Briscoe Family Collection

Archive

-

Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Briscoe Family Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC139

Scope and Content

Correspondence, business and legal documents, financial records, photographs, poems, sketches, and locks of hair of the Briscoe family from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. (This collection needs additional processing; however, the box contents below provide some information on the subjects and nature of the collection.) Box 1: Business and legal documents of Eva G. Briscoe, Frederick A. Briscoe, Sarah Darke Briscoe, Thomas Briscoe, William D. Briscoe, and Nettie Waugh. (Includes ledger partially used to record information related to Frederick A. Briscoe's tenure as a quartermaster for the Confederate Army in this area.) Box 2: Correspondence and other documents of Daisy Briscoe, Eva G. Briscoe, Frederick A. Briscoe, Louise Briscoe, Sarah Darke Briscoe, Thomas Briscoe, William D. Briscoe, and William Manning; Briscoe genealogical papers; personal papers and other items of various Briscoe family members; tax receipts of Henry R. Briscoe, Eva G. Briscoe, Sarah Darke Briscoe, William D. Briscoe, John Briscoe. Box 3: Business and legal documents of Henry R. Briscoe and miscellaneous; correspondence of Henry R. Briscoe, history of Piedmont To be completed Box 4: Box 5: Box 6 Note contracts for hiring enslaved people Note also seven oversize documents in SR2/FF2/D4/F6. Note inventory See Briscoe genealogical records in JCM research files.

Acquisition

Accession

325

Source or Donor

Miller, Frances and Paul

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Archive Size/Extent

Six boxes of materials and one folder of oversize items in SR2/FF2/D4/F6.