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Keating Simons & Sons (Charleston, S.C.). Copies of letters, &c., 1821-1822.

Title: Copies of letters, &c., 1821-1822.

Eight page gathering entitled "Copies of letters, &c." contains handwritten copies of the business letters of Edward P. Simons of Keating Simons & Sons. The first six letters (23 June 1821) inform individuals that they will sustain no injury from the theft of the bonds and notes of Bourdieu, Chollet & Bourdieu that were stolen from the Counting House of Keating Simons & Sons. The first letter is to Captain Donald Rowe concerning his agreement to purchase land on Edisto [Island] (S.C.) for $3,500. The second letter, addressed to Stephen Elliot, concerns a bond. The third letter is to Margaret and Benjamin Seabrook. The fourth letter to Benjamin Allston and Robert F. Withers concerns a bond payable to assignees of Charles Pinckney, and by them assigned to Henry Laurens, and afterwards transferred to Keating Simons. The fifth letter, addressed to Laura Ingraham, concerns a bond to Morton A. Waring (Federal Marshall). The sixth letter to M. Ellis and I. [Isaac] Emanuel concerns a bond to Morton A. Waring. The seventh letter (17 January 1822) is to William Mayrant who is authorized by Keating & Edward Simon to adopt the most effectual means of procuring payment of the bonds of Mr. Sumpter. The eighth letter (26 February 1822) to John Carter concerning a judgement related to the DuBois estate requests Carter remit the balance in cash from Colonel Blanding. The ninth letter (26 February 1822), to Blanding, relates to a judgment concerning Fisher Jarvis and Isaac Dubose. The tenth letter (n.d.) to William Mayrant concerns Mr. Sumpter's bonds, and interest and penalties. The eleventh letter (24 April 1822) to Blanding requests that he remit the money paid to him by Mr. Carter.

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Young, Moses. Letter : Charleston, [S.C.], to Henry Laurens, Jr., Mepkin [Plantation], 1786 Nov. 16.

Title: Letter : Charleston, [S.C.], to Henry Laurens, Jr., Mepkin [Plantation], 1786 Nov. 16.

Young assures Laurens of his willingness to be of service to him or any of his friends or connections and mentions his debt of gratitude to Laurens's father.

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Pinckney, Thomas, 1750-1828. Thomas Pinckney papers, ca. 1790-ca. 1825.

Title: Thomas Pinckney papers, ca. 1790-ca. 1825.

Papers consist of technical and mechanical drawings, formulae and notes, and other items. Drawings in pencil and ink (some handcolored) depict a marsh plow, a windmill, a canal, Dutch yachts, an Amsterdam canoe (pontoon?), a trunk (irrigation device), a chakram (water-raising machine of India), a "double canoe" of Polynesia, a Venetian well (or cistern), a rice mill, a horse hoe, a gunpowder mill, a Welsh carr (carriage), the "bear" (plowing device?), and other devices. Some of these drawings may have been sent to Thomas Pinckney by William Vans Murray (U.S. foreign minister at The Hague in the 1790's). Several drawings (of the double canoe, Venetian well, chakram, the bear, and Amsterdam canoe) are accompanied by notes and descriptions. Formulae and instructions are for making cement for china, cottonseed oil, paints, oil compost, and other products. Other items include a printed description of "Goodsell's Patent Hemp and Flax Dresser, & Grain Thrasher," a printed description of Benjamin B. Bernard's threshing machine (ca. 1808), a print depicting three bridges (bears the printed signature of Lewis Wernwag), a printed article entitled "Remarks on the Culture of Barrilla," a copy of a letter (1802) to Henry Laurens from N. & D. (Nathan and David) Sellers concerning a rolling screen for cleaning rice, and newspaper clippings.

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Laurens, Henry, 1763-1821. Letters to Jonathan Lucas, 1796.

Title: Letters to Jonathan Lucas, 1796.

Letter (1796 Nov. 20) from Laurens at Mepkin Plantation, addressed to Jonathan Lucas at Limerick, Elias Ball's plantation, requests that Lucas come and see him about an important matter, "without which the intended new mill cannot well be begun upon." In a second letter (1796 Nov. 27) Laurens discusses "the very great loss I have met with in the death of Sam" and asks Lucas to speak with Mr. Lyall about it and to "question a man named Hercules" in order to ascertain if he would be fit to replace Sam.

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