Mazyck family. Mazyck family papers, 1748-1889.
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Mazyck family papers, 1748-1889.
Records of plantation management, land papers, items re American Revolution, Civil War, social activities, politics at state and national levels; cotton trade; and other topics. Chiefly business papers of Stephen, William, Edmund, and Elizabeth Porcher Mazyck, and papers of William and Melcher Garner and Plowden Weston of St. Paul's Parish; including record, ca. 18 Sept. 1756-16 Feb. 1766, of mortgage and sale of African American slaves identified by name; land grant, 28 Jan. 1771, to Peter Mazyck for 250 acres in Berkeley County, S.C.; lease, release, and conveyance, 25 and 26 Feb. 1771, between Daniel Strobel and Peter Mazyck for land in Amelia Township (Berkeley County, S.C.) Printed letter, 28 June 1776 (Charleston, S.C.), to Capt. Daniel Ravenel (St. John's Parish, S.C.), re Clinton's attempt to land on Haddrel's Point, disposition of crown officers and Tories, and preparations to protect the city; mortgage, 29 Oct. 1800, from Andrew Heatly to William Mazyck; conveyance of lands in trust, 28 Feb. 1819, to William Mazyck for daughter Mary Mazyck Wilson; marriage settlement, 13 Feb. 1832, re Mary Mazyck Wilson and Samuel Wilson, Jr. Stock certificate, 1832, Bank of the U.S. at Charleston, S.C.; invitation, 1 Feb. 1836, Charleston, S.C., to Jockey Club Ball at St. Andrew's Hall; account book, 1844, of William Mazyck, re accounts with various people, railroad shipping, taxes, fees, and goods sold; and unbound volume, 1961, re Mazyck family Bible records, 1748-1854. Letter, 2 Feb. 1846, Charleston, Daniel Ravenel to William Mazyck, re church business; land conveyance, 4 Mar. 1846, Anne Bay to William Mazyck for lot in Charleston; letter, 20 May 1854, H.A. DeSaussure, to William Mazyck, Charleston, S.C., re tribute to barrister Isaac Mazyck; agreement, 3 Nov. 1858, between William Mazyck and Alva Gage and Company, keepers of the ice house, re construction of a brick foundation wall; letter, 27 May 1864, Richmond, Va., Thomas Pinckney to Mrs. William Lucas, re mlitary conditions. Letters, 1878-1880, correspondence of Alexander Mazyck with Arthur Mazyck, and with Stephen D. Doar; letter, 22 June 1884 (London, England) Alexander Mazyck, to Frederick Adolphus Porcher, re U.S. politics and prospects of Grover Cleveland's election; and letter, 16 Nov. 1890 (London, England), to William St. Julien Mazyck, re McKinley tariff, fall of cotton prices, recent Republican defeats, and uncertainty that S.C. legislature would blindly follow Benjamin Tillman regardless of resulting damage to the state.
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