Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, 1829-1968, and undated

File — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Holloway Family Scrapbook contains legal documents, personal and business correspondence, receipts, ephemera, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Holloway family, a prominent free family of color in Charleston, SC. Series 1: "The Scrapbook," holds a variety of documents: Highlights include legal documents with deeds (1806, 1821, 1871), a conveyance (1811), slave bills of sale including one for the slave "Betty" (1829), an agreement (1829) to apprentice the slave boy Carlos in the carpenters and house joiner's trade, exhorter licenses to preach and a photograph of a 1797 document declaring patriarch Richard “Holliday” [Holloway] a free mulatto. Personal and business correspondence include letters concerning the hiring out of slaves, an offer (1837) to buy the "Holloway Negroes,” a letter (1831) from Samuel Benedict about emigrating to Liberia, agreements for carpentry work, and information about the Brown Fellowship Society, the Century Fellowship Society, the Minors Moralist Society and the Bonneau Literary Society. Also included are invitations, Confederate and corporate tax receipts, receipts for general merchandise, and Confederate scrip. Other letters and newspaper clippings, including letters to the editor written by James H. Holloway, concern Negro taxes, Negro slaveholders, the Liberia movement, the Methodist Episcopal Church, civil rights and related topics. James H. Holloway's niece, Mae Holloway Purcell, preserved the scrapbook after his death and added to its contents. The bound scrapbook was microfilmed by the South Caroliniana Library in 1977 but was later disbound and reorganized. Using the microfilm as a guide, this archive attempts to recreate the original order and this digital presentation of the scrapbook reflects those efforts.

Dates

Creation: 1829-1968, and undated

Creator

From the Collection: Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913 (Person)
From the Collection: Purcell, Mae Holloway, 1891-1982 (Person)

Extent

From the Collection: 4.0 linear feet (3 oversize boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

Letter (1829) to James William Holloway from Francis B. Huger, a carpenter in New York, regarding his losses to fire, slow business, having been to England, and potentially leaving New York for New Orleans.

Letter (1832) from Jane Mitchell in New York to Richard Holloway concerning family property on Beaufain St. Includes a lengthy commentary on Jehu Jones Jr., tenant of the property, on his delinquency in paying rent and his behavior in general, including his attempt to hire out his brother's (?) child "for the term nine years as a common menial," as well as business in New York, death of Jehu Jones, Sr.

Letter (1833) from William Mitchell in New York to sister Elizabeth Holloway concerning family affairs. Letter (1840) from Edward Holloway to his father, Richard Holloway, apologizing for his past behavior and begging to be taken back into his father's employ.

Note (undated)from E. K. Lewis to Elizabeth Holloway expressing a desire to join her unnamed society.

Newspaper clipping (1968) reporting destruction of the Wallingford Presbyterian Church in Charleston with a brief history of the structure, congregation and school.

Note (undated) from Daniel Payne to Richard Holloway requesting the time of the next Minors' Moralist Society meeting. Note (1841) from Edward Laurens, Master in Equity, to Daniel Horlbeck (part owner of Boone Hall Plantation) regarding letting Holloway take up a bond; Partical letter (1838?) from Elizabeth Holloway to brother and sister "of faith and sorrow on account of" the imprisonment of three of her sons for "Salt and Battery," (possibly Samuel D. and Edward, see also Box 3 Folder 4); Note (1833) from William T. Catto, secretary of the Bonneau Literary Society, informing Richard Holloway Sr. of his election as an honorary member of the institution.