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Ledger And Account Book Elliscliffe Plantation Adams County, Mississippi 1859, Elliscliffe Plantation

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Valuable Recipes, A W. Chase

1850-1869

For saloons, inn-keepers, grocers, druggists, merchants, and for families generally. A guide to wealth. Full text digitized and available from the McKee Library collection.

Register Of Enslaved Persons, Elliscliffe Plantation

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Ledger And Account Book Elliscliffe Plantation, Adams County, Mississippi, 1858, Elliscliffe Plantation

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Unidentified Record Book, Elliscliffe Plantation

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Fragmentary Pages, Ledger And Account Book, Elliscliffe Plantation, 1855 (5 Pages), Elliscliffe Plantation

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Record And Account Book, Elliscliffe Plantation

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Clayton's Quarto Diary For 1855, Partially Filled By "J.P. Harrison," Including A Description Of Wine Making At Pass Christian, Mississippi, Elliscliffe Plantation

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Ledger And Account Book Ormond Plantation. 1853, Ormonde Plantation

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Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book: Designed As A Supplement To Her Treatise On Domestic Economy, Catharine Esther Beecher

1830-1849

While this cookbook does include some meat-based recipes, there are sections on vegetables and plant-based foods. The book was originally downloaded courtesy of Internet Archive.

Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned By Medical Men, And By Experience In Ages., William A. Alcott

1830-1849

Containing hundreds of testimonies of individuals advocating for a vegetarian diet. This work was originally downloaded courtesy of Hathitrust. This copy was digitized by Google books.

Daniel Holland Ledger, Daniel M. Holland

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The first portion of this ledger dates from 1837 to 1845, and appears to be for a store in Natchez, Mississippi. The latter section is dated 1865 and concerns a Madison County, Mississippi plantation store with freedmen's accounts. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project

Miscellaneous Receipts, Colbert E. Cushing

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Includes appraisal values for enslaved persons, horses, and furniture. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

Appraisal Of The Property Of James Ball, Abbeville, S.C., Colbert E. Cushing

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Includes appraisal values for slaves, horses, and furniture. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

Farmer's Almanack 1825, Robert B. Thomas

Rare Books

The Farmer's Almanack contains astronomical calculations, a farmer's calendar, military fines, college vacations, table of simple interest, court calendar, agricultural information, Episcopalian holidays, poetry, anecdotes, weather observations, roads and innkeepers and other useful information.

Locust Grove Plantation Ledger, Locust Grove Plantation

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Ledger contains the names, marriages, births, and deaths of enslaved persons on a plantation which internal evidence suggests was Locust Grove Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Ledger also contains cotton harvest data for each enslaved person. Some pages include newspaper clippings discussing agricultural and domestic techniques and advice. The plantation was founded in 1777 under the name Mount Locust, and the name was changed by Samuel Postlethwait when he purchased the plantation. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

Ledger And Account Book Harmony, Ormonde, Elliscliffe, And Laurel Hill Plantations, 1824-1835, Ormonde Plantation, Harmony Plantation, Elliscliffe Plantation, Laurel Hill Plantations

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A Treatise On The Improved Culture Of The Strawberry, Raspberry, Gooseberry, And Currant : In Which Are Pointed Out The Best Methods Of Obtaining Ample Crops Of These Fruits, To Which Are Prefixed Descriptions Of The Most Esteemed Varieties, Thomas Haynes

Rare Books, Manuscripts,Government Documents, and Atlases

PREFACE
The following instructions for an improved method of cultivating the STRAWBERRY, RASPBERRY, GOOSEBERRY, and CURRANT, are respectfully submitted to those who desire to obtain these fruits of a large size and of an excellent flavour ; and in full confidence that, where a due regard is paid to the directions laid down, the reward will be ample crops of superior fruit. The STRAWBERRY is a native if woods and shady situations, and consequently ought not to be planted indiscriminately in any place. The object in these pages has been to point out and recommend a method by which its …

Lists Of Payments Received For Items Sold, Including Several Enslaved Persons, Colbert E. Cushing

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Includes appraisal values for slaves, horses, and furniture. This item has been aggregated as part of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)'s "Deeply Rooted: The Agricultural & Rural History of the American South" project.

The Philosophical Monitor, Friend To Mankind

1810-1829

An investigation of the causes, which the moral and physical perfection of human society; in which many hereditary popular customs, generally supposed innocent, are shown to be productive of indigence, disease, and premature termination of life. Full text digitized and available from the McKee Library collections.

De Bestiis Marinis Or, The Beasts Of The Sea, Georg Wilhelm Steller

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Steller’s classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or “sea bear” (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris).

Steller’s sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing …

Donovan Family Recipe Book, Donovan Family

Manuscripts

This book was started by Mary Ogle (sometimes called Marie) in 1713. She was the daughter of the Reverend Honourable Samuel Ogle, M.P. for Berswick and Commissioner of Revenue for Ireland who resided at Bowsden, North Cumberland and Stephen’s Green with his wife Elizabeth Pringle Dawson.

Mary married Captain John Broughton of Maidstone, Kent in 1720 and their daughter Mary was born in Jersey in 1724. She was an heiress and married Edward Donovan, Barrister at Law, of Ballymore, Co. Wexford and 24, Peter Street, Dublin in 1747. They had 21 children, sixteen lived and five died unbaptized. Perhaps, some …

How Sharks Float, Admin Stem For Success

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This experiment is a perfect example of marine biology and chemistry