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Plantation Overseer Contract, Georgia, 1865

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Paper Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Plantation Overseer Contract, Georgia, 1865
<B>Plantation Overseer Contract, Georgia, 1865.</B></I> A document employing William Reese as overseer of a plantation in Baldwin County, Georgia owned by Dr. John H. Furman. The contract, dated January 12, 1865, and signed in Sumter District, South Carolina, requires Furman to pay Reese, "twelve hundred dollars in currency or twelve hundred pounds of cotton…." Dr. John Howard Furman was born March 19, 1824, in St. Luke's Parish, Beaufort District, South Carolina. He received his primary education from his father at the Theological Institute in the High Hills of Santee, S.C. From 1836 to 1838 he accompanied his family to Scotland, where he studied art. After returning to the United States, he attended Charleston Medical College, graduating in 1845. He moved to Milledgeville (then-capital of Georgia) in the same year and practiced medicine in Baldwin and Wilkinson Counties. In 1845 he married Catherine Eliza Carter, the daughter of wealthy slave-owner Farish Carter of Baldwin and Murray Counties, Georgia. John Furman died May 6, 1902. The document has been folded, but is in very good condition. It is on lined blue paper measuring 8" x 8.5".<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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