Bush Brothers and Company Records

Collection — Box: Short Collection 4

Identifier: 0067

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Consists of financial records concerning cotton sales and shipments and other transactions primarily between W. A. Scott, a commission merchant from Mobile, Alabama, and Bush Brothers and Company of Pickensville, Pickens County, Alabama. Includes receipts (1843-1845) for cotton shipped on the Tombigbee River from Pickensville to Mobile; sheets from a daybook ledger (1840) of merchandise sold.

Dates

1840 - 1845

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Bush Brothers and Company are believed to have been operated by John W. Bush (1817-?) and Albert P. Bush (1820-?) of Pickensville, Alabama from the late 1830s to just prior to the American Civil War. Albert and John arrived in Pickens County from Georgia about 1835, where they began a mercantile business which remained in business until after the war. Albert moved to Mobile, Alabama following the war. John is not listed in the National Census in Alabama after 1860.

Extent

31 Items (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Processing Information

Processed by LH October 5, 1965. HTML Finding Aid listed by Dieter C. Ullrich July 2003. Added to ArchivesSpace by Cara Eiland October 10, 2019.

Formerly titled Tombigbee River Shipments.