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Miscellaneous Papers

Title: Miscellaneous Papers

The collection consists of single or small groupings of items arranged in units by provenance. Included are tax forms, records of accounts, slave lists and bills of sale, land patents, schedules of debt, wills, marriage licenses, naturalization papers, invitations, proclamations, commissions, sermons, speeches, and reminiscences, predominantly from North Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. There is little correspondence.

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Smith, Josiah, 1731-1826. Josiah Smith diary, 1780-1781.

Title: Josiah Smith diary, 1780-1781.

Diary kept by Smith while a British prisoner of war in Saint Augustine, Fla., during the American Revolution. Includes details on British naval operations off the coast of South Carolina and Florida and British involvement with the Spanish in the West Indies. Also includes a biographical sketch of Josiah Smith (1804-1871), South Carolina clergyman.

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Smith, Thomas, 1648-1694. Thomas Smith genealogical chart, 1874.

Title: Thomas Smith genealogical chart, 1874.

Facsimile of a genealogical chart tracing the descendants of Thomas Smith (1648-1694), a governor and landgrave of the Province of Carolina, through to the Holmes family. The chart includes his grandson the Reverend Josiah Smith, a South Carolina clergyman. The chart was created by Francis Simmons Holmes of Charleston, S.C., and is dated August 1874.

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Smith, Josiah, 1731-1826. Diary of Josiah Smith, Jr. : one of the exiles from Charleston to St. Augustine during the British occupation, 1780-1781, 1780-before 1932.

Title: Diary of Josiah Smith, Jr. : one of the exiles from Charleston to St. Augustine during the British occupation, 1780-1781, 1780-before 1932.

Volume containing a typescript (before 1932) copy, edited and annotated in pencil (ca. 1932), of the diary (1780-1782) of Josiah Smith. Volume contains Smith's account of the 29 citizens, prisoners on parole, taken from Charles Town (Charleston), South Carolina by the British on August 27, 1780, placed aboard the armed ship Sandwich, and exiled to St. Augustine, Florida. The account contains the names and positions of these exiled public officials and militia officers. Includes the comings and goings of vessels at St. Augustine, the items loaded and unloaded from ships, the arrival of additional prisoners, worship services, and the celebration of religious holidays. In early July 1781 Smith notes that an exchange of prisoners was ordered for the Southern Department, and that their families are being sent to Virginia and Philadelphia. Smith includes a copy of orders from the Commissary of Prisoners and copies of letters from the prisoners of war on parole. Smith records the release of the prisoners and arrival of prisoners' families at Philadelphia, and the death of his father, Josiah Smith (1704-1781) shortly thereafter. The diary contains a copy of Smith's father's epitaph (1782 Dec.). Smith also lists the number of British troops surrendered at Saratoga and Yorktown, the names of the heads of families exiled and the value of donations received, subscribers names in Philadelphia and loan or donations received, confiscated estates belonging to British subjects in the state of South Carolina, the names of individuals elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1781, and the number of exiles (family members and Negroes).

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