Armistead Burt Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0113
Copies: Francis Burt to his son, Armistead Burt, August 5/6, 1831 (photographs and negatives); J.C. Calhoun to Armistead Burt, August 5, 1837 (2 pages); Thomas G. Clemson to Armistead Burt, May 3, 1873 (2 pages); and Clemson to Burt, Jan, 31, 1874 (3 pages); also $1,000 Confederate bond, #4347, 6% (copy). The Francis Burt letter contains information about his family and their service in the Revolutionary War.
Armistead Burt, son of Francis Burt, of Pendleton District, South Carolina moved to Abbeville, South Carolina and became U.S. Congressman 1843-1853. He married Martha Calhoun, niece of John C. Calhoun.
3 item(s)
English
Mr. Burt died at the home of Col. J.T. Robertson, Abbeville, 1883. His son, J.T. Robertson passed the Burt items to A.M. Robertson.
Allen M. Robertson, attending a Clemson Alumni reunion on June 9, 1961, gave these items to the library. Other items were added August 26, 1961
Originals are in place in the Calhoun and Clemson letters, Clemson University Libraries, Clemson, SC 29631, USA, 803-656-3031.
Formerly 61-1.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository