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Horry, Harriott Pinckney, 1749-1830. Harriott Pinckney Horry diaries, 1793-1815.

Title: Harriott Pinckney Horry diaries, 1793-1815.

Diary (1793-1794) records Horry's trip by sea to Philadelphia with her mother Eliza Lucas Pinckney, nieces Harriott and Maria Henrietta Pinckney, and daughter Harriott Horry (later Harriott Rutledge). Diary also concerns social matters, noting meetings with George Washington and other prominent persons, and records the illness and death of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Horry's travels in Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and the overland return through Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina to Hampton Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.). Diary (1815) records Horry's trip overland with her niece Eliza Pinckney (later Eliza Izard), her brother Thomas Pinckney, and Mrs. Martin, from Hampton Plantation (Charleston County, S.C.) through North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. She records traveling conditions, agricultural matters, friends and acquaintances and their homes, social visits, sightseeing, and other matters. Diary includes a diagram and description of a refrigerator which uses charcoal to preserve ice. The diary ends in Richmond (Va.).

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Rutledge family. Rutledge family papers, 1796-1862.

Title: Rutledge family papers, 1796-1862.

Chiefly family correspondence including letter, 11 Apr. 1799, Orangeburg, S.C., from Frederick Rutledge to his wife Harriott Pinckney Horry Rutledge, re working in court system; letters, 30 Jan. 1821-22 Sept. 1832, New York, N.Y., London, England, and elsewhere, from Edward Cotesworth Rutledge, to this mother H.P.H. Rutledge, re health; letter, 17 Jan. 1826, Tranquility Plantation, from Jacob Cohen, to Harriott Rutledge, re rice prices, mill conditions, need for plantation equipment, and problems with wooden chimneys. Letters, 1832-1839, Charleston, S.C., Pendelton, S.C., Philadelphia, Pa., and elsewhere, from Rebecca Motte Lowndes Rutledge, to her husband Lt. Edward Cotesworth Rutledge, Pensacola, Fl., Norfolk, Va., Havana, Cuba, and elsewhere; public opinion of 1832 election; discourse between Union and States Rights parties; correspondence between James Hamilton and John C. Calhoun, and James Louis Petigru and George McDuffie. Other topics include State Convention and Nullification Act; Andrew Jackson's proclamation; Henry Clay and nullification; drawing by Charles Fraser; death of Robert James Turnbull; social activity in Charleston, S.C.; Saint Cecilia ball; agriculture; traveling to Virginia springs resorts; and Joel Roberts Poinsett and Martin Van Buren. Letter, 13 Oct. 1832, from Harriott Pinckney Holbrook to Edward Rutledge, re nullification; letters, 1829-1838, Hampton Plantation, Charleston and Greenville, S.C., and Buncombe Co., N.C., from Frederick Rutledge to E.C. Rutledge, Hampton Plantation, Charleston, S.C., and New York, N.Y., re plantation news, seed rice, crop conditions, and plan to move slaves to Alabama. Also including journal, 16 July 1839, Saratoga, N.Y., of H.P.H. Rutledge; letters, 14 and 20 June 1862, Richmond, Va., from H.P. Holbrook, to E.C. Rutledge, Hampton Plantation, Charleston, S.C., re bombardment of Charleston, Ironclad Confederate war vessels, Daniel Harvey Hill's Division, and enemy encounters.

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