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John Jones papers
Notebook/scrapbook (ca. 1850s-1870s) with text of Fourth of July speech, comments, and pasted newspaper clippings compiled by John Jones about Africans and African Americans, politics, and history; freedom certificates issued to John and Mary Jones by the Madison County Circuit Court at Edwardsville (Ill.), and signed by William Brown, Clerk, 1844 Nov. 28; letter of Mary Jones to Albert Hager
Joseph Conway papers
Conway manuscripts regarding financial matters. Includes: St. Clair County, Illinois Territory. Indenture of Lucey, a Black woman, bound to Robert Chesney for 40 years. Witnessed by Conway and Mark Ward (his mark). Notarial statement by Conway. Indorsed: "Recorded in entry book of slaves." (1815 October 9, ADS, 3 pages); Letter, from Edwardsville, to Judge of the Probate Court, Waterloo, Monroe
Joseph Montfort Street papers
Shawanoe Town, Illinois [sic]; Notice of a fugitive from slavery named London (1820 August 15, Document signed, 1 page); Letter, from United States Indian Agency at Prairie du Chien, to the Secretary of War Department; information concerning the capture of the celebrated Sac chief, Black Hawk; turned over to Captain Z. Taylor commanding Fort Crawford. Photostatic copy only (1832 August
Samuel Cochran certificate
State of Illinois, Jackson County, Brownsville. Certificate for removal of two Black servants (possibly enslaved or formerly enslaved men) from Randolph County to Jackson County. Signed also by T. Nash, clerk of the county commissioner's court of Jackson County. Note of Cochran's assignment of rights and interests in above mentioned men.
Samuel Hunter manuscript
Manuscript, from Summerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, to the editor of the Illinois Gazette, Shawnytown, Illinois: Notice to be inserted in Illinois Gazette advertising for three runaway slaves.