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Box 2

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Contains 152 Results:

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1814 February 10

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 7
Scope and Contents

Regarding Charles II's proposed movement from physician to pharmacist. Includes a business plan which Charles II "submits for [his father's] opinion."

Dates: 1814 February 10
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Mary Middleton Drayton, 1819 February 7-12

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 12
Scope and Contents Regarding (7th) his travels on horseback; Hughes (overseer) leaving Charles I's employ; (8th) a great sale of property and slaves at Edisto; regrets having already sold slave Jack since he witnesses the sale of a "man and a wife ... at the great price of $2,250"; possibility of buying a house at "the bay"; (9th) his delay; (10th) further delay; disappointment in planting cotton seed; (11th), notes, "I have not the disposition to deal with the negroes in the manner they ought to be dealt...
Dates: 1819 February 7-12
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1819 June 13

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 13
Scope and Contents Regarding his attendance to Charles I's business matters; discussion of weather; Charles II's possible purchase of property in Georgia and movement there; his reluctance to go but his complaint the section of land Charles I has given him at Jehossee plantation "is decidedly bad" and has "nearly been [his] ruin"; request that Charles Sr. provides access to the better Jehossee land (makes clear "I do not ask you to give"); or, since Charles I plans to advertise Savannah plantation, Charles II...
Dates: 1819 June 13
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1819 June 25

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 14
Scope and Contents

Regarding transport of cowpeas and fish; balance on his account.

Dates: 1819 June 25
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I , 1819 June 26

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 15
Scope and Contents

Regarding transport of corn and peas to his father via William.

Dates: 1819 June 26
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I , 1819 July 2

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 16
Scope and Contents

Regarding transport of 48 bags of corn to his father via schooner.

Dates: 1819 July 2
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Charles Drayton I, 1820 January 27

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 17
Scope and Contents

Regarding transport of rice; stocktaking of storehouse revealing eight barrels of oats; apology for not sending flour.

Dates: 1820 January 27
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Charles Drayton II to Henrietta Augusta Drayton, 1823 December 19

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 18
Scope and Contents

Regarding the division of their deceased father's slaves; the splitting up of enslaved families and the slaves' opposition to it.

Dates: 1823 December 19
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

Joseph Cob to Charles Drayton II, 1826 April 9

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 19
Scope and Contents

Communicating that he cannot perform due to a prior engagement; construction notes on back.

Dates: 1826 April 9
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828

E. Cripps to Mr. Steedman, 1828 May 6

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4, Item: 20
Scope and Contents

Regarding the sale of slaves, in particular one named Charles who though "one of the most valuable" was not sold; however, Patty's daughter, "one of the number mortgaged to Parker was sold in his stead"; old Adam's family are with Mr Gibbes' slaves.

Dates: 1828 May 6
Found in: Special Collections / Drayton papers / 1. Drayton family papers, accessioned before 1970 / Correspondence / 1779-1828
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