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- Creator
- Rodney, Thomas, 1744-1811
- Call number
- MssCol 2605
- Physical description
- .08 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Thomas Rodney memorandum and account book, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Memorandum and account book kept by Thomas Rodney, U.S. Judge in the Mississippi Territory, from December 1, 1803 to January 13, 1811. Entries are in diary form and were kept primarily at Washington, Mississippi. Entries record money paid and received, personal and local incidents, marriages performed, references to property, hire and sales of negro slaves, and other topics
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Sources
- Cost and standard of living -- Mississippi -- 19th century
- Judges -- Diaries
- Judges -- Mississippi
- Marriage -- Mississippi
- Real property -- Mississippi -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Mississippi -- Sources
Places
- Mississippi
- Washington (Miss.) -- History -- 19th century
- Washington (Miss.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328