Thomas W. Bacot papers, 1806-1818 bulk 1811-1818.

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Thomas W. Bacot papers, 1806-1818 bulk 1811-1818.

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Letterbook providing detailed view of postal schedules, regulations, as well as local problems and political unrest during the War of 1812. Topics discussed include difficulty of enforcing postal regulations, challenges of roads and transportation of the day on delivery of mail, and undependable postmasters and contractors, including letter, 19 June 1812, in which Bacot chides a subcontractor for hiring James Warren Oliver, "the Stage driver who was convicted last year of robbing our northern mails in 1810..."; report, 5 Oct. 1811, of a tornado; and an illness of a postal contractor, reported 6 Sept. 1813, following a hurricane. Impact of the War of 1812 and the embargo and blockade of Charleston harbor also appear in this volume, including letters, 5 and 11 Oct. 1813, re Bacot's disapproval of published accounts of arrival in Charleson harbor of the U.S. sloop-of-war Argus with the captured British ship Barbadoes. Correspondents include Postmasters General Gideon Granger and R. J. Meigs; Assistant Postmaster General Abraham Bradley, Jr.; other letters addressed to South Carolina postmasters under Bacot's jurisdiction, and fellow postmasters in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C.; outgoing letters signed chiefly by Bacot, as well as by clerks A. Lechais and C. Tesson. Also including broadside, 25 July 1806, Charleston, S.C., "Regulations for the Post Office," gives rates of postage, time of receipt and departure of mail to and from various places.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Bacot, Thomas W. (Thomas Wright), 1765-1834

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Bradley, Abraham, 1731-1824

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Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1764-1825

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