Registers of Letters Received — Maysville (Superintendent and Subassistant Commissioner, Mason County)

Source catalog description

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The three volumes of registers of letters received, 1 (154), 2 (155), and 3 (156), cover the period July 1866–July 1868. The volumes also include endorsements sent. Volumes 1 (154) and 2 (155) are arranged chronologically by date received. Volume 3 (156) is arranged in chronological order by the date received and numbered. The volumes have overlapping dates. Volume 2 (155) also contains a register of bounty claims, August–September (no year), that is arranged by the month the claim was forwarded. The volume also contains a register of "Widows Claims," November 1866, that is arranged by the date the claim was forwarded.

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Kentucky, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.21: Maysville (Superintendent and Subassistant Commissioner, Mason County)

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