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

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

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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.

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Kinloch, Francis, 1755-1826

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Francis Kinloch (March 7, 1755 – February 8, 1826) was an American lawyer and rice planter from Georgetown, South Carolina. He served as a delegate for South Carolina to the Continental Congress in 1780. Born in Charleston in the Province of South Carolina, he was first educated by private tutors there before being sent to England to study, graduating from Eton College and studying at Lincoln's Inn in London, England before being admitted to the bar and practicing in London. Kinloch went on t...

Bee, Thomas, 1739-1812

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Thomas Bee (1739 – February 18, 1812) was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. Born in 1739 in Charleston in the Province of South Carolina, Bee attended the University of Oxford and read law. He entered private practice in Charleston from 1761 to 1762, and subsequently engaged in private practice from 1765 to 1769, 1769 to 1772, and 1782 t...

Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863

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Lawyer of Charleston, S.C.; Union Party supporter and opponent of nullification and secession; Attorney General of S.C., 1822-1830; unsuccessful Unionist candidate for the S.C. Senate, 1830; code commissioner, 1859-1863; graduate, S.C. College, 1809; son of William Pettigrew (1758-1837) and Louise Guy Gibert Pettigrew; husband of Jane Amelia Postell; father of artist Caroline Petigru Carson (b. 1820-1892). From the description of James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948. (University of ...

Claremont Episcopal Church (Sumter County, S.C.)

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Bowen, Nathaniel, 1779-1839

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Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina, Protestant Episcopal Church, 1818-1839. From the description of Letter to [Edward] Neufville, 1833 September 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50696663 Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina. From the description of Nathaniel Bowen papers, 1817-1835. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 654374368 ...

Elliott, Benjamin, 1786-1836

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Kinloch family.

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Tschudy, John J., d. 1834

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Kinloch, Cleland, 1759-1823.

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Waties, Thomas, 1760-1828

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Judge, of Sumter District, S.C.; resident, after 1802, at Marden plantation, Stateburg vicinity, Sumter District, S.C. From the description of Thomas Waties notebook, [ca. 18uu?]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 55635024 Judge, of Sumter District, S.C.; student, University of Pennsylvania, 1775-1776; Revolutionary War service: midshipman under Commodore Alexander Gillon, and captain under Francis Marion; two term Representative for Prince George Winyah Pa...

Ellison, William, 1790-

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