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Marshall, Quitman. The Swamp: excerpts from a work in progress; 1999 Jan. 11 : [typescript].

Title: The Swamp: excerpts from a work in progress; 1999 Jan. 11 : [typescript].

Essay re history of Lexington and Richland Counties, and author's impressions of Congaree swamp and environs, written from his perspective of a native returning to South Carolina after working in New York. Topics discussed include early landowners and settlers in Lexington County, S.C.; folklore, flora, and fauna of the Congaree Swamp; logging industries and the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company; Edward C.L. Adams, and others; Marshall also discusses the swamp as symbol and metaphor in cinema, history, and the imagination.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (22 p.) ; 28 cm.

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Richardson, Richard, 1704-1780. Richard Richardson papers, 1735-1880; bulk (1735-1806).

Title: Richard Richardson papers, 1735-1880; bulk (1735-1806).

Land papers, 1735-1806 and 1880, for property originally located in Prince Frederick Parish area of the Pee Dee in eastern South Carolina; during the 18th century, officials created St. Mark Parish and St. David Parish from the earlier boundaries of Prince Frederick Parish, S.C. Land grants, 1735-1806, of the Richardson family; including plats drawn for of Rene Richburgh; plat; 7 Sept. 1745, for Richard Richardson in Prince Frederick's Parish showing "a path to Wateree Township from Richmond alias Hearns Bluff"; signed document, 1 July 1763, by Egerton Leigh, Surveyor General in St. Mark's Parish; fragment of record of plat on Santee River adjoining Richard Richardson's plat showing "Lower Falls." Land conveyances, 15 Apr. 1773 and 5 Oct. 1784, from Thomas and John Davis to Richardson family; and affidavits, 1880, in regard to timber and logging claims by the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company to properties identified as: " Fiscal," "James," "Old Home," and "Woodland" plantations.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

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Simons family. Simons family papers, 1839-1919.

Title: Simons family papers, 1839-1919.

Chiefly legal papers and correspondence, 1896-1910, of Keating Lewis Simons, III, with Gardner & Lacey Lumber Company, re timber rights, and with legal firms, Frasers & Cooper, Sumter, and Rhame & Davis, Manning, re litigation against E.W. Moise and R.E. Clark for title to and timber rights on swamp lands in Clarendon County claimed by Moise and Clark as part of a plantation called "Indigo Hill." Correspondence, plantation, and business papers of Keating Lewis Simons, II, including estimate [1845?], for cost of labor and materials for a mill to produce lime and to make barrels for shipping the lime; and copy of will, 3 Sept. 1851, Keating Simons, Jr., directing his executors "to prevent my negroes [from] being sold to any notoriously cruel master." Also includes memorandum of agreement, 15 Nov. 1866, between Henry Bischoff, Keating Simons, Jr., and Christopher Gaillard for raising crops on cotton lands furnished by Gaillard and Simons; letter, 11 Oct. 1897, Sumter, Frasers & Cooper, to K. Lewis Simons, Eutawville, re chain of title to Pond Bluff Plantation, once owned by Francis Marion; and letter, 10 July 1913, Orangeburg, Andrew J. Hydrick, to [Keating] Lewis Simons, Eutawville, re settlement with two African Americans whose hogs were killed while trespassing on Simons' land.

ArchivalResource: 358 items.

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