two months after taking office signed The Rescinding Act on February 13 1796 nullifying the Yazoo Act. On the same day of The Rescinding Act 11 million acres of the Yazoo land was sold to the New England Mississippi Land Company who felt the repel was illegal for $1138000 a 650% profit in 13 months' time. The lands west of Georgia would be ceded to the United States government in the Compact of 1802 for 1.25 million. This last act threw land holders into a limbo and claims by third-party owners who had innocently purchased land from the original companies would not be resolved till 1816. With the last private sale prior to the Compact of 1802 coupled with the 11th amendment the landmark case of Fletcher v. Peck would occur. John Peck of Massachusetts bought land from someone who could trace his title to the state of Georgia from 1795 when the Act was legal. He then sold 15000 acres to Robert Fletcher of New Hampshire based on a warranty deed warranting good title. The two were obviously citizens of different New England states and in June 1803 Fletcher sued Peck in federal circuit court in Massachusetts on diversity grounds alleging that the title was bad and requesting the return of his money. This landmark Yazoo document attempts to serve the land holders affected by the 1802 Compact the fledgling court case as well as an attempt to repel the sale by the State of Georgia. City of Washington : A. & G. Way hardcover
1683ref. PHO-1237Paris, Amable Auroy, 1688. In-12 (165x100mm), relié avec papier, étiquette avec titre manuscrit au dos , 10ff.-312pp. à la suite Les mœurs des Sauvages 107pp. SANS la carte .
1865ref. 5112Tishomingo County Ms: November 3 1865. Very good. 1p. of manuscript on a folio sheet. Old folds minor wear and soiling. A manuscript true copy of a loyalty oath taken by Thomas B. Kerr of Tishomingo County Mississippi following the end of the Civil War. The oath itself reads: "I do solemnly swear in the presence of almighty God that I will hereafter faithfully support protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the states thereunder and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the Existing Rebellion with reference to the Emancipation of the Slaves. So help me God." The document is signed by Kerr as well as the Justice of the Peace James M. Amis and docketed on the verso "Thos. B. Kerr amnesty oath." Amnesty oaths from Mississippi are increasingly more rare in the market especially those directly referencing the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery. November 3 unknown
1865ref. 5112Tishomingo County Ms: November 3 1865. Very good. 1p. of manuscript on a folio sheet. Old folds minor wear and soiling. A manuscript true copy of a loyalty oath taken by Thomas B. Kerr of Tishomingo County Mississippi following the end of the Civil War. The oath itself reads: "I do solemnly swear in the presence of almighty God that I will hereafter faithfully support protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the states thereunder and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the Existing Rebellion with reference to the Emancipation of the Slaves. So help me God." The document is signed by Kerr as well as the Justice of the Peace James M. Amis and docketed on the verso "Thos. B. Kerr amnesty oath." Amnesty oaths from Mississippi are increasingly more rare in the market especially those directly referencing the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery. November 3 unknown books
ref. 40447Paris.Le Jay.1768. Seconde édition.2 vols.in-12 en demi-reliure à coins d'époque.2 frontispices et 2 planches gravées par St.Aubin.244 et 264 p.avec Table. BE.
