Hall, Ainsley, 1783-1823. Ainsley Hall papers, 1809-1828.
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Ainsley Hall papers, 1809-1828.
Business and personal correspondence, and legal papers pertaining to the interests of merchant Ainsley Hall of Columbia, S.C., and following his death in 1823, his estate. Letter, 25 Sept. 1809, from Ainsley Hall (Columbia, S.C.), to [Adam] Car[r]uth, Greenville, S.C., writing as guardian of Mary and Jesse Goodwyn, re a tract of land purchased by Carruth and subsequently claimed by the heirs of Jesse Goodwyn, providing details of the property's ownership, discussing damages to the property caused by "the Iron Works, as also for the use of the Land." Adam Carruth, a native of Lincolnton, N.C., operated an iron works and a gun factory near Greenville, S.C. Three documents dealing with real estate in Richland District, S.C., dated 19 Oct. 1812, 7 Jan. and 17 Feb. 1823, include indenture re sale to Thomas Heath of land on "Gills Creek, a branch of the Congaree River, seven miles below the town of Columbia"; indenture and plat re sale by Thomas May to Hall of land "Situated in the low ground of the Congaree River on a Lake ... now Called Little Creek Lake"; and copy of a plat, 3 June 1814, of land across the river from Columbia near Granby, S.C., conveyed to Hall by Wade Hampton Jr. (1791-1858). Letter, 16 Feb. 1819, Columbia, S.C., to Robert Falconer, in New York, announcing his plans to leave Columbia for England, uncertainty whether his wife's health would allow her to travel with him, noting that [Langdon] Cheves had departed Columbia for Philadelphia in anticipation of his election as president of the Bank of the United States, and news of the closing of the boarding school at which his niece, Betsy, was a student. Eleven manuscripts, 1822-1825, re work and materials for construction of Hall's elaborate home in Columbia, S.C., including 2 letters, 3 July 1823 and undated, from architect Rob[er]t Mills, giving estimated cost for an outbuilding, "your Gardener's house," and for brick and lime for the house and wall; undated manuscript, "Bill of Ironmongery for the Mansion"; manuscript, 27 June 1825, statement of "articles had for New Building previous to the death" of Ainsley Hall, amounting to $19,41.36 1/4. Also contains ca. 90 manuscripts, documenting prolonged legal battle, 1823-1828, surrounding the settlement of Hall's estate, including his will, 3 May 1822, naming as executors his wife, Sarah C. Hall, as well as James Hopkins Adams, James Hopkins, William Hall, and George Cotchett ; equity court decree, Mar. 1826, signed by Henry W[illia]m DeSaussure, ordering the sale of the house; and 2 letters, 3 Sept. 1825 from Jackson & Broadfoot, of Liverpool, England (successors to the firm of John McAdams & Co.), and and 26 Apr. 1826, from Dugald Macfie of Glasgow, Scotland, to Mrs. Ainsley Hall, Columbia, S.C., re payment of debts from her husband's estate. Another letter, 16 Sept. 1825, from Dougald Macfie in Glasgow, quotes from a letter written by Mrs. Sarah Hall to William Hall in which she suggests an intention on his part to defraud her late husband's estate, reviewing financial records and accounts of Ainsley & William Hall & Co., informing her of his meeting with Hall, "His conduct... was highly honorable... the very reversal of what you s[ay]," expressing regret at the "differences" between Hall's surviving relatives over settlement of the estate, and conveying to her Hall's willingness to submit matters to arbitration.
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