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William F. Price Collection

COLLECTION INFORMATION TABLE OF CONTENTS
    Dates: 1837-1867
    Size: 6 boxes, 829 items (3 linear feet)
    Acquisition: Gift, 1936
    Access: Open for research
    Processed by: Elizabeth Tucker, Pam Palmer, 1987
    TIDES Link: William Price Collection

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Elijah Price was born in Martin County, North Carolina on September 9, 1791. On December 11, 1821 he married Temperance ("Tempe") Thomas of Stantonsburg, North Carolina. They remained in North Carolina until 1830, at which time they moved to Lawrence County, Alabama. They also lived in Sumter County, where Price served as a State Representative in the Alabama Legislature. In 1841 the Price family moved to Texas, staying for a while in Polk (then Liberty) County, then later settling on a large plantation near San Augustine. Price was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of Christ Episcopal Church. He died in San Augustine on November 17, 1852, leaving his widow to continue running the plantation until her death about 1859. There were ten children in the Price family, and the plantation was sold after Tempe died.

(Price, William Hall and Mackenzie, Ann Price, Price Family Record, 1976; Crocket, G. L., Two Centuries in East Texas, Dallas: Southwest Press, 1932)


SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Most of the collection consists of papers of Elijah and Temperence Price, but there are also papers relating to the Blount & Price mercantile business, George Fulton Crocket and his family, and S[tephen] W[illiam] Blount & Co., all of San Augustine. Crocket and Blount, along with Travis Gustavus Broocks and Mathew Cartwright, jointly operated a steam mill near San Augustine which appears to have had facilities for sawing lumber and grinding grain. The papers include correspondence; financial records relating to cotton; personal and business bills, accounts, and receipts; and legal papers. The bills and accounts give details about consumer purchases such as clothing, fabrics, food, household items, medical expenses, school books, and music. Letterheads on the business stationery are decorated with ships, lighthouses, and covered wagons.

A genealogy including some of this line of the Price family is available in "Price Family Record," compiled by William Hall Price and Anne Price Mackenzie (1976). William F. Price was the grandson of Elijah and Tempe Price.


LOCATION OF RECORD

[A-26]


INVENTORY

BOX 1

Folder 1: Correspondence to Elijah Price, 1842-1843 re: farming, financial concerns. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence to Elijah Price, 1844 re: family matters, politics, annexation, slaves, farming, financial concerns. Includes C. R. Wright of New Orleans; Morrison Thomas. Handwritten. 7 items.
From Jas. B. Tartt, April 5, 1844. [image]
Folder 3: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Jan.-Mar. 1845 re: cotton, farming, financial matters. Includes T. G. Broocks; Wright Cooper of New Orleans. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Apr. 1845 re: corn and financial matters. Handwritten. 4 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence to Elijah Price, May 1845-1846 re: cotton, salt, financial concerns. Includes Wright & Cooper. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Feb.-Oct. 1849 re: cotton, financial concerns, family and friends. Includes C. H. Alexander Co. of Grand Ecore, LA; M[orrison] Thomas. Handwritten. 4 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence to Elijah Price, 1850-June 1852 re: cotton, financial concerns, family matters. Includes nephew Elijah Price, L. L. Mooring, Morrison Thomas. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence to Elijah Price, July-Nov. 1852, n.d. re: family matters, cotton, inquiry about Texas, financial concerns. Includes Peter Knight, L. L. Mooring, A. B. Thomas. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence to Elijah Price, June -Dec. 1848 re: cotton accounts with Rhodes Wright & Co. of New Orleans. Handwritten. 7 items.
Folder 10: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Jan.-Feb. 1849 re: cotton accounts with Rhodes Wright & Co. Handwritten. 7 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence to Elijah Price, May 1849-Feb. 1850 re: cotton accounts with Rhodes Wright & Co. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Dec. 1848-July 1850 re: cotton storage and merchandise accounts with Stewart & Co., Grand Ecore, LA. Handwritten, printed form. 6 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Oct. 1850-Jan. 1851 re: cotton storage and merchandise accounts with Stewart & Co. Handwritten, printed form. 6 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Feb.-June 1851 re: cotton storage and merchandise accounts with Stewart & Co. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence to Elijah Price, May-Nov. 1852 re: cotton storage and merchandise accounts with Stewart & Co. Handwritten, printed form. 7 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence to Elijah Price, July 1850-Jan. 1851 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. of New Orleans. Handwritten, printed. 6 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Feb. 1851 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 5 items.
Folder 18: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Mar.-Apr. 1851 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 5 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence to Elijah Price, May-July 1851 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 6 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence to Elijah Price, Apr.-May 1852 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence to Elijah Price, June 1852 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten. 7 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence to Elijah Price, July-Nov. 1852 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 23: Estate papers, 1849-1851. Elijah Price, administrator for James A. Anderson estate. Handwritten. 4 items.


