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[Receipt of payment from Michael Reed for a boy named Bill]
Receipt of payment from Michael Reed for a boy around 13 years old named Bill, sold as a slave to Michael Reed by H.M. Bouldin on July 24, 1856. -
[Receipt of payment from Michael Reed for a boy named George]
Receipt of payment for the sale of a boy around 13 years old named George, sold as a slave from M.A. Britain to Michael Reed. -
Grade report for SATC math courses, dated Oct. 1918
This is a typed page with a watermark 'Requisition Bond'. At the top of the page is 'SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY' and below that is 'Monthly Report Students' Army Training Corps' and then 'Reported by' with 'Chas. N. Wunder' written in and then 'Term: Fall...Month of: October'. The page is divided into three columns, the first is 'Last name...Other names', the next is 'Course and Number', and the third is 'Numerical Grade'. There are about fifty names in alphabetical order for 'Math. 9'. The last four names are for 'Math. 1'. Every grade is a 75. On the top of the back of the page, 'Instructions' for the grade report are typed.
Georgetown, TX -
[Letter from J.M.M. Costley to Michael Reed arranging the purchasing of slaves]
Letter from J.M.M Costley and Michael Reed arranging the exchange and purchase of Ann, age 13; Amanda, age 11; Mike, age 10; Austin, age 6; and Dicey, age 8, sold as slaves. -
John M. Costley Bill of Sale to Michael Reed
Bill of sale for a woman around 20 years old named Louisa, sold as a slave by John M. Costley to Michael Reed on August 8th, 1856. -
John B. Crowley deed to Michael Reed for two negro girls
Bill of sale for two girls, Elizabeth aged 16 and Mary aged 11, sold as slaves to Michael Reed by John B. Crowley. -
David Dawson's Bill of Sale for Nelson
Bill of sale for a man around eighteen years old named Nelson, sold as a slave to Michael Reed by David Dawson, signed October 1, 1841. -
Letter from C.E. Detmold to Edward Trelawny, dated Jan. 8, 1842
Letter from C. E. Detmold in New York to Edward Trelawny at Putney Hill near London. It discusses his fears for Thomas Falconer's safety as he has heard that the "Texian" Santa Fe Expedition had been captured by Mexican forces and touches on British Whig finance politics. Detmold is Christian Edward Detmold (see Wikipedia article) and Trelawny is John Edward Trelawny the English biographer, novelist, adventurer and friend of the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. -
Letter requesting information from Foreign Language departments, dated Oct. 11, 1918
This is a letter with a printed letterhead 'War Department Committee on Education and Special Training'. It has a list of Advisory Board members in the upper right hand corner and a list of committee members in the upper left. There is a watermark 'Royal Seal Bond' with 'U.S.A.' underneath between two horizontal lines. The letter is from the District Educational Director, Robert E. Vinson and is to 'The President, Southwestern University, Georgetown Texas'. The body of the text announces that the Committee has appointed a language inspector for institutions with SATC units in the tenth district and requests outlines of foreign language departments from department heads. Written in pencil across the upper left-hand corner of the page is, 'French - Vaden Spanish - Gray German - Lehmberg'. The back of the letter has the watermark 'Royal Seal Bond' with 'U.S.A.' underneath between two horizontal lines. Written across the top of the page in pencil is 'Refer to proper professors.'
The University of Texas, Austin, TX -
Visualization of slave exchange in the Michael Reed Papers
Network visualization of the Michael Reed Papers in which the nodes represent slaveowners and the edges represent enslaved people who are bought, sold, lent, or traded.