James Ritchie Sparkman Books, 1839-1925

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James Ritchie Sparkman Books, 1839-1925

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James Ritchie Sparkman was a South Carolina rice planter and physician of the Pee Dee River area of Georgetown District, S.C. He was the brother of William Ervine Sparkman (1813-1846), and married Mary Elizabeth Heriot, daughter of physician Edward Thomas Heriot. The collection is four account and record books documenting Sparkman's plantation and medical activities. The collection consists of Sparkman's financial record as executor of the Edward Thomas Heriot estate, which included the Dirleton, Mont Arena, and Northampton plantations on the Pee Dee River; his ; a ledger from his Birdfield Plantation, including a copy of the will of Sextus Tertius Gaillard (fl. 1881); and a medical daybook, which includes several entries for freedmen. Secretary's Record of the Planters Club on Pee Dee

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Sparkman, James Ritchie, 1815-1897

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Georgetown County, South Carolina plantation owner and medical doctor. James Ritchie Sparkman, son of James and Anna Sparkman, married Mary Elizabeth Heriot (1827-1912) in 1845. Sparkman served as commissioned surgeon in General W.J. Hardee's Legion during the Civil War. After the death of his father-in-law, physician Edward Thomas Heriot (1793-1854), Sparkman exchanged his plantation Birdfield for Dirleton Plantation (previously known as Richfield), a rice plantation on the Pee Dee River. The p...