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Weeks writes to console Moore on the death of his wife, and also to inform him that Charlie is still in Texas waiting to haul government stores to Shreveport. Before Mary Weeks Moore's death, she writes, "her servants left her, & gave her much…

In a brief note, Maggie Weeks, wife of C. C. Weeks, asks John C. Moore to lend her a mule for driving her carriage and hauling wood. She is "afraid the Yankees will get us & separate me from Charlie." She also writes about "three negro women & five…

This list of property prepared for tax assessment purposes indicates that Moore still owned at least 40 enslaved people in 1864, some of whom were part of the estate of his deceased wife. Some of the enslaved people's names and ages are listed on the…

This inventory, drawn up by the estate executor John C. Moore, shows the names and ages of approximately 92 enslaved people: men, women, and children.

A list of contractors and employers detailed for work by the Texas Military Board to perform service such as hauling goods or manufacturing salt.

An incomplete list of "graves beneath the cluster of oaks in front of the house," probably recorded by Sarah Avery Leeds together with Aunt Eliza Robertson. The list includes the names of some family "servants," including William Odel (d. 1882) and…

This list in the back of a volume kept by Sara Avery Leeds about her wedding gives the names of numerous "servants" who worked for the family before and after slavery. The earliest notations seem to have been made in 1885, but there are also…

These letters from Houston to recipients in Richmond and near Wharton introduce William F. Weeks of Louisiana. One explains that "Mr Weeks may wish to hire out some Negroes and we have recommended him to call on you thinking you might wish to rent…

Wheat and Fletcher, formerly of the Brazos Manufacturing Company, have written to the board asking for detail exemptions from the draft for a list of men in their employ. The Board replies approving most of their requests but specifying the terms on…

Writing from the "P House," Lilly and Maggie [M.S.W.] give updates on the area, including the actions of runaway slaves and the efforts to secure some of them in jails in Louisiana. Maggie expresses concerns about another Yankee invasion of the area,…