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Neufville, John de. Papers of John de Neufville, 1780-1789.

Title: Papers of John de Neufville, 1780-1789.

Letterbook (1780-1784; 85 pages) containing business correspondence and accounts with merchants in America; and loose correspondence between Neufville and John Lewis Gervais of Gervais & Owen, Charleston, S.C., Christopher Gadsden, and Alexander Gillon, concerning business matters, particularly Neufville's accounts with the state of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 19 items (1 volume and 18 items).2 oversize containers.

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Davie, Preston, b. 1881. Preston Davie collection, 1560-1903.

Title: Preston Davie collection, 1560-1903.

Papers are scattered, largely unrelated items, some of interest chiefly as autographs, others containing significant information on political and military affairs. The greatest number of items relates to the Revolutionary War in the South, particularly the Carolinas, but also Virginia and Georgia. These include letters and other documents of many military and civic leaders. There are papers related to French attempts at colonization in the 16th century, 18th-century colonial history of the Carolinas, and the siege of Charleston, S.C., 1780; and letters, 1774-1779, from John Pringle (1753-1843) of South Carolina discussing American Revolutionary diplomacy from Europe. A separate series consists of documents pertaining to lands in North and South Carolina acquired by the Kershaw and Chesnut families of South Carolina. Persons represented in the collection include: John Ashe (1720?- 1781), Theodore Broughton, William Bull (1710-1791), Thomas Burke (ca. 1747-1783), Richard Caswell (1729-1789), Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572), Christopher Gadsden (1724-1805), Horatio Gates (1728-1806), Alexander Gillon (1741-1794), James Glen (1701-1777), Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), Wade Hampton (1754-1835), Cornelius Harnett (1723-1781), William Howe (1732-1786), Allen Jones (1729-1793), Henry Laurens (1724-1792), John Laurens (1754-1782), John Alexander Lillington (1725-1786), Francis Marion (1732-1795), Alexander Martin (1740-1807), Abner Nash (1740-1786), Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), Griffith Rutherford (1721-1805), John Rutledge (1739- 1800), Jethro Sumner (1733-1785), Nicholas Trott (1663-1740), and William Tryon (1729-1788).

ArchivalResource: About 600 items (3.0 linear feet)

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Smith, Patrick C. Commodore Alexander Gillon : typescript, 1985 May 2 / Patrick C. Smith.

Title: Commodore Alexander Gillon : typescript, 1985 May 2 / Patrick C. Smith.

ArchivalResource: 13 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Mellish, Charles. Letter : Manchester Square, [England], to Abraham Motte, 1782 June 7.

Title: Letter : Manchester Square, [England], to Abraham Motte, 1782 June 7.

Mellish regrets that he cannot secure a commission in the British army for Motte through his friend Sir Henry Clinton but offers to recommend Motte to Mr. and Mrs. Gillon for their assistance.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Vanderhorst, John, d. 1787. John Vanderhorst papers, 1774-1804 (bulk 1786-1804).

Title: John Vanderhorst papers, 1774-1804 (bulk 1786-1804).

Papers consist of official and business correspondence, accounts, receipts, bonds, and estate papers of John Vanderhorst (d. 1787). A group of papers (1784-1786) pertain to John Vanderhorst in his capacity as South Carolina Secretary of State. These consist of accounts, receipts, and correspondence, including two letters from surveyor Robert Anderson at Long Cane (S.C.) regarding surveying and the South Carolina frontier. Business papers (1783-1786) include correspondence, receipts, accounts, and bonds with Richard Winn, Joshua Toomer, Alexander Gillon, and many others. Vanderhorst's estate papers (bulk 1786-1804) include bills, receipts, bonds, accounts for bonds and the sale of estate items administered by Arnoldus Vanderhorst, and an account book which has some miscellaneous entries (1774-1776) but is mostly made up of accounts (1787-1804) with the estate of John Vanderhorst (d. 1787). There are receipts from David Ramsay, Edward Rutledge, Pierce Butler, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and others. John Vanderhorst's will includes bequests to his wife Dorothy and sister Sabina Toomer.

ArchivalResource: ca. 250 items.

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Meleney, John C., 1921-. John C. Meleney research files, 1775-1986, (bulk, 1775-1808).

Title: John C. Meleney research files, 1775-1986, (bulk, 1775-1808).

