Wednesday's Wonderful Collection - John E. Knight, MS.136

 

Biographical/Historical Note

 John E. Knight was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1816. In 1843 he married Hannah Donnell in New York, and came to Little Rock, Arkansas, that same year. Knight was editor of the Arkansas Democrat from 1846 to 1850. He was also associated with the Arkansas Gazette. He had one daughter, Elizabeth Knight, who married James S. Pollock, a banker in Little Rock. Knight died in Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 28, 1901, and was buried in Mount Holly Cemetery. Elizabeth Knight Pollock died in 1910.

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Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, deeds, certificates, plats, fieldnotes, contracts, power of attorney papers, leases, and other papers related to land grants, titles, and claims in the settlement of Little Rock, Arkansas, and surrounding areas.
John E. Knight collected documents about the settlement of Little Rock, Arkansas. The majority of these papers are from William Russell to Chester Ashley, pertaining to pre-emption claims in and around Little Rock. Other material concerns the 1819-1822 dispute related to the the New Madrid Certificate and pre-emption claims of James Bryant, Stephen F. Austin, and William M. O'Hara.

• Personal papers
  
  • Correspondence
    
    • 1. 1822 January 22: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas, to Isaac Watkins, Little Rock, Arkansas (Box 1)
    • 2. 1835 November 5: B.W. Lee, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 3. 1838 April 15: Joseph Desruisseaux, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 4. 1838 May 18: Frederick Notrebe, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 5. 1839 December 27: Joseph Scull, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 6. 1840 March 15: B.W. Lee, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 7. 1840 May 12: Charles F. Notrebe, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 8. 1840 September 7: Charles F. Notrebe, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 9. 1841 January 3: Terrance Farrelly, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 10. 1841 July 15: Frederick Notrebe, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 11. 1842 August 24: John J. Kinney, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, to John B. Notrebe, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 12. 1844 April 30: B.W. Lee, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 13. 1845 February 15: Odile Vaugine, Jefferson County, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 14. 1845 August 1: Terrance Farrelly, Mound Grove, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 15. 1845 October 24: Terrance Farrelly, Mound Grove, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 16. 1846 January 21: William Bledsoe Scull, Jefferson County, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 17. 1847 February 8: A.B.K. Thetford, South Bend, Jefferson County, Arkansas, to Louis C. Thetford, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 18. 1848 February 1: A.B.K. Thetford, South Bend, Jefferson County, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 19. Undated: [Jelicane...], Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 20. Undated: Joseph Scull, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
    • 21. Undated: James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Frederick Notrebe, Arkansas Post, Arkansas
  • Legal
    
    • 22. 1817 August 12: Amos Wheeler, Saint Louis County, Missouri, to Justus Post, transcript of will
    • 23. 1825 June 4: John Jones, Washington County, Missouri, to witness the agreement between Henry Elliott and James Bryan
    • 24. 1848 May: Lieutenant A.M. Woodruff, 12th U.S. Infantry, pertains to Thomas Cooney, Private, who died in Guenervaca, Mexico
    • 25. 1850 March 18: Major D. Hunter, Pay Department, U.S. Army, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, bank draft awarded to Samuel P. Johnston for military services
    • 26. 1855 January 6: Elias N. Conway, Governor of Arkansas, to John E. Knight, certificate for being elected alderman
    • 27. 1855 June 18: Charles P. Bertrand, Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, to J.E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, deed #285, Mount Holly Cemetery
  • Accounts
    
    • 28. [1797]: Joseph Knight, Hall Knight, Newburyport, Massachusetts, record book for purchasing family goods
    • 29. 1836 March 4: H.B. [Cenas], New Orleans, Louisiana, to Frederick Notrebe, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, bank draft
    • 30. [1836 January-1837 December]: James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, account papers and quarterly returns
    • 31. [1838 October 28-1839 August 8]: T. Farrelly account papers concerning the Academy Sacred Hearts, Saint Louis, Missouri
  • Miscellaneous
    
    • 32. [1821 February-1821 May]: William M. O'Hara, Little Rock, Arkansas, list of relatives owning land in Little Rock and Crystal Hill areas
    • 33. Undated: Envelope, Batesville, Arkansas, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas
    • 34. Undated: Notice, for sale by E. Stedman, Newburyport, Massachusetts
• Financial correspondence
  
