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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. Collection of miscellaneous Confederate manuscripts, 1860-1865.

Title: Collection of miscellaneous Confederate manuscripts, 1860-1865.

The collection consists of Civil War era documents that give the Confederate and English perspectives on the conflict. Most, if not all, of the items were assembled by the Allston Family. The collection consists of broadsides, correspondence, news clippings, and cartoons that detail the causes of the war, several major events and battles, calls for support of the war effort, and Unionist sentiment in the South.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 linear ft.

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King, Mitchell, 1783-1862. Mitchell King papers, 1842-1860.

Title: Mitchell King papers, 1842-1860.

Papers include letters, an invoice, a notice, and lists pertaining to Mitchell King. Letters are from Henry C. King at Matanza [Plantation, Prince George Parish, S.C.] (1847 April 26) concerning family and social matters, John Pennington at Philadelphia (1850 Feb. 8) concerning Pennsylvania now paying what it owes to him (also about family matters, preserving the republic, and their mutual interest in early European occupation of Carolina and working of the gold mines before English settlement), F.S. Holmes (June 25; ca. 1857) concerning King's interest in and subscription to the museum [College of Charleston Museum?], and J.L. Petigru (Aug. 15) in which he states he is sending him "the Times" concerning the opinion of one of the judges on the marriage question. An invoice (1853 July 13) from Hector Bossange of Paris with a note (1853 August 17) from Edward Bossange (the New York proprietor of Hector Bossange) notifying King that the third volume of Humboldt's Cosmos has arrived and will be sent as soon as Bossange can pick it up at the Custom House in New York. A printed notice with handwritten additions (1842 May 7) from Daniel Ravenel, president of the Bible Society of Charleston requests that King attend a meeting of the Board of Managers. A list (1860) arranged by date (1858-1860) contains names and amounts of money. Another list (n.d.) contains the names of various individuals.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31740402 View

Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868. Waddy Thompson papers, 1799-1978.

Title: Waddy Thompson papers, 1799-1978.

Papers, 1799 - 1869 and 1933, 1963, 1977-1978; chiefly correspondence, commissions and certificates re Thompson's diplomatic mission as minister to Mexico, 1842-1844, including papers re claims against, treaty with, and prisoners held by Mexico; political correspondence re national and state affairs; and commissions of Thompson and of his father, Waddy Thompson, Sr.; places represented include Washington, D.C.; Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Georgia; Virginia; Frankfort (Kentucky); Mexico; and elsewhere. Family papers discuss household and plantation expenses. Correspondents include Robert W. Barnwell, Andrew Pickens Butler, Pierce Mason Butler, John J. Crittenden, Warren R. Davis, Robert H. Hayne, Charles Lanman, Brantz Mayer, George McDuffie, Abraham Nott, Benjamin F. Perry, James Louis Petigru, Francis W. Pickens, Joel R. Poinsett, John Tyler, and others. Accounts, 15 Oct. 1824 and 2 Sept. 1837, listing expenses for plantation and household supplies; letter, 5 July 1842 (Washington, D.C.), from W[illiam] B[erkeley] Lewis, [Second Auditor of the U.S. Treasury], to WT in Mexico, enclosing letter to be translated into Spanish applying to the Mexican government for indemnity "in relation to our claim upon the Texan Government," commenting on friction between President [John] Tyler and Congress over proposed distribution of the land fund; letter, 11 Dec. 1842 (Washington, D.C.), from Brantz Mayer [Secretary of U.S. Legation to Mexico], to WT re his return "through the South" to settle his father's estate, reports on interview with [Daniel] Webster and his dissatisfaction with the proposed treaty with Mexico, possible change in status of minister, Mayer's chances of appointment to Denmark, Thompson's popularity in Mexico, resignation of [William C.] Preston and [John C.] Calhoun, appraisal of presidential candidates: [Martin] Van Buren, [Thomas H.] Benton, [James] Buchanan, [Lewis] Cass, [John C.] Calhoun, and [Henry] Clay, "I think it highly probably that Tyler or Cass will be the man, - tho' Calhoun's stock is rising...." Letter, 18 Mar. 1843 (Demopolis, Ala.), from F[rancis] S[trother] Lyon, requesting Thompson's aid in providing comfort to David S. Kornegay, taken prisoner in Texas; letter, 2 July 1843, from T[homas] J[efferson] Green, "Castle of Perote," to Santa Anna, stating conditions of his health since his imprisonment with a medical certificate, discussing "medical assistance necessary for my restoration... I have not been trusted upon parole"; draft of a letter, 17 Oct. 1843 (U.S. Legation, Mexico) to Jose M. de Bocanegra, presenting a counter project for settlement of "claims pending between the Government and citizens of the U.S. States and the Government & citizens of the Mexican Republic." Also includes small amount of genealogical information on the Thompson, Chotard, Gould family, and Williams families.

ArchivalResource: 95 items.

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Letters, 1848.

Title: Letters, 1848.

Letter (1848 Sept. 30) from Petigru in Charleston (S.C.) to Nicholas Cruger discusses a marriage settlement for Cruger and his wife Elizabeth Ann (Roberts) Cruger; second letter (1848 June 1) concerns a trust.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37522028 View

Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Letter : to R.H. Wilde, 1820 Nov. 21.

Title: Letter : to R.H. Wilde, 1820 Nov. 21.

Letter to Wilde in Augusta (Ga.) concerns an enrollment which cannot be forwarded to him until signed by Judge DeSaussure.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Ravenel, Henry, 1790-1867. Henry Ravenel family papers, 1731-1867.

Title: Henry Ravenel family papers, 1731-1867.

