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[Identification of item], in the Francis DuBose Richardson Memoirs, #3010, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.
• Louisiana--Biography.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Mississippi--Biography.
• Plantation owners--Biography.
• Richardson family.
• Richardson, Arthur.
• Richardson, Francis DuBose, 1812-1858.
• Richardson, Francis, 1760-1817.
• Richardson, John Gaulden, 1785-1856.
• South Carolina--Biography.
• Sugar growing--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
• United States--History--War of 1812--Biography.

• See also Bayside Plantation records (#53); Frank Liddell Richardson papers (#631); Caffery family papers (#2227), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Planter and legislator of Louisiana.

MICROFILM OF TYPESCRIPT. History of three generations of his family, circa 1680-1856, set down by Richardson from personal recollections and family tradition, chiefly concerning Arthur Richardson, planter and Revolutionary War soldier of South Carolina; his son Francis (1760-1817), who emigrated to Wilkinson County, Miss., in 1810 and fought in the War of 1812; and Francis's son John Gaulden Richardson (1785-1856), father of Francis DuBose, who began sugar planting in Louisiana in the 1820s.