Box 2

Scope and Contents

Regarding attendance at Camden County Cavalry officer election meeting.

Scope and Contents

Regarding Turner, overseer, and his future employment; accusations from the white community that Turner is conniving with the slaves; Caldwell prohibited from entering the estate; a warning to protect the slaves from Caldwell when the work near his property.

Scope and Contents

Regarding Turner, the new overseer at Jeffersonton; Turner's possible return to Drayton Hall; instruction that Turner "must be circumspect in his conduct with the negroes so as not to raise the hue and cry of the Jefferson people against him"; Turner's prospects for obtaining credit in Jefferson; instructions for construction of the house at Jefferson; advice on basket making; suggestion he visits friends on Cumberland Island; reminders to send Charles Sr. some rice.

Scope and Contents Regarding Charles III's inability to get "a white man" for the plantation; Charles II's unhappiness that Charles III plans to remain on the plantation through the summer; Turner, who has "quit" the plantation; suggestion that Stafford be hired if only "to mind the rice & corn"; Stafford should bring "his gun as we have none," "be bound not to leave the place" ... "to keep sober" and not "to be familiar with the negroes"; if not Stafford, then David Lang; instructs his son to be clearer...

Scope and Contents Regarding getting a "white man" for the (Jeffersonton) plantation; sickness amongst Jeffersonton slaves and progress on banks, dams etc.; his concerns about Charles III staying on the plantation during cold weather, if he does remain, Charles II gives him instructions on how to preserve his health; warns his son to "guard against" the "scoundrels" amongst his slaves; promises, in regard to the slaves, to "bring things to order"..."next winter"; demands a "stop to [the slaves] trading at...

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.

Scope and Contents

Regarding Drayton's survival of The Home boat disaster; a detailed description of his Gervais' elopement on October 15.

Scope and Contents

Inquiring if Drayton can recover a trunk of George H. Palmer, deceased. Palmer was passenger aboard the sunken steamer The Home.

Scope and Contents

Regarding transportation of a trunk to the recipient (front and back).

Scope and Contents

Inquiring if Drayton has a trunk belonging to Mr. Clock, passenger on sunken vessel Home.