Papers consist of correspondence, journals, financial records, slave and estate records, and other items. Family and business correspondence (1809-1859) covers topics such as politics, family matters, the operations and finances of the Limestone Springs Company resort near Spartanburg (S.C.), and tall tales of the South Carolina backcountry. Correspondents include James L. Petigru, John B. O'Neall, Charles W. Rice, and others. Diary (1806-1822) of Henry Ravenel (1790-1867) concerns his social activities, horse racing, participation in a search party hunting runaway slaves near Pineville (S.C.), plantation affairs, and other matters, and includes lists of slaves he bought or inherited. A journal (1731-1826) kept by Henry Ravenel (1729-1785) and others contains notes on family births, deaths, and marriages, lists of slaves, and entries regarding the weather and crops. Journal (ca. 1780-1853) first kept by Rene Ravenel (1762-1822) and continued by Henry Ravenel (1790-1867) also records family events, weather conditions, and trips to Charleston (S.C.) from Pooshee Plantation. A plantation journal (1836-1845, one later entry in 1862) describes crop yields and sales of cotton from Pooshee and elswhere; another, inscribed "Crop Book" (1810-1832), contains entries on weather, crops, and slaves, and includes a slave list. Financial records include a receipt book (1798-1823) of Henry Ravenel (1751-1823), and account books (1845-1855) and a medical daybook (1816-1834) of Henry Ravenel (1790-1867). Estate accounts (1749-1750) for the estate of Rene Ravenel (d. ca. 1749) are contained within a daybook (1744-1777) of his brother Henry Ravenel (1729-1785). Estate account book (1827-1836) for Paul de St. Julien Ravenel includes lists of slaves at Pooshee. Slave records include a book (1771-1867) listing births of slaves from Woodboo and Hanover plantations. Other items include stock certificates, accounts, and other documents pertaining to the Limestone Springs Company of Spartanburg, S.C.

ArchivalResource: ca. 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35953526 View

Burt, A. (Armistead), 1802-1883. Papers, 1759-1933.

Title: Papers, 1759-1933.

Political and legal correspondence, the former dealing largely with the policies of John C. Calhoun and the question of secession. After 1860 the material relates chiefly to Burt's law practice, especially to the management of estates of Confederate soldiers, and the Calhoun estate. Other matters referred to include the political corruption and economic conditions in postwar South Carolina. Among the correspondents are Pierce M. Butler, Henry Toole Clark, Thomas Green Clemson, T.L. Deveaux, James H. Hammond, A.P. Hayne, Reverdy Johnson, Hugh S. Legaré, Augustus B. Longstreet, W.N. Meriwether, james L. Petigru, Francis W. Pickens, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Richard Rush, Waddy Thompson, and Louis T. Wigfall.

ArchivalResource: 5, 675 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19309861 View

Allston, Joseph Blyth. Life and times of James L. Petigru 1900 Jan. 21 - June 17 : brilliant lawyer, staunch patriot, a citizen true to his state ... / compiled from family records, public documents and autograph letters by Joseph Blyth Allston ...

Title: Life and times of James L. Petigru 1900 Jan. 21 - June 17 : brilliant lawyer, staunch patriot, a citizen true to his state ... / compiled from family records, public documents and autograph letters by Joseph Blyth Allston ...

A serialized biography of J.L. Petigru published in The Sunday news (Charleston, S.C.), 21 Jan. - 17 June 1900, "giving graphic pictures of the social and political life of South Carolina for three-quarters of a century, embracing the thrilling episode of Nullification and the terrible catastrophe of the war between the states." Manuscripts Division holds both an original and a bound photocopy of this series.

ArchivalResource: 22 newspaper articles.

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Planters' and Mechanics' Bank of South Carolina. Records, 1840-1841.

Title: Records, 1840-1841.

Collection contains a cashier's letterpress book from the bank, chiefly concerning routine business matters. Among the correspondents are B.D. Boyd, Stephen Elliott, Franklin Elmore, Andrew A. Humphreys, William Louis, Stephen Mallory (1812-1873), Nicholas Murray, James L. Petigru, Daniel Ravenel, Robert B. Rhett, Romulus M. Saunders, and Robert Walton.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39224242 View

Gignilliat family. Gignilliat family papers, 1828-1901.

Title: Gignilliat family papers, 1828-1901.

Consisting chiefly of business correspondence and papers of rice planter Norman Page Gignilliat (1809-1871), of Darien, Ga., and his wife, Charlotte Trezevant Gignilliat (1819-1905), including bills and receipts, 1828-1901, for the purchase of plantation and household supplies; business correspondence of Charleston and Savannah factors providing information on sales of rice, the rice market, and factor-planter relations; business papers, 1850-1866, indicating Norman Gignilliat's investment in the Roswell Manufacturing Company, a cotton factory destroyed during the Civil War, and including correspondence, 1858-1861, of Charleston attorney James Louis Petigru and the law firm of Petigru & King re settlement of an English estate case, Trezevant v. Broughton, involving Charlotte Gignilliat; correspondence re the education of the Gignilliat children, including letters, 1857-1858, from Elias Marks, South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute, Barhamville, re Caroline B. Gignilliat; and letters, 1874-1875, between Charlotte Gignilliat and James J. Slade, Slade's School for Boys, Columbus, Ga., re the expulsion of Farquar Gignilliat for fighting; and land and legal papers, 1839-1877, Cobb and McIntosh Counties. Bound volumes, 1843-1885, consisting of bank books of Norman Page Gignilliat and his wife, Charlotte Trezevant Gignilliat; volume, 1864- 1865, containing a "List of Negroes owned by N.P. Gignilliat"; and 6 volumes, 1854-1859, pocket plantation diaries with notes re planting and harvesting, quantities of rice, corn and potatoes harvested, and weather conditions.

ArchivalResource: 2,605 items and 18 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30017525 View

Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948.

Title: James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948.

Chiefly correspondence re Petigru's political views and legal practice; including letter, 8 July 1822, Charleston, S.C., Petigru to Richard Leake, Savannah, Ga., re legal case; inventory, 31 July 1823, Charleston, S.C., for estate of Benjamin Guerard; letter, 18 Nov. 1830, Charleston, S.C., to "Pope," re nullification and soliciting support for Hugh Swinton Legare; letters, 29 Oct. 1832 and 15 July 1833, Charleston, S.C., and Washington, D.C., Petigru to Hugh Swinton Legare, Brussels, re nullification. Letters, 1834-1843, Charleston, S.C., Petigru to Hugh Swinton Legare, re political events in S.C., including nullification, Union Party, and political leaders, including John C. Calhoun, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and James Henry Hammond; and Legare's career in Washington, D.C.; letter, 2 Oct. 1840, Bennettsville, S.C., Barnabus Kelet Henagan, to Petigru, re pardoning a slave, inability to visit Charleston, S.C., and inviting Petigru to visit. Letter, 5 Apr. 1842, Petigru to attorneys Howard and Read, Baltimore, Md., re emancipating a slave in Maryland; letter, 1 Jan. 1859, Charleston, S.C., Petigru to John Belton O'Neall, re O'Neall's book, lack of enforcement of laws against kidnapping African-Americans, and recommending C.B. Northrop for a position. Letter, 30 Mar. 1861, Petigru to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, re invitation to dinner to be attended by ex-Gov. [John Lawrence] Manning and Col. Drayton; petition, 4 Mar. 1862, to the President of the U.S., re consideration of Petigru for the office of Associate Justice of the U.S.

