Box 2
Container
Contains 21 Results:
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1813 August
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
Regarding Kentucky lands.
Dates:
1813 August
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1814 February 10
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 7
Scope and Contents
Regarding Charles II's proposed movement from physician to pharmacist. Includes a business plan which Charles II "submits for [his father's] opinion."
Dates:
1814 February 10
Charles Drayton II to Mary Middleton Drayton, 1819 February 7-12
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 12
Scope and Contents
Regarding (7th) his travels on horseback; Hughes (overseer) leaving Charles I's employ; (8th) a great sale of property and slaves at Edisto; regrets having already sold slave Jack since he witnesses the sale of a "man and a wife ... at the great price of $2,250"; possibility of buying a house at "the bay"; (9th) his delay; (10th) further delay; disappointment in planting cotton seed; (11th), notes, "I have not the disposition to deal with the negroes in the manner they ought to be dealt...
Dates:
1819 February 7-12
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1819 June 13
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 13
Scope and Contents
Regarding his attendance to Charles I's business matters; discussion of weather; Charles II's possible purchase of property in Georgia and movement there; his reluctance to go but his complaint the section of land Charles I has given him at Jehossee plantation "is decidedly bad" and has "nearly been [his] ruin"; request that Charles Sr. provides access to the better Jehossee land (makes clear "I do not ask you to give"); or, since Charles I plans to advertise Savannah plantation, Charles II...
Dates:
1819 June 13
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1819 June 25
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 14
Scope and Contents
Regarding transport of cowpeas and fish; balance on his account.
Dates:
1819 June 25
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I , 1819 June 26
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 15
Scope and Contents
Regarding transport of corn and peas to his father via William.
Dates:
1819 June 26
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I , 1819 July 2
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 16
Scope and Contents
Regarding transport of 48 bags of corn to his father via schooner.
Dates:
1819 July 2
Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1820 January 27
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 17
Scope and Contents
Regarding transport of rice; stocktaking of storehouse revealing eight barrels of oats; apology for not sending flour.
Dates:
1820 January 27
Charles Drayton II to Henrietta Augusta Drayton, 1823 December 19
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 18
Scope and Contents
Regarding the division of their deceased father's slaves; the splitting up of enslaved families and the slaves' opposition to it.
Dates:
1823 December 19
Joseph Cob to Charles Drayton II, 1826 April 9
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 19
Scope and Contents
Communicating that he cannot perform due to a prior engagement; construction notes on back.
Dates:
1826 April 9