Place of Origin

United States ➔ Georgia

Date of Composition

1853-1869

Description

This ledger contains 41 leaves of miscellaneous accounts and records kept by Charles P. Crawford between 1853 and 1869 as well as a collection of recipes penned by his wife, Martha Williamson Crawford. Many of the recipes are attributed.

Charles Crawford (1826-1900), a Georgia lawyer, married Martha Williamson (1836-1876) in 1855. The Crawfords began their married lives in Americus, in Sumter County, then moved to Flat Pond, in Lee County, in 1859, where Crawford had purchased a plantation. In 1861, Crawford enlisted in the 11th Regiment of Georgia Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to the rank of captain the following year. After the war the Crawfords lived in Milledgeville, Georgia.

The volume contains lists of slaves that Crawford and his younger brother Joel Terrell Crawford (1833-1862) bought from his father's estate in 1858, and a "Memorandum for Lee County" containing lists of goods and property, including slaves, which Crawford intended to bring with him to his Lee County plantation.