ArchivalResource: 55 items and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43782974 View

Petigru and King (Firm). Letterbooks, 21 Apr. 1854-26 Feb. 1863 [microform].

Title: Letterbooks, 21 Apr. 1854-26 Feb. 1863 [microform].

Indexed letterbooks, 21 Apr. 1854-26 Feb. 1863, documenting legal matters with occasional references to political developments during late antebellum and Civil War eras. Topics discussed include legal cases, management or settlement of estates, and business ventures; administration of estates of Nathanael Greene and Richard Singleton; African American slaves and runaways; hiring-out of slaves; illegal sales of African-Americans, both slave and free; Nesbitt Iron Works in upstate S.C.; Blue Ridge Rail Road Co.; Kansas-Nebraska bill; sectional tensions; the Know-Nothing party; reprimands against a member of the night security patrol; sadness at the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, and hardships on homefront during Civil War. Letter, 5 May 1854, James L. Petigru, to M.M. Johnson re his recent aggressive behavior towards slaves during night-patrol duty, ordering him to stay away from Mrs. Chisolm's plantation where his activities caused "disorder and alarm among her negroes" and reminding him that "a patrol has no right to enter a plantation unless to search disorderly houses or house suspected of harboring runaway negroes"; letter, 23 June 1854, J. L. P., to J[osiah] J[ames] Evans (Washington, D.C.), re estate of General Nathanael Greene, regretting that he had to vote for the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1854 (which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed question of slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty), and remarking, "I think the violation of the Missouri compromise the worst thing that has been done in 20 years"; letter, 2 Dec. 1854, to Capt. P.C. Christian, informing him that the owner of Ned, an African American slave who was injured while employed by the Mount Pleasant Ferry Company had filed a claim against him. Letter, 22 Mar. 1855, to H. Chipman (Detroit, Michigan) re a legal case, and a reference to the Nativist party, stating that he intended to read the "Know nothing manifesto," advising that he felt indifferent towards the organization but understood that "a great many people have different ideas," and remarking that if the group's influence extended to S.C., "the whole thing can be nothing more than a plot to get possession of power"; letter, 27 Mar. 1855, to H.W. Greatorex & M. Reeves, re an arbitration between T. Roberts, "Leader of the Orchestra in the Charleston Theatre," and the Theatrical Association with Roberts claiming that he "was discharged in a summary and... most unjustifiable manner"; letter, 27 Dec. 1856, J. L. P., to W. F. DeSaussure (Columbia, S.C.), berating himself over the loss of a case, "Yet I will have to digest my wrath, and put up with the mortification of a failure which implies disgrace of the heaviest kind... the disgrace of being beaten by an imbecile and worthless enemy"; 2 letters, 23 Feb. and 19 Mar. 1857, to Randolph L. Motte (Columbus, Ga.), informing him that a man named Dangerfield had illegally sold three African American slaves who were the property of George Broad, stating that one man was a candidate for settlement in Liberia and had been repurchased by citizens of St. John's Parish, and offering to purchase Sammy and Simon. Letter, 2 July 1857, J.L.P., to Miss Susan P. Webb (Walterboro, S.C.) stating that he had paid her taxes and would deduct the amount from Tony's wages, reporting on capture of Sampson, a fugitive slave who was advertised for sale, and advising that "perhaps he will do better in Louisiana, but here he is perfectly incorrigible"; letter, 29 Dec. 1857, J. L. P., to J. L. Mustian (Columbus, Ga.), reporting that Sam and Simon had decided to return to his employment, stating that he would supply them with a ticket and letter, and advising that they should be registered as free men of color. Two letters, 16 and 24 Jan. 1861, J.L. Petigru, to Thomas R. R. Cobb (Milledgeville, Ga.), discussing a case in view of "the oncoming of Secession" and considering the impact of secession on the legal process, agreeing with his opinion re a case, doubting that S.C. would encourage confiscation of private property in the event of war, and remarking, "King Cotton is a upstart & I don't believe in him but I will speak of him as he behaves & hope he will answer your predictions." Letter, 13 Apr. 1861, J.L. Petigru, to N.P. Gignilliat (Darien, Ga.), discussing a case, "I am writing in solitude , while all the world is gone to witness the bombardment of Fort Sumter by the collective forces of South Carolina. All which I witness with a heavy heart"; letter, 8 June 1861, Petigru to Col. E.B.C. Cash (Richmond, Va.), relating the case of Aberdeen, the runaway slave "of a neighbor of mine a very respectable coloured man of the name of Anthony Weston," and requesting that Cash assist in returning the slave; and letter, 9 July 1862, Petigru to W.H. Trapmann (Liverpool, England), discussing a case and observing, "I have lost Henry King he fell in the battle of the 16th June, and sleeps in the bed of honor. Johnston Pettigrew a prisoner and wounded in Fort Delaware. My house is burnt & I live in Summerville [S.C.], and Mrs. Petigru suffers from nervous debility as much as usual." Persons represented include Josiah James Evans, Capt. P.C. Christain, H. Chipman, H.W. Greatorex, M. Reeves, T. Roberts, W.F. DeSaussure, Randolph L. Motte, George Broad, Susan P. Webb, J.L. Mustian, Thomas R.R. Cobb, N.P. Gignilliat, W.H. Trapmann, and Col. E.B.C. Cash.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. (microfilm)

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Huger, Alfred, 1788-1872. Letter : Longwood, to Benjamin Huger, 1863 March 15.

Title: Letter : Longwood, to Benjamin Huger, 1863 March 15.

In the letter Alfred Huger laments the recent death of James Louis Petigru, who died March 3, 1863, and describes what he cherished about his friend.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37522773 View

Mitchell, Nelson. Nelson Mitchell papers, 1840-1864.

Title: Nelson Mitchell papers, 1840-1864.

Papers consist of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, plantation papers, and other items. Correspondence (1840-1864) chiefly concerns politics, the Civil War, and legal and business matters. Correspondents include Franklin I. Moses, William H. Trescot, John Julius Pringle Smith, John L. Manning, Benjamin H. Wilson, James L. Petigru, and James J. Pettigrew. Included are letters (1863) between Nelson Mitchell and Bishop Patrick N. Lynch concerning a controversy over the marriage of a sixteen year-old Protestant boy and a young Catholic woman. Plantation papers for Mitchell's Daniel Island plantation include accounts for cotton, plantation supplies, cattle, and slaves. Other financial records include tax returns (1860-1861), receipts, insurance policies, and promissory notes. Legal documents (1844-1864) pertain to cases involving sequestration and slave ownership disputes, Confederate bond larceny (1862-1863), estate settlements, and other matters, with related correspondence. Other items include the will of Charlotte Mitchell, and a transcript (1862) of the proceedings of a Confederate Army court of inquiry in Charleston (S.C.) regarding the conduct of Alfred M. Rhett and his duel with W.R. Calhoun (in which Calhoun was killed).