  • 35. 1826 February 23: William Russell, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, concerning Francis Imbeau land claims
  • 36. 1826 February 24: William Russell, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerning rental of land
  • 37. 1826 March 10: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, papers concerning Francis Imbeau land claims
  • 38. 1826 March 21: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, agreement to purchase a certain land
  • 39. 1826 March 28: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, document concerning Quapaw lands
  • 40. 1826 April 1: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerning A.H. Sevier for 600 arpents in Spanish grant
  • 41. 1826 April 14: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, memorandum
  • 42. 1826 April 19: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley and Wright Daniel, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerns pre-emption claims to Cherokee lands
  • 43. 1826 April 19: William Russell, no address, to W. Daniel and C. Ashley
  • 44. 1826 April 20: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Isaac Watkins, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerning Cherokee pre-emption claims of James Curran
  • 45. 1826 April 22: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Benjamin Desha, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, pre-emption claims to Cherokee lands
  • 46. 1826 June 7: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerning papers sent to A.H.Sevier for 600 arpents in Spanish grant
  • 47. 1827 February 5: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerning pre-emption claims of James Curran
  • 48. 1827 February 22: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, letter concerning Spanish grants by Carlos DeVilemont
  • 49. 1827 February 24: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerning purchase of real estate by A.H. Sevier
  • 50. 1829 February 12: William Russell or Chester Ashley, William Russell's attorney in faith, to Register of Land Offices, Lawrence District, Arkansas, protest against locations of Quapaw lands
  • 51. 1833 April 5: William Russell, no address, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, memoranda about certain lands
  • 52. 1837 December 30: William B. Wait, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, to Frederick Notrebe, Post of Arkansas, note against Thomas T. Tunstall, Prairie County, Arkansas Territory
  • 53. 1838 March 10: Bennett Morrell and Company, Desha County (Mouth White River), Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, South Bend, Arkansas, receipt from Marcus B. Desha
  • 54. 1839 February 12: Antoine Barraque, New Gascony, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Post of Arkansas, mention of payment to W.E. Woodruff for $200 from A. Barraque
  • 53. 1839 February 26: J. Scull, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, pertaining to $350 check paid to Tucker
  • 54. 1839 April 13: T. Farrelly, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, St. Louis, Missouri, pertains to claims by Fowler and general business
  • 55. 1839 April 13: T. Farrelly, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri
  • 55. 1839 July 5: T. Farrelly, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, to Charles Notrebe, Saint Louis, Missouri, pertains to the balance of daughter's school term
  • 56. 1839 July 5: T. Farrelly, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, instructions on selling negroes
  • 57. 1839 July 7: T. Farrelly, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, in reference to property settlements
  • 58. 1839 August 18: Charles F. Notrebe, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, expecting payment from Hibbard of Napoleon, Arkansas
  • 59. 1839 September 30: C. K. Gardner, Washington, District of Columbia, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, a balance due
  • 60. 1839 November 6: Charles F. Notrebe, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, business deal with Lucas and partners, [William B.] Wait and C.F. Notrebe
  • 61. 1840 August 14: T. Farrelly, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, received [William B.] Wait's check, to inquire about Caldwell
  • 62. 1841 July 14: T. Farrelly, no address, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, sending the balance to Lucas
  • 63. 1842 May 14: Frederick Notrebe, New Orleans, Louisiana, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, pertains to balance due
  • 64. 1842 November 12: T. Farrelly, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, general business around Arkansas Post concerning Lucas
  • 65. 1843 May 30: Frederick Notrebe, Post of Arkansas, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, pertains to lands in Chicot County, Arkansas
  • 66. 1844 March 12: Hewes Scull, Jefferson County, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, pertaining to borrowing some money for the children to go to school
  • 67. 1844 September 28: Frederick Notrebe, Post of Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, pertains to land
  • 68. 1849 March 1: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, bank drafts for land warrants
  • 69. 1849 February 14: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, sending land certificates and warrants of Stephen Crain 46604, and William Jones 47181
  • 70. 1849 March 6: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 48726 of Charles L. Parrish
  • 71. 1849 March 15: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 145 of J.H. Johnson
  • 72. 1849 March 17: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 1286 of L.J. Beall
  • 73. 1849 March 20: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 7484 of Mrs. Eagle
  • 74. 1849 June 15: Solon Borland, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, people already mentioned in the claims who need to be paid
  • 75. 1849 September 6: Wiley Patterson, Rockport, Arkansas, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, pertaining to "Temperance Salin," who died in the war with Mexico
  • 76. 1849 October 5: Lorenzo Gibson, Rockport, Arkansas,to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, receipt on "Salin" land warrant
  • 77. 1849 November 6: P. Clayton, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, pertains to Albert Pike's pension
  • 78. 1849 December 19: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim of William H. Cherry 2277
  • 79. 1850 February 25: J. J. Crowley, Washington, District of Columbia, to Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, military land claims, Stephen Red, 38,332, and 33,665 for Job Broughton
  • 80. 1850 March 1: N. Butterfield, Washington, District of Columbia, to Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, military bounty land claim 33,665 for Job Broughton
  • 81. 1850 March 1: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, in reference to military bounty land certificate of S. Red and J. Broughton
  • 82. 1850 March 2: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 3144 of May D. Hunters, 1850 February 27
  • 83. 1851 February 4: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 14944 of Isaac Russell
  • 84. 1851 February 14: Solon Borland, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 72414 of Elizah Russell
  • 85. 1864 August 13: R.C. Reed, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, to Harris Flanagin, Washington, Arkansas, resignation of the officers of Company B, 1st Battalion Mounted Volunteers
  • 86. 1879 June 12: James Scull, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to James H. Lucas, Saint Louis, Missouri, payment to Eugene [?]
• Land deeds and leases
  
