Box 13
Contains 6 Results:
Land grant, Lords Proprietors to Thomas Drayton, 1703 September 18
700 acres in Colleton County (commonly called Bob's Savanna). Signatures of Nicholas Trott, Nathaniel Johnson, James Moore, Job Howes. Includes plat and wax seal of Lords Proprietors of Carolina Province.
"Copy of all the Caca swamplands in one platt," Colleton County, 1762 June 8
Including "Bob Savanna" and bordered by land belonging to David & Jacob Stevens, Robert Stevens, James Ladson, Thomas Elliot, Filbin, and Melchior Garnor. Made for John Drayton. [This plat includes what became Drayton's Cowpen and Bob Savannah].
Ink and pencil plat of land at the north end of Jehossee Island, undated
Adjoining the "Pon Pon" or South Edisto River, and the "Daw haw" or Dawho River. Also shown are lands "granted to the heirs of Jennys," 62 acres granted to J. Molo and acreage marked as "vacant."
Indenture, 1764 May 29
Johanis Curnir[?], Verner Ulmer[?], John George Lapp, Michael Looser and George Gottlieb [Orangeburgh/Saxa Gotha planters] bond to Thomas Drayton for Atlantic passage. Bond for 359 pounds 1 shilling and 5 pence, made 1749 October 19; memorandum added 1764 May 29
Copy of Benjamin Parker's will, 1825 May 20 (from original of 1825 April 20)
Leaving much of his estate to his niece, Rachel V. Parker.
Charleston Evening Post, current prices of commodities at Charleston; news from the House and Senate, miscellaneous advertisements, 1791
Architectural drawings, genealogical notes, land grants, plats, indentures, inventories, Parker family land and legal, newspaper clippings and miscellany. Organized first by content and second by chronology.