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35953358 View

Smith, William, 1762-1840. William Smith papers, 1829-1830.

Title: William Smith papers, 1829-1830.

Consisting of letters, 8 Jan. 1829, Washington, D.C., to David R. Evans, re settlement of Hugh Milling's claims, the improbability of relief from the tariff, and speculation on Pres. Andrew Jackson's cabinet; 3 Feb. 1829, Washington City, to Gov. [Stephen Decatur] Miller, Stateburg, S.C., expressing regret at defeat of [Josiah] Evans and mentioning Jackson's expected arrival in Washington, but "As to his cabinet there is nothing beyond conjecture." Letter, 18 June 1830, York, S.C., to Gov. Miller, Plain Hill, re Miller's tenuous position as governor, uncertainty of Smith's election to S.C. legislature and political ambitions of Langdon Cheves, Daniel Elliott Huger, James Louis Petigru, and Robert Woodward Barnwell, questioning Cheves' eligibility to serve since declaring himself a resident of Pennsylvania, noting that "Jackson ... has struck a fatal blow to the [in]ternal improvement system; and ... the Tariff I think will go with it unless the magnanimity of the South should arrange otherwise," and commenting re George McDuffie's opposition to the tariff system but and support for internal improvements.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30711718 View

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894. Papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)

Title: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894

Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 5,700 items; 16 containers; 3 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

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Carson, James Petigru, b. 1845. James Petigru Carson papers, 1822-1922.

Title: James Petigru Carson papers, 1822-1922.

Papers consist of diaries (1879-1920), journals, correspondence, clippings, materials pertaining to Carson's book about James Louis Petigru, including transcriptions of Petigru's letters and speeches, and other items. Journals include a journal (1868) for a U.S. Geological Expedition west of Cheyenne (Wyo.), and a journal (1870) of the Darien Expedition for a canal in Panama. Other materials include plans for rice fields and dikes at Dean Hall Plantation (S.C.), clippings of bawdy jokes and stories, engineering notebooks (1881-1883), and papers concerning genealogical research on the Petigru, Carson, and Porcher families. Correspondence includes letters of recommendation for Carson for various engineering jobs in New York and a U.S. Marshal position in South Carolina (1889); correspondence concerning explosives, the design of a blast furnace, and a process for clarifying sugar; and personal correspondence with his brother William Carson. Materials pertaining to Carson's book the Life, Letters, and Speeches of James Louis Petigru (1920) consist of typewritten transcriptions of Petigru's speeches and letters concerning politics, secession, nullification, the Civil War, and family matters; manuscript notes and fragments; indexes; clippings; and epitaphs (including typewritten copies and some originals) written for Petigru's tombstone.

ArchivalResource: ca. 430 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35953672 View

Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Letter : Charleston, S.C., to N. Cruger, 1848 June 5.

Title: Letter : Charleston, S.C., to N. Cruger, 1848 June 5.

Holograph letter about a trusteeship and the estate of Mr. Roberts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Griffin, Nathan Lipscomb. Nathan Lipscomb Griffin papers, 1841-1853.

Title: Nathan Lipscomb Griffin papers, 1841-1853.

Chiefly land papers and legal correspondence; including letter, 4 Apr. 1843, Edgefield, S.C., from S. Trowbridge, Woodville, S.C., requesting confidential advice as to procedure for securing designation as trustee of his fiancee's property, adding that his fiancee did not want such an arrangement. Materials relating to plantation management include letter, 20 Dec. 1845, Newberry, S.C., from Thomas H. Pope, requesting Griffin to make arrangements for hiring out slaves belonging to his brother's estate, noting that he did not want to hire them in Newberry, S.C., as food was scarce and expensive, and asking that they be hired by someone who would afford them good treatment according to his definition. Later letters include 5 Jan. 1846, Charleston, S.C., from Thomas S. Jones, Deputy Secretary of State, informing Griffin of Gov. William Aiken's pardon of Charles Price and requesting information for the pardon; and 17 Nov. 1852, from J[ames] L[ouis] Petigru, Charleston, S.C., giving his opinion on a case involving "Mr. Hammond" and giving consent to Griffin to serve with him on the appeal.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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King, Mitchell, 1783-1862. Mitchell King papers, 1814-1911.

Title: Mitchell King papers, 1814-1911.

Chiefly letters to Hugh Swinton Legare and letters from J[ames] G[ettys] M[cGready] Ramsey discussing political climate in South Carolina re nullification controversy and publication of Ramsey's The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Correspondence from Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., to Legare in Brussels include letters, 5 Mar. 1833 (incomplete), re political manueverings of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster and rumors of Duff Green being appointed printer; 5 May 1833, detailing the ascendency of the nullifiers at the recent election, their recklessness, expressing fear of the possibility of war, commenting re [Thomas Smith] Grimke, [James Louis] Petigru, [William] Drayton and Drayton's mistreatment by the "dominant party" in the state convention; 14 Sept. 1833, re his son's educational experience in Germany and Grimke's withdrawal from society since the nullification ordinance; and 15 Dec. 1834 re the abatement of nullifcation furor in South Carolina. King's other correspondence includes letters, 10 Oct. 1853, from J[ames] G[ettys] M[cCready] Ramsey, Mecklenburg, Tenn., discussing problems with his Charleston publisher re sale and distribution of his The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, and inquiring if King could suggest a Presbyterian minister to take the church; and 27 Feb. 1862, Charleston, to King's grandaughters at Flat Rock, N.C., re moving from Charleston due to expected attack, efforts to secure a plantation near Augusta, Ga., and "desertion of great number of negroes to our enemies."

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31399957 View

Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Letters to Amelia Parker, 1862.

Title: Letters to Amelia Parker, 1862.

