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Box 2

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Contains 152 Results:

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton III , 1838 June 18

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 22
Scope and Contents

Mainly concerning Drayton's Jeffersonton slaves who were "not secured" and thus had been "allowed to slip off"; Dr. Cohen is blamed; Charles III has purchased handcuffs; if Charles III decides to sell the slaves, he is urged not to "give them away" but to sell at Charleston were he "can obtain eight, nine and ten hundred doll's."

Dates: 1838 June 18
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Promissory note, Charles Drayton III owing Hardee and Harden fifteen dollars, 1838 July 2

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 23
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: 1838 July 2
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Hardee and Harden to Charles Drayton III, 1838 July 12

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 24
Scope and Contents

Acknowledging receipt of payment and enclosing new bill (enclosure not found).

Dates: 1838 July 12
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Receipt, Sarah Martha Drayton, 1862 December 17

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

$1015 in interest from a bond bought by Mary Drayton for Sarah and her children, executed by Thomas and John Drayton.

Dates: 1862 December 17
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1861-1885

James H. Carlisle to Sarah Drayton, 1865 April 19

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Teacher's report about Robert who is "doing well" even in "these times" [federal occupation]. Notes Robert had an altercation with a "militia boy."

Dates: 1865 April 19
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1861-1885

Envelope addressed on one side to Sarah M. Drayton, Spartanburg, SC, and on the other, Col. Charles H. Drayton, undated

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 4
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: undated
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1861-1885

John Drayton to Charles H. Drayton (nephew), 1882 January 15

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 5
Scope and Contents

(John is in Tuxpan, Mexico); regarding the necessity of saving money; being unable to afford a visit to Drayton Hall; a lawsuit "for what is due me"; selling his property; being ill for four months with "rheumatism"; turning down a job for $100/month with a railroad company on account of illness; describing the boundaries of Drayton Hall, in words and sketch.

Dates: 1882 January 15
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1861-1885

James Shoolbred to Charles Drayton III, 1844 May 28

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 29
Scope and Contents

Accepting Charles' right to choose a certain (though undisclosed) course of action.

Dates: 1844 May 28
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

James Shoolbred to Mary Middleton Drayton and reply, 1844 or before, February 15

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 30
Scope and Contents

Shoolbred writing about the cold weather and adding manure on his fields; Drayton about the weather, severe treatment of Mrs. Griffiths, "Daphne" and a mother and child.

Dates: 1844 or before, February 15
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Mary Middleton Drayton to Charles Drayton III, (Jefferson, Georgia), before 1844

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 31
Scope and Contents

Regarding having "very few hands" and not knowing "how to manage."

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