Correspondence, business records, and other papers re activities of Paul Quattlebaum and his family in Lexington County, S.C., and elsewhere. Includes pocket size manuscript volume, 1839-1845, containing accounts for sales of lumber with the names Paul Quattlebaum and Balaam Gunter and an 1841 "Beef List" with distribution record for meat butchered; account of day labor on Lightwood Creek, 1845, with names of hands and account for days worked; undated broadside advertisement [later 19th century?] for T.B. Aughtry & Co. (162 Main Street, Columbia, S.C.), T.B. Aughtry and W.F. Jones, proprietors; and bills from mercantile establishments: Scott & Player, of Columbia, S.C.; S.N. Hart, Simons Brothers, and Alfred B. Mulligan, of Charleston, S.C.; J.P. Brodie, of Leesville, S.C.; and U.X. Gunter, L.D. Cullum & Co., and Meritt & Plunkett, of Batesburg, S.C. Other business papers include accounts with Adalena Quattlebaum, who was the widow of Eldridge Quattlebaum, and lien on crop and bill of sale documents executed between William Westmoreland and tenant farmers on Paul Quattlebaum's land. Also including letter, 12 Jan. 1880, to "Jennie" from her aunt, M. Gregg, Charleston, S.C., with reference to jewelry (necklaces, earrings, and watch guards woven of hair) and mention of a whale captured in Charleston harbor, the skeleton of which was to be placed in the museum; letter, 12 Nov. 1888, from Quattlebaum to his son Charley, discussing business and cotton crop accounts; letter, 26 Sept. 1888, Columbia, S.C., A.P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture, to Paul Quattlebaum, Leesville, S.C., re shipment of five gallons of wine, with enclosed "Free For Exposition" shipping tag; letter, 18 Sept. [18]88, from W[illiam] Westmoreland, Samaria, S.C., results from the Aiken convention in polling between Tillman, Aldrich, and Henderson, with additional note re outbreak of yellow fever at Hendersonville, N.C. Letter, 23 Aug. 1888, Columbia, S.C., Department of Agriculture and Office of the State Weather Service, A.P. Butler, Com[missioner] of Agriculture, to Paul Quattlebaum, Leesville, S.C., noting that the Department of Agriculture would be exhibiting S.C. products at a Georgia county fair during the Augusta Exposition in October and soliciting specimens of fruit; and correspondence, 1889, of D.J. Griffith, Lewiedale, S.C., re sales of guano and other agricultural products. Printed circular letter, 15 Oct. 1889, signed by J.M. Rusk, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., asks postmasters to distribute the enclosed circular requesting statistical information re acreage and agricultural products (corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, tobacco, hay, and cotton). Bound volumes consist of: 1) Account book, 1834-1862, with records for the hire of African-American slaves, sales of rifle barrels and other gun parts, construction of rafts on which to transport lumber down river, materials and labor used in constructing a house, hogs butchered, accounts of Paul Quattlebaum as guardian of Samuel M. Prothro, number of slaves owned as of 1 Oct. 1849, and "Births of Negroes," 1830-1857 and 1859-1864. 2.) Order book, 1873, Paul Quattlebaum & Co., record of lumber sales, bound with account book, 1870-1889, labeled on front cover "Brodie & Co's Blotter No. 2...," with personal and agricultural accounts and records of Paul Quattlebaum, 1878-1889, including record of wine sold and saw mill production and sales and brief notation on constructing and stocking a fish pond. Records dated 1 Apr. - 30 Sept. 1870 recorded in a different hand. 4) Volume, 1867-1874, with accounts recorded during Reconstruction copies from the books Thomas Furman Brodie & Co. Also includes a copy of the Court of Common Pleas, Charleston County, S.C., case Olive Hudgins v. Paul Quattlebaum as administrator of the Estate of Thomas F. Brodie, deceased, and R.R. Hudgins and H.C. Hudgins. Pasted into the volume are examples of the letterhead of Paul Quattlebaum & Co., Charleston, S.C., lumber manufacturers, successors to R.R. Hudgins & Co., and Brodie & Co., Charleston, S.C., cotton factors and commission merchants, T.F. Brodie, R.R. Hudgins, and H.C. Hudgins, proprietors.
