Butler Plantation Papers


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Pierce Butler was an Irish aristocrat, British Military Office, South Carolina planter, and US senator. This collection details the operations of his South Carolina and Georgia estates from 1786 to 1885. It includes plantation managers' correspondence, records of slaves (births, deaths, sales, punishments), and crop and livestock reports. Butler's political papers are also included.




Pierce Butler (1744-1822).


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John Vinci presents a brief biographical sketch of American politician Pierce Butler (1744-1822) from the book "The United States Manual of Biography and History." Butler was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.




Some Views and Opinions of Major Pierce Butler


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Essay providing biographical information on Major Pierce Butler (1744-1822) and discussing portions of correspondence written by Butler which deal with the political climate in America.




Pierce Butler (1744-1822) Papers


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Letters include references to Dr. Peter Spence, a loyalist formerly residing in South Carolina and a mutual friend; also including allusions to George III's insanity and other political topics.




The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794


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A political insiders perspective on the inaugural Congresses from one of South Carolinas signers of the Constitution




Butler Papers 1147, Series Listing


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These papers concern Major Pierce Butler, of South Carolina, his estate and his heirs. He was a representative in the South Carolina General Assembly and a U.S. senator. The papers also include South Carolina legislature papers, 1775-1805; U.S. Congressional papers, 1789-1800; Bank of the United States papers, 1801-1819; papers on the management of his plantations in Georgia and South Carolina, including correspondence with Roswell King, Roswell King, Jr., Owen J. Wister, and others; various Pennsylvania property records, etc.




The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1770-1803


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"Andrew Jackson is one of the most critical and controversial figures in American history. A dominant actor on the American scene in the period between the Revolution and Civil War, he stamped his name first on a mass political movement and then an era. At the same time Jackson's ascendancy accelerated the dispossession and death of Native Americans and spurred the expansion of slavery. 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' is a project to collect and publish Jackson's entire extant literary record. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson's most important papers to the public in easily readable form."--




Pierce Mason Butler Papers


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Memoirs, c. 1890s, by Isaac Harding Duval, re activities as a member of Pierce M. Butler's staff during Butler's service as Indian Commissioner in 1846; correspondence, 9 Sept. 1973-31 Mar. 1974, between Pierce Butler and James C. Gardner of Shreveport, La., re Butler family's plantation.







Pierce Butler's Notebook from the Constitutional Convention, 30 May - 16 July 1787


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Four pages of text with 12 blank pages and extensive doodles and calculations on the last page of the conjugate sheet. The notebook contains resolutions of May 30, and comments of Gerry, Wilson and Madison from June 6 to June 16. Continued by GLC00819.09. The text (as well as the rest of the collection) is printed in James Hutson's article, Pierce Butler's Records of the Federal Constitutional Convention, in Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 37:1 (Winter 1980): 64-73.