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WE WILL SIT DOWN AND MOURN

The Diary and Notes
of
NIMROD PORTER
Maury County, Tennessee

Volume I
Manuscript Volume 1
1836- 1864

1836-1843, Copies of certificates, etc. to N.Porter
as Sheriff and election officer of Maury
County. Receipts, pp. 1- 12

Miscellaneous notes, weather notes,
recipes, etc. pp.13- 22

1861-1864, Personal and farm diary, miscellaneous
notes, reports of the War. pp.22-207

Copied from original manuscript volume given
for permanent preservation by
Frances Moore Stephenson
Columbia, Tennessee

to the

SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.
1947