Genealogy
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Verley Archer Collection
Morton Boyte Howell Papers
This collection contains 1 document of 44 pages. It lists the descendants of Morton Boyte Howell, son of Robert Boyte Crawford Howell and Mary Ann Morton Toy.
Compiled by Adam G. Adams – 1974
Samuel Jackson Keith Collection
This collection contains three file folders with information regarding the family tree of Samuel Jackson Keith.
William Jesse Prichard Collection
This collection contains one bound volume on the legacy of William Jesse Prichard and his descendants titled, “The Prichards of Mississippi and Tennessee”. The volume traces and documents the story of the Prichard clan who migrated from North Carolina to Kentucky to Louisiana and then on to Mississippi and middle Tennessee from 1786 to 1999.
Record of Ancestry -Relación de la Ascendencia, December 9, 1711
This collection contains numerous manuscripts, legal documents, publications, and photographs collected by J. León Helguera about Latin America and Colombia, specifically. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1700s-1800s.
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