CSA 11a, 10¢ milky blue (3 margins) tied CARTERSVILLE GA. SEP 4 (day in ms.) (1863) on commercially-made envelope with flower embossed on flap (some flap faults), to G.J. Kollock Esqr., Savannah Geo. $150.

George Jones Kollock (1810-1894) practiced law in Savannah from 1832-1836 as Miller & Kollock, then moved to Woodlands near Clarkesville, in Habersham County, Georgia, keeping overseers on his plantations. He owned the southern part of Ossabaw Island during the antebellum period. Kollock lived on the mainland at Coffee Bluff, near Savannah, but he was the most active planter on Ossabaw before the Civil War (1861-65), with 72 enslaved people working in fields that produced up to 20,000 pounds of cotton during the years 1850-60. South End is the best documented of Ossabaw’s antebellum plantations because many of the account books and ledgers kept by Kollock’s overseers have survived. The fourth division of Ossabaw was the Buckhead tract, which was planted on a small scale by Nathaniel G. Rutherford. The Kollock family papers are housed in the University of Georgia Libraries.