Box 1

Scope and Contents: Most of the folder contains documents related to deeds of sale and mortgages of property in Wilkinson County, Mississippi Territory and later the state of Mississippi, with a few documents related to activity in Hampden County, Massachusetts. The documents related to the properties in Wilkinson County, Mississippi include powers of attorney, deeds, memoranda, and mortgages predominately between Israel Trask and his brother James Trask. Some of the documents list the names of the plantations...

Scope and Contents: This is a volume with the label "Planter's Bank with I E Trask." The languages represented include mostly English with some French. The volume is more than just an account with a bank and includes accounts of Abner Lawson Duncan with Israel E. Trask, 1812-1813; memorandum of money paid out, Natchez, 1818; memorandum of Trask's property at the time of his setting out for New Orleans and Natchez, Springfield, 1821 (amongst other things); plantation, enslaved persons, and stock in Wilkinson...

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This folder contains account current of I.E. Trask with S. Pynchon, 1815; statement of account by S. Postlethwait, I.E. Trask with Lydia Carter; James L. Trask in acc. with I.E. Trask dated April 28, 1818; account of Col. I.E. Trask to Simon Sanborn for labor and supplies paid in full 1822.

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Bills and receipts kept by Israel Trask for a variety of things including household goods, furniture, horses, and books. The bulk of the bills and receipts were from merchants in New York and Boston and date from near the time, 1821, when the Trask family purchased a home from James Byer, Jr. in Sprinfield, Mass.

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Israel Trask's bill and checks.

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This small account book contains entries on two pages with debits and credits for Israel E. Trask, dated March 22 and 26, 1819.

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This folder contains two accounts for proceeds of cotton sold in Natchez and New Orleans by Israel E. Trask, 1819.

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This folder contains bills and receipts for stock owned by Israel E. Trask in the Springfield Fire Insurance Company, Bank of Commerce, Pontoosuc Turnpike Corporation, and a cotton factory, 1823-1830.

Scope and Contents: This folder contains two lists of enslaved persons. The first, a memorandum of 198 enslaved persons at La Grange and River plantations, no date – 179 enslaved persons recorded by name, possibly in family groups, at La Grange plantation, and 19 enslaved persons recorded by name at River plantation. The second document is a list of 173 enslaved persons probably at La Grange and River plantations, dated 1829 – 154 enslaved persons recorded by name, possibly in family groups, probably at La...

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An account [current?] of Brimfield Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Co. with Lyon Myles & Co., 1816, and a deed transferring Trask's shares in the company to Enoch Wishall, 1818.

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Minutes of a meeting to petition for a canal from Springfield to Boston via the Chicopee and Quaboag Rivers held at Brimfield and a report of the resolutions of the committee.

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This folder contains receipts, bills, and accounts related to Israel Trask's estate and disbursements from the estate to Elizabeth Carter Trask. Also included are letters sent by the Trask's son-in-law, John Gallison Tappan to Elizabeth Carter Trask with information related to disbursement amounts and timing of when she would receive money.

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Distribution of Israel E. Trask's estate after the death of his wife Elizabeth Carter Trask.

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Correspondence related to the administration of Trask family estates, including Israel E. Trask's. William E. Trask was the son of Israel and Elizabeth Carter Trask.

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Correspondence related to the administration of Israel E. Trask's estate and Sarah Onderdonk's investments. Sarah Trask Onderdonk was the daughter of Israel and Elizabeth Carter Trask.

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This folder contains letters sent by the executors of Israel E. Trask's estate to John Remsen Onderdonk, husband of Israel's daughter Sarah regarding yearly disbursements of money to her from the estate.

Scope and Contents: This collection, dated 1807-1861, contains records of Israel E. Trask of Massachusetts and members of his family, including documentation of plantations they owned near Natchez, Mississippi, which they operated using the labor of people they enslaved. The records include a variety of legal records; financial records concerning the Mississippi and Louisiana plantations and other Trask investments; and estate records concerning Israel E. Trask, his wife Elizabeth Carter Trask, and their...

Scope and Contents: The letters and papers of Israel E. Trask and his family include correspondence, bills, and memoranda. The bulk of the material is letters written by Israel E. Trask to his wife Elizabeth Carter Trask, either while traveling or at plantations in Mississippi or Louisiana. Israel writes about the traveling conditions, his health, lodging, meeting friends, his desire to be with his wife and children, plantation news, and family updates. Also included are letters written to Israel from friends...