  • 87. 1815 May 4: Antoine Gamelin, New Madrid County, Missouri Territory, to Mary L. Ledue, Saint Louis, Missouri Territory, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 88. 1815 May 8: Francis Lesieur and wife, New Madrid County, Missouri Territory, to Mary L. Ledue, Saint Louis, Missouri Territory, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 89. 1816 October 28: Henry Cockerham, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Rufus Easton, Saint Louis, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted under the New Madrid Act
  • 90. 1819 February 6: Stephen R. Wiggins, Saint Louis, Missouri, to W.M. O'Hara, Saint Louis, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted under the New Madrid Act
  • 91. 1819 February 6: Nicholas Jarrot and wife, Cahokia, Illinois, to W.M. O'Hara, Saint Louis, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted by New Madrid Act
  • 92. 1819 February 24: Certificate of land pre-empted to Eloy Dejarbois under New Madrid Act to United States Land Surveyor for Illinois and Missouri Territory
  • 93. 1819 February 26: Certificate of land surveyed for John B. Langlois, under New Madrid Act
  • 94. 1819 March 5: William M. O'Hara and wife, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Stephen F. Austin, Washington, Missouri, deed to land
  • 95. 1819 June 19: Rufus Easton and wife, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Amos Wheeler, Saint Louis, Missouri, transcript of deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 96. 1819 November 30: Certificate of land surveyed for Francis Lesieur under New Madrid Act
  • 97. 1820 January 31: Certificate of land surveyed for Eloy Dejarbois under New Madrid Act, to United States Land Surveyor for Illinois and Missouri
  • 98. 1820 January 31: Certificate of land surveyed for Peter Porier under New Madrid Act
  • 99. 1820 February 9: Lewis Bartholomew, on Arkansas River, Arkansas Territory, to William Russell, Saint Louis County, Missouri Territory, deed for pre-emption rights
  • 100. 1820 March 9: William M. O'Hara and wife, Saint Louis, Missouri Territory, to James Bryan, St. Genevieve County, Missouri Territory, deed
  • 101. 1820 April 19: Certificate of land surveyed for Eloy Dejarbois under New Madrid Act
  • 102. 1820 April 30: Certificate of land surveyed for Francis Lesieur under New Madrid Act
  • 103. 1820 May 1: Certificate of land surveyed for Peter Porier under New Madrid Act
  • 104. 1820 May 17: Pryor Quarels and wife, St. Louis, Missouri, to William M. O'Hara, Saint Louis, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 105. 1820 August 20: William M. O'Hara and wife, Saint Louis, Missouri, to James Bryan and wife, Saint Louis, Missouri, deed
  • 106. 1820 August 20: James Bryan, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Henry Elliott, Saint Genevieve, Missouri, deed to lands pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 107. 1820 October 30: William M. O'Hara, Saint Louis County, Missouri, a statement and claim to Little Rock giving official surveys and designating the locations
  • 108. 1821 March 28: Henry Elliott, Arkopolis, Pulaski County, Arkansas, to Joseph Thornhill, Arkopolis, Pulaski County, Arkansas, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 109. 1821 April 24: Francis Imbeau, Cherokee Nation, to Lewis Rouse, Little Rock, Arkansas, title to Quapaw lands
  • 110. 1821 July 12: Pierre "Caddy" Caussatt, Pulaski County, Arkansas, to William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 111. 1821 August 13: William M. O'Hara, Little Rock, Arkansas, to James Debaun, Arkopolis, Arkansas, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 112. 1821 September 12: Nathaniel [Thilbrooke], Little Rock, Arkansas, to Thomas Collit, receipt for certain New Madrid claims
  • 113. 1821 October 15: Jacob Jones and his wife, Arkansas Territory, to Henry Elliott, Saint Genevieve, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 114. 1821 November 26: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Robert Crittenden and William Trimble, Arkansas Territory, deed to land located in Little Rock area
  • 115. 1822 March 10: James Bryan and wife, Jefferson County, Missouri, to Jacob Jones, Jefferson County, Missouri, deed to land pre-empted under New Madrid Act
  • 116. 1824 July 14: Martin Imbeau, Arkansas Territory, to Thomas W. Newton, Arkansas Territory, deed to land claimed about three quarters of a mile below Little Rock in the Quapaw purchase
  • 117. 1825 February 14: Justus Post, Arkansas Territory, Robert Simpson, Arkansas Territory, and Chester Ashley, Arkansas Territory, an agreement between and by the above for certificate #156
