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NATHAN STRONG FAMILY PAPERS ADDENDUM

Papers, ca. 1847-1892
Manuscript Collection MC 1221

The collection is essentially a continuation of Nathan Strong Family Papers (MC 1210). Materials in this collection pertain primarily to Henry Strong (1825-1897), who operated a general store and boat landing at Montroy on the Ouachita River and was a Justice of the Peace for Manchester Township (near Arkadelphia), Clark County, Arkansas.

The collection includes personal and business correspondence; invoices, receipts, loose pages from account books detailing sales from Henry Strong's store, and promissory notes; court orders, witness testimonials, depositions, sworn affidavits, arrest warrants, bail and hire bonds; freedmen contracts; and other miscellaneous papers. In this collection there are also documents created by other Justices of the Peace in Clark County, Arkansas, most of them by Jessee R. Harris. The legal papers contain a memorandum of an agreement dissolution between Henry Strong and his business partner, land sale transactions, and the exemption from service in the Confederate Army.

The two publications, The Patrons' Parliamentary Guide, Washington, Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1874 and Constitution & By-Laws of the County & Farmers' Alliance of Arkansas (undated), were removed from the collection and added to the Arkansas Collection.

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, April 1996. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Contents of Collection (1 container)

Box 1

1. Personal correspondence, Henry and Watson Strong, 1856, 1861.
2. Official correspondence, 1854, 1861, 1867, 1881, 1888, 1892.
3. Montroy store sales, 1853-1855.
4. Miscellaneous invoices, promissory notes, and receipts (Henry Strong), 1847, 1850-1858, 1860-1861, 1867, 1874, 1876, n.d.
5. Other miscellaneous bills, promissory notes, and receipts, ca. 1850s-1880s.
6. Court documents (pertaining to the Justices of the Peace rulings): Henry Strong, 1855-1857, 1860, 1875-1876, 1879-1881, 1891-1892, n.d.
7. Court documents (pertaining to the Justices of the Peace rulings): Jessee Harris, 1876-1882, n.d.
8. Court documents (pertaining to the Justices of the Peace rulings): Other Justices of the Peace, 1873, 1876-1879, 1881, 1885, 1887, n.d.
9. Freedmen contracts, 1867.
10. Legal papers, 1852-1863.