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2.7: Administrative / Biographical History:
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This material was donated to Special Collections Reese Library by the creator’s son Mr. Thomas H. Robertson in 2009. Mr. Heard Robertson (October 29, 1922-September 27, 1990) was born and raised in Augusta, and established a law practice from which he retired in later life. He was on the boards of the Georgia Historical Society, the Richmond County Historical Society and the Augusta-Richmond Museum and served as a Trustee of the Academy of Richmond County.
A published author, his best known works are Augusta and the American Revolution: Events in the Georgia Back Country written with Edward J. Cashin and as editorial supervisor with A. Ray Rowland of Journal of An Expedition against the Rebels of Georgia in North America Under the Orders of Archibald Campbell Esquire, Lieut. Colol. Of His Majesty’s regiment 1778 edited by Colin Campbell.
Inventory prepared by Temilola Sobomehin.
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Inventory:
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Inventory
Box 1
- Folder 1 – William Manson
- Folder 2 – Orkney Islands Area Archives
- Folder 3 – Photocopies of Land Grants and Legal Documents ( D8/1/4, D2/31/23, D2/9/4, D2/9/10, D2/9/2, D2/8/6
- Folder 4 – Photocopies of Land Grants and Legal Documents cont. ( D2/44/18, D2/9/15, D2/52/2, D2/60, D2/18/8, D2/18/12, D2/9/3, D2/34/15)
- Folder 5 – Loyalist claims – Period of the Exodus
- Folder 6 – Claims of Georgia Indian traders A0/13-36-A
- Folder 7 – The particular case of the Georgia Loyalists, Anonymous, London, 1783
Box 2
- Folder 8 – Audit Office Records – Series 13 – Claims Letters B-J
- Folder 9 – Audit Office Records – Series 13 – Claims Letters K-Y, Special
- Folder 10 – Claims, Chapter I, Those who fled to avoid consequences
- Folder 11 – Proceedings of the Commissioners of American Claims – AO 13-Vol 109
- Folder 12 – Scottish Loyalists in Georgia
- Folder 13 – Miscellaneous
Box 3
- Folder 14 – Caudler, Allen D (Ed.), Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia (3 vols, 1908)
- Folder 15 – Loyalist Claims – Back Country
- Folder 16 – Moses Kirkland
- Folder 17 – Newspaper Accounts
- Folder 18 – British Headquarter Papers (Carleton)
- Folder 19 – Loyalists Claims, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
- Folder 20 – Topic Index to GA Loyalist Claims
Box 4
- Folder 21 – Chapter I – Augusta and the Indian Trade (complete)
- Folder 22 – Chapter II – The Back Country (complete)
- Folder 23 – Chapter III – Royalists All
- Folder 24 – Chapter IV – Revolution Comes to Georgia
- Folder 25 – Chapter V – The Light that Failed
- Folder 26 – Chapter VI – Border Welfare
- Folder 27 – Chapter VI – Border Welfare (Correspondence and Notes)
- Folder 28 – Chapter VII – The Inquisition
- Folder 29 – Bibliography and References
- Folder 30 – Bibliography – Back Country Loyalists
Box 5
- Folder 31 – Georgia Loyalists and related Subjects – File 65-4640
- Folder 32 – Colonel William M. Perryman – correspondence
- Folder 33 – Correspondence with Arthur Gross
- Folder 34 – Dr. Thomas J. Wray
- Folder 35 – Bevan Papers
- Folder 36 – Loyalist Refugees – 1782
- Folder 37 – Burke County Loyalists and Local Welfare in 1779
- Folder 38 – Revolutionary War Pension Claims – (Rebel)
Box 6
- Folder 39 – Martha C. Searcy
- Folder 40 – Florida Rangers – Initial Organization 1776 – WLCL
- Folder 41 – Augustine Provost to Archibald Campbell – 1779 – The Pierpont Morgan Library
- Folder 42 – Uniforms of the American, British, French, and German Armies in the War of the American Revolution 1775-1783
- Folder 43 – Heard Robertson’s Loyalists Research and Files (Tom Robertson 2008)
- Miscellaneous Map of Augusta
- Miscellaneous Map of Georgia and South Carolina
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