Henry Lee Reynolds papers, 1851-1864, Mobile, Alabama : also Mississippi and New York

Author/Creator:: Reynolds, Henry L.
Publication/Creation:: Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, ©1991
Format:: Book
Is Part Of:: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, pt. 7, reel 3.

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Full Title:: Henry Lee Reynolds papers, 1851-1864, Mobile, Alabama : also Mississippi and New York
Series Titles:: Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscript Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Part 7, Alabama ; reel 3
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscript Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. reel 3.

Additional Author/Creators:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

Subjects:: Reynolds, Henry L.--Correspondence
Smith, Hezekiah,1737-1805--Biography
Reynolds, Harry Lee,1861-
Reynolds family--Correspondence
Reynolds family--Diaries
Green family--History
H.L. Reynolds & Co.--Records and correspondence
Reynolds, Witherspoon & Co.--Records and correspondence
Reynolds, Smith & Co.--Records and correspondence
Harding and Redditt (Mobile, Ala.)--Records and correspondence
Families--Connecticut--Social life and customs
Land titles--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th century--Sources
Commission merchants--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th century--Sources
Commission merchants--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century--Sources
Mobile (Ala.)--Commerce--History--19th century--Sources
Alabama--History--19th century--Sources

Summary:: This collection consists chiefly of business and personal correspondence and financial and legal papers relating to Henry Lee Reynolds and other members of the Reynolds family. Also included are a few diaries, documents relating to land warrants held by the Mobile firm of Harding and Redditt, papers about Greene family history; an incomplete biographical sketch of Baptist evangelist Hezekiah Smith (1737-1805) of Massachusetts, and a sketch book belong to Harry L. Reynolds. Papers show that Henry Lee Reynolds of Norwich, Conn., was in business in Mobile, Ala., as early as 1852, first with William A. Witherspoon in Reynolds, Witherspoon and Co.; by 1860, Reynolds's associates were Jack P. Richardson and James C. Reynolds, and his firm was called H.L. Reynolds & Co. After the Civil War, Reynolds's base of of business operations was in New York. In 1865, Reynolds became associated with L. Jacquelin Smith, forming Reynolds, Smith & Co., commission merchants, at New York, with interests in Mobile.
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
General Note:: Title from reel guide.
Accompanied by a printed reel guide.