Box 2

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Correspondence of John Drayton, James Glen, Charles Drayton I, II and III, Mary Middleton Drayton, and many others, organized chronologically.

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$1015 in interest from a bond bought by Mary Drayton for Sarah and her children, executed by Thomas and John Drayton.

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Teacher's report about Robert who is "doing well" even in "these times" [federal occupation]. Notes Robert had an altercation with a "militia boy."

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Correspondence of John Drayton, James Glen, Charles Drayton I, II and III, Mary Middleton Drayton, and many others, organized chronologically.

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(John is in Tuxpan, Mexico); regarding the necessity of saving money; being unable to afford a visit to Drayton Hall; a lawsuit "for what is due me"; selling his property; being ill for four months with "rheumatism"; turning down a job for $100/month with a railroad company on account of illness; describing the boundaries of Drayton Hall, in words and sketch.

Scope and Contents Writing from Eldorado plantation, Brazoria County, Texas, sympathizing with the difficulties of planting in the Carolinas and suggesting Drayton Hall slaves be sent to Texas after the War; his making a good crop of cotton (so plentiful he is lacking in bags and rope for it); speculating about prices for cotton after the war; John potentially being called up and his instruction to John to "fight like the devil" and to "kill every devil of a Yankee you can"; altering his Will to give the...

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Accompanying "a copy of the journal containing a sketch of your ancestral estate on the Ashley."