Research notes re political life in Charleston, S.C., during early republican era of late 18th century; chiefly sources used in Meleney's published biography of Aedanus Burke, a native of Ireland who served in S.C. General Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives, and S.C. Convention to ratify U.S. Constitution; also including material collected for unpublished book on representation debate in South Carolina, 1778-1808. Research papers filed in Box IV include, Fence Law Controversy in South Carolina, 1868-1882, written for history class, (May 1985; 59 sheets); and Landed Interest, Representation, Property Concepts, and related Legal Doctrine in Early Republican South Carolina: An Introductory Analysis (December 1986; 59 sheets). Representation and apportionment debate materials arranged into two main series: "Political essays and commentary in South Carolina pamphlets and newspapers, 1783-1786" and "Collected materials relating to debate on apportionment of representation in South Carolina, 1794-1796"; files include typescripts and photocopied originals of letters and pamphlets (mostly published under pseudonyms), editorial comment, and grand jury charges. Some essays have been identified as works by Burke, Christopher Gadsden, Alexander Gillon, William Hornby, John Fauchereaud Grimke, Henry Pendleton, Robert Goodloe Harper, John Drayton, Timothy Ford, Henry William Desaussure, Thomas Tudor Tucker, and Joseph Alston; also including research on constitutional and legislative background. Also including notes, drafts, papers, and newspaper stories relating to representation and related issues like debtor relief, paper money, judicial reform, eminent domain, and the open range policy, contemporary political issues, Society of the Cincinnati, the Jay treaty, the Jonathan Robbins extradition case, and debates in the first federal Congress. Also including information about William Read, Nathanael Greene, Anthony Wayne, James Madison, John Nicholson, Pierce Butler, Edward Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Rutledge, Jr., RawlinsLowndes, and John Pringle.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (4 cartons)

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South Carolina (Continental State Frigate). The South Carolina (Continental State Frigate) collection, 1781-1945.

Title: The South Carolina (Continental State Frigate) collection, 1781-1945.

Consisting of photostatic copy of ship's log, 4 Aug. 1781 - 22 May 1782, maintained by Commodore Alexander Gillon, recording weather observations and course of ship's first voyage, which originated in Texel, Netherlands with stops at Carone, Spain, Charleston, S.C., and Havanna, Cuba, including account, 25 Aug. 1781, re the capture and burning of a Liverpool privateer in the North Sea, and ship's log re naval engagements during the American Revolution. Twentieth century correspondence re the Ship's history includes letters, 17 April 1945-14 Nov. 1945, between Lt. William L. Carbine, Kathleen Lewis, and University of South Carolina president Admiral Norman M. Smith discussing Carbine's discovery of the bell from the South Carolina in New Delhi, India, Carbine's presentation of the bell to the University South Caroliniana Society, and attempts to research the history of the ship. Other correspondents include U.S. Navy Dept., British Admiralty Office, and Lloyd's of London.

ArchivalResource: 25 items and 1 v.

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Gillon, Alexander, 1741-1794. Letter of Alexander Gillon, 1793.

Title: Letter of Alexander Gillon, 1793.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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John Laurens papers.

Title: John Laurens papers.

Letters, 1774-1828, re his activities during the Revolutionary War, with letters to Gen, Mordecai Gist, Peter Manigault, Henry Laurens, and Benjamin Lincoln, and biographical sketch from "The souvenir." Consisting of letters, 2 Nov. 1774, to Henry Laurens, Kings Arms Inn, Falmouth, re "preparing for your stageless voyage," enclosing certain newspapers, and remarking "I can tell you nothing ... of public news, but that the King was ... well received at the play to night"; 20 Oct. 1775, [London], to Henry Laurens, Charles Town, re the upcoming meeting of parliament and its consideration of the colonists grievances; 30 Sept. 1776, to [Peter?] Manigault, Geneva, re his intentions to return to America and victory over Sir Peter Parker; Oct. 1778, [Fredericksburg, N.Y.], to [Jabez] Bowen, acknowledging his letter proposing to give Laurens a horse in exchange for a mare which Bowen had purchased for him, explaining that the mare fell sick on his journey to camp and died later, and describing a white mare which he left [in Rhode Island], and requesting him to locate the mare and to arrange for her sale; 11 Nov. 1779, Halifax, [North Carolina] to Maj. Gen. [Benjamin] Lincoln, Charlestown, reporting his arrival "and with Col. Longs Remounts intend to proceed as far as Ricks ford this evening," where Mr. [John?] Rutledge is ill, 3,000 troops voted by the North Carolina Assembly to serve in South Carolina for "three months after their rendezvous," and commenting "Genl. [Charles?] Scott ... remains in status quo"; 27 Jan. 1780, off Charleston Bar, [to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln?], re defense of the bar and harbor; 15 Mar. 1781, Passy [France], to [James] Searle, informing him of his arrival with letters from America; 21 Apr. 1780, Lampries, to Maj. Gen. [Benjamin Lincoln] reporting his attempts to secure information on the enemy and the "state of our calvary," and discussing the plight of "thirty women and children here," suggesting that the government take charge of them; 15 Aug. 1780, signed "I am yours, Lafayette," from Light Infantry Camp, to Colonel Laurens, Philadelphia, Pa., marginalia notes "killed in S. Carolina Aug. 1782"; 29 May 1781, Breil, to his sister, Le Vigen, expressing regrets for not having an opportunity to spend some time with her; 6 and 10 July 1982, to Gen. Mordecai Gist and Maj. Burnet re removal of ordnance from Charleston by British, "general evacuation expected in Oct., deserters of the militia --" ... the adherents to the British fortunes are making up their baggage--"; printed extract of a letter, 30 Aug. 1782, relating death of J.L. in engagement with British; and a biographical sketch, 24 Dec. 1828, titled "American biography," from "The souvenir," relating chiefly his activities during the Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 14 items