  • 118. 1825 March 10: James DeBaun, Arkansas Territory, to William Russell, Saint Louis County, Missouri, deed for improvements on certain real estate
  • 119. 1825 March 10: Francis Imbeau, Arkansas Territory, to Wright Daniel, Arkansas Territory, deed for improvements on certain real estate
  • 120. 1825 April 16: I. Brown, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, to Isaac Watkins, Arkansas Territory, lease of school house
  • 121. 1825 April 16: John Mobile, Arkansas Territory, to Isaac Watkins, Arkansas Territory, lease of real estate
  • 122. 1825 April 22: William Russell and Wright Daniel, to Holly Hardin and Jackson Saffold, Arkansas Territory, lease
  • 123. 1825 April 22: William Russell and Wright Daniel, Arkansas Territory, to H. Hardin and Jackson Saffold, lease
  • 124. 1825 April 30: Francis Imbeau, Arkansas Territory, to Wright Daniel, Arkansas Territory, deed for improvement of real estate
  • 125. 1826 February: William Russell, Saint Louis County, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, sketch and designated areas to be purchased
  • 126. 1826 February 25: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, giving Chester Ashley power of attorney to buy, sell, or lease in William Russell's name
  • 127. 1826 February 28: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, agreement for land purchases relating to Quapaw lands
  • 128. 1826 March 17: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Wright Daniel, Arkansas Territory, Benjamin Johnson's locations of deed titles for Cherokee pre-emption # 49
  • 129. 1826 March 20: William Russell, Saint Louis County, Missouri, to William Thurber, Arkansas Territory, lease
  • 130. 1826 April 19: William Russell, Batesville, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, concerns pre-emption claims
  • 131. 1827 February 8: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, power of attorney to collect rents, and pay taxes
  • 132. 1827 December 25: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to John Caruthers, South Bend, Arkansas Territory, lease of real estate near Little Rock
  • 133. 1828 January 10: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Robert Young, Arkansas Territory, lease of real estate near Little Rock
  • 134. 1828 June 6: Wright Daniel, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, to Thomas Dennis, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, lease
  • 135. 1830 May 20: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Robert A. Calloway, Arkansas Territory, lease
  • 136. 1830 November 29: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to Isaiah Palmer, Arkansas Territory, lease
  • 137. 1832 April 5: Robert A. Calloway, Arkansas Territory, to Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, deed
  • 138. 1833 April 4: Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas Territory, to William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, receipt for titles from John Pope for lands below Little Rock
  • 139. 1833 April 4: William Russell, Saint Louis, Missouri, to John Pope, Territory of Arkansas, agreement about claim
  • 140. 1834 April 11: Joseph Tappan, Newbury, [Massachusetts], to Edmund and Daniel H. Knight, Newburyport, [Massachusetts], lease
  • 141. 1838 September 2: Justice Post, Robert Simpson and Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas, agreement concerning land claims
  • 142. 1839 July 25: William M. O'Hara and wife, Saint Louis, Missouri, to James Bryan, Saint Genevieve, Missouri, transcript of quit claims
  • 143. 1845 October 25: William B. Borden, Sheriff, Pulaski County, Arkansas, to Joseph T. Donnell, [Maine], deed to land sold for taxes
  • 144. 1845 November 6: William B. Borden, Sheriff, Pulaski County, Arkansas, to Joseph T. Donnell, Maine, deed to land sold for taxes
  • 145. 1845 November 6: William B. Borden, Sheriff, Pulaski County, Arkansas, to Joseph T. Donnell, Maine, deed to land sold for taxes
  • 146. 1845 November 17: William B. Borden, Sheriff, Pulaski County, Arkansas, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, deed to land sold for taxes
  • 147. 1847 September 1: Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas, to George Donner, Little Rock, Arkansas, deed
  • 148. 1851 October 9: J.E. Heath, Department of Interior, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim #16830 of John Buster 2 items
  • 149. 1852 July 14: J.E. Heath, Department of Interior, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 29503 of John Henry 2 items
  • 150. 1856 April 30: J. Minot, Department of Interior, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, military bounty land claim 70793 of Joel Edwards 2 items
• Financial and legal papers
  
