Box 13
Contains 6 Results:
Land grant, Lords Proprietors to Thomas Drayton, 1701 May 17
146 acres on north side of the South Edisto River, in Colleton County. Signatures of Edmund Bellinger, James Moore, Joseph Morton. Includes plat and wax seal of Lords Proprietors of Carolina Province.
Plat of "all the Lands Mont Pleasant Plantation otherwise called Cacaswamp", 1755 February 20
2,302 acres, surveyed by James McPherson, Deputy Surveyor. Bounds land belonging to David and Robert Stevens, James Ladson, Nicholas Land, Thomas Elliott, and Filbin and parsonage land. Plat requested by John Drayton. [This plat includes what became Drayton's Cowpen and Bob Savannah].
Note to accompany a plat showing the Drayton's Jeffersonton plantation on the Great Satilla River, Georgia, undated
The plantation contained 600 acres and adjoined Bixby's Woodbine plantation, Johnston Creek, Walkers Swamp and land claimed by "Hugh Rose and others."
(Unsigned) Bill of sale, John Drayton to Charles Strother and Daniel Lender, 1759
Drayton sells around 600 "black cattle" at the "Redbank Cow-pen" for 2,050 in "current money."
Bond transfer from Christopher Leauverett to Benjamin Parker, 1820 August 22
Architectural drawings, genealogical notes, land grants, plats, indentures, inventories, Parker family land and legal, newspaper clippings and miscellany. Organized first by content and second by chronology.
"Fragment of an Original Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes; Written in the Year, 1776, by Thomas Day, Esq.", 1784
Reprinted by Francis Bailey of Philadelphia, 1784. Day condemns slavery and the slave trade.