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Owen, Gervais L. Letter : Charleston, [S.C.] to Leonard DeNeufville, 1785 Sept. 16.

Title: Letter : Charleston, [S.C.] to Leonard DeNeufville, 1785 Sept. 16.

Owen looks for a letter from DeNeufville from Holland and discusses a "disinclination to a foreign loan" by the South Carolina General Assembly; DeNeufville's accounts ("in the same situation for want of the necessary voucher"); DeNeufville's claims against Commodore Gillon; "changing the appropriation of the duty revenue"; samples and sales of snakeroot; and other matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Hampton family. Hampton family papers, 1773-1974.

Title: Hampton family papers, 1773-1974.

Antebellum business correspondence and antebellum and Civil War family correspondence of three generations of Wade Hamptons: Wade Hampton I (1752-1835), army officer and U.S. representative from Virginia; Wade Hampton II (1791-1858); and Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), Confederate Army officer and governor and U.S. senator of South Carolina. Papers are of Wade Hampton I concern operations at Houmas, his sugar plantation in Ascension Parish (Louisiana), and his South Carolina rice and cotton plantations, including the purchase of plantation supplies and the marketing of his crops, chiefly 1829-1835. Personal papers of Wade Hampton II and Wade Hampton III include letters to Mary Fisher Hampton, daughter and sister, respectively, concerning family, social, and plantation news from Walnut Ridge and Wild Woods, Miss., and letters from Wade Hampton III to his first wife, Margaret (Preston) Hampton (b. 1851), from England and Scotland, 1846 (typed transcript copies); and to his second wife in the late 1850s and during the Civil War. Later papers include materials dating to Reconstruction, later 19th century, and 20th century papers re politics, family history, farming operations, land and real estate, and other topics.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2 linear ft.

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Read, Jacob, 1752-1816. Papers, 1778-1821.

Title: Papers, 1778-1821.

Papers consisting of a deposition, signed by Read in 1790, concerning the ownership of a slave in the possession of Richard Cureton, who refused to deliver him to Read's representative, George Dykes; commission of dower, 1794, to Ann Lord, widow of Andrew Lord; a letter from J. Alison regarding a falsely reported uprising among slaves, 1797; a letter from J. Dickinson, regarding orders for the review of the brigade, 1806; a letter from Paul Hamilton, mentioning a commission for one Captain Rouark; comments on Alexander Gillon; and numerous letters concerning the business of Peter Hasenclever, Prussian iron manufacturer, who was involved in extensive litigation in the United States with Read as his attorney.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

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Lowndes, Rawlins, 1721-1800. Rawlins Lowndes papers, 1773 July 9-1959, (bulk, 1773 July 9-1779 Jan. 30).

Title: Rawlins Lowndes papers, 1773 July 9-1959, (bulk, 1773 July 9-1779 Jan. 30).

Correspondence of Lowndes in his official capacity on legislative committees and as President of South Carolina. Correspondence includes 9 July 1773, Charleston, S.C., to Peyton Randolph of Virginia, re appointment of committees of correspondence and acknowledging receipt of a list of recommended resolutions by the Virginia House of Burgesses to the S.C. House; letter, 18 June 1778, Charleston, S.C., to Capt. John Bowie, re case against John Martin for deserting his post and allowing prisoners to escape, granting pardon of offense, but instructing that Bowie "call to severe acc[oun]t" any of his men guilty of desertion in the future. Other items include 13 July 1778 order and receipt for money paid John Lewis Gervais; description, ca. 1959, of letter 18 July 1778, to Benjamin Franklin, commissioning Alexander Gillon to procure ships of war in Europe for South Carolina; and letter, 30 Jan. 1779, to Gen. [Benjamin] Lincoln, re alarm over behavior of militia under Gen. Richardson and preparations for possible attack on Beaufort, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Read, Jacob, 1752-1816. Jacob Read papers 1752-1816.