  • Financial papers
    
    • 151. 1849 January 31: [William McCalla], Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, for pay due Oliver H.P. Bilby, deceased
    • 152. 1849 March 19: [William McCalla], Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, for pay due Joseph Eagle
    • 153. 1851 February 3: P. Clayton, Washington, District of Columbia, to John E. Knight, Little Rock, Arkansas, for pay due Elijah Russell, deceased
  • Field notes
    
    • 154. 1823: Survey field notes; Township 6 and 7 North, Range 6, East
    • 155. 1824: Survey field notes; Township 6, 7, and 8 North, Range 8 East
  • Miscellaneous
    
    • 156. 1814 May 20-1821 July 10: List of land deeds in the Little Rock, Arkansas, area
    • 157. 1836 April: William Marcus, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Roswell Beebe, Little Rock, Arkansas, land sales in April and May
    • 158. 1844 February 21: Newsclipping and sketch of the "Seminary Lands" to be sold at auction, 1844 July 6
    • 159. Undated: Chester Ashley, Little Rock, Arkansas, list of land sales

Wednesday Wonderful Collection - Arkansas World War II defense plant employees collection,
MS. 396

In October 1941 the United States War Department announced that defense plants would be built across Arkansas. The Arkansas Ordnance Plant at Jacksonville built fuses, detonators, and other military ammunition. Maumelle Ordnance Works at Marche produced ammonium picrate, an explosive to be used in armor-piercing shells. Malvern (Jones Mill), produced aluminum. The Camden plant was built late in World War II as a rocket loading, assembling, and storage site.

This collection contains questionnaires, essays, training tests, the "AOP News" (newsletter of the Arkansas Ordnance Plant in Jacksonville, Arkansas), and certificates belonging to men and women of Arkansas who worked in Arkansas defense plants. Most of the materials represented men and women who worked at the Arkansas Ordnance Plant at Jacksonville, Arkansas. Others represent the Maumelle Ordnance Work located at Marche, Arkansas, Malvern (Jones Mills), Arkansas Remmel Dam Aluminum Plant, and the Camden, Arkansas, shell loading plant. 

• 1. Lanora Bryant Diederich, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville (Box 1)
• 2. Frank Fowlkes, Jacksonville, Arkansas, resident
• 3. Alma Lou Morland Gibbs, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 4. Vernelle Shumate Gray, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 5. Mary Evelyn Phelps Harris, Camden, Arkansas, Shell Loading Plant
• 6. Joe Bill Hocott, Maumelle, Arkansas, Ordnance Works at Marche
• 7. Jewell A. Burroughs Holland, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 8. Laura Herring Kennedy Jigouleff, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 9. Catherine and L.W. Lowry, Arkansas Ordnance Plant Jacksonville
• 10. Mary McKee, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 12. Mildred Rettig Northcutt, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 13. Opal Faye Nusko, Jones Mill, Arkansas, Aluminum Plant
• 14. Georgia Harral Peterson, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville (Box 2)
• 15. Lillie Willis Langley Post, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 16. Ethel Fisher Rayburn, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville
• 17. Merle Dorsett Seemel, Arkansas Ordance Plant, Jacksonville
• 18. Merle Dorsett Seemel, Arkansas Ordance Plant, Jacksonville
• 19. Thomas W. Swann, Arkansas Ordnance Plant, Jacksonville

May Acquisitions and Accessions

Books, Printed Ephemera, etc.

AHC

Books:

Centennial Booklet 1884-1984:  St. Edward’s German Catholic Church, Little Rock, Arkansas

Pulaski Academy Yearbook 1979

University of Arkansas 2009 Alumni Directory

How to Make Knives, by Richard W. Barney and Robert W. Loveless

Wayne Goodard’s $50 Knife Shop Revised

Wayne Goodard The Wonder of Knifemaking, 2^nd Edition

The Tiger 1952, Merrill High School, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots, by Brian Mitchell

Historic German Newspapers Online, by Ernest Thode

Korzenie Polskie: Polish Roots, by Rosemary A. Chorzempa

Three Hundred Years of Garrison Family History, by Gary Edward Garrison

Hot Springs:  Past and Present, by Ray Hanley

Periodicals:

Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin, Grand Prairie Historical Society, Volume 58, No. 1, April 2015

Madison County Musings, Volume 34, No. 1, Spring 2015

Carroll County Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, No. 1, March 2015

“Little America Broadcast,” Petit Jena Mountain, Arkansas, February 1, 1936, February 15 1936

SARA

Books:

 Arkansas Quilts:   Arkansas Warmth, Arkansas Quilters’ Guild, Inc., 1988. 

