Box 5

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

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Note (1840) re his militia status, papers re ownership with John Fraser & Co. of blockade runner Isabel; letter (undated) re-claims against Spain and letter of Mayor William A. Courtenay re M.C. Mordecai’s death.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

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Letters of Mordecai in Baltimore to son-in-law Lazarus in Charleston re relocating to Baltimore, caring for Mordecai property in Chas; Lazarus’s appointment as US appraiser, politics, etc. With letters I. J. Randolph Mordecai, with early mention of beginnings of phosphate industry.

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Power of attorney papers (1865) of Mordecai to Lazarus re property in Charleston; with information re repairs to 69 Meeting Street and other properties. Oversize plat (1850) of buildings SW corner King and Liberty Streets.

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Details business dealings of MC Mordecai and correspondents re stocks, bonds, some household affairs and business of importing coffee from Brazil.

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Poetic tributes from an aunt, D. Moses, and others; letter partially in Spanish; letter from grandson’s fiancé.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Includes family and research papers, photocopies, scrapbook, photographs, clippings. Tobias papers include family histories and research on individuals. Slave sales of Abraham Tobias, oath of allegiance, etc. of Emily T. Minis, & resolution, Charleston Board of Health, on Joseph L. Tobias. Family Bibles and data regarding Tobias, Mordecai, Lazarus, Alexander, and de Lyon families. Mordecai family histories and notes on individuals. M.C. Mordecai papers regarding blockade runner Isabel,...

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Contains transcribed copies of newspaper verse, etc. with many poems to "Toshy," her daughter Hortensia (b. 1830), who later used the book. With mention (1858) of travel with actress Charlotte Cushman (1816-76)