Guide to the Joseph Daugherty receipts MSS.1686
Daugherty, Joseph
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
December 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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- Language Usage:
English
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Joseph Daugherty receipts
- Unit ID:
MSS.1686
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (11 receipts)
- Dates:
1847-58
- Abstract:
Eleven receipts by various individuals and firms to a free black named Joseph Daugherty between 1847 and 1858, location unknown.
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of eleven receipts issued between 1847 and 1858 to a free black named Joseph Daugherty, from a variety of merchants and individuals, for buying, selling, or leasing items ranging from cotton and corn to pasturage to a coffee pot. None of the receipts provides any indication of where Daugherty lived. They do however, reveal that he was illiterate, signing an "X" beside his name, and that many of the individuals with whom he did business were barely literate.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Donnelly Lancaster/John Beeler, 2005
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Joseph Daugherty receipts, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2004
Biographical/Historical note
Free black
Joseph Daugherty receipts Box 6476 Folder 43
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, September 10, 1847 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20582
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, January 5, 1849 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20583
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, December 13, 1849 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20584
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, January 1850 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20585
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, November 1, 1853 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20586
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, 1855 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20587
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, January 6, 1856 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20588
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, January 31, 1856 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20589
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, February 14, 1856 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20590
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, July 1857 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20591
Receipt for Joseph Daugherty, August 6, 1858 http://purl.lib.ua.edu/20592