Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0109
Collection Overview
Records of the research required to determine whether or not a new library planned for the College of Charleston would cover any portion of the burial grounds of four African-American cemeteries: the Brown Fellowship Society (founded 1790 and renamed the Century Fellowship Society in 1903), the Free Dark Men of Color, Plymouth Congregational Church, and the MacPhelah Cemetery. The site had formerly been utilized by Bishop England High School, which was built in 1921 and which expanded in...
Dates:
1999-2001
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-015
Collection Overview
This collection contains a single warrant issued by Henry L. Pinckney, Collector of the general tax for the parishes of St. Philip's and St. Michael's, to James S. Shingler, Sheriff of Charleston District, authorizing the arrest of the free black, Maria Louisa Silvanneau, of Charleston, for failure to pay the capitation tax of $2.77. Includes handwritten note of disposition.
Dates:
1849
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
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
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-081
Collection Overview
A letter from John Torrans to Alexander Rose recommends that Rose buy the brigantine Industry lying at Eveleigh's Wharf, "that she will do well to go to Suranam" [Surinam]. A postscript headed "Distillery Monday Morning" asks Rose to tell Forbes that "one of the Negros is run away." The second letter (penciled note on cover reads "Charleston, S.C. List of Negros to be Mortgaged") from Torrans to Rose states he has sent a bond and mortgage bought at Well's Shop, but "did not know how many...
Dates:
approximately 1775
