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Contains 152 Results:

Mary Middleton Drayton to Charles Drayton III , 1841 April 14

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 26
Scope and Contents

Regarding Charles II, completion of cotton planting; hoping to see James (son) soon.

Dates: 1841 April 14
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Mary Middleton Drayton to Charles III, 1843 March

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 27
Scope and Contents

Regarding attending a tea party at John Grimke's (Magnolia) with various local planters and wives; John being elusive and troublesome; attending the dedication of the "Jew synagogue" [K.K.B.E, Charleston], with description of interior.

Dates: 1843 March
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1836-1844

Perreneau Mazyck and family to Charles Drayton III, 1844 May 15

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7, Item: 28
Scope and Contents

Regarding his father's will of 1830 (Charles II, d. 1844); division of the estate, in particular, Jehossee, the Coosawatchie and Georgia lands.

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

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

Thomas Drayton to John Drayton , 1861 November 29

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 1
Scope and Contents Writing from Eldorado plantation, Brazoria County, Texas, sympathizing with the difficulties of planting in the Carolinas and suggesting Drayton Hall slaves be sent to Texas after the War; his making a good crop of cotton (so plentiful he is lacking in bags and rope for it); speculating about prices for cotton after the war; John potentially being called up and his instruction to John to "fight like the devil" and to "kill every devil of a Yankee you can"; altering his Will to give the...
Dates: 1861 November 29
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1861-1885

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
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