Miscellaneous Records — Franklin (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

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Unbound miscellaneous records, January 1865–May 1868, are arranged by type of record. The records include invoices (January 1865–August 1866); lists of property (October 1865–January 1866); abstracts (September 1865–February 1868); and a list of clothing issued destitutes (Undated). Also included are affidavits (April 1865); receipts (January 1866–March 1867); letters sent (September 1865–May 1866); lists of children (Undated); monthly reports of numbers issued rations, clothing, and medicines (August 1866); reports of acres under cultivation, number of hands, number of schools (Undated); and reports of indigents (May 1868).

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.20: Franklin (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)

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