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CARROLL (DANIEL R., AND FAMILY) PAPERS	Mss.	1514, 2296
1864-1948	LSU	Libraries	Special	Collections
BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE
Daniel R. Carroll, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, was the owner of Ackbar Plantation, a sugar plantation in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He and his wife, Louise Bendy, lived in New Orleans and had seven daughters and three sons. During the antebellum period, Carroll worked as an agent for the “Princess" and "Natchez" lines of river packets in partnership with Captain Truman Holmes of the firm of Carroll, Holmes and Company. Later, he worked as a New Orleans cotton broker.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Correspondence includes personal letters of Carroll family members, letters (1877) from J. R. Carroll (probably John Ryan Carroll, a brother or a cousin of Daniel Carroll) concerning the management of Ackbar Plantation, and letters (1877-1880) from David Wallace, concerning accounts with Wallace and Company, importers and wholesale dealers in dry goods. Details of plantation management discussed in letters include sugarcane growing, rice planting, the construction of a sugar mill, African American laborers, the purchase of provisions, and the sale of neighboring properties. Financial papers include items (1894) concerning the estates of Daniel R. Carroll and his wife, Louise Bendy, with itemized inventories of their property. Legal items include an oath of allegiance (1864) taken by Daniel R. Carroll and a presidential pardon signed by Andrew Johnson (1865). The collection also contains genealogical notes on the Carroll and Parker families.
A manuscript volume (1874-1908, 1940) contains scrapbook materials including newspaper clippings, printed illustrations and obituaries, and some manuscript entries concerning orders for paper.
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