John W. Raymond Plantation Account Ledger

Collection

Identifier: PKY 88.042

Staff Only

Scope and Content

This ledger contains a list of John W. Raymond's laborers, several of whom are African American, and a list of their expenses, the goods they purchased, and the work they performed to pay their debts. It also includes a labor contract between Raymond and Robbin Simmons.

Dates

Creation: 1868 - 1872

Creator

Raymond, John W., 1827-1902. (Person)

Access

The collection is open for research.

Biographical/Historical Note

John W. Raymond was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1827. He worked as a farmer and served in the 23rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. In 1868, he and his wife, Mary, moved to Florida with their children and established a plantation near the community of Louise, in Alachua County. He also served as assessor for the county for three years, until he moved back to Massachusetts in 1877. At the time of his death in 1902, he was working as a farmer and probation officer.

Extent

.25 Linear Feet (1 Box) : Black calf spine with marbled paper over boards. 148 pp. of manuscript. 12 blank pp., miscellaneous papers laid in. ; 292 x 225 mm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Florida sharecropping plantation account book of John W. Raymond, a Massachusetts native who owned a farm near Louise, Florida, in Alachua County.

Location

University of Florida Smathers Library Building

Acquisition Information

Purchased 2018.

Related Materials

Additional labor contracts and other legal documents related to John W. Raymond and his laborers can be found at the Alachua County Clerk of Court Ancient Records Archives .

The James David Glunt Collection contains labor contracts and legal documents relating to Alachua County during Reconstruction.

Bibliography

"LOCAL MILITARY MATTERS; Arrival of the Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment State Volunteers. Breakfast at the Astor House Speeches by Rev. Mr. Osgood, Col. Burnside, Lieut Bramhall, Senator Wilson, Gen. Hiram Walbridge, and others." New York Times, 13 November 1861.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 29 April 2019), John W Raymond, Beverly city Ward 5, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 263, sheet 14A, family 279, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,640. Webb, Wanton S. Entry for Louise. Webb's Historical, Industrial and Biographical Florida. Pt. I. New York : W.S. Webb & Co., 1885. U.S. House, 45th Congress, 1st session, Papers in the Case of Finley vs. Bisbee, Second Congressional District of Florida, Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Congressional District of Florida, November 8, 1877 (Mis. Doc. no. 10). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. (Serial Set 299). U.S. House, 44th Congress, 2nd session, Testimony Taken Before the Special Committee on Investigation of the Election in Florida, Appointed under Resolution of the House of Representatives, forty-fourth Congress, December 4, 1876 (Mis. Doc. 35, part 1). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877 (Serial Set 1733).