Thiot family papers
- Author/Creator:
- Thiot family
- Publication/Creation:
- 1756-1865
- Resource Type:
- Archival Material or Manuscripts
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Thiot family papers
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Daguerreotype (process).
Legal documents - Subjects:
- Charlton family
Thiot, Anna Nowlan Charlton,1831-1924
Confederate States of America.Army.Georgia Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)
Georgia.Chatham Artillery
Agriculture--Georgia--19th century
Cotton
French--United States--18th century
French--United States--19th century
Immigrants--Georgia--18th century
Immigrants--Haiti--18th century
Plantations--Georgia
Rice trade
Slavery--Georgia
Slavery--West Indies
Soldiers--Georgia
Savannah (Ga.)--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
Description/Summary
- Finding Aid:
- Finding aid available electronically
- Summary:
- The collection includes materials pertaining to the Thiot family, the emigration of Charles Henry Thiot from France, and the immigration of the Thiot family and slaves to Georgia, and their lives there. Primary topics include the legalities of the purchase and the daily operation of the Thiot family plantations, the Civil War service of Charles Henry Alexander Thiot in Georgia and Mississippi, and the circumstances surrounding his death (ca. 1865). Charles Henry Alexander Thiot wrote many letters to his wife Anna while he served in the Chatham Artillery and 1st Georgia Infantry that are included in the collection. Much of the pre-1804 material is in the French or Spanish language. The collection also includes an estimate of the estate of Charles Thiot, Sr. (1810?); statements of the sale of rice, 1811-1813; slave receipts; blacksmith's bills; statements of plantation supplies, 1805; receipt for payment of reward for catching runaway slaves; an agreement with the Central Railroad of Georgia for the hire of Negroes; an Estimate and Assessment form for taxation of agricultural products by the Confederate government and others; and a receipt for a slave owned by a "free person of Color and minister of the Gospel," dated October 1,1812. Included in the collection is a daguerreotype (and print copy) of a portrait of Charles Henry Alexander Thiot and his wife, Anna.
- Language:
- English
French
Spanish - Language Note:
- Materials mostly in English with some items in French or Spanish.
- Physical Type/Description:
- .75 linear feet ( 2 boxes, 1 oversized papers folder (OP), and 2 microfilm reels (MF))
- Restrictions on Access:
- Unrestricted access.
- General Note:
- Related collections in this repository are: Charles T. Winship and Winship Family Papers.
- Organization and Arrangement:
- Arranged by record type.
- Additional Physical Form:
- Most of the collection is also available on microfilm.
- Biographical/Historical Note:
- Charles Thiot, planter and merchant, was born in France in 1755, and died June 8, 1808, in Savannah, Georgia, where he and his family were living by 1795. His son, Charles Thiot, was born in 1789, in St. Domingue (French Haiti) and his grandson, Charles Henry Alexander Thiot, was born January 9, 1822, in Savannah, Georgia. Charles Thiot (d. 1808) had a store on Grand Gosier, Saltrou, Haiti, and traded in North and South America. He was forced by slave insurrections to leave Haiti, move to Jamaica (1792), then move to Georgia, where he purchased a plantation (Knoxborough, 1805). The children of his son, Charles Thiot (b. 1789), lived for a time in Baltimore, Maryland (after the death of Charles' wife, Martha), while their father ran Roseville, his plantation in Effingham County, Georgia. One of his children, Charles Henry Alexander Thiot, who married Anna Nowlan Charlton (1850), continued to run Roseville. During the Civil War, Charles Henry Alexander Thiot served with the Chatham Artillery until he became ill (1862); he re-entered the service (1864) as part of the 1st Georgia Infantry and is believed to have died in North Carolina.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990027680220302486
- OCLC Number:
- 173862971
- Barcode:
- EMU376644
EMU376643
010003059434
010003068310
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