BOX 2

Folder 1: Legal papers of Elijah Price, 1837-1846. Includes transaction for land, slaves, payment of legal fees. [One document written on verve of another.] Handwritten, printed form. 6 items.
July 16, 1843, Thomas Stublefield to E. Price, sale of slave
Folder 2: Legal papers of Elijah Price, 1848-1852. Includes land transaction, transfer of promissory note, legal fees. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 3: Accounts and bills of Elijah Price, 1840-1842. Handwritten. 8 items.
Folder 4: Accounts and bills of Elijah Price, 1843-1845. Handwritten. 9 items.
1843 Receipt, includes shoe purchase for slaves Bob and Sal. [image]
Folder 5: Accounts and bills of Elijah Price, 1846-1847. Includes cotton sales. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 6: Accounts and bills of Elijah Price, 1847-1850. Handwritten. 9 items.
January 1850, Doctor's bill for slave. [image]
April 1847-December 1848, bill for doctor visits, including slaves. [image]
Folder 7: Accounts and bills of Elijah Price, 1850-1852, n.d. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 8: Tax receipts of Elijah Price, 1843-1852. Handwritten, printed form. 11 items.
Folder 9: Receipts and note to Elijah Price [treasurer], 1849-1851 re: San Augustine chapter of American Bible Society. Handwritten. 4 items.
Folder 10: Receipts of Elijah Price, 1838-1843. Includes one for a slave. Handwritten. 11 items.
March 1838, receipt for sale of slave Bill.
Folder 11: Receipts of Elijah Price, 1844-1852. Handwritten. 11 items.
Folder 12: Promissory notes and list of notes, 1842-1847, n.d. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 13: Estate of Elijah Price, 1850-1857. Accounts and bills filed against estate. Handwritten. 10 items.
1852 receipt for purchase of coffin for son.
Folder 14: Estate of Elijah Price, 1853-1858. Receipts. Includes tax receipts. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 15: Miscellaneous, 1852, n.d. Obituary notices re: Elijah Price [two removed from office file], funeral announcement, empty envelope. Handwritten, printed. 4 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence of Blount & Price, 1848-1849 re: cotton and financial concerns. Handwritten, printed. 3 items.
Folder 17: Financial papers of Blount & Price, 1848-1854, n.d. re: court cases, bills, accounts. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 18: Promissory notes of Blount & Price, 1849-1851. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Dec. 1852-Jan. 1853 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Feb.-May 1853 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Apr. 1854 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence to Tempe Price, May 1854 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 23: Correspondence to Tempe Price, June-July 1854 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 24: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Aug.-Sept. 1854 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 25: Correspondence to Tempe Price, May-July 1855 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 26: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Feb.-June 1856 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 27: Correspondence to Tempe Price, July 1856-Jan. 1857 re: cotton accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Handwritten. 5 items.


BOX 3

Folder 1: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Dec. 1852-Jan. 1853 re: storage of cotton with Stewart & Co. Handwritten. 4 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Apr.-Dec. 1853 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with A. D. Alexander & Co., Grand Ecore, LA. Includes bills and receipts. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Feb.-Apr. 1854 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with J. D. Alexander & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence to Tempe Price, June-Oct. 1854 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with J. D. Alexander & Co. Handwritten, printed. 6 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Nov. 1854-May 1855 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with J. D. Alexander & Co. Handwritten, printed. 4 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Sept.-Oct. 1854 re: cotton accounts with Swiney, Green & Co., New Orleans, LA. Handwritten, printed. 3 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Apr. 1855-Feb. 1856 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with Walmsley Brothers, Grand Ecore, LA. Handwritten, printed. 4 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Apr. 1856-May 1858 re: accounts with Russell & Rogers, Grand Ecore, LA. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Feb.-Apr. 1856 re: cotton accounts with McKleray & Bradford, New Orleans, LA. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 10: Correspondence to Tempe Price, May 1856 re: cotton accounts with McKleray & Bradford. Handwritten, printed. 4 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Dec. 1855-Mar. 1856 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with Stephens & Carver, Grand Ecore, LA. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence to Tempe Price, May-June 1856 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with Stephens & Carver. Handwritten, printed. 6 items.
May 17, 1856
June 11, 1856
Folder 13: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Nov.-Dec. 1856 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with Stephens & Carver. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
November 3, 1856
November 25, 1856
Folder 14: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Feb.-Mar. 1857 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with Stephens & Carver. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Apr.-Aug. 1857 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with Stephens & Carver. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Nov. 1857 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with J. H. Stephens & Co., Grand Ecore, LA. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Dec. 1857 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with J. H. Stephens & Co. Printed. 5 items.
Folder 18: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Jan.-May 1858 re: cotton and merchandise accounts with J. H. Stephens & Co. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Aug.-Sept. 1858 re: cotton accounts with J. H. Stephens & Co. Handwritten, printed. 5 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Feb. 1857 re: cotton accounts with Buchanan, Carroll & Co., New Orleans, LA. Handwritten, printed. 3 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Mar. 1857 re: cotton accounts with Buchanan, Carroll & Co. Handwritten, printed. 6 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Apr.-July 1858 re: cotton accounts with Buchanan, Carroll & Co. Includes announcement of the dissolution of the company and the formation of Carroll, Hoy & Co. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 23: Correspondence to Tempe Price, June 1857-May 1858 re: cotton accounts with John O. McGehee & Co., New Orleans, LA. Includes B. B.[?] Thomas [brother]. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 24: Correspondence to Tempe Price, Mar.-Sept. 1858 re: cotton accounts with Winston, Morrison & Co., New Orleans, LA. Handwritten. 6 items.


