Box 2
Container
Contains 152 Results:
Thomas Drayton to John Drayton , 1861 November 29
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 1
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...
Dates:
1861 November 29
Shaw Bowen (Providence, RI) to Charles H. Drayton, (cover and letter), 1885 March 30
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
Accompanying "a copy of the journal containing a sketch of your ancestral estate on the Ashley."
Dates:
1885 March 30