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Ball family. Family documents series, 1631-1858.

Title: Family documents series, 1631-1858.

Papers consist of Ball family receipts (1730-1858) for clothing, medical services, and other expenditures; undated correspondence (ca. 1770-ca. 1795), mostly letters to John Ball (1760-1817) regarding family and plantation affairs; wills and estate papers; slave records; muniments and other legal documents; dated correspondence; oversized documents; and other items. Dated correspondence (1774-1849) of Ball family members and others at Comingtee Plantation, Limerick Plantation, and elsewhere includes letters of overseer James Coward, George Lockey (London agent for John Ball, Sr.), Elias Ball (1744-1822), and Isaac Ball (1754-1776), concerning politics, confiscated land, and family and plantation matters. Estate records include those of John Ball (1760-1817) and Ann Simons Ball (1776-1840). Oversized documents (1631-1842) of Ball family members and members of the Child, Simons, Harleston, and other related families include wills, indentures and other legal documents, land grants, plats, and accounts. Other items include a list of livestock at Jericho Plantation, a list of carpenter's tools at Comingtee Plantation, overseer agreements (1821), and lists of slaves (ca. 1812-1833).

ArchivalResource: ca. 225 items.

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Ball, John, 1782-1834. John Ball papers, 1802-1895.

Title: John Ball papers, 1802-1895.

Papers chiefly consist of plantation papers including correspondence, accounts, and slave records; also included are John Ball's bank account books (1802-1812), and a rental account book (1812) of Caroline Olivia Ball. Correspondence (1821-1835) of John Ball and other Ball family members is mainly with plantation overseers including Thomas G. Finklea at Stoke, Comingtee, and elsewhere; William A. Turner at Quinby Plantation; and James Coward at Kensington and Hyde Park plantations. Letters concern daily plantation affairs, rice and other crops, livestock, repairs, and slave matters. A plantation account book (1812-1834) includes accounts with overseers at Comingtee, Midway, Kensington, Stoke, Quinby, Hyde Park, Limerick, and Back River plantations. There are also accounts with William Seymour for rent at Strawberry Ferry, accounts with slaves and free blacks, and accounts for bank and insurance stocks of Ann Simons Ball. A bound volume inscribed "Clothing and blanketing book of John Ball's Negroes, Oct. 26, 1831" contains lists (1831-1834, 1841) of slaves given clothing and blankets at Comingtee, Stoke, Kensington, and Midway plantations. The book was later used by Anne Simons Deas, granddaughter of Ann Simons Ball, to record anecdotes and traditions of Berkeley County families and plantation life, including family history notes about the Ball, Harleston, Simons, Moultrie, and Deas families.

ArchivalResource: ca. 135 items.

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