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Marmaduke Hamilton and Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd papers
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Marmaduke Hamilton Floyd was born June 14, 1888. He attended North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega, Ga., 1906-1908. He was associated with Floyd and Co., cotton merchants and cotton pickery, owned by his father, T.B. Floyd, Sr., 1908-1931. After the death of his father, he operated a cotton pickery of his own until 1939. He was Superintendent of the Burnside Development Co. (real estate development), 1940-1942, and was a contractor and land surveyor on his own, 1940 until his death on December 16,1949. During World War I he served in a stevedoring unit of the U.S. Army in France and in World War II he was connected with the Office of Price Administration in Washington. He was vitally interested in coastal Georgia History and was one of the organizers of the Savannah Historical Association. Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd was born on March 26, 1887; she was educated in public and private school. While living in Washington, D.C. with her first husband, Neyle Colquitt, she studied miniature painting at the Cocoran School of Art and was a member of several patriotic, professional, and social organizations. After Colquitt's death she studied library science at Georgetown University and soon thereafter returned to Savannah as a library assistant with the Savannah Public Library. Her special charge was the library branch housed in Hodgson Hall, headquarters of the Georgia Historical Society. This position enabled her to pursue her interests in Georgia history which resulted in many published and unpublished studies in various phases of Georgia and Savannah history. She retired from this position in April 1943 and, with her husband, operated a maritime museum in the Pirates' House in Savannah. After Mr. Floyd's death, she lived with her son Picot in Athens, Ga. and Alexandria, Va. In 1958 she spent several months in Minorca and in Florida researching the background of the Minorcans who settled there. She spent the last years of her life in Savannah, passing away May 18, 1966.
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This collection contains the papers of Marmaduke Hamilton Floyd and his wife, Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd, and includes their writings, notes, and data for projected writings as well as family and personal papers of members of the Floyd and Boisfeuillet families. The collection also consists of records of the Floyd cotton business in Savannah, Georgia, legal papers, genealogies, and photographs.
Dolores B. Floyd's papers consist of completed manuscripts, manuscript drafts, data, notes, and maps. The largest portions of these pertain to Catholics in early Georgia, the history of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia, early Spanish and French explorers (especially Jean Ribaut), Georgia Colonial history, Mary Musgrove and Thomas Bosomworth, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (including an inventory), and Minorcan settlers in Florida. In connection with Dolores's studies of colonial Georgia, the collection includes her manuscript copies and extracts of materials in the Phillips Collection at the University of Georgia.
Dolores's papers also include Brittany parish records, which is the only complete set in the United States of America, and personal papers consisting of correspondence (1913-1959), biographical information, photographs, legal papers, and writings. Some of the correspondence is in chronological order. The remainder is arranged either by name of individual or the subject or organization with which she was associated, just as she arranged it. There is a box of correspondence between Marmaduke and Dolores as well as letters to them and a box of their bibles and prayer books.
In connection with Dolores's papers, there are papers regarding the family of her first husband, William Neyle Colquitt, and his mother's family, Habersham.
Marmaduke H. Floyd's personal papers consist of correspondence (1893-1949), his papers pertaining to the revival of the culture of Sea Island cotton in the 1930s and tabby ruins in Georgia, his surveys and field notes, and the manuscript with supporting data for his book Certain Tabby Ruins of the Georgia Coast (published in Georgia's Disputer Ruins, ed. by E.M. Coulter, 1937).
The collection contains a box of correspondence and other papers of Dolores and Marmaduke's son, Picot B. Floyd. There is also correspondence and other papers (1880s-1930) of Marmaduke's father, Thomas Bourke Floyd, Sr., miscellaneous papers of other members of his immediate family, correspondence and other papers of Floyd 8 Co. (1910-1039), legal papers of Floyd 8 Co. (1833-1932), and correspondence and miscellaneous papers of members of earlier generations of the Floyd family.
