MACKAY AND STILES FAMILY PAPERS, #470, 1743-1975
Papers of Robert MacKay, a Savannah, Georgia, merchant, and of his family, including those
of William Henry Stiles, lawyer, planter in Cass (now Barton) County, Georgia, U.S.
Representative, and charge d'affaires in Austria. The collection contains slave bills of sale
(1793); a letter concerning a possible home in New York for some free black and mulatto
children (1829); records of sicknesses among slaves in Georgia
(1839, 1862); business arrangements for the hiring of slaves (1860, 1862); comments on the attitudes of free
blacks in Georgia (1865); mentions of slave sales (1801-1805); and
slave records for Grange and Sedgebank Plantations of Georgia (1814-1861). Partial microfilm
available.