Periodicals:

Researchin’ Ouachita-Calhoun Counties AR.  Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2015.

NEARA

Books:

Family Ttrilogy by Thomas Milligan 2 sets

Accessions

AHC

Arkansas Highway Department Records, 2 cu. ft.

Arkansas State Land Surveyors Records, 6 cu. ft.

Camp Little America at Petit Jean Mountain, part of the National Youth Administration, 3 photographs

SARA

Graves Collection, 16 cu. ft.

Framed oil portrait of O. A. Graves.

Framed photo of Albert Graves, Sr.

Framed Nomination of Albert Graves as attorney and counsellor of the US Supreme Court, 1945.

Framed Nomination of John Robert Graves as attorney and counsellor of the US Supreme Court, 1985.

Commemorative plaque for O. A. Graves from the Hempstead County Bar Association, 1959.

Hawkins Associates Maps of the Fair Oaks Addition to Hope, Arkansas, 1973,

Wilson Engineering Map of the City of Hope, Arkansas, 1949 (cloth).

Wilson Engineering Assessment Map of Hempstead County, Arkansas, 1963.

General Highway Map of Hempstead County, Arkansas, 1958.

Weyerhauser Company Maps, Southwest Arkansas Region, 1978.

Mauldin Collection, 0.25 cu. ft.

Rinehart/Elledge Collection, 0.5 cu. ft.

Framed photos of an army unit.

Framed wide-angle photo of a U.S. Navy unit.

Beck Collection, 0 .25 cu. ft.

AHC Closed Tuesday, June 16, 2015

AHC Closed Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Arkansas History Commission research room will be closed to the public on today for the purposes of inventory and facilities maintenance.

The History Commission will resume normal hours of operation on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at 8:00 a.m.
The regional facilities at NEARA and SARA will not be affected by this closure.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your patience.

Wednesday's Wonderful Collection  - Joseph Boone Hunter, MS.0119

Joseph Boone Hunter was born on December 27, 1886, and died in September 1987. His career included teaching in public schools and colleges, the army chaplaincy with active foreign service, missionary work in the Far East and Middle East, United States Civil Service, and a score of interim pastorates. His contributions in Arkansas include service at Rohwer Relocation Camp where he was in charge of the school, hospital, and social welfare, as well as his church service. He was the first pastor of Pulaski Heights Christian Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1927-1940.

This collection contains Hunter's correspondence and writings. The writings include articles, poems, sermons, and books.

• I. Correspondence (Box 1)
  
  • A. General
  • B. 1934 trip
  • C. Mike Masaoka and Rohwer
  • D. Yoshida letters
  • E. “Dear Dr. Hunter,” a bound volume of letters from students, former students, faculty, administrative associates, and other friends
• II. Financial papers
• III. Writings
  
  • A. Poems
    
    • 1. Alone
    • 2. Amazing grace
    • 3. Autumn in Vermont
    • 4. Betty Lu
    • 5. Bliss
    • 6. Buddy goes a'fishin
    • 7. Christ would come again
    • 8. Christmas can never grow old
    • 9. Christmas and children
    • 10. Christmas night
    • 11. Communion
    • 12. Larry Connelley
    • 13. Conviction
    • 14. The erroneous quest
    • 15. Evening reflections
    • 16. The flame
    • 17. Futility
    • 18. Goodbye to Richard Clayborne
    • 19. Growing up
    • 20. Edward Lee Hunter
    • 21. Luther Taylor Hunter
    • 22. I am a square
    • 23. Integrity
    • 24. A last request
    • 25. Life's joy
    • 26. Little Rock
    • 27. Loxley Hall
    • 28. Just as I am
    • 29. Midnight reverie
    • 30. My Christmas wish
    • 31. My confident hope
    • 32. My task
    • 33. My young friend
    • 34. Our bondage
    • 35. Our wedding song
    • 36. Personal problems
    • 37. Elmer Pigg
    • 38. Put more Jesus into your life
    • 39. The quandery
    • 40. The real victor
    • 41. Reflections
    • 42. Response
    • 43. Responsibility
    • 44. Thanksgiving evening
    • 45. To Karen
    • 46. To our neighbor Bobby
    • 47. Traditions
    • 48. Useful retirement
    • 49. The vision
    • 50. The voyage
    • 51. Watergate
    • 52. Welcome
    • 53. The West
    • 54. Other assorted poems
  • B. Poems from which copies were made 1979 February 13
  • C. Articles, speeches, et cetera
    
