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Deas, Elias Horry, 1803-1867. Elias Horry Deas papers, 1845 July-1867 Apr. 19; (bulk, 1865-1867).

Title: Elias Horry Deas papers, 1845 July-1867 Apr. 19; (bulk, 1865-1867).

Correspondence, receipts, and accounts discuss conditions in lowcountry after Civil War; including 6 letters, 5 May 1865-20 Oct. 1866, to daughter Anne Simons Deas, [Greenville, S.C.], re social conditions in Charleston and Cordesville, S.C.; destruction at Comingtee, Buck Hall, and Washington plantations along Cooper River; thoughts on emancipation; behavior of freedmen in Christ Church parish and vicinity; race relations and fights between whites and Negro troops stationed in Charleston; disappointing harvest from rice planted under sharecropping system; and mention of George Howe teaching at Kingstree and preaching at Florence, S.C. Other papers include labor contracts, 7 Sept. 1865 and 3 Mar. 1866, listing names of approximately 60 freedmen and women on Buck Hall and Washington plantations, specifying mutual obligations for raising and protecting the crop, with note describing wooden compass used for measurement of tasks; partnership agreement, 18 Apr. 1866, with Edward J. Minot of New York, who was investing an advance of $2500 in Deas' future crop; accounts, 18 Apr. 1866 and 10 and 16 Apr. 1867, with James R. Pringle showing sales of rice; and letter, 11 May 1866, Moncks Corner, S.C., Sub Asst. Commissioner, Freedmens Bureau, requesting list of "all destitute persons, white and black" on Deas' property in danger of starvation.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

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Lynch family. Lynch record [ca. 189u?] : taken from the family tree copied by Mr. Elias Horry in 1810, from the original drawn on vellum in the year 1727.

Title: Lynch record [ca. 189u?] : taken from the family tree copied by Mr. Elias Horry in 1810, from the original drawn on vellum in the year 1727.

Brief family history and genealogical record of Lynch family in Ireland and colonial South Carolina; top of page includes inscription, "Anne S. Deas, Summerville, S.C.," written in the same hand as the text.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 leaves) ; oversize folded to 28 cm.

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Deas, Anne Simons. Anne Simons Deas papers, ca. 1900.

Title: Anne Simons Deas papers, ca. 1900.

Papers consist primarily of articles by Deas but also include notes, lists, and recipes. Articles (manuscripts for publication) concern topics such as planting and harvesting rice in South Carolina, the distribution of cloth to slaves on antebellum rice plantations, barnyards and threshing mills on rice plantations, and the wedding of a black (slave?) couple. Recipes are for cough drops, laudanum, and other remedies. Notes concern "superstitions and notions," and lists include a list of anecdote titles, a list of the names of slaves, and one of South Carolina plantation names.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

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Deas, Anne Simons. Anne Simons Deas papers, 1893-1910.

Title: Anne Simons Deas papers, 1893-1910.

Manuscript journal, 1893-1897, Summerville, S.C., commenting on publication of her writing in a literary magazine; a hurricane and other weather conditions; trips to Charleston, S.C.; and social gatherings and various activites of the extended Simons family. Three typescript volumes, 1910, re fictionalized account of life on a lowcountry rice plantation, Cedar Grove [Comingtee?] ca. 1850 and 1880; including descriptions of Ashland plantation [Buck Hall?] and summer visits to a "pineland village" [Cordesville, S.C.]; includes dedication to J.A. Anderson and his two daughters of Lambertville, N.J., and explanatory notes by Alston Deas identifying persons and places represented.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

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