Description: SENT TO George Jones Kollock (1810-1894) was born 20 April 1810 in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Dr. Lemuel and Maria Campbell Kollock. He attended schools in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Yale University although he had no known degrees. He married Priscilla Augusta Johnston (d. 1836) in 1836 and had one child, Augusta Johnston. In 1840 he married Susan Marion Johnston and had seven children: George Jones, John Fenwick, William Waring, Susan Marion, Mary Fenwick, Annie Houstoun, and Louisa Belle. George Kollock practiced law in Savannah from 1832 to 1836. After the death of his first wife, Priscilla, he moved to Retreat Plantation, located near Savannah on the Little Ogeechee River at Coffee Bluff. Retreat was a 309-acre tract which his infant daughter, Augusta, had inherited from her aunt, Priscilla Houstoun. Kollock purchased thirteen enslaved people and hired six, and also hired an overseer to commence planting Sea Island cotton at this site. The following year (1838), Kollock came into possession of Rose Dhu (Rosedew), an adjoining 550-acre tract which, like Retreat, was land originally granted to Priscilla Houstoun's grandfather Sir Patrick Houstoun. In 1848 Kollock sold the Coffee Bluff and Rose Dhu tracts. He then purchased 800 acres on the south end of Ossabaw Island and moved his enslaved people to this new site, where they again cultivated Sea Island cotton. Kollock estimated the value of his cotton crop for the year 1850 at six thousand dollars. At this point Kollock enslaved 72 people. By 1860 Kollock was an absentee coastal Georgia plantation owner who visited Ossabaw Island at regular intervals; however, most of his time was spent at his permanent home, Woodlands, near Clarkesville, Habersham County, Georgia, where his family resided. He made regular trips to Savannah and his plantation to appraise the value of his crops and the condition of the enslaved people and to check over the journals kept by his overseers. The staple crops produced on Kollock's plantation were cotton and corn. Rice, sugar cane, peas, potatoes, and oranges were grown as subsistence crops for the enslaved; also cattle and hogs were raised for this purpose. A portion of these foods was sent to the Kollock family for home use in Habersham County. ---------------------------------------------------------------- SENT BY MISS C.A. HANSELL / The Hansell family lived in Roswell, Georgia and resided in Mimosa Hall. GeneralAndrew Jackson Hansell (1818-1881) was president of the Roswell ManufacturingCompany from 1867 to 1874. He purchased the former home of the Dunwody family in1868. Sons of General Hansell lived in Mimosa Hall until 1899.The home was occupied by various owners until Granger Hansell (1901-1968), greatgrandson of General Andrew Jackson Hansell, purchased the property in 1947. Grangerwas a senior partner at the law firm Hansell, Post, Brandon & Dorsey in Atlanta.He and his wife Sarah Belle “Sally” Hansell (1901-1960) were prominent in Atlantasociety during this period. Sally was a civic leader in Atlanta and Roswell and closefriends with authors, Medora Perkerson and Monroe F. Cockrell. Hansell family papers MS 962Charles Edward Brodnax “Ned” Hansell (1929-2012) inherited the home in 1968. Hepracticed law with the Atlanta law firm co-founded by his father, Hansell and Post. Heand his wife, Sylvia Hydes Hansell (1927-2009), resided in the home with their twodaughters, Sally Hydes Hansell (1955- ) and Dorothy Hydes “Dottie” Hansell DeRosa(1958-2007). Sylvia Hansell was one of the founder of the North Fulton ChildDevelopment Association. The Hansells also owned Holly Hill.Sally inherited the home upon the death of her father in 2012. She sold Mimosa Hall andits gardens to the City of Roswell in 2017 for $2.95 million. --- ------ SEE PHOTOS !!! NO RESERVE, SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA, OR $4.00 FOREIGN, I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY. O RE
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