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Collection Overview
| Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 633 items) |
| Abstract | Prominent family members included William Bellinger Bulloch (1777-1852) of Georgia, mayor of Savannah, U.S. District Attorney, solicitor general of the state, collector of customs, state legislator, U.S. senator in 1813 (appointed), and founder and president of the State Bank of Georgia, 1816-1843; his daughter, Laura, who married Joseph Lorenzo Locke (d. 1864), an officer in the United States Army from 1828 to 1836 and a major in the Confederate Army and Chief Commissary of the state of Georgia; and Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch (b. 1852), a physician and genealogist, of Georgia and Washington, D.C. About half of the collection consists of nineteenth-century family and personal correspondence of members of the Bulloch family of Georgia with relatives and friends in Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and at Washington, D.C., Newport, R.I., Saratoga, N.Y., and New York City, and of the Lockes while they were in Europe in the 1850s. Beginning in 1888 the papers are chiefly the genealogical correspondence and notes of Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch. |
| Creator | Bulloch family. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
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Scope and Content
About half of the collection consists of nineteenth-century family and personal correspondence of members of the Bulloch family of Georgia with relatives and friends in Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and at Washington, D.C., Newport, R.I., Saratoga, N.Y., and New York City, and of the Lockes while they were in Europe in the 1850s. Beginning in 1888 the papers are chiefly the genealogical correspondence and notes of Dr. J. G. B. Bulloch.
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Series 1. Correspondence and Related Material, 1784-1888.
Arrangement: chronological.
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Series 2. Genealogy and Related Material, 1888-1929.
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Series 3. Volumes, 18th century-1861.
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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