BOX 4

Folder 1: Correspondence to Tempe Price, 1852-1857 re: family matters, religion, Christmas, labor costs. Includes recipes for dyes. Includes Susan [Alice] Price [m. Smith, daughter], Henry Sansom. Handwritten. 4 items.
December 29, 1857, recipe for red and green dye
Folder 2: Correspondence to Tempe Price, n.d. re: labor costs, corn, merchandise. Includes T. A. Broocks. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 3: Legal papers of Tempe Price, 1854-1858. Receipt for lost promissory note; agreement with A. G. Price [son Albert Galatin?] re: maintenance of plantation; receipt for court case. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 4: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1853. Includes cotton, merchandise, medical fees. Handwritten. 9 items.
Folder 5: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1854. Includes merchandise and medical fees. Handwritten. 10 items.
Folder 6: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1855. Includes merchandise, medical fees, wagon repairs. Handwritten. 13 items.
Folder 7: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1856. Includes merchandise, carpentry. Handwritten. 9 items.
Folder 8: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1856-1857. Includes merchandise, labor, music, portrait painting. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 9: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1857. Includes merchandise, music. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 10: Accounts and bills of Tempe Price, 1857, n.d. Includes merchandise, medicines. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 11: Receipts to Tempe Price, 1854-1858, n.d. Handwritten. 16 items.
Folder 12: Letter from Su[san Alice Price] Smith to George F. Crocket, 1862 re: Tempe Price's estate. Handwritten. 1 item.
Folder 13: Estate of Elijah and Tempe Price, administrator's sale notice, Dec. 6, 1859. Photocopy. [Gift of Charles S. McMillan.] 1 item.
Folder 14: Envelopes addressed to Tempe Price, n.d. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence to Betty [Elizabeth] Price, Apr.-May 1858 from Su[san Alice Price] Smith [sister] re: family matters, pie recipe. Handwritten. 2 items.
April 4, 1858, mock apple pie recipe. [image]
Folder 16: Correspondence and notes of A[lbert] G[alatin] Price, 1843 1858, n.d. re: cotton, merchandise, financial concerns. Handwritten. 9 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence, bill, and receipt of B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Price, 1852-1854. Includes cotton, marriage, murder trial in Henderson, lawyer Frank Bowdon, Thomas Smith of Henderson [brother-in-law]. Handwritten. 4 items.
Folder 18: Letter to E[lizabeth] R. B. Thomas [sister of Tempe Price?], July 12, 1847 re: church, school, family matters. Handwritten. 1 item.
Folder 19: Miscellaneous. Small memo book, 1844-1847 with cotton weights, accounts; leather wallet, n.d.; cloth bag [money sack?], n.d. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 20: Daybook, 1837-1843 [includes description of a girl]; daybook, 1852-1854. Handwritten. 2 items.