The first letter (1862 July 23) from Petigru accepts a dinner invitation by Amelia Parker (possibly Amelia Nott Parker) and in the second letter (1862 July 24) Petigru states that he is unable to come for dinner but will come for breakfast. The change was necessary due to the train schedule.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37522806 View

Waties, Thomas, 1760-1828. Thomas Waties papers, 1733-1838, (bulk, 1784-1838)

Title: Thomas Waties papers, 1733-1838, (bulk, 1784-1838)

Chiefly legal documents re cases heard by Waties, and family papers related to Waties' business affairs, and plantation management; including Aug. 1826, from [Thomas Bee], Charleston, re Mary Harrison's case and the need to codify laws against inter-racial unions. Plantation records include receipt for payment, 15 May 1796, to Hannah Bonhoste for instruction of "two Black girls"; bound volume, 1804- 1814, re accounts with overseers and gardener; accounts, 1817-1827, kept with April [later William] Ellison, a free person of color who rebuilt and improved Waties' cotton gin and other farm implements. Also including letter, 14 Oct. 1812, from Tho[ma]s Bee, Charleston, S.C., commenting on elections and lamenting impact of the War of 1812; correspondence, 1813-1828, from Charleston cotton factors, Osborn & Waring and its successor firm, North, Webb & Osborn; and list of fees for boarding, transportation, and servants in Columbia, S.C. Letter, 29 [Apr. 1825], Francis Kinloch, to Wilson Waties, attibuting rise in prices for field hands to increased cotton sales, and commenting on fears of insurrection after the Denmark Vesey affair in Charleston; and valuations of slaves and receipts for slave sales. Receipts re cotton gin, tuition, medical bills, purchase of encyclopedia volumes, construction of house at Stateburg, and expenditure for a child's funeral; and accounts kept with various persons, including Thomas Sumter, and workers, including a boatbuilder and a Philadelphia mechanic for painting and repair of carriage. Materials pertaining to Claremont Episcopal Church, Sumter County, S.C., include letter, 19 Apr. 1813, [Nathaniel] Bowen, N.Y., explaining his interest in the parish; letters, 1823-1825, Francis Kinloch, Wilson Waties, and Thomas Waties, re disagreement over valuation of slaves sold by Kinloch to the vestry for use by the rector; and letter, 22 July 1824, Marden, to the Rev. John J. Tschudy, Rector, St. John's Berkeley, re collection of glebe rents, and a dispute between the upper and lower divisions of the parish. Other correspondents include Benjamin Elliott, Cleland Kinloch, and James Louis Petigru. Six oversize items (filed in Pob) date to Oct. 1810, 14 Dec. 1827, and two undated items.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

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Gourdin, Theodore Samuel, 1823-1861. Theodore Samuel Gourdin papers, 1846-1861.

Title: Theodore Samuel Gourdin papers, 1846-1861.

Papers consist of legal and business papers, correspondence, financial records, and other items. Legal papers (1848-1853) include correspondence concerning debt collections and commitment of Mary Pyatt Allston to the State Hospital (including her letters requesting release) with supporting documents. Correspondents (on Allston's case) include James L. Petigru, R.F.W. Alston, and others. Other legal papers (1847-1857) include unpaid promissory notes and bills to be collected by Gourdin; writs; and correspondence regarding Gourdin's clients. A group of documents including accounts, correspondence, and legal documents concern Gourdin & Waring's investigation of titles to properties in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi on behalf of creditors of the estate of M.T. Mendenhall. Business papers include a deed of partnership (1852) for Theodore S. Gourdin, Tandy Walker, and Samuel Gourdin establishing their paper manufacturing business in Cobb County (Ga.); accounts, balance sheets, legal documents, and correspondence concerning the Kennesaw Paper Mill (Marietta, Ga.) and Gourdin's paper manufacturing mill. Financial records (1823-1861) include receipts, bankbooks, and bills and accounts for food, clothing, and other personal expenses and related correspondence. Other items include Gourdin's certificates of appointment to various courts and offices; deputy-sheriffs' bonds (1853-1857) issued to Gourdin as sheriff; stock certificates; conveyances of stocks and insurance policies; mortgages; bonds; deeds for properties in Charleston (S.C.); and correspondence and accounts (1858) regarding the dissolution of the firm of Gourdin & Waring.

ArchivalResource: ca. 700 items.

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Jackson, Samuel C. (Samuel Cram), 1802-1878. Samuel C. Jackson papers, 1832-1835.

Title: Samuel C. Jackson papers, 1832-1835.

Letters, 1832, 1833, and 1835, discuss S.C. politicians, educators, clergymen, and parishioners encountered along with political concerns of the period. Letter, 14 Dec. 1832, Columbia, S.C., to William True, Boston, Mass., re Nullification controversy, account of meeting of Union Convention, which had been in session since the 10th and had issued a memorial in protest written by James L. Petigru, effect of Gov. Robert Y. Hayne's inaugural address, fear of slave insurrection, and comment on Dr. Thomas Cooper, "the famous father of Nullification." Letter, 28 Jan. 1833, Columbia, S.C., to his sister, Elizabeth R. Jackson, Dorset, Vermont, re condition of his health, nullification controversy and his support for the Union. Letter, 21 May 1835, Charleston, S.C. to his wife, Caroline T. Jackson, Boston, Mass., re his ocean voyage to from Massachusetts to South Carolina, his reception by members of the Third Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S.C., and requesting to be released from the call issued to him, "I find some unpleasant things here... prejudice & hard feeling."

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Pettigrew Family Papers, 1776-1926

Title: Pettigrew Family Papers, 1776-1926

Represented are four generations of the Pettigrew family of Washington and Tyrrell counties, N.C. Prominent family members included James Pettigrew (d. 1784), who emigrated from Scotland, eventually settling in Charleston, S.C., where the family name was changed to Petigru; James's son, Charles Pettigrew (1744-1807), Anglican minister, and Charles's son, Ebenezer Pettigrew (1783-1848), state legislator, who established plantations in eastern North Carolina; and Ebenezer's children, including Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (1816-1873), planter; William S. Pettigrew (1818-1900), politician and Episcopal minister; and James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863), lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and James Louis Petigru, lawyer of Charleston, S.C. The collection includes business and personal correspondence reflecting the varied interests and activities of Pettigrew family members, including the involvement of Charles and his grandson William in the Anglican and Episcopal churches; the development and management of Bonarva, Belgrade, and Magnolia plantations by Ebenezer Pettigrew, sometimes in cooperation with family friend James Cathcart Johnston of Edenton, N.C., including unsuccessful efforts by the family to hold onto the plantations after the Civil War; slavery, especially William's use of slaves as overseers (some letters from slaves are included); Charles's involvement in the founding of the University of North Carolina and his sons' attendance there; family life, including the education of children at the University of North Carolina and elsewhere; the evacuation of the plantations after the capture of Roanoke Island in 1862; James Johnston Pettigrew's travels to Charleston, Spain and elsewhere in Europe, and Cuba; reestablishment of ties with the Charleston Petigrus that was formalized with the marriage of Charles Lockhart Pettigrew and his cousin Jane Caroline North; and the general decline of family fortunes after the Civil War despite the efforts of Jane Caroline North Pettigrew to hold onto land and other assets. Included are letters of Henry Clay, 1841-1842. Financial records document purchases for family and plantation use and educational expenses and include slave lists. Writings consist mainly of travel diaries, especially of James Johnston Pettigrew; some religious works; poems and acrostics by slave poet George Moses Horton; and other items. School materials consist of notebooks and other items. Commonplace books concern women's activities and current events. William's Episcopal Church materials relate to his service at various North Carolina churches and include journals of parochial visits; registers of salary, offerings, baptisms, burials, etc.; records of sermons delivered; and records of church-related expenses. Genealogical materials include information on the Blount, Bryan, Shepard, and other related families. Miscellaneous items include a phrenological study of Ebenezer, circa 1830s-1840s.