    • 1. About the Hunter ancestry
    • 2. Baseball and house arrest in Tokyo
    • 3. A Christian world order
    • 4. The end of war?
    • 5. The evacuation of Japanese Americans
    • 6. Freedom to inquire
    • 7. The “go-for-broke” boys of World War II
    • 8. The great decisions
    • 9. Historic monuments
    • 10. Honorable mention
    • 11. Joseph Boone Hunter
    • 12. Japanese agricultural loss
    • 13. Life and work of Joseph B. Hunter
    • 14. Light in the darkness
    • 15. A minority in our midst
    • 16. One man's judgment
    • 17. Our world in miniature
    • 18. Personal reflections and associations at the time of my final decision to enter the ministry
    • 19. A place called Rohwer (2 different articles)
    • 20. Recollections and reflections which may be of interest to the next generation of the Hunter tradition, et cetera
    • 21. Reflections on experiences in the Far East
    • 22. Remembering the dead, Decoration Day address delivered at Forest Grove, 1943 May 6
    • 23. Rohwer relocation story
    • 24. Seeing through the darkness
    • 25. The significance of the monument located at the Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery
    • 26. The Sino-Japanese War: Its causes and its ultimate consequences
    • 27. The skeleton in our closet
    • 28. Speaking of operations
    • 29. This is a postscript
    • 30. A unique monument in Arkansas
  • D. Sermons
    
    • 1. The absolute standard
    • 2. The assurance of immortality
    • 3. The authority of Christ
    • 4. The beatitudes
    • 5. The beloved physician
    • 6. Can an old book teach us?
    • 7. The Christian movement and world order
    • 8. Christianity discovers its task
    • 9. The church’s great hour
    • 10. The church’s one foundation
    • 11. A commission for Christians
    • 12. Compassion is our business
    • 13. Continuing what the Lord Jesus began
    • 14. The fiftieth anniversary
    • 15. The forgiveness of sin
    • 16. The glory of the defeated
    • 17. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel
    • 18. The gospel of God
    • 19. The greatest commandment
    • 20. Guideposts for a great life
    • 21. I believe in Christ
    • 22. I believe in Christ Jesus
    • 23. I believe in God
    • 24. I believe in the Holy Spirit of God
    • 25. I believe in man
    • 26. I believe in man: What is man that thou art mindful of him?
    • 27. Jesus' final sermon
    • 28. Jesus the great gatherer
    • 29. Jesus' highest praise
    • 30. The judgment of God
    • 31. Lessons from history
    • 32. Life's guideposts
    • 33. Making life new
    • 34. The meaning of Easter
    • 35. Mercy is our business
    • 36. My gospel
    • 37. The new testament message for its day and our day
    • 38. No triumphal marches
    • 39. An ordinary charge
    • 40. Our debt to the apostle Paul
    • 41. Praying for the peace of the world
    • 42. Preaching in an unjust society
    • 43. Saving America
    • 44. The sermon on the mountain
    • 45. Shall I join the church
    • 46. Shall we belittle religion or glorify it?
    • 47. Softening the demands of Jesus
    • 48. This strange religion
    • 49. Understanding the Christian scriptures
    • 50. Understanding Jesus
    • 51. Wanted, a statesman and diplomat
    • 52. Wedding ceremony
    • 53. What is the Christian religion?
    • 54. What is the gospel?
    • 55. What is happening to our civilization?
    • 56. What shall we do with truth? Or the danger of listening
    • 57. What would ye do or granted one request
    • 58. Who paid for my Bible?
    • 59. Who shall roll away the stone?
  • E. Memorials
    
    • Jacob Caswell Mason
    • Colonel Robert Sanders
  • F. Diary
  • G. Other
    
    • 1. China's Living Goddess of Mercy
    • 2. Rohwer Relocation Center certificate of entry on the National Register of Historic Places
    • 3. China's Millions
    • 4. Book review: Joseph Boone Hunter - A parson's diary by Mims Thornburg Workman
    • 5. Questions asked Dr. Hunter
    • 6. Unidentified translation sheet
    • 7. Lists
• IV. Printed materials
  
  • A. Books, pamphlets, et cetera
    
    • 1. The argonaut, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1951 1951
    • 2. Facts about Japanese Americans
    • 3. 50 years of service, 1927-1977: Pulaski Heights Christian Church 1977
    • 4. Along the way by Joseph Boone Hunter (Fort Smith, Texas: Branch-Smith, Incorporated, 1972) 1972
    • 5. Christmas greetings and other poems by Joseph Boone Hunter
    • 6. Glimpses into the life of Christ by Joseph Boone Hunter (Fort Smith, Texas: Branch-Smith, Incorporated, 1975) 1975
    • 7. Japan: Cross roads of culture and commerce 1961, Tokyo 1961
    • 8. Pictorial Korea (Box 2)
    • 9. How I became a Christian (an invalid's testimony) by Teishin Yoshida
    • 10. [Girls Saint School], written in Japanese
  • B. Magazines, periodicals, et cetera
    
