Weed in history.

I've been working on my senior history project which is a paper on this presbyterian minister's diary. He wrote in it every day from 1851 to 1902. The last entry is the day he died. I'm covering 1868-1872.

So I'm reading through and he's talking about his aunt being sick. Whatever she had was making her extremely nauseous. He says the doctor gave her cannabis indica. I know pot was in a lot of medications at the turn of the 20th century but this is the first time I've ever seen it called cannabis indica. It's almost always indian hemp or just cannabis or maybe cannabis sativa.

I thought some of the history buffs might get a kick out of my discovery.

Bumping this for the day time folks. And there's got to be some people here interested in 19th century American History.

In another diary entry, this friend of the minister is riding his horse to the local town when he stops at a field to give his horse a rest. Out in the field is the wife of some local land owner, naked, down on all fours, and has a dog on top of her. The guy yells at her "If you had waited a bit, something better than that dog would have come along." This is in 1869.

damn that's bad ass are you using a copy or the original diary?

6 photos copies were made in 1966 so it's all in his handwriting.

If any one is interested, here's a link to the view transcribed years of the diary. There are about 50 volumes of it, each year consisting of about 500 pages. There's a ton of historical info in all of it but only the years around the civil war have ever really been studied. The Battle of Brices Cross Roads ended on his family farm.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/agnew/agnew.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=1bWiCXw-_JkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=stephen+v.+ash&hl=en&ei=iML_TOf7H4LGlQe5kbXYCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

The second link is to a book called "A Year in the South." It's about 1865 from four different perspectives and one is from the guy I'm writing about.

Sgt. Floyd said:

6 photos copies were made in 1966 so it's all in his handwriting.

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cool cool, What's his name and where was he from when he wrote it?

Samuel Andrew Agnew. He was originally from South Carolina. His family settled in Northeast Mississippi in 1852.

Check the links above if you're curious.

Thats pretty cool... I dig old stuff like that, plus it gives you a glimps into the past. In this case, someones daily life.

When I was a kid we were going to pour a concrete floor in our garage and buried in the corner was this 5"X7" bible. It was written in Swedish or something close. It had notes written all through it. In the back there was a record of births and deaths that dated back to the mid 1800's.

Sgt. Floyd said:

Samuel Andrew Agnew. He was originally from South Carolina. His family settled in Northeast Mississippi in 1852.

Check the links above if you're curious.

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heck yeah thanks

auldone said:

Thats pretty cool... I dig old stuff like that, plus it gives you a glimps into the past. In this case, someones daily life.

When I was a kid we were going to pour a concrete floor in our garage and buried in the corner was this 5"X7" bible. It was written in Swedish or something close. It had notes written all through it. In the back there was a record of births and deaths that dated back to the mid 1800's.

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Family bibles are a big deal to historians. If you know where it is you might think about giving it to a university archive. They're not worth too much monetarily unless they came from a historically important family.

Wordz said:

heck yeah thanks

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I've got the entire section from the Ash book in pdf format. I could email it to you if you'd like.

Love the history. cool info! + rep

if u are into stuff of this sort, check this....
The PENTAGON, build on a HEMP farm...

Thanks, fuzzy. I'll check that out.