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Box 2

 Container

Contains 152 Results:

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

Shaw Bowen (Providence, RI) to Charles H. Drayton, (cover and letter), 1885 March 30

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8, Item: 6
Scope and Contents

Accompanying "a copy of the journal containing a sketch of your ancestral estate on the Ashley."

Dates: 1885 March 30