BOX 5

Folder 1: Correspondence to George F[ulton] Crocket, 1858-July 1860 re: financial concerns, steam mill. Handwritten. 9 items.
June 15, 1860, note to charge 5 bushels of meal for man with hungry children.
Folder 2: Correspondence to George F. Crocket, Sept. 1860-1867 re: steam mill, U.S. Internal Revenue. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 3: Accounts and bills of George F. Crocket, 185_-1854. Includes merchandise and tuition. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 4: Accounts and bills of George F. Crocket, 1856-1861, n.d. Includes merchandise and tuition. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 5: Accounts and bills of George F. Crocket family, 1853-1854. Includes merchandise. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 6: Receipts and promissory note to George F. Crocket, 1846-1860. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
Folder 7: Algebra notes of Crocket family [?], n.d., some written on Confederate Quartermaster's paper. Handwritten, printed. 18 items.
Folder 8: Miscellaneous papers of George F. Crocket family, n.d. Account book for school [taught by Crocket sisters]; pattern forms [possibly for a collar]; notes on Episcopal services; flier on soliciting subscribers for Leisure Hours; book catalog from Pott, Young & Co., New York [ca. 1892?]. Handwritten, printed. 6 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence of Payne & Crocket, 1853-1856, n.d. re: financial concerns. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 10: Accounts, bills, and notes of Payne & Crocket, 1856-1858. Includes merchandise. Handwritten. 8 items.
Folder 11: Receipts of Payne & Crocket, 1857-1859. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 12: Promissory notes of Payne & Crocket, 1856-1858. Handwritten. 6 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence to S[tephen] W[illiam] Blount & Co., May-July 9, 1859 re: accounts with Russel & Co., Grand Ecore, LA. Includes steam mill, merchandise. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence to S. W. Blount & Co., July 23-Oct. 3, 1859 re: accounts with Russell & Co. Includes steam mill, merchandise. Handwritten, printed. 8 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence to S. W. Blount & Co., Mar.-June 1860 re: accounts with Russell & Co. Includes steam mill, merchandise. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence to S. W. Blount & Co., June-Aug. 1859 re: accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co., New Orleans, LA. Includes steam mill, merchandise. Handwritten, printed. 10 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence to S. W. Blount & Co., Sept. 1859-Nov. 1860 re: accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. Includes sawmill, merchandise. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
Folder 18: Correspondence to S. W. Blount & Co., May 1859-Jan. 1861 re: steam mill and merchandise. Handwritten, printed. 5 items.
Folder 19: Accounts and bills to S. W. Blount & Co., Feb. 1859-Mar. 1860 from Broocks & Burleson and C. I. Polk & Bros. Handwritten. 8 items.
Folder 20: Accounts and bills to S. W. Blount & Co., Sept. 1859-Feb. 1860. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence to T[ravis] G[ustavus] Broocks, Apr.-July 1859 re: accounts with Wells & Miller of Baltimore, MD. Includes steam mill. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence to T. G. Broocks, Aug.-Dec. 1859 re: accounts with M. D. Cooper & Co. and R. Hoe & Co. Includes steam mill. Handwritten, printed. 9 items.
Folder 23: Accounts and bills of T. G. Broocks, 1859, n.d. Includes lumber and steam mill. Handwritten. 6 items.

BOX 6

Folder 1: Correspondence, receipts, and miscellaneous papers, 1859-1860, n.d. probably relating to the steam mill operated by S. W. Blount, T. G. Broocks, George F. Crocket, and Mathew Cartwright . Handwritten. 10 items.
Folder 2: Accounts and bills of the Steam Mill, 1859. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 3: Accounts and bills of the Steam Mill, 1860, n.d. Handwritten. 11 items.
Folder 4: Letter from John R. Marsh, May 25, 1855, McDonald Co., MO., to Charlton Paine, San Augustine re: farming, family, and financial concerns. Handwritten. 1 item.
Folder 5: Miscellaneous legal papers, 1842-1853 re: land, slaves, and cattle. Handwritten. 4 items.
Folder 6: Miscellaneous promissory notes and receipts, 1847-1858. Handwritten. 5 items.
Folder 7: Miscellaneous receipts and financial papers, 1858-1860, n.d. Handwritten, printed. 7 items.
Folder 8: Miscellaneous, n.d. Poem, addresses Mrs. General [James Pinckney?] Henderson; embroidery [?] pattern. Handwritten. 3 items.
Folder 9: Funeral notice for Ms. Tempe Price, January 20, 1859. (photocopy)
Letter to brother from T. P. M. L. (n.d.)
Letter to Mrs. Eliza Price from sister, Sue Smith dated January 17, 1900.
Folder 10: Photographs (8 items)
Pencil drawing of Albert G. Price (son of Temperance and Col. Elijah Price), n.d.
Elizabeth Slaughter Price (wife of A. G. Price), n.d.
Eugene Earnest Price, 1867-1945, (son of Elijah III and Eliza Hall Price), n.d. (photocopy)
Oscar Gladstone Lynch (son of Tempe Jane Sossam and John Lynch), n.d.
Mr. and Mrs. Ledford (Lizzie Price, daughter of Virginia Wallace Price Roberts), n.d.
Bettie Edmondson (daughter of Alberta P. Thacker Edmondson), n.d.
Memorial stone for Elijah Price, a Revolutionary Soldier. From Price Cemetery, Logansport, LA, dated July 4, 1977.
Headstone for Eliza Hall Price and Elijah Price, Logansport, LA, n.d.

Not in a folder: Plat of Irish Survey [San Augustine Co.?], n.d.; drawing of plans for the steam mill [?], n.d. Handwritten. 2 items.

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