ms_1872.xml Finding Aid to the Couper and Wylly family papers, 1722-1955 Written by Elizabeth Delmage Encoding funded by a 2008 Archives-Basic Projects grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Georgia Historical Society.
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 Encoded by Elizabeth Delmage, May 2009 Description is in English Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard MS 1872 Couper and Wylly family papers 1722-1955 1 box (.50 cubic feet) Couper family. Wylly family. Collection materials are in English. Georgia Historical Society
, Savannah, Georgia.
Access restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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 Subject headings

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Couper family. Wylly family. Wylly, Margaret Armstrong, 1771-1862. Slavery--Georgia--19th century. Slavery--Georgia--St. Simons Island. St. Simon's Island--History. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Correspondence. Clippings (information artifacts) Deeds. Diaries. Genealogies. Genealogical tables. Letters (correspondence) Biographical information

The Couper family emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland in 1775 and settled in St. Simons Island, Georgia. The Wylly family emigrated from Belfast, Scotland in the mid eighteenth century and settled in St. Simons Island, Georgia as well.

 Scope and content note

This collection contains family correspondence, deeds, diaries, family histories, family trees, newspaper clippings, and other miscellaneous materials relating to the Couper and Wylly families of St. Simons Island, Georgia from 1772 to 1955. Of particular interest are the letters written by members of both families serving in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. There are also typed transcriptions of many of these letters that have been done by various family members over the years. Also included is a diary that belonged to Margaret Armstrong Wylly (1771-1862) which includes not only diary entries but lists of African Americans who worked on her family's plantation in St. Simons Island from 1827 to 1847.