President Andrew Jackson sold a tract of land in Holmes County, Mississippi, to settlers from Alabama, South Carolina, and Virginia in 1836. This land sale actually took place at Mount Salus (now Clinton), Hinds County, Mississippi. The town of Franklin, located a few miles southeast of Lexington, Holmes County, was incorporated on February 27, 1836. It was named for Benjamin Franklin. Virginia native James Davis Powers opened a two-story general merchandise store in Franklin in 1870.

This collection is organized as follows:

• Box 1, folders 1-3: Deeds of trust, March 15, 1886-March 28, 1893.

• Box 2, folders 4-6: Deeds of trust, April 2, 1894-February 27, 1897.

  folder 7: Writ of replevin, September 30, 1896.

  folder 8: Illinois Central Railroad Company forms (blank).

• Box 3: Cotton sales invoices, 1876-1877.

  Wrapped volumes: Invoice ledger, 1874-1878.

  Accounting ledgers (3), 1883-1890.