The Life and Services of the Honorable Maj. Gen. Samuel Elbert of Georgia
An Address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society, at Savannah, on the 6th of December, 1886 Cambridge: Printed for the Society. The Riverside Press, 1887.
First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. 48 pages. Original printed green wraps. Title on front wrap. Light edge chips to extremities. Top 3.25" x .75" section of paper front wrap replaced with like paper (original owner name removed?). Below the repair is an inscription by the author - "with the compliments of Charles C. Jones, Jr. Augusta, Georgia." Front wrap attached to text with Japanese tissue paper repair. Included with the biography is a laid in hand written document from E. Elbert (Elizabeth Rae Elbert) widow of Major-General Samuel Elbert. The receipt is dated 20 September 1790 and is addressed to Seaborn Jones. Ms. Elbert asks Seaborn Jones to "Deliver to Mr. Robert Walton, on order, his bond and that of Mr. William Walton, given to my late husband, and also the title deed to the said William Walton from the deceased, in your hands as an attorney at law." Below her signature, William Walton writes, "Rcd from Seaborn Jones, a deed from M. Dejarnett [?] to Saml Elbert, & deed from Saml Elbert to William Walton for a tract of one hundred & sixty-nine and a half acres of land, in Prince Edward County Virginia; Robert Walton's Bond to Samuel Elbert for thirty one thousand 164 lb. James River Tobacco, & William Waltons for twenty thousand weight of like tobacco to Elbert & Marbury ( signed Wm. Walton)" On the back side of the document (approx. 7.5" x 6") is signed Elbert v? Walton Order & recd for ???"
DeRenne 859. Very good. Item #10886
Samuel Elbert, 1740-1788, was a merchant and later an American Revolutionary Officer and Soldier. He became Governor of Georgia in 1785. As Governor of Georgia he signed the charter for the University of Georgia and also founded the Society of the Cincinnati in Georgia. Charles C. Jones, Jr. of Augusta, Georgia was a Confederate officer in the Civil War, historian and author. William Walton (maybe the same person who signed this document) was born in 1754, Prince Edward County, Virginia. William Walton was a member of the Revolutionary Continental Congress who later settled in Columbus County, Georgia where he died in 1818.
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