    • 1. The Japan architect: International edition of Shinkenchiku, 1979 May 1979
    • 2. Minister's bulletin, 1953 February 1953
    • 3. Tributes to Japanese American military service in World War II, Congressional Record, 1963 1963
  • C. Newspapers, clippings, et cetera
    
    • 1. The Pacific citizen, the national publication of the Japanese American Citizen League 1981-1983
      
      • a. 1981 August 28
      • b. 1983 February 11
    • 2. Clippings
    • 3. Rohwer clippings
  • D. Music
  • E. Other
    
    • 1. A memorial service: Our tribute of honor to Terou “Ted” Fujioka, First Methodist Church of Hollywood, 1945 November 11
    • 2. Wall hanging
• V. Visuals 1916-1983
  
  • A. Drawings, paintings, et cetera
  • B. Photographs
  • C. Albums
  • D. Printed materials
• VI. Diplomas, et cetera (Box 3)
  
  • A. Joseph Boone Hunter
    
    • 1. Bachelor of Arts, Transylvania University, 1916 1916
    • 2. Master of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1920 1920
    • 3. Theology, Yale, 1927 1927
    • 4. Doctor of Divinity, Butler University, 1956 1956
    • 5. Varsity Club membership, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1956 1956
  • B. Mary Cleary
    
    • 1. Bachelor of Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1916 1916
    • 2. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, appointment as a missionary, 1921 1921

Professional Development Workshops for Educators

The Arkansas History Commission will be conducting a series of professional development workshops for educators throughout June and July.  The workshops will focus on lesson plans developed by the AHC and will also feature information about our website, digital collections, and grants available to educators.

The AHC’s current schedule of workshops will be:
June 8, Arch Ford Co-op, Plumerville 8-12
June 16, Southeast Arkansas Educational Co-op, Monticello, 1-5
June 18, Northwestern Educational Co-op, Farmington, 8:30-3
June 22, Ozarks Unlimited Resource Co-op, Valley Springs, 9-3
June 25, Dawson Educational Co-op, Arkadelphia, 8:30-3
July 6, Northeast Arkansas Educational Co-op, Walnut Ridge, 8:30-3
July 13, South Central Education Co-op, Camden, 8:30-3
July 20, Southwest Educational Co-op, Hope, 8:30-3
July 24, Great Rivers Educational Co-op, Helena, 8:30-3
July 27, Arkansas River Educational Service Co-op, Pine Bluff, 8:30-3

Lesson plans include:
‘The Advance Guard of Civilization’: The Impact of Railroad Development on the History and Economy of Arkansas and the Nation.

Changing Rights in a Time of Turmoil:  A Comparison of the Changing Rights and Racial Tension at the Beginning of Reconstruction with Other Civil Rights Struggles

Symbols of Statehood: A lesson plan on the 1912 Arkansas State flag competition

“Put Into Her Hand this Weapon… ‘tis the Ballot Box”: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Arkansas and the Life of the Nation

For more information, please contact us at 501-682-6900 or email us at history.commission@arkansas.gov.

Symposium: Researching Modern Military Records

The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History and the Arkansas History Commission will be hosting a half-day symposium on Saturday, August 1, from 10 a.m. until noon at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History at 503 E. 9th St. in Little Rock. 

The theme of the symposium, “Researching Modern Military Records” will feature presentations by History Commission staff, April Goff and Mary Dunn.  

Topics will include, “Tracking My Father’s Footsteps: Tracing Service in Vietnam with Alternate Resources,” and “Citizen Soldiers: Researching Arkansas National Guard Records.”

The event is free. Coffee and refreshments will be provided. Teachers can earn up to two professional development hours through attendance. Registration is limited.  Deadline for registration will be July 29, so be sure to register soon. Check-in for registration will begin at 9:30 a.m.

The Arkansas History Commission, located in Little Rock, is the official state archives of Arkansas and maintains the largest collection of historical materials on Arkansas in the world.  The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History is located in the historic Arsenal Building in downtown Little Rock’s MacArthur Park.  The museum preserves the contributions of Arkansas men and women who served in the armed forces from the state’s territorial period to the present.  

For more information about the symposium or to register, please contact us at 501-376-4602 or email us at rmmiller@littlerock.org.