Papers of the "earlier generations" mentioned above are personal papers or papers about: Charles Floyd, one deed (1817); Charles Rinaldo Floyd, journal (1821), miscellaneous papers (1838-1840), drawings and papers; John Buchanan Floyd, papers (1862); John Fenden Floyd, one letter (1897); Mary Rose (Floyd) Graves, journal (1879) and writings, either manuscript or printed; Richard S. Floyd, drawings and papers; Dr. Aime Delarocheaulion, letters and miscellaneous papers (1842-1846), John F. Hamilton, diary and legal paper (1850-1852); and Marmaduke Hamilton, correspondence and miscellaneous papers (1853-1896). There are also a legal paper and clipping of Charles Henry Bourke Floyd I and II (1899 and 1942), letters of Samuel A. Floyd (1895, 1901), minutes and other papers of the Camden Hunt Club (1832-1836), and a printed brochure called "The National Sportsman's Club, Camden Co., Ga." (undated).
The books, pamphlets, and maps that are not family related, as well as coins, old paper currency, clay pipes, and a Chatham Artillery silk badge (1886) have been added to corresponding collections in the Georgia Historical Society library. The following artifacts have been placed with the artifacts collection: Jean Pierre Arnaud's leather wallet, two small silk Confederate flags made by Eleanor Margaret Snyder (Dolores's grandmother), a book mark which had belonged to Mary Elliott Habersham, and a scrap of fabric from the NC-4 given to Marmaduke by Telamon Cuyler.
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This collection is divided into three main subject headings: Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd and Marmaduke Hamilton Floyd personal and family papers, genealogies, and writings. While the original order of the papers as devised by Dolores has likely been destroyed, the order of the papers as arranged by Picot B. Floyd has been maintained. Within the boxes, the personal correspondence and legal papers are in chronological order and special correspondence is arranged by subject. Following this are bibles, prayer books and personal and estate papers, and business correspondence (arranged chronologically and by business), such as correspondence regarding OPA, and Sea Island cotton. Next are Marmaduke's papers including notes and manuscripts regarding his Tabby Ruins (boxes 12-14) followed by his field and survey books. Papers by and regarding various members of the Floyd family (Picot and Mary (Keating) Floyd, T.B. Floyd) and those of Floyd and Co. are next.
The genealogies and notes about the Floyd family and related lines are in boxes 20-24. Materials regarding the Boisfeuillet and Colquitt families and related lines are in boxes 25-29.
The Brittany parish records follow the genealogies in boxes 30-34. The miscellaneous writings, both published and unpublished, and notes and data by Dolores arranged by subject with Catholics of Early Georgia in boxes 35-38, a history of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in box 39, and miscellaneous writings in boxes 40-43, which are arranged by subject but not in alphabetical order. Following this are manuscripts and notes regarding the first year of the colony of Georgia, the Yamacraws, the Irene Mound, papers and photographs related to the Telfair family and the Academy, writings and research regarding explorations and explorers, including Jean Ribaut, and the Mary Musgrove/Thomas Bosomworth papers in boxes 44-50. Notes and papers from William Stephens' Journal and papers of the South Carolina Journals are in boxes 51-54.
Boxes 55-61 contain Dolores's papers regarding the Minorcan settlers of Florida and Georgia. Box 62 contains oversize miscellaneous papers. Two oversize folders contain maps of Minorca and a print.
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Artifacts were separated and cataloged with the Georgia Historical Society Artifacts Collection.
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Microfilm reader required for access to some correspondence.
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Copyright has not been assigned to the Georgia Historical Society. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Division of Library and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Georgia Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
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GHS 1308, Marmaduke Hamilton and Dolores Boisfeuillet Floyd papers, 1562-1970. Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
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Location & Availability of Originals
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Original documents, 'Relacion e information de lo franceses que han ido a' poblar en la costa de la Florida. Ano 1564' and 'Of the Acts of the Spanish and French in Florida; and the Soyle and Cities,' in the General Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain.
Original letters and journals by William Stephens in the Phillips Collection at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Original manuscript, 'Information About Padre Pedro Camps, Chaplain of the Minorcans in Florida' in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division-East Florida Collection: Testamentary Proceedings.
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