Title: Jacob Read papers 1752-1816.

Family letters re politics and business activities; including letter, 30 July 1776, Savannah, Ga., from Archi[bald] Bulloch, re Read's military service, and use of his father's house; letter, 1 Oct. 1783, Philadelphia, from Eliza Philps, re health of Charles Philips; letter, 20 Apr. 1784, Charleston, from A[lexander] Gillon, re negotiations between Dr. Bancroft and Chevalier Luxembourg over suit against S.C.; letter, 4 Mar. 1786, Savannah, Ga., from R[ichard] Beresford, re claim against estate of C[harles] Elliot. Twelve legal and business papers, 1777-1812; letter, 16 Dec. 1795, re S.C. reaction to Jay treaty; letter, 29 Dec. 1795, re Jay treaty and suicide attempt by John Rutledge; and letter, 25 Sept. 1797, re British Navy; letter, 23 Mar. 1799, Philadelphia, to Ga. Gov. James Jackson, re French intentions to incite slave rebellions; letter, 20 Feb. 1784, Philadelphia, from L. Tho[ma]s Ride, requesting formal introductions into Charleston society. Letter, 25 Nov. 1784, Charleston, S.C., from Ben Guerard, acknowledging private favor done by Read; letter, 19 May 1787, Charleston, S.C., to J[oh]n Tonno, London, England, re his financial situation, and assistance with home improvement loan; letter, 19 June 1788, Charleston, S.C., to Ro[ber]t Wills, London, re payment and search for trunk of books and other items ordered; 2 letters, 17 July 1788, William Mason to John Frederick Rohl, Hamburg, Germany; letter, 24 Sept. 1789, Charleston, S.C., re John Jacob Rohl. Letter, 14 Dec. 1790, Orangeburg County, S.C., to Seaborn Jones, Augusta, re return of slave held by Richard Cureton; letter, 13 May 1791, Charleston, S.C., to Adam Munroe, re trial in Burke County, Ga., for recovery of slave; letter, 17 July 1794, Charleston, to Al[exande]r Moultrie, re report that Moultrie had challenged him to a duel; letter, 1 May 1790, Savannah, Ga., to Seaborn Jones, re an Augusta, Ga., plantation owned by Charles Philips, failure of Maj. Francis Willis to purchase it, and collecting rent. Petition, 11 Dec. 1794, re supplying arms to Republican Artillery of S.C. Militia, Eastern Regiment; letter, 26 Feb. 1796, Philadelphia, from W. Read, Charleston, S.C., re friendship during confinement, birth of Read's daughter, rice crop failures, politics, and Carnival of Charleston horse races; letter, 24 Feb. 1806, Charleston, to Gov. Paul Hamilton, near Jacksonville, Fla., re his brigade, skirmishs, and location; letter, 3 Apr. 1807, Charleston, S.C., to Lt. Col. R[obert] McKelvey, re current court martial case. Letters, 1804, reflect interactions between Read, his wife, Catherine, in South Carolina and her sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth "Betsy" and Charles Ludlow, in New York City; 2 letters from Catherine Read to the Ludlows discuss family matters, including the Ludlows' daughter Cornelia, and their gratifying gift of a barrel of apples. Charles Ludlow was a successful Wall Street banker, and Catherine's letter of 10 Jan. 1804 to Betsy, likely written from Charleston, compares their cities, and comments on celebration of Christmas by her slaves: "our Town affords nothing that can be any ways interesting to you it is very tranquil & quiet & was perfectly so throughout the Holidays... our Serv[an]ts had a Dinner & Dance the day after Christmas & appeared quite happy." Catherine wrote that "the amusements have again commenced" after the holidays. She had attended a concert but did not expect to go to the theater "as it is attended with so much trouble to get seats but if they are no better than last years they will not be to be regretted." Jacob Read's letters of 7 and 13 Mar. 1804 hint that political intrigue abroad was adversely impacting Charleston's mercantile economy, which, he notes, was "in a State of Stagnation, no arrivals no sales & in short quite a state of mercantile distress.... We have not a Word of News here and are all gazing for advice from Europe may they when they arrive be such as will revive our drooping commerce & ensure the peace & tranquility of the World."

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

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