ArchivalResource: 9,230; 16.5

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. James Louis Petigru papers, 1816-1863.

Title: James Louis Petigru papers, 1816-1863.

Papers consist of personal, official, and business correspondence, financial records including bonds, receipts, and accounts, slave records, genealogical research notes and transcriptions, and other materials. Correspondence concerns personal matters, legal clients' affairs, slaves, the transport of slaves to Liberia, and other matters. Correspondence (1859-1860) between James L. Petigru and Dr. James Moultrie concern a mulatto child's father. One letter (1862) from James L. Petigru discusses his Union sympathies. Other materials include a deed for a church pew, a law practice commission, a citizens' petition regarding unlawfully emancipated slaves, and estate papers of James L. Petigru. Slave records include slave lists and a bill of sale. Genealogical materials consist of abstracts of correspondence, transcriptions of documents from the British Public Record Office, correspondence with individuals in Great Britain, and other items pertaining to the Gibert and Boutiton families and other Huguenot families who settled at New Bordeaux (S.C.).

ArchivalResource: ca. 175 items.

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Carson, Caroline Petigru, 1820-1892. Caroline Petigru Carson papers, 1853-1892.

Title: Caroline Petigru Carson papers, 1853-1892.

Papers consist of personal and family correspondence, estate papers, diaries, journals, notes, and other items pertaining to Caroline Petigru Carson. Correspondence of Caroline P. Carson is mainly with her father, James L. Petigru, and her sons, William A. and James Petigru Carson, from New York (N.Y.), and from Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Other correspondents include Gen. J.J. Pettigrew, Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gen. William T. Sherman, and Orville Dewey. Letters concern family, legal, and financial matters, the French spoliation claims, Dean Hall Plantation, and social, political, and cultural affairs in Rome (Italy). Estate papers include an estate inventory, lists of personal belongings, Carson's will, and accounts. Other items include suggestions for the epitaph of James Louis Petigru, invitations, address books, a poem, a list (1861) of items lost in a fire, and notes on painting and photography techniques. Diaries (1872-1892) concern personal, family, and social matters and travels. Journals include a travel journal (1861-1875) noting expenses.

ArchivalResource: ca. 730 items.

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Carson, William A., 1842-1904. William Carson papers, 1857-1858.

Title: William Carson papers, 1857-1858.

Papers include William Carson's report card (1857) for the King's Mountain Preparatory Military School (Yorkville, S.C.) addressed to Caroline Petigru Carson, and correspondence pertaining to William Carson's conduct at school and his dismissal. A letter (1857 Nov. 10) from William Carson at Yorkville, S.C. to his "grandpapa" James Louis Petigru concerns a fight at the King's Mountain school and Carson's urgent desire to leave the school because "all the upcountry boys dislike me." A letter (1858 March 23) to James Louis Petigru from principals A. Coward and M. Jenkins informs Petigru of William Carson's dismissal because of mischievous behavior and "breaking arrest."

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Simons, James, 1813-1879. James Simons papers, 1842-1917.

Title: James Simons papers, 1842-1917.

Chiefly of the papers of James Simons, mostly concerning his activities with the South Carolina militia, 1855-1860, including correspondence and court martial proceedings related to his controversy with Edward McCrady Jr. (1833-1903), lawyer and historian, over McCrady's rank. Other materials include letters, 1840s, from James Louis Petigru about legal matters, and two letterpress copy books, 1858-1860 and 1862-1866, relating to Simons's legal practice and militia matters. The papers of James Simons Jr. consist chiefly of family letters received while he was studying at Leipzig, Germany, during the 1850s. Letters discuss social and political news. Also included are miscellaneous items related to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1889-1917.

ArchivalResource: 109 items (1.0 linear ft.)

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Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894. Papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)

Title: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894

Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 5,700 items; 16 containers; 3 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Letters : to William J. Grayson, 1813-1815.

Title: Letters : to William J. Grayson, 1813-1815.

Two letters (1813, 1815) by Petigru to his friend William J. Grayson of Beaufort District (S.C.). A letter (1813) concerns life at Coosawhatchie (S.C.) and plans for a visit to Charleston, and includes a poem by Grayson entitled "On the Aloe." The second letter (1815) concerns Petigru's feelings about his upcoming marriage to Jane Amelia Postell which took place on August 17, 1816.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. James Louis Petigru papers, 1836 [manuscript].

Title: James Louis Petigru papers, 1836 [manuscript].

Letter, 11 March 1836, from James L. Petigru, trying to get a Post Office job for a friend; and a poem, "Picture of Coosawhatchie," a humorous description of an imaginary town and its characters, believed to have been written by Petigru.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23743307 View

Read family. Papers of the Read and Lance families, 1677-1907.

Title: Papers of the Read and Lance families, 1677-1907.

