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Legal Documents and Certificate, 1890, and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Holloway Family Scrapbook contains legal documents, personal and business correspondence, receipts, ephemera, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Holloway family, a prominent free family of color in Charleston, SC. Series 1: "The Scrapbook," holds a variety of documents: Highlights include legal documents with deeds (1806, 1821, 1871), a conveyance (1811), slave bills of sale including one for the slave "Betty" (1829), an agreement (1829) to apprentice the slave boy Carlos in the carpenters and house joiner's trade, exhorter licenses to preach and a photograph of a 1797 document declaring patriarch Richard “Holliday” [Holloway] a free mulatto. Personal and business correspondence include letters concerning the hiring out of slaves, an offer (1837) to buy the "Holloway Negroes,” a letter (1831) from Samuel Benedict about emigrating to Liberia, agreements for carpentry work, and information about the Brown Fellowship Society, the Century Fellowship Society, the Minors Moralist Society and the Bonneau Literary Society. Also included are invitations, Confederate and corporate tax receipts, receipts for general merchandise, and Confederate scrip. Other letters and newspaper clippings, including letters to the editor written by James H. Holloway, concern Negro taxes, Negro slaveholders, the Liberia movement, the Methodist Episcopal Church, civil rights and related topics. James H. Holloway's niece, Mae Holloway Purcell, preserved the scrapbook after his death and added to its contents. The bound scrapbook was microfilmed by the South Caroliniana Library in 1977 but was later disbound and reorganized. Using the microfilm as a guide, this archive attempts to recreate the original order and this digital presentation of the scrapbook reflects those efforts.

Dates

  • Creation: 1890, and undated

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 4.0 linear feet (3 oversize boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Materials Specific Details

Items belonging to but excluded from microfilmed version of scrapbook; Black and white Photograph (circa 1970s) of Mae Holloway Purcell, niece of James H. Holloway and keeper of the Holloway scrapbook for over sixty years, (view Box 3, Folder 6). Title (1890-1891) to real estate deeded to James H. Holloway from Eliza Holloway and other heirs of Richard Holloway concerning family property on Beaufain Street. Notary public certificate (1890) from Oswego County, NY, for H. M. Barrett. Photostat of typed letter (1906) from S. H. Jenkins of the Charleston Messenger to James H. Holloway asking for his assistance in establishing a free library for Blacks. Contains oose pages and photocopies of microfilmed materials not present in original.

Repository Details

Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository

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