This involves records of Blount, Marshall, Madison, Franklin, Jackson, Randolph, Benton [Calhoun], Talladega, St. Clair, Morgan, Marion, Lauderdale, and Fayette Counties. An itemized list of possessions put up for sale by household is listed in the Box.
Notes during 1861 bearing information from date of establishment of Samuel Townsend, total of $112,361.80. List of work hours, perhaps for servants and Ellen Roberts, ditto sheet for Curb Market, 1940 letter from Frank C. Manning, last page has credits[?] during 1860-61.
[FCR wrote her MA dissertation on the manumission of the Townsend slaves, and this ledger and some other few documents were not included in her material sent to the Hoole Library at Tuscaloosa.] S. D. Cabaniss served as executor for the Townsend estates. These accounts are for quite substantial notes. A few pages in the back included religious writings and one page of bills.
Disbursement of Dr. M.A. Verser [also Vesser] [Macon] Confederate Commissary for Marshall County, Alabama for Families of Confederate Soldiers. [Distribution of salt and money to destitute women]
