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CARROLL (DANIEL R., AND FAMILY) PAPERS	Mss.	1514, 2296
1864-1948	LSU	Libraries	Special	Collections
Subject	Date
Dry-goods—Louisiana—New	1877-1881
Orleans.
Freedmen—Louisiana.	1877-1878,
undated
Immigrants—Louisiana—New	1874
Orleans.
Jefferson Parish (La.)—Description	1877-1878,
and travel.	undated
Jefferson Parish (La.)—Population.	1877
Land tenure—Louisiana—Jefferson	1877,
Parish.	undated
Livestock—Louisiana—Jefferson	1877,
Parish.	undated
Lumbering—Louisiana—Jefferson	1877
Parish.
Mules—Louisiana—Jefferson	1877
Parish.
Plantation overseers—Louisiana—	1877-1878,
Jefferson Parish.	undated
Description of relevant documents
Telegrams, letters, legal documents and statements of account concern liquidation of Wallace and Company and its successor, Wallace, Cary and Company, and later Wallace and Cary.
Overseer’s comments on plantation store merchandise, sugar, rice and com crops, construction of sugar mill and cabins, cattle range, livestock, African American labor, population, and land available for purchase.
Lumber mill supplies Morgan’s Railroad; prices lower than in New Orleans, May 22.
Comments on operation performed for lampas, Mar. 31
Comments on plantation management and plantation store operations, personal living conditions, neighboring plantations for sale, construction of cabins and sugar house, and population of area.
Mostly Catholic; comments on work performed, wages, store commodities and clothing in demand, and refusal of overseer to sell “colored water” for whiskey and other inferior products, 20 J.R. Carroll letters.
Naturalization certificate, June 12, 1860, of [Captain] John R[yan] Carroll, English immigrant in 1817, registered on Sept. 12, 1874.
Insufficient population for third store, Apr. 2; hired person and insurance needed for protection against “plundering Acadians and thieves”, June 17.
Description of Davis place owned by Citizens Bank recommended by overseer for purchase as sugar and stock farm. Mar. 31, Apr. 8 and 12; Jefferson Parish diagram and description of Hayes land, undated; Jefferson Parish Texas lands offered for sale by John Durst, undated Tyler.
Chupa-chupa seed recommended for planting; hogs fatten on it, Mar. 19 and Apr. 12, 1877 and undated
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