SPC. Special Collections

Collection Overview

The handwritten document is a report from the Committee of Conference upon Indian Affairs to the South Carolina General Assembly. The committee reported on sending a delegation of Catawba Indians to New York to negotiate a treaty to end hostilities with their traditional enemies, the Six Nations of the Iroquois. The report is dated 17 May 1751, and it made recommendations on how to send the Catawba most quickly and safely. It also discussed how to pay the Catawba's expenses.

Collection Overview Judgments of the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas levied against debtors (their goods, chattles, lands, and other hereditaments and real estate) for the recovery of moneys owed. Cases include: Ebenezer Simmons, Benjamin Smith, and James Nott versus Nathanael Snow of St. James Goose Creek (1748 Jan. 3); James Reid versus Henry Varnor, a Christ Church Parish planter (1748 Oct. 1); John McCall versus William Brown (1748 July 5); Maurice Harvey and Robert Philip, Charles Town [Charleston]...

Collection Overview The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, SC. It includes numerous publications created by "Citizens for Decency through Law." The newsletters, pamphlets, and correspondence in the collection were produced between 1976 and 1981. The bulk of the collection is copies of the organization's newsletters, the "National Decency Reporter" and the "CDL Reporter." Each of the items warns of the dangers of obscenity and...

Collection Overview On July 5, 1753 Hugh Bryan, planter and attorney for Reverend George Whitefield, late of Prince William Parish and now of the Parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex, conveyed to Mary Bryan, Joseph Bryan's widow, a 640 acre plantation named Providence on Indian lands on the east side of the Pocotaligo River in Prince William Parish. This two page document was witnessed by Ann Bryan and William Williamson. This tract was conveyed to Reverend Whitefield by Joseph and Mary Bryan on...

Collection Overview

The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous publications produced by the Communist Party of the United States of America from 1973 to 1979.

Collection Overview The collection consists of 8 handwritten letters from William Harvey Cogswell to his son Julius E. Cogswell. The letters, which were written between 1887 and 1888, include information on the family printing business and purchasing notes and prices for books. The collection also includes one letter to J.B. Lippincott & Co. (1887) requesting price quotes and discounts on book purchases, and one letter from William H. Morrison (1887). Morrison was a law bookseller and publisher in New York...

Collection Overview Typescript copies of "Notices of Ancestors & Relatives, Paternal & Maternal & of Incidents in my Life" (1865-1870) by Paul Trapier and "An Account of the Experiences of the Family of the Rev. and Mrs. Paul Trapier during and after the War Between the States" by S.D. (Mrs. Paul) Trapier transcribed during a W.P.A. project. Paul Trapier's "Account" contains genealogical information concerning the Trapier, Shubrick, Motte, Horry, and Huger families; observations about relatives; his...

Collection Overview This collection consists of two typed reports, a map and newspaper clippings about the two tornadoes which hit Charleston, S.C. on the morning of September 29, 1938. The first report by John E. Lockwood (meteorologist U.S. Weather Bureau) gives a description of the tornadoes paths, building damage, numbers killed by tornadoes and the value of property damage. The second report follows up with eyewitness accounts from Mr. W.A. Brunson, Mr. R.C. Alderedge (Weather Bureau Office), Mr. J.F. Fox,...

Collection Overview

The collection consists of three letters. Two are from Trevelyan to "Carr B." One, dated 1929, is a thank you note. The other, dated 1935, concerns the donation of an unknown object to an unidentified museum. The final letter is to Trevelyan from "R.C. Boraufuet" concerning the death of a mutual friend.

Collection Overview

Consists of stock indentures issued in Charleston, South Carolina, to Isaac Ball, James Calder, Louis Danjou, John C. Faber, Marie Huguet, William Jenner, Basil Lanneau, Nathan Nathans, William Payne, Burridge Purvis, William Purvis, George Rose, J.E.A. Steinmetz, Williams Thayer, Miss A.E. Van Rhyn, and James Hamilton (of Georgia).