M1905, Roll 81 - Lake Providence Field Office Records

More from National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 105, M1905 - Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Louisiana, 1865-1872.  This list is not all inclusive and only notes names of interest.  This information is being posted to help other researchers.

LAKE PROVIDENCE (ASSISTANT SUBASSISTANT COMMISSIONER) 

Agent 

George W. Rollins     Jan. 1866–May 1867 

Assistant Subassistant Commissioner 

George W. Rollins    May–Oct. 1867 

Thomas H. Hannon    Oct. 1867–Jan. 1868 

E. H. Masters     Jan.–Dec. 1868 

Letters Sent 

The  four  volumes of letters sent, February 1866–December 1868, 1 (310), 2 (311), 3 (312), and 4 (313), are arranged chronologically, and each volume has a name index. The last letters in volume 1 (310) are duplicated in volume 2 (311). 

  Volume 1 (310) Feb. 1866–Apr. 1867 

  Volume 2 (311) Jan. 1867–Sept. 1867 

  Volume 3 (312) Sept. 1867–Apr. 1868 

  Volume 4 (313) Apr. –Dec. 1868 

Roll #81 - Target 1 - Letters Sent - Volume 1 - February 1866 to August 1867

NARA 77 - Mr. Blackman (HG Blackman), Pages 67, 89, 95, 99, 106, 107, 110

NARA 78 - Byrne, Vance and Company, Page 116; Martin Day, Pages 67, 68, 73

Roll #81 - Target 2 - Letters Sent - Volume 2 - January 1867 to September 1867

NARA 86 - William Atlas, Page 109; Dr. Blackman, Pages 39, 53, 59; Blackman and Shackleford, Page 44 - Received record of cotton shipped to NOLA; Kate Blackman, Page 64; Henry Day, Page 105 - labor contract with a Mrs. Kitkinske?

NARA 88 - JM Grace, Page 77 - John and Milly Wallace discharged from working on plantation; request to forward settled accounts to office. June 29, 1867

NARA 90 - Austin Lee, Page 127 - August 26, 1867 - Charges of Austin Lee, freedman, whipping Thomas Gardner’s wife, Rosana Gardner, freedman and freedwoman, with a rawhide; all working at Mrs. Blackburn’s planation

NARA 91 - Cora Stewart, Pages 49, 70; Hannah Suel/Hannah Sewell, Pages 22, 56; Hannah Sewell; Harrison Tyler, Pages 75, 126

Roll #81 - Target 3 - Letters Sent - Volume 3 - September 1867 to April 1868

NARA 172 - Blackman and Shackleford, Page 20 - Cotton cannot be shipped without approval of the office until the freedmens accounts are settled, dated October 5, 1867

NARA 176 - Thompson, Page 78 - Hardeman Place, Bunches Bend - Cotton cannot be shipped without approval of the office until the freedmens accounts are settled, dated December 2, 1867

Roll #81 - Target 4 - Letters Sent - Volume 4 - April to December 1868

NARA 338 - Blackman and Shakleford, Page 33 - Payment due to freedmen

NARA 339 - C Lee, Page 17 - Chesterfield Lee; JW Lee, Page 83

NARA 340 - Squire Thompson, Page 35 - Ordered to return a mule owned by Patsey Huglison’s husband (all freedmen); Harrison Tyler, 39, 77; John Shackleford, Page 25 - Freedmans contract settled

Letters and Orders Received from the Assistant Commissioner and His Staff 

The three volumes of letters and orders received from the Assistant Commissioner and his staff, January 1866–December 1868, 1 (305), 2 (307), and 3 (309), are arranged chronologically and each volume has a name index.  

  

  Volume 1 (305) Jan.–Dec. 1866 

  Volume 2 (307) Jan.1867–June 1868 

  Volume 3 (309) June–Dec. 1868 

Roll #81 - Target 6 - Letters and Orders Received from the Assistant Commissioner and His Staff - Volume 1 - January to December 1866

NARA 459 - Dr. Adley (actually Aleck Adley), Page 31 - Claims for Bounty

Roll #81 - Target 7 - Letters and Orders Received from the Assistant Commissioner and His Staff - Volume 2 - January 1867 to June 1868

NARA 469 - Alex Adley, Page 57 - Company A of the 3rd Regiment of the US Colored Troops

NARA 471 - David Lee, Page 54 - Company A of the 53rd Regiment of the US Colored Troops; Asbury Lee, Page 61 - Company B of the 47th Regiment of the US Colored Troops

NARA 473 - Henry Stewart, Page 54 - Company D of the 53rd Regiment of the US Colored Troops

NARA 474 - John Thompson, Page 54 - Company A of the 53rd Regiment of the US Colored Troops

All page 54, 57, and 61 are claims for bounty

Roll #81 - Target 8 - Letters and Orders Received from the Assistant Commissioner and His Staff - Volume 3 - June and December 1868

Index is barely populated with entries; none of interest

Roll #81 - Target 9 - Letters Received from Local Citizens - Volume 1 - February to October 1866

NARA 584 - Wilson Lee, Pages 11-12 - Blagging Plantation; arrested for stealing clothing with five other men on the plantation, held in jail in Lake Providence and repeatedly returned to plantation with owner submitting him to civil authorities; 

NARA 584 - George W. Lee, Page 20 - Blackburn Plantation, May 10, 1866, Leiut. Rollins, Agt of FB - I was telling you something back of an old account Mrs. Blackburn owed me.  I applied to her yesterday for a settlement and her rpy to me was that she did not know anything about it  After I had squared up her account against me, I brought mine against her but she did not know anything about mine.  I will come to see you as soon as possible, signed Geo W. Lee 

NARA 584 - Sam Sewell, Page 15 - Advanced $7 if he agreed to stay and work by Phillis Taylor of Dr. Waddell’s plantation

Roll #81 - Target 10 - Letters Received from Local Citizens - Volume 2 - June to October 1867

Does not appear to have an index