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Box 2

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Contains 152 Results:

Gibbes, Waring & Johnston to Charles Drayton III, 1836 February 20

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 6
Scope and Contents

This dispatch listed and accompanied a number of plantation implements sent by schooner for Drayton.

Dates: 1836 February 20
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III, 1836 February 26

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 7
Scope and Contents Regarding plantation instructions: to keep the slaves from working in ditches or banks during inclement weather, taking care of the older slaves, death of Jibi at Drayton Hall, division of land to cotton/rice cultivation at Georgia plantation, finding a "man" to leave at the plantation during the summer when Charles III will leave, having the slaves make baskets with rushes and oak, to gather the cut cedar logs, to acquire potatoes root and good cotton seed (the later, by begging if...
Dates: 1836 February 26
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III (Jeffersonton), 1836 March 11

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Regarding affairs at Jeffersonton: slothful carpenters; ill slaves; death of Mr. McIntosh; rejection of a "good offer" by slaves; Hughes' debt (instructs Charles III to hold onto his cow and calf).

Dates: 1836 March 11
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Nobel A. Hardee to Charles Drayton II[?], 1836 March 16

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 9
Scope and Contents

Regarding Drayton's request for cotton seed.

Dates: 1836 March 16
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles R. Floyd to Charles Drayton III, 1836 March 20

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 10
Scope and Contents

Regarding attendance at Camden County Cavalry officer election meeting.

Dates: 1836 March 20
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III, 1836 May

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 11
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.

Dates: 1836 May
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III, 1836 May 12

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 12
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.

Dates: 1836 May 12
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles Drayton II to Charles III, (Jeffersonton), 1836 June 13

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 13
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...
Dates: 1836 June 13
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III, (Jeffersonton), 1836 June 20

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 14
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...
Dates: 1836 June 20
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Contract, Charles Drayton III and William Stafford, overseer, with note "Null and void" with explanation for termination, 1836 June 22

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 15
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.

Dates: 1836 June 22
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844
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