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Samuel Prioleau papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-057
Collection Overview The marriage settlement of and letters to Samuel Prioleau. Marriage settlement (trust deed) of Hannah Motte Prioleau and Samuel Prioleau for property in trust with Hannah Prioleau's father, Major James Hamilton, property consisting of a fourth part of 65 slaves (listed by name) to which she would be entitled upon his death. A letter (1826 Sept. 15) from S.M. Drayton at Northhampton (Mass.) acknowledges the receipt of money, thanks Prioleau for his help, discusses tenant problems and renting...
Dates: 1811-1832

Thomas Robert receipt book

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-061
Collection Overview This small volume appears to have been used by both Thomas Robert and Peter Robert. The back cover is inscribed "Peter Robert, 1781: Memorandum Book." Most entries pertain to Thomas Robert and include receipts (1776-1779), lists of slaves (n.d.), and a note (1778) by William Newman which is addressed to Capt. Samuel Little and certifies that Thomas Robert "enrolled and has done duty in my company this 26th November 1778." One receipt was written in Charleston (S.C.). Other entries include a...
Dates: 1772-1792

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

John Torrans letters

 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

Weston family papers

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Identifier: Mss 0055
Collection Overview Papers consist of Plowden Weston's business ledger (2 volumes), a plantation journal, and meterorological records for All Saints Parish, South Carolina. Ledger (1764-1769) contains accounts with numerous individuals and several estates of individuals. The ledger was also used as a plantation journal and contains entries and accounts (1830-1847, 1851, 1855) pertaining to Weston family plantations. Plantation journal (1802-1817) contains primarily accounts for the purchase of supplies for...
Dates: 1764-1855

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South Carolina -- Social life and customs 2
diaries 2
letters (correspondence) 2
Account books -- South Carolina 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American business enterprises -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American librarians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American ministers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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African American schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American slaveholders 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
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All Saints Parish (S.C.) 1
Antwerp Plantation (S.C.) 1
Berkeley County (S.C.) -- History 1
Broughton Island Plantation (Ga.) 1
Cedar Springs Plantation (S.C.) 1
Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
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Clergy -- Correspondence 1
Confederate States of America -- Imprints 1
Curriboo Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
Decedents' estates -- South Carolina 1
Educators -- Correspondence 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Berkeley County 1
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Fishing -- South Carolina 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
Free Black people 1
Georgetown County (S.C.) -- History 1
Grove Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Holly Hill Plantation (Georgetown County, S.C.) 1
Landlord and tenant -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Lane Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
Laurel Hill Plantation (Georgetown County, S.C.) 1
Lawyers 1
Lynching -- South Carolina -- Lake City 1
Marriage settlements -- South Carolina 1
Medicine, Chinese -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions 1
Mepkin Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
Merchants 1
Meteorology -- South Carolina -- All Saints Parish -- Observations 1
Murray's Ferry (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
Musicians -- Correspondence 1
New Hope Plantation (Ga.) 1
Old Fort Plantation (S.C.) 1
Oldfield Plantation (Berkeley County, S.C.) 1
Paper money -- Confederate States of America 1
Parole -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 1
Pinckney Island Plantation (S.C.) 1
Pinebury Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) 1
Plantation owners 1
Plantation owners -- South Carolina 1
Plantations -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County 1
Politicians -- Correspondence 1
Racially mixed people -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Retail trade -- South Carolina 1
Rice -- Machinery 1
Rice -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County 1
Rice trade -- South Carolina -- Georgetown County 1
Sherman's March through the Carolinas 1
Shipping -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Slann's Island (S.C.) 1
Slave records -- South Carolina -- Berkeley County 1
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Names
United States. Works Progress Administration 4
Porch family 2
Alston family 1
Atlanta University 1
Avery Normal Institute 1
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Baker, Frazier B., -1898 1
Barn, Isaac, -approximately 1784 1
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 1
Berrigan, Daniel 1
Bronseaux, Anna Pierre Dart, 1896-1978 1
Bronseaux, Beverly 1
Butler, Nathaniel 1
Butler, Susan Dart, 1888-1959 1
Charleston Normal and Industrial School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Clinton, Henry, Sir, 1738?-1795 1
Commonweal (New York, N.Y.) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Beaufort Light Artillery 1
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 8th. Company C 1
Cordes, Catharine, 1724-1805 1
Cordes, Catharine, 1745-1832 1
Cordes, John, 1718-1756 1
Cordes, John, 1749-1798 1
Cordes, Samuel, -1796 1
Cordes, Thomas, 1753-1806 1
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805 1
Crum, William Demos, 1859-1912 1
Dart family 1
Dart, John Lewis, 1854-1915 1
Dart, Julia Pierre 1
Dart, William 1
Dart, William Andrews 1
DeSaussure, Charles Alfred, 1846- 1
Drayton, S. M. 1
Drayton, William, active 1829 1
Fenwick, Susan 1
Flinn, Eliza B., -1844 1
Gaillard & Mazyck 1
Gaillard, Theodore, 1737-1805 1
Grimball, John Berkley, 1800-1892 1
Hamilton, James, 1750-1833 1
Harleston, Edwin Augustus, 1882-1931 1
Harleston, Isaac Child, 1745-1798 1
Henderson, Thomas, active 1832 1
Hersey, John, 1914-1993 1
Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913 1
Hunter College 1
Industry (Ship) 1
Keller, Frederica B. 1
Keokuk (Ironclad steamer) 1
Lannie, Vincent P. 1
Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 1
Little, Samuel, active 1778 1
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 1
Marion, Francis, 1732-1795 1
Mazyck, Stephen, -1808 1
McClennan, Alonzo C., 1855-1912 1
Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Miller, Thomas E., 1849-1938 1
Minor's Moralist Society 1
Monitor (Ironclad) 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Moultrie, Thomas, 1740-1780 1
Moultrie, William, 1730-1805 1
Newman, William, active 1778 1
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825 1
Porcher, Elizabeth Catherine Palmer, 1833- 1
Porcher, Isaac DuBose, 1832-1866 1
Porcher, Philip, 1730-1800 1
Porcher, Thomas Cordes, 1809-1862 1
Porcher, William Mazyck 1
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921 1
Prioleau, Hannah Motte 1
Prioleau, Samuel, 1784-1840 1
Proveaux, Adrian 1
Purcell, Mae Holloway, 1891-1982 1
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013 1
Reynolds, Julia W. 1
Robert, Peter, active 1781 1
Robert, Thomas, active 1776-1792 1
Rose, Alexander, -1801 1
Rutledge, John, 1739-1800 1
Savage, Sarah H. 1
Shuster, George N. (George Nauman), 1894-1977 1
South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives 1
Thomson, James H. 1
Torrans, John, approximately 1702-1780 1
United States. Continental Army. South Carolina Regiment, 2nd 1
Vanderhorst family 1
Weston, Francis Marion, 1783-1854 1
Weston, Plowden C. J. (Plowden Charles Jennett), 1819-1864 1
Weston, Plowden, 1739-1827 1
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975 1
Wilkins, Eliza Berkley, approximately 1798-1863 1
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