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Scope and Contents Certified holograph (1890) and typed transcriptions of grants of land to John Fauchereaud Grimke (1784); to Stephen Fox (1682); to Charles Fauchereaud (1760); to Ann Drayton (two grants, 1732); to Frederick Grimke (1766); to Thomas Drayton (1678 and 1703); with a 1755 copy of a 1736 memorial and a 1791 copy of a 1718 grant, both re two baronies near the Yemassee lands; and a typed transcript of a bond of Thomas Drayton and Stephen Fox to James Moore (1700). With receipt (1772) to Thomas...

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Materials include Record of the Grimke family copied from an old French bible, brought by Gideon Faucheraud partially in French, with other narratives, typed abstracts from an unnamed source, family tree, transcript of an epitaph, some correspondence, etc.

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Documenting Smith, Rhett, Moore, Grimke, Barnwell, Haskell and related families, the materials include letters (James Smith to Thomas Smith Grimke, 1822), prose narratives (copied over numerous times), printed matter, family trees, bound handwritten volumes, extracts from family bibles, typescripts and similar items by various members of the related families.

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Three carbons of a typescript family history of the Draytons, containing abstracts from published sources, compiled lines of descent, etc. tracing the family from the 1200s in England to South Carolina, up to the circa 1880s. Compiled by a William Drayton.

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A circa 1833 handwritten copy of an earlier History and Genealogy of the Drayton Family by Judge John Drayton with information on, and a watercolor of, the Drayton House, Northamptonshire, England, bringing the lineage up to the Draytons of Drayton Hall, South Carolina. With data on arms and crests, later manuscript additions and one partial typescript of the document done in 1889, and duplicate copies of fuller transcript.

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Three bound volumes, one of handwritten notes and abstracts from a number of British sources on early Drayton family history, with lists of wills of people in Jamaica previous to 1700; and various armorial and heraldic drawings; another with lists of 18th century Drayton family marriages, births and deaths in Carolina, with Izard births; and the third with extracts of St. Philip's Church records, extracts from Rhett family, Drayton family and other sources.

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A typed Drayton pedigree; miscellaneous lineage and family tree notes, some in a nearly empty bound volume; notes on the Bohun Baker family connection and a cabinet sized photograph of the Drayton family tomb at Magnolia Plantation.

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London Gazette, March 3, 1891, noting permission of Queen to Theodore Drayton Grimke to use the name Drayton. With photocopies of obituaries (1913) of his son Hugh Drayton Grimke-Drayton.

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Included are a long handwritten description of Lowick Church with information on the Draytons and the builders of Drayton House, a photograph of the house, notes, a newspaper clipping and two copies of Country Life magazine (1965)with articles on the house.

Scope and Contents Included are photocopied articles re Drayton Hall, Harpers New Monthly Magazine (December 1875), with an article Up the Ashley and Cooper by Constance Fenimore Woolson; and the October 1907 issue of Metropolitan Magazine re Drayton Hall and race relations. Materials on Magnolia plantation include January 19, 1961 issue of Country Life magazine, a 1956 letter and a...