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Byars, Merlene Hutto. The Barbara Shuler and Peter Otto (Huttow, Hutto) family through the eyes of a granddaughter : [ typescript] ; 2001 / by Merlene Hutto (Otto) Byars (Klutzow).

Title: The Barbara Shuler and Peter Otto (Huttow, Hutto) family through the eyes of a granddaughter : [ typescript] ; 2001 / by Merlene Hutto (Otto) Byars (Klutzow).

Essays and lineage of descendants of Barbara Shuler/Shuller and Peter Otto, who were married in 1740; also biographical sketch of Lewis Malone Ayer (1821-1895); essays re Fort Granby and townships in colonial South Carolina; Friendship Baptist Church in Hilda (Sleytown) in Barnwell County, S.C.; and Carlisle Military School in Bamberg County, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 334 sheets : ill. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48917574 View

Ayer, Lewis M. Lewis M. Ayer account book, 1863-1867.

Title: Lewis M. Ayer account book, 1863-1867.

Account book, 1863-1867, documenting management of the estate of Lewis Malone Ayer, Sr.; including account of L.M. Ayer, Jr., with his father's estate, listing income from cotton, cattle, and lumber, and collection of debts, and expenses, including hiring blacksmiths, purchasing carpentry tools, taxes, freight, and medicine. Also including appraisal of estate of Ayer, Sr., including names of 158 African-American slaves by listed by family groups, giving names of family members, and appraised value of the family group; also lists values of tools, livestock, and household and kitchen furniture; and balance sheet listing accounts with Lewis M. Ayer and Company.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43742682 View

James Henry Hammond Papers, 1774-1875, (bulk 1823-1864)

Title: James Henry Hammond Papers 1774-1875 (bulk 1823-1864)

Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean.

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 38 containers plus 3 oversize; 10 linear feet; 20 microfilm reels

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Ayer, Lewis M. Lewis M. Ayer papers, 1768-1870.

Title: Lewis M. Ayer papers, 1768-1870.

Chiefly business correspondence re cotton markets and embargo, and political correspondence, c.1790-c.1820, of Lewis Malone Ayer, Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr. as a Confederate congressman, and land documents; also includes correspondence of Richard Creech, Darling Peeples, Mordecai Cohen, William Stephen, Tarleton Brown, Alfred Proctor Aldrich, Robert Barnwell Rhett, James Henry Hammond, Robert E. Lee, James Chesnut, Jr., D.H. Jacques, and other individuals, and the firms of Walton and Pagan, Lee and Theus. Including letter, 3 Apr. 1797, from M. Lazarus, Charleston, S.C., to Lewis M. Ayer, Salt Ketchers [Salkehatchie?], re sending an ill slave to stay at Ayer's plantation; letter, Dec. 1802, from Darling Peeples, to Lewis M. Ayer, Little Saltcatcher, re actions of S.C. Legislature, election of constitutional officers, and importation of slaves; letter, 2 Oct. 1812, from Cohen and Lazarus, Charleston, S.C., to Lewis M. Ayer, Barnwell, S.C., re cotton market, affect of war on cotton prices, and death of Ayer's daughter. Letter, 10 Feb. 1863, Redcliffe, Aiken, S.C., from James Henry Hammand, to Lewis M. Ayer, Jr., Richmond, Va., re Confederate export taxes, import duties, and Ayer's plan for financing the war; inventory, 24 Sept. 1863, Barnwell District, S.C., of estate of Lewis Malone Ayer; and letter, 16 July 1864, Pinelands, from Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr., to Mr. Fairey, re inquiries on behalf of Elizabeth P. Carr for money due from the Confederate government.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1.33 linear ft. (1566 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43652877 View