Chiefly consisting of plantation records, re land, bonds, mortgages, indentures; bills and receipts for taxes; plantation supplies; blacksmiths; and purchase and sale of slaves; receipts from Winyah Indigo Society for dues; settlement of estates of John Mann Taylor, John G. Lance, and Maurice Harvey Lance; bills to pay laborers at Wedgefield Plantation; and legal correspondence of Walter Hazard, James L[ouis] Petigru, James Simons and law firms of Petigru and Lessene, and Rutledge and Young. Including letter, 1 Dec. 1753, Charleston, S.C., Elizabeth Laroche, to John Mall, requesting that funeral costs of her cousin, Charlotte Lewis, to be included in expenses of estate. Roster, 26 Dec. 1861, listing officers and privates of the Pee Dee Home Guard who volunteered for 12 month muster into Confederate service for local defense; commission, 24 June 1864, Richmond, Va., issued to J[ames] H[arleston] Read as major in the 21st S.C. Regiment; letter, 26 Aug. 1865, Aiken, S.C., Andrew McDowall, to Reverend M.H. Lance, re disasters of the war. Two letters, 24 Dec. 1866, Charleston, S.C., James Simons, to J.H. Read, re copy of his father's will, serving as executor of the estate, a trust for Reads' mother, securing money for planting purposes, and recommendations on planting and labor; labor agreement, 20 Apr.1868, A. Morgan and M.H. Lance, for planting on shares including a lien on a crop; account, 2 Jan. 1869, J.H. Read, listing 1868 crop statement for Wedgefield Plantation, reckoning amount received by each worker, and fines deducted. Premiere issue of newspaper, 11 July 1888 (Vol. 1, No. 1) of the Plantersville Gathered Scraps, a community newspaper; contract, 26 Dec. 1907, between J.H. Read and Daniel A. Hooks, contracting Hooks to reside on the Maryville Plantation, and work for J.H. Read; undated documents include plans of Palmetto Tram Way and Steam Mill Company including organizational objectives, and company dealings in lumber and naval stores; draft of amendment to establish ferry service on Sampit River in Georgetown County, S.C. Volumes include journal, 1850-1858, re weather, plantation activities, crop yields, and travel; letter book, 1867-1882, J.H. Read, re religious writings, plantation production, and accounts, 1870-1874, for M.H. Lance estate; volume, 1845-1861, re rice crop statistics, planting cycles, yields, and sales; record of laborers, 1852-1860 and 1867-1869, identifying African Americans by name, age, sex, occupation, and supplies received at Mauricena Plantation (Orangeburg, S.C.) and elsewhere during antebellum and Reconstruction eras.

ArchivalResource: 1,350 items and 6 volumes.

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James Louis Petigru Papers, ., 1836

Title: James Louis Petigru Papers, . 1836

James Louis Petigru (1789-1863) was a lawyer, politician, and jurist of South Carolina. The collection includes a letter, 11 March 1836, from Petigru, trying to get a post office job for a friend; and a poem, a humorous description of an imaginary town and its characters, believed to have been written by Petigru. Picture of Coosawhatchie,

ArchivalResource: 2

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Letter : Summerville, [S.C.], to I.M. Dwight, 1861 July 28.

Title: Letter : Summerville, [S.C.], to I.M. Dwight, 1861 July 28.

Petigru extends a quaint invitation to Sunday dinner.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Allston family. Allston family papers, 1847-1924.

Title: Allston family papers, 1847-1924.

Chiefly family correspondence dating to antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and later eras; business papers; receipts for taxes, plantation expenses, and rice sales; reports on crop conditions and works completed at multiple plantations, medical bills for family and slaves; other topics include politics and Reconstruction; other places represented include Arsenal Academy; S.C. Female Collegiate Institute; and College of Charleston. Report, 22 Nov. 1847, Georgetown, S.C., R.F.W. Allston to Edmund Burker, Committee of Patents, Washington, D.C., re S.C. agricultural products; 2 letters, 22 Feb. and 13 Mar. 1863, Charleston, S.C., from "Mother", to [C.P. Allston], Wilmington, N.C., re plans to evacuate Charleston if attacked and death of her brother James L. Petigru; letter, 9 Apr. 1864, "Mother", to C.[P. Allston], re the death of his father R.F.W. Allston. Freedmen's labor contracts, 2 Jan. 1869 and 18 Jan. 1870, of Col. Benjamin and C.P. Allston, executors for Adele Petigru Allston; dance cards, 1869, for St. Cecilia Society; letter, 13 Aug. 1870, Baltimore, Md., Jos[eph] Blyth Allston, to C.P. Allston, re crop conditions in S.C., and opinion of the Federal Judiciary, and U.S. legal system; and letters, ca. 1870s, to Octavious Theodore Porcher, at school. Letter, 26 Feb. 1871, Butler's Island, Ga., Ben Allston to C.P. Allston, re Butler estate, and plans to move to Ga. to instruct Miss Butler's black workers; 2 reports, 31 Mar. and 14 May 1879, "President's Annual Report of the Piedmont Manufacturing Company"; Comments on politics during Reconstruction appear in a letter, 16 Sept. 1874, is from Elihu Benjamin Washburne to Jane Pringle, the mother of John Julius Pringle, who had married Elizabeth Allston. A former member of Congress, Washburne was a leading Radical and an advisor to Lincoln. In 1861 he had been responsible for granting a brigadier's commission to U.S. Grant. He served briefly as Grant's Secretary of State in 1869 before resigning to take the appointment as U.S. Minister to France. In this letter, written from Carlsbad, Bohemia, where he was "seeking health and recreation," Washburne comments on political and social conditions in the South, parts of which were still under Republican control. "I earnestly desire to see peace, harmony and prosperity prevail over the entire South," he assured Mrs. Pringle. However, he faulted white Southerners for not joining with the "colored people" to "rule the state honestly and faithfully, to the exclusion of the vagabonds and thieves who have brought such disgraces upon the commonwealth." Letter, 1 Sept. 1879, Saratoga, N.Y., E[lizabeth] W. P[ringle], to C.P. Allston, re lecture given by [Thomas A.] Edison about the telephone; letter, 14 Jan. 1882, Georgetown County, S.C., C.P. Allston, to N.J. Davis, Marion, Ala., re cultivation of upland rice; letter, 8 Jan. 1894, Windsor Plantation, Georgetown County, S.C., C.P. Allston, to [Robert] Lowdes, re 1893 thunderstorms and impact on the rice industry, local Jewish population, share cropping, and keeping John [Allston] out of school due to financial reasons. Letter, 20 Sept. 1894, Union, S.C., Benjamin Allston, to C.P. Allston, re a job offer and his ministerial duties; letter, 23 Jan. 1900, Badwell [Plantation], Jos[eph] Blyth Allston, to C.P. Allston, re Ben Allston's death, his childhood with R.F.W. Allston's household, and emigration of African Americans to Alabama and Mississippi; papers re the Georgetown County Drainage Commission, and genealogical information on Allston and Petigru families.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

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Greenberg, Raymond S. James Louis Petigru, the Willington Academy, and their enduring lessons for South Carolina : 2006 Jan. 24.

Title: James Louis Petigru, the Willington Academy, and their enduring lessons for South Carolina : 2006 Jan. 24.

Essay re Willington Academy, founded 1803 in Abbeville District [at a site now in McCormick County, S.C.], by Rev. Moses Waddel, and its illustrious alumni, including John C. Calhoun and James Louis Petigru.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (27 sheets)

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Petigru and King (firm). Records, 1851-1863.

Title: Records, 1851-1863.

Two letters re legal cases, 1851 and 1852, and two letterbooks, 1854-1863 [see microfilm copy, R.514-R.515] of business correspondence. Letter, 8 Dec. 1851, to S.T. Robinson and J.K. Robinson, re purchase of certain property, acknowledging "handing you the deeds Keith to Ladson, and Ladson to Robinson..." and advising "the purchaser to accept such a title without making any difficulty"; and letter, 14 Apr. 1852, re bill for legal services with comments on the case. Indexed letterbooks, 19 Apr. 1854 - 25 Apr. 1856 [see R.514] and 18 Mar. 1859 - 26 Feb. 1863 [see R.515], documenting legal matters with occasional references to political developments during late antebellum and Civil War eras.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Johnston, William, 1776-1840. William Johnston Papers, 1726-1971.

Title: William Johnston Papers, 1726-1971.

Business and family correspondence, indentures, bills, receipts, wills, and plats relating to W. Johnston and family, especially his son, Andrew Johnston; including accounts for plantation equipment, household supplies, and other records for Mill Brook and Annandale rice plantations; 4 volumes, 1807-1821, of William Allan, Johnston's factor in Charleston, S.C., documenting rice sales, purchases of goods, and the impact of the Embargo and the War of 1812. Also including travel accounts discussing trips to Charleston, S.C., and elsewhere, including letter, 22 Mar. 1827, of McKewn Johnston, giving account of voyage from Charleston to New York, re severe storm and behavior of a drunken sailor; and letter of introduction, 16 May 1851, written by William Johnston to the Rev. Dr. Welsh of Edinburgh, at time of Andrew Johnston's trip to England and Scotland. Collection includes items pertaining to Johnston's ownership and sale of slaves, including a letter, 15 Mar. 1827, from Andrew Johnston re sale of Paul, a slave, to Mississippi planter with stipulation that he not be allowed to return to South Carolina; receipts Johnston paid to various men to serve his shift on patrol duty; and unsigned letter, 22 Apr. 1810, noting interception of letters from North Carolina and Georgia that contained plans for a slave insurrection. Later manuscripts include essay, 1877, "An account of Winyah Bay and Annandale by W[illia]m Clarkson Johnstone of Estherville"; letter, 9 Aug. 1882, of Thomas Pinckney, written from France, discussing South Carolina politics and the election of Robert Smalls; and genealogical notes on Beden, DeSaussure, Emms, Fraser, Pendarvis, Johnston/Johnstone and other families. Other correspondents include John Butler, John Drayton, and James Louis Petigru.

ArchivalResource: 801 items and 4 volumes.

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Allston, Benjamin, 1833-1900. Benjamin Allston papers, 1848-1890.

Title: Benjamin Allston papers, 1848-1890.

Papers include military and personal correspondence (1848-1890), military records (1854-1857), and a speech (ca. 1870) concerning education and politics in the South. Topics mentioned in the correspondence include politics, the Civil War, family, legal, plantation, and business matters, military affairs, religion, and Indian battles in the Western United States. Correspondents include Adele Allston Vanderhorst, James L. Petigru (1789-1863), Joseph B. Allston, Charles Petigru Allston, Henry D. Lesesne, Theodore G. Barker, Charles R. Miles, A.V. Tyler, and others. Military records (1854-1857) consist of vouchers for expenses, including quartermaster stores, clothing, and ordnance; and muster rolls of recruits for the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, U.S. Army, mostly at Ft. Laramie (Wyoming Territory) and Salt Lake City, Utah, but also in the Oregon Territory and California.

ArchivalResource: ca. 450 items.

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Graham, William A. (William Alexander), 1804-1875. William A. Graham papers, 1750-1940.

Title: William A. Graham papers, 1750-1940.

William A. Graham's correspondence with prominent persons about state and national politics. Correspondents include George E. Badger, Thomas Bragg, T. W. Brevard, James Buchanan, Duncan Cameron, Paul C. Cameron, Henry Clay, Dorothea L. Dix, Stephen A. Douglas, James Fenimore Cooper, William Gaston, James Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, W. W. Holden, Sam Houston, William Preston Mangum, Charles Manly, Matthias E. Manly, Elisha Mitchell, B. F. Moore, James T. Morehead, J. Johnston Pettigrew, J. L. Pettigru, Leonidas Polk, Thomas Ruffin, James A. Seddon, Cornelia Phillips Spencer, David L. Swain, William Tryon, Martin Van Buren, Zebulon B. Vance, Hugh Waddell, Daniel Webster, and Jonathan Worth. Also included is material relating to legal business; the Graham family;iron foundry; plantations, slavery, and overseers in North Carolina and South Carolina; affairs at the University of North Carolina, the Revolutionary War history of North Carolina, and letters from sons serving as soldiers in the Confederate army. Later papers are of other Graham family members, especially Augustus Washington Graham, lawyer of Hillsborough, N.C., and Oxford, N.C. Volumes are personal accounts, school notebooks, and legal notes. Also included are typed carbon copies of letters, 1823-1877, to and from William A. Graham in this collection and in collections at other repositories that were compiled for an editing project in the 1960s.

ArchivalResource: About 14000 items (12.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23150419 View

Vanderhorst, Elias, 1791-1874. Elias Vanderhorst papers, 1818-1876.

Title: Elias Vanderhorst papers, 1818-1876.

Papers consist of bonds and a mortgage, estate papers, including correspondence, accounts, wills and other legal instruments, and a funeral sermon. Much of the estate papers pertain to the estates of members of the Morris family and include an account book, a conveyance of real estate, a list of personal belongings, letters from James Louis Petigru and others, summons and complaints regarding estate litigation, and wills. Other estate papers include the wills (1857,1864,1874) of Elias Vanderhorst (1791-1874) and others.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35953512 View

Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. Papers concerning Mr. Burt, 1854.

Title: Papers concerning Mr. Burt, 1854.

Papers include a legal opinion concerning "Burt's bond for the faithful performance of his duty as an agent" and a letter to A.G. Rose on the same matter.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32140256 View