Box 1

Includes military orders and other papers regarding troops under the command of General John Echols (1864-1865, undated); a receipt for the sale of five enslaved Africans to Peregrine Hays (1865 February 10); and a laminated sheet of notes, accounts, and receipts in Confederate currency (1864, undated).

Includes papers related to the Hays family, including correspondence, a court order, a receipt, and a newspaper clipping.

Includes correspondence of the Hays family, taken from the papers of Peregrine Hays. members of the family represented as correspondents are Peregrine Hays, Samuel A. Hays, George Warren Hays, William L. Hays, Annie Hays, and Anna L. Sexton.

Includes miscellaneous papers of the Hays family, taken from the papers of Peregrine Hays, including business and financial papers and incidental items.

Includes correspondence of the Hays family, mainly among members of the Hays family and their friends.

Includes correspondence of the Hays family, mainly among members of the hays family and their friends (1886-1902), and a newspaper clipping regarding the history of Gilmer County (1963).

Includes business and legal papers of the Hays family, icnluding notes, bills, receipts, accounts, deeds, court orders, and other material.

Includes two personal account books, dated 1861-1863 and 1864-1865 respectively, kept by Peregrine Hays, which record purchases paid for with Confederate currency. Purchases recorded include meals, tolls, groceries and dry goods, and land sales, among others.