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Box 4

 Container

Contains 19 Results:

Frederick Ferdinand Schaffer: Correspondence, 1879-1884

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Collection Overview

Photocopied letters to and from Schaffer regarding general merchandise brought and sold to Johns Island plantations.

Dates: 1879-1884
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.5: Schaffer Family

Documents relating to Wadmalaw Island property, 1898, and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Collection Overview

Includes a photocopy of deed of property sold by Josephine V. Schaffer (1898); and handwritten notes.

Dates: 1898, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.5: Schaffer Family

Family Genealogy, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 13
Collection Overview

Contains typed and handwritten notes regarding Whaley members.

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.6: Whaley Family

William Whaley, Esquire: Correspondence, 1866

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 14
Collection Overview

Photocopied letters to and from Whaley regarding legal and land transactions.

Dates: 1866
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.6: Whaley Family

Property Owned, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 15
Collection Overview

Typed and handwritten notes regarding family plantations and land owned (Auldreekie, Cain Slash, Creekside and Greenpoint)

Dates: undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.6: Whaley Family

Roper Family Genealogy, 1850, and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Collection Overview

Contains handwritten notes/charts regarding family members. Also contains photocopy of "Will of Benjamin Dart Roper" (1850).

Dates: 1850, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.7: Roper and Bryan Families

Dr. William Roper: Brickhouse Plantation, 1951, 1994, and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 17
Collection Overview

Contains typed and handwritten notes; photocopied newspaper clippings regarding the ownership of plantation.

Dates: 1951, 1994, and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.7: Roper and Bryan Families

Bryan Family: History, 1988 and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Collection Overview

Contains typed interview transcript with Amelia and Charlie Bryan regarding the history of the Roper and Bryan families (17 April 1988). Includes a photocopied page from unidentifed book regarding John Bryan.

Dates: 1988 and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.7: Roper and Bryan Families

Roper and Bryan Family Property, 1988 and undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 19
Collection Overview

Typed and handwritten notes regarding plantations and land owned by various family members (The Myrtles, Yellow House, Capes, Briars, The Oaks, Chaplins).

Dates: 1988 and undated
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Esther Kaplan Pivnick collection / Series 2: Research Materials: Johns Island Family Histories / 2.7: Roper and Bryan Families
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