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John L. Dart family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1069
Abstract John Lewis Dart (1854-1915) was born a free person of color in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Avery Normal Institute in 1872 and attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, where he was ordained a Baptist minister. He returned to Charleston in 1886 and became pastor of Morris Street Baptist Church. Sixteen years later, Dart ministered the Shiloh Baptist Church. In 1894, he opened the Charleston Normal and Industrial Institute, a...
Dates: 1844-1947

Drayton papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0152
Abstract

Diaries, ledgers, correspondence, inventories, plats, sketches, architectural drawings of John Drayton, Charles Drayton I-III, James Glen, Charlotta Drayton, Mary Middleton Drayton and others, relating mainly to affairs at Drayton Hall and other family plantations. Collection also includes artwork, reflections on eighteenth century literature, deeds, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Dates: 1701-2004

Heyward and Ferguson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0092
Collection Overview The papers consist of family and business correspondence between members of the Heyward family. Nathaniel Heyward (1766-1851) of South Carolina and his wife Henrietta Manigault Heyward (1769-1827) correspond with their sons Nathaniel Heyward (1790-1819) and William Manigault Heyward (1788-1820); their grandsons Nathaniel Barnwell Heyward (1816-1891), James Barnwell Heyward (1817-1886) and William Henry Heyward (1817-1889); and other relations regarding plantation provisions and rice planting...
Dates: 1806-1923

McNeil and Richardson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1162
Abstract The McNeil and Richardson families crossed paths and were united with the marriage of Jane McNeil and Toby Richardson in the latter portion of the nineteenth century. This collection documents both the McNeil and Richardson families. The bulk of the documents in this collection are legal notes regarding land ownership and acquisitions as well as legal will claims. There also are multiple booklets of family reunions of both the McNeil and Richardson families, which list their known...
Dates: 1904-2005, and undated; Majority of material found within 1930-1990

Slave pass for Grace

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-111
Collection Overview

The document is a slave pass written by Isaac Riddell for an enslaved person named Grace. The pass gives Grace permission to sleep in Pattan's Lot from October 3, 1849 until January 3, 1850.

Dates: 1849 October 3

Slave passes for Mack and Ellack

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-040
Collection Overview

The folder contains two slave passes written by Sarah H. Savage and dated 1843. One pass gives an enslaved person named Mack permission to sleep in Bedon's Alley. The other pass, which has been penned through, gives an enslaved person named Ellack permission to sleep in Stoll's alley for three months.

Dates: 1843, undated

The Story of South Carolina

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0005
Collection Overview

One complete typescript copy and one partial typescript copy of a study entitled "The story of South Carolina" with holograph corrections and annotations by the author, William Willis Boddie. Boddie highlights the leading individuals and major events in South Carolina history.

Dates: 1926

Peter H. Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1131
Abstract Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), is a American historian who authored, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion." Wood was a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008, where he was named Professor Emertius of History. Wood wrote the original version of "Black Majority" as his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, which was published in 1974.The...
Dates: 1964-1974; Majority of material found within 1973-1974

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Baker, Frazier B., -1898 1
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Butler, Nathaniel 1
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 1
Charleston Normal and Industrial School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Childs, St. Julien Ravenel, 1897-1983 1
Cochran, Diane H., 1936-2022 1
Cochran, Edward H., 1929-2003 1
Confederate States of America. Army 1
Crum, William Demos, 1859-1912 1
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Dart, John Lewis, 1854-1915 1
Dart, Julia Pierre 1
Dart, William 1
Dart, William Andrews 1
Drayton family 1
Drayton, Carolus 1
Drayton, Charles Henry, 1847-1915 1
Drayton, Charles, 1785-1844 1
Drayton, Charles, 1814-1852 1
Drayton, Charlotta D., 1884-1969 1
Drayton, James Shoolbred, 1820-1867 1
Drayton, John, 1831-1912 1
Drayton, John, active 1777 1
Drayton, Mary Middleton Shoolbred, 1794-1855 1
Drayton, Thomas Henry Middleton, 1828-1867 1
Drayton, William Henry, 1742-1779 1
Fenwick, Susan 1
Ferguson, James, 1784-1874 1
Ferguson, Thomas B., 1841-1922 1
Glen, James, 1701-1777 1
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
Hayward family 1
Heyward, Daniel Cuthbert, 1807-1831 1
Heyward, Francis William, 1844-1907 1
Heyward, Henrietta Manigault, 1769-1827 1
Heyward, James Barnwell, 1817-1886 1
Heyward, Maria Hayne, 1820-1890 1
Heyward, Nathaniel Augustus, 1843-1862 1
Heyward, Nathaniel Barnwell, 1816-1891 1
Heyward, Nathaniel, 1766-1851 1
Heyward, Nathaniel, Jr., 1790-1819 1
Heyward, Thomas Savage, 1815-1889 1
Heyward, William Cruger, 1808-1863 1
Heyward, William Henry, 1817-1889 1
Heyward, William Manigault, 1788-1820 1
Manigault, Charlotte Drayton, 1781-1855 1
McClennan, Alonzo C., 1855-1912 1
McNeil family 1
Miller, Thomas E., 1849-1938 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Richardson family 1
Savage, Sarah H. 1
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1
Wood